Version 2026-09-08. They cover anyone who books the room, member or not. If you are a member, the Membership Agreement governs wherever the two differ.
The Beach Off 111 LLC. Version of 2026-09-08.
These terms are the agreement between The Beach Off 111 LLC, an Illinois limited liability company ("the Beach", "we", or "us"), and the person who books our conference room ("you"). You need not be a member. Sending us a request for the room, and using the room, means you accept these terms.
The building is at 4132 Pontoon Road, Granite City, Illinois 62040, and the company is registered at 4132 Pontoon Road, Pontoon Beach, Illinois 62040, both in Madison County, Illinois. Write to us at hello@beach111.com.
1. What you are booking
The conference room has ten chairs, a long table, a screen on the wall, a wide whiteboard with markers, and Wi-Fi. You are booking that room for the hours we confirm, and nothing else. We are open 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM, seven days a week; a booking runs one to eight whole hours inside that window, starting on the hour or the half hour, and you may ask for a day up to ninety (90) days ahead.
If you or anybody you bring needs an accommodation to use the room, ask us before you travel and we will tell you what we can do.
2. A request is not a booking
The form on our website sends us a request. It is not a booking, and no time is held for you, until we answer by email and say yes. We may decline, and we need not give a reason. We answer every request without discriminating on any basis the law forbids.
3. The rate
The room is $25.00 an hour, and your total is that rate times the hours you book. The rate is fixed when you send your request: we may change it for later bookings, and a change never touches a booking already made.
4. Paying
We tell you the total when we answer, and the total is the rate in Section 3 times the hours you book. If we ask you to pay before your booking, our email carries a payment link, good for 24 hours; you pay on Stripe's own page, your card details never reach us, and we keep the payment's identifiers, the amount, and Stripe's fee, never a card number. If we do not ask you to pay before your booking, nothing is taken through this website, and we settle it with you. We keep your request too, so that we can answer it and keep the calendar.
Your booking holds the hours from the moment we confirm it, paid or not. If a payment link lapses unpaid, nothing is sent to you on its own: the booking stands and still holds your hours until we send a fresh link or cancel it, and you can reply to our email to ask for one.
5. Cancelling, refunds, and nobody coming
If you cancel, tell us as soon as you know: reply to our email, write to hello@beach111.com, or call the number in that email. There is no cutoff and there is no part refund. Cancelling a paid booking refunds it in full, to the card that paid.
If we cancel, we email you, and we refund a paid booking in full, to the card that paid. Your bank decides when the money appears, not us.
If a payment reaches us twice, or reaches us after we have cancelled a booking, we send it back in full to the card that paid without your having to ask, and we email you.
If nobody comes, a booking you paid for and did not use is not refunded.
6. Getting in, and staying in the room
We let you in at the front door for the hours you have booked, and we close up after you leave. That is how the building runs today, and Section 20 governs a change to it: a change reaches bookings made after we publish it, never one already made. Tell us as soon as you can if you are running late, and we will do what we can.
You and everyone you bring stay in the conference room, apart from the restroom and the way in and out, and you all leave together by the end of your hours. Nothing else in the building is yours to use, and nobody else's things are yours to touch. We may come in if safety, an emergency, or the running of the building needs it.
7. Who you bring
The room seats ten (10), and ten is the limit: do not bring more people than there are chairs. You must be there yourself for the whole booking, and you are responsible for everyone you bring, the whole time they are in the building, as if you did it yourself. Anyone under eighteen (18) stays with you and in your sight. We may ask any of them to leave, and you must be eighteen (18) or older to book.
8. The room's condition
Take the room as you find it and leave it as you found it. You are responsible for the reasonable cost of repairing or replacing anything you or your people damage, deliberately or carelessly. Ordinary wear and tear is ours. As far as the law allows, we may set that cost against money we owe you, and where we have already refunded your booking we invoice you for it instead.
