1. One full year Membership in the Red Hat Society
2. One personalized Supporting Membership card
3. One year’s rights and privileges, including:
• full access to the password-protected Red Hat Society website
4. Digital or Email Communications, including:
   • Weekly Friday Broadcast
   • Quarterly digital Red Hatter Matters newsletter
5. All pertinent benefits and discounts
6. Access to Chapter Contact
7. Access to view the RHS Online Event Calendar, receive event invitations, flag events, share with a friend, or RSVP to invitations
8. A Royal Invitation to participate in Red Hat Society sponsored events
9. The right to use the Red Hat Society Chapter Logo on member materials, following the guidelines given in the Red Hat Society Logo Usage Policy
10. Investment in having the time of your life!
11. Other privileges, which may be subject to change

Membership fees are used to support a full time office where all phone calls and e-mails are answered as quickly and efficiently as possible and members are assisted personally with questions and concerns whenever possible. (Operational costs incurred include: employee salaries, insurance, taxes, rent, phone bills, internet bills, programming fees, computers, office supplies and furnishings, etc.) Your chapter will be sent a notice of expiration by e-mail prior to chapter listing expiration. If a chapter renewal fee is not received by the chapter expiration date, the chapter will lose all of the privileges pertaining thereto. A grace period will be permitted so that chapters will have ample time to renew before a lapse of status occurs.

1. Engage in negotiations with any third party on behalf of the Red Hat Society.
2. Use the Red Hat Society name to sell or promote any commercial product or service.
3. Distribute any type of printed materials in the name of the Red Hat Society which has not been supplied or given previous approval by The Red Hat Society, Inc.
4. Use the name of the Red Hat Society, the Red Hat Society logo, Ruby RedHat, or any other intellectual property belonging to the Red Hat Society in conjunction with any unethical, immoral or otherwise inappropriate agencies or affiliations.
5. Use information from this web site (www.redhatsociety.com) or from "the Queen Mother Board" (forum.redhatsociety.com) to form e-mail "spam" lists or solicitation lists of any kind, or related to any activity or event.
6. Use their Red Hat Society affiliation as a means to advertise the sale of commercial products or services.
7. Use any of the content of this web site on any other web site or printed material for any purpose without prior written permission from The Red Hat Society, Inc.
8. Use "The Queen Mother Board", "Red Hat Chat" and/or any other vehicle of communication provided on this web site to harass, misinform, mislead or confuse others.
9. Violate the Event Policies of the Red Hat Society as stated on this web site.
10. Present their chapter as part of an independent organization. A chapter must always present itself as a chapter of the Red Hat Society. If the chapter has a chapter web site, the chapter name indicating its affiliation with the Red Hat Society and a link to www.redhatsociety.com must be prominently displayed on the first page, without any "scrolling" necessary.
11. Use their Red Hat Society affiliation to solicit membership in an organization which appears to be in direct competition with, or to be an infringement upon the intellectual property of, the Red Hat Society.