Community Guidelines

Activities that undermine the safety of the Privee community and society in general are prohibited.

Harassment / bullying 

We don’t tolerate bullying, abuse, or harassment. Abusive content will be removed from Privee

Abusive behavior

We remove all expressions of abuse, including threats or degrading statements intended to mock, humiliate, embarrass, intimidate, or hurt an individual.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

• Content that insults another individual, or disparages an individual on the basis of attributes such as intellect, appearance, personality traits, or hygiene
• Content that encourages coordinated harassment
• Content that disparages victims of violent tragedies
• Content that depicts willful harm or intimidation, such as cyberstalking, encouraging self-harm, or trolling
• Content that wishes death, serious disease, or other serious harm on an individual or public figure

Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment involves unwanted or inappropriate sexual behavior directed at another individual. We do not allow content, including comments or advances, that sexually harasses others, regardless of user's intent, as such actions can cause great distress to targeted individuals.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

• Content that attempts to make unwanted sexual contact
• Content that simulates sexual activity with another user, either verbally, in text (including emojis), or through the use of any in-app features
• Content that disparages another person's sexual activity
• Content that alters or morphs an image of another individual to portray or imply sexual suggestiveness or engagement in sexual activity
• Content that reveals, or threatens to reveal a person's private sexual life, including threats to publicize digital content, sexual history, and names of previous sexual partners
• Content that exposes, or threatens to expose, a person's sexual orientation without their consent or knowledge

Threats of hacking, doxxing, and blackmail

Threatening to hack or dox with an intent to harass or blackmail another individual can cause serious emotional distress and other offline harm. We define doxxing as the act of collecting and publishing personal data or personally identifiable information (PII) for malicious purposes. We consider these online behaviors as forms of abuse and do not allow them on our platform.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share: 

• Content that threatens to reveal personal data or personally identifiable information (PII), including residential address, private email address, private phone number, bank statement, social security number, or passport number
• Threats of blackmail or hacking another individual's account
• Content that incites or encourages others to hack or reveal another person's account, personal data, or personally identifiable information (PII)
• An individual's account, personal data, or personally identifiable information for others to abuse, troll, or harass

Hateful behavior 

• Privee does not tolerate discrimination. We do not permit content that contains hate speech or involves hateful behavior and we remove it from our platform. We suspend or ban accounts that engage in hate speech violations or which are associated with hate speech off the Privee platform.

Attacks on the basis of protected attributes

We define hate speech or behavior as content that attacks, threatens, incites violence against, or otherwise dehumanizes an individual or a group on the basis of the following protected attributes:

• Race 
• Ethnicity
• National origin 
• Religion
• Caste 
• Sexual orientation
• Sex
• Gender
• Gender identity
• Serious disease
• Disability
• Immigration status

Slurs 

Slurs are defined as derogatory terms that are intended to disparage an ethnicity, race, or any other protected attributes listed above. To minimize the spread of egregiously offensive terms, we remove all slurs from our platform, unless the terms are reappropriated, used self-referentially (e.g., in a song), or do not disparage.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share: 

• Content that uses or includes slurs

Hateful ideology

Hateful ideologies are those that demonstrate clear hostility toward people because of their protected attributes. Hateful ideologies are incompatible with the inclusive and supportive community that our platform provides and we remove content that promotes them. 

Do not post, upload, stream, or share: 

• Content that praises, promotes, glorifies, or supports any hateful ideology
• Content that contains names, symbols, logos, flags, slogans, uniforms, gestures, salutes, illustrations, portraits, songs, music, lyrics, or other objects related to a hateful ideology
• Content that denies well-documented and violent events have taken place affecting groups with protected attributes
• Claims of supremacy over a group of people with reference to other protected attributes
• Conspiracy theories used to justify hateful ideologies

Illegal activities 

We work to ensure Privee does not enable activities that violate laws or regulations. We prohibit the trade, sale, promotion, and use of certain regulated goods, as well as the depiction, promotion, or facilitation of criminal activities, including human exploitation. Content may be removed if it relates to activities or goods that are regulated or illegal in the majority of the region or world, even if the activities or goods in question are legal in the jurisdiction of posting.

Criminal activities

Criminal activities cover a wide spectrum of acts punishable by law, including theft, assault, human exploitation, counterfeiting, and other harmful behavior. To prevent such behavior from being normalized, imitated, or facilitated, we remove content that promotes or enables criminal activities.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share: 

• Content that depicts or promotes acts of physical harm, such as assault or kidnapping
• Content that risks the safety of others, including swatting
• Content that depicts or promotes human exploitation, including human smuggling, bonded labor, domestic servitude, sex trafficking, or prostitution
• Content that depicts or promotes the poaching or illegal trade of wildlife
• Content that offers the purchase, sale, trade, or solicitation of unlawfully acquired or counterfeit goods
• Content that provides instructions on how to conduct criminal activities

Weapons

We do not allow the depiction, promotion, or trade of firearms, ammunition, firearm accessories, or explosive weapons. We also prohibit instructions on how to manufacture those weapons. Content as part of a museum's collection, carried by a police officer, in a military parade, or used in a safe and controlled environment such as a shooting range may be allowed.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share: 

• Content that displays firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition, or explosive weapons
• Content that offers the purchase, sale, trade, or solicitation of firearms, accessories, ammunition, explosive weapons, or instructions on how to manufacture them 

Drugs, controlled substances, alcohol, and tobacco

We do not allow the depiction, promotion, or trade of drugs or other controlled substances. The trade of tobacco and alcohol products is also prohibited on the platform.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share: 

• Content that depicts or promotes drugs, drug consumption, or encourages others to make, use, or trade drugs or other controlled substances
• Content that offers the purchase, sale, trade, or solicitation of drugs or other controlled substances, alcohol or tobacco products (including vaping products)
• Content that provides information on how to buy illegal or controlled substances
• Content that depicts or promotes the making of illicit alcohol products
• Content that depicts or promotes the misuse of legal substances, or instruction on how to make homemade substances, in an effort to become intoxicated

Frauds and scams

We do not permit anyone to exploit our platform to take advantage of the trust of users and bring about financial or personal harm. We remove content that deceives people in order to gain an unlawful financial or personal advantage, including schemes to defraud individuals or steal assets. Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

• Content that depicts or promotes phishing
• Content that depicts or promotes Ponzi, multi-level marketing, or pyramid schemes
• Content that depicts or promotes investment schemes with promise of high returns, fixed betting, or any other types of scams

Gambling

We do not allow content promoting gambling services, or that could be perceived as advertising for casinos, sports betting, or any other commercial gambling activity. 

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

• Content that promotes casinos, sports betting, poker, lotteries, gambling-related software and apps, or other gambling services

Privacy, personal data, and personally identifiable information

Content that violates the confidentiality of personal data or personally identifiable information (e.g. social security number) is not allowed.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

• Content that contains personal data or personally identifiable information (PII)

Violent and graphic content

Privee is a platform that doesn’t indulge in shock-value or violence. When there is a threat to public safety, we suspend or ban the account and, when warranted, we will report it to relevant legal authorities. All of the following types of content are prohibited:

Content of humans that depicts:

• violent or graphic deaths or accidents
• dismembered, mutilated, charred, or burned human remains
• gore in which an open wound or injury is the core focus
• real-world physical violence, fighting, or torture

Content of animals that depicts:

• the slaughter or other non-natural death of animals
• dismembered, mutilated, charred, or burned animal remains
• animal cruelty and gore‍

Suicide, self-harm, and other dangerous acts

• We care deeply about the health and well-being of the individuals that make up our community. We do not allow content depicting, promoting, normalizing, or glorifying activities that could lead to suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders. We also do not permit users to share content depicting them partaking in, or encouraging others to partake in, dangerous activities that may lead to serious injury or death.
  

• However, we do support members of our community sharing their personal experiences with these issues in a safe way to raise awareness and find community support. We also encourage individuals who are struggling with thoughts of self-harm or suicide, or who know someone is seriously considering suicide, to immediately contact local emergency services or a suicide prevention hotline. In the event that our intervention could help a user who may be at risk of harming themselves, the Privee team may also alert local emergency services.‍

Suicide

We remove content that displays suicide, suicidal ideation, or content that might encourage participation in other self-injurious behavior. We also remove content that depicts attempted suicide or content featuring a person engaging in behavior or intending to engage in behavior that is likely to lead to self-inflicted death. We prohibit any form of content that promotes, normalizes, or glorifies suicide, provides instructions for suicide, or posts that portray a suicide as heroic or honorable.

All of the following types of content are prohibited:

• Content that provides instructions for suicide
• Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies suicide
• Suicide games, dares, pacts, or hoaxes
  

Self-harm and eating disorders

To avoid normalizing, encouraging, or triggering self-harm behavior, we do not allow imagery that depicts such behavior, regardless of the user's intention of posting it. We remove content that may encourage or normalize acts that are likely to lead to physical self-inflicted injury. Content that promotes eating habits that are likely to cause adverse health outcomes is also not allowed on the platform.

All of the following types of content are prohibited:

• Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies self-harm or eating disorders
• Content that provides instructions on how to engage in self-harm or eating disorders
• Self-harm or eating disorder games, dares, pacts, or hoaxes
• Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies eating disorders or other dangerous weight loss behaviors associated with eating disorders
  

Dangerous acts

We define risky activities or other dangerous behavior as acts conducted in a non-professional context or without the necessary skills and safety precautions that may lead to serious injury or death for the user or the public. We do not allow content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies such behavior, including amateur stunts or dangerous challenges.

All of the following types of content are prohibited:

• Content that shows the potentially inappropriate use of dangerous tools, vehicles, or objects
• Content that depicts or promotes ingesting substances that are not meant for consumption or could lead to severe harm
• Dangerous games, dares, or stunts that might lead to injury‍

Adult nudity and sexual activities

• We strive to create a platform that feels welcoming and safe. We do not allow nudity, pornography, or sexually explicit content on our platform. We also prohibit content depicting or supporting non-consensual sexual acts, the sharing of non-consensual intimate imagery, and adult sexual solicitation.
  

Sexual exploitation

• Sexual exploitation is defined as any actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, power, or trust for sexual purposes, including profiting monetarily, socially, or politically from the sexual exploitation of another. We do not permit sexually exploitative content.
  

All of the following types of content are prohibited: 

• Content that depicts, solicits, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies non-consensual sexual acts or non-consensual touching, including rape and sexual assault
• Content that depicts, solicits, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies the sharing of non-consensual intimate imagery, including sexual images that are taken, created, or shared without consent
• Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies sexual violence
• Content that depicts, promotes, or glorifies sexual solicitation, including offering or asking for sexual partners, sexual chats or imagery, sexual services, premium sexual content, or sexcamming
  

Nudity and sexual activity involving adults

Nudity and sexual activity include content that is overtly revealing of breasts, genitals, anus, or buttocks, or behaviors that mimic, imply, or display sex acts. We do not allow depictions, including digitally created or manipulated content, of nudity or sexual activity. We are mindful of content that may be offensive or culturally inappropriate in certain regions or may not be suitable for users of all ages.

All of the following types of content are prohibited: 

• Content that explicitly or implicitly depicts sexual activities including penetrative and non-penetrative sex, oral sex, or erotic kissing
• Content that depicts sexual arousal or sexual stimulation
• Content that depicts a sexual fetish 
• Content that depicts exposed human genitalia, female nipples or areola, pubic regions, or buttocks
• Content that contains sexually explicit language for sexual gratification
  

Minor safety

• We are deeply committed to ensuring the safety of minors on our platform. We do not tolerate activities that perpetuate the abuse, harm, endangerment, or exploitation of minors on Privee. Any content, including animation or digitally created or manipulated media, that depicts abuse, exploitation, or nudity of minors is a violation on our platform and will be removed when detected. When warranted, we will report violative content to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and/or other relevant legal authorities. Privee considers a minor any person under the age of 18.
• Users must meet the minimum age requirements to use Privee, as stipulated in our Terms of Service. When underage account holders are identified, we will remove those accounts. Our platform is designed with the safety of minors in mind and some of our features are age restricted.

Sexual exploitation of minors 

Sexual exploitation of minors is defined as any abuse of a position of power or trust for sexual purposes, including profiting financially, socially, sexually, or politically from the exploitation of a minor. Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is defined as any visual