9. How to behave
The room is off a floor other people are working on, so keep the noise at a level that does not carry into their day. No harassment, threats, intimidation, discriminatory conduct, or abuse of anybody, ever. Follow reasonable directions from us about safety, security, and conduct.
10. Smoking, alcohol, weapons, and animals
Do not smoke or vape in the building or anywhere on the property, and that covers cigarettes, cigars, pipes, electronic cigarettes, and cannabis products. The one exception is inside your own vehicle, where the law allows it and the vehicle is at least fifteen (15) feet from any entrance, exit, opening window, or air intake.
No unlawful drugs. Do not bring cannabis into the building or use it there in any form, edibles included. No alcohol unless we agree to it in writing beforehand. If we reasonably believe somebody is impaired to the point of being a risk, we will ask that person to leave.
Obey the law on firearms and other weapons, keep any lawful firearm secured and out of sight, and follow any notice we post under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act.
No pets. Service animals are welcome as the law requires; keep the animal under control and answer for what it does.
11. Cameras, and being recorded
Our common areas are monitored by video that also records sound. There is no camera in the conference room, and none in the restroom. By coming in, you agree to being recorded in picture and in sound in the areas a camera covers, and you accept that nothing in one of those areas is private. You must tell everybody you bring, before they come in, that the common areas record sound as well as pictures.
We may keep and review a recording where we reasonably need it for safety or security, to look into a complaint, or for an insurance matter. We may give a recording to the police or to our insurer, and we will give one up where the law requires it.
12. Privacy, and recording other people
Other people are working on the floor you walk through. Do not photograph or record any of them, or anybody's guest, without that person's agreement, and do not record a conversation unless everybody in it agrees.
This is a shared building. We do not promise that a conversation cannot be overheard or a screen cannot be seen, and, as far as the law allows, we are not liable if either happens. Look after your own confidential and sensitive information.
13. Your things, and the internet
Everything you bring is here at your own risk, and as far as the law allows we are not liable for anything of yours or your visitors' that is lost, stolen, or damaged. We are not your insurer.
The Wi-Fi is offered as it is, with no promise of speed, uptime, or security. Look after your own devices and data, and do not use our network for anything unlawful or abusive. We may cut off your access to it at any time if we reasonably need to, and, as far as the law allows, we are not responsible for what you lose through it: a hacked account, malware, a lost or corrupted file, an intercepted message, damage to a device, or an outage.
14. Photographs and filming
We photograph and film the building for our own website, our social media, and our marketing, and we will not make your name, your face, or your voice the subject of an advertisement without asking you first.
15. In an emergency
The building is often unstaffed. We have nobody on duty for first aid, for medical help, or for security, and we do not watch the cameras as they record or answer an emergency through them. If somebody is hurt, or there is a fire or another emergency, call 911 first and then tell us. Find the exits when you arrive, and leave when an alarm sounds or when we tell you to.
16. What a booking is, and what it does not include
A booking is our permission to use the room for the hours we confirm, and we can revoke it. It is not a lease, it gives you no interest in the property, and you cannot transfer it, share it, or sell it on to anybody else.
Booking the room does not make you a member of the Beach. It gives you no access code or key, no desk or seat, no use of the rest of the building, and no mail or business address here.
17. Risk, release, and the limit of what we owe
You accept the ordinary risks of a shared workplace: slips, trips, and falls, the state of the floors, the furniture, and the parking lot in any weather, and the presence and conduct of other people.
As far as the law allows, and however a claim is framed, you release the Beach from claims for injury to a person, or for loss of, theft of, or damage to property, arising from those ordinary risks, including claims arising from our own ordinary negligence, from an interruption of services, or from what other people at the building do.
For any other claim connected with your booking, everything we owe you is limited to what you paid for that booking, and, as far as the law allows, we owe nothing for lost profits, lost business, lost data, or any indirect loss. That limit does not apply to a claim for injury to a person, and it does not cut down a refund we owe you.
Wherever these terms limit what we owe, release us, or ask you to cover us, "the Beach" also means the people and companies that own it, its managers, officers, employees, agents, representatives, successors, and assigns. Each of them can rely on that part of these terms in their own right.
Nothing in these terms releases or limits anything the law does not allow to be released or limited.
18. What you cover us for
As far as the law allows, you will indemnify and hold harmless the Beach against third-party claims, losses, damages, judgments, and reasonable costs, including reasonable attorney's fees and court costs, arising out of your breach of these terms, anything you or your people do carelessly, recklessly, deliberately, or unlawfully, your own business activities, your use of somebody else's rights without their permission, or injury or property damage you cause.
19. Closures, and ending a booking early
We are not liable for a delay, a closure, or a failure to perform caused by something beyond our reasonable control, such as severe weather, fire, flood, a utility or internet failure, government action, or a public emergency, and we promise no uninterrupted utilities or internet. If we cannot open for your booking, we cancel it and refund it under Section 5.
We may end a booking while it is running, and ask you and your people to leave, if somebody is putting people or property at real risk, breaking the law, being dangerous or seriously disruptive, or materially breaking these terms. If we end a booking for one of those reasons, we may keep what you paid for it. We write to you either way.
20. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms. A change applies to bookings made after we publish it, and never to a booking already made: the terms that bind your booking are the ones we had published when you sent your request. Every version carries its date at the top, and we keep the earlier ones.
21. Illinois law, mediation, and time limits
These terms are governed by Illinois law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any court case goes to a court in Madison County, Illinois, unless the law requires otherwise, and you agree to that court.
Where more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) is in dispute, both of us must try mediation in good faith before going to court. Whichever of us raises the dispute writes to the other describing it. We then try in good faith to agree on a neutral mediator and to mediate in Madison County, Illinois, sharing the mediator's fee equally and each paying our own costs. Either of us may still go to court straight away for emergency or injunctive relief.
As far as the law allows, a claim arising out of these terms or your use of the room must be started within one (1) year after it arises, or it is barred. That year does not apply to a claim for injury to a person, which keeps whatever time the law gives it. Mediating does not extend the year or any other legal deadline. The mediation step and the one-year limit bind both of us, and neither applies to us collecting money you owe.
If either of us goes to court over these terms, the one who wins can recover reasonable attorney's fees and court costs from the other, as far as the law allows.
22. Notices
We write to you at the email address you gave on the request form, and you write to us at hello@beach111.com. An email from us counts as given when we send it, whether or not you read it; an email from you counts when we receive it. Keep your address current with us.
23. If you are a member
If you are a member of the Beach, the Membership Agreement you signed governs wherever it and these terms differ, and these terms cover your booking in everything it does not. What your membership includes by way of conference room hours, and what hours beyond that cost, is in the Membership Agreement and not here.
24. The rest
These terms, with the booking we confirm by email, are the whole agreement between us about your use of the room, and they replace anything said before it. Nothing said out loud changes them. If any part is held unenforceable, it is narrowed just enough to work, or dropped if it cannot be, and the rest stands. If we do not enforce something once, we have not given it up.
What you are agreeing to
These are the parts most likely to surprise you later. Each of them is in the terms above.
- A request is not a booking, and no time is held for you until we say yes (Section 2).
- A booking you paid for and did not use is not refunded (Section 5).
- The common areas are monitored by video that also records sound, you agree to being recorded there, and you have to tell the people you bring (Section 11).
- You have to be there for the whole booking, and you answer for everyone you bring (Section 7).
- You release us from claims arising from the ordinary risks of the building, including claims arising from our own ordinary negligence, and what we owe you for anything else is limited to what you paid for the booking. That money limit does not apply to a claim for injury to a person (Section 17).
- You cover us for claims that arise out of what you and the people you bring do (Section 18).
- If we end a booking for cause, we may keep what you paid for it (Section 19).
- Illinois law, a court in Madison County, mediation where more than $2,500 is in dispute, and a one-year limit on bringing a claim, except a claim for injury to a person (Section 21).
Last updated 8 September 2026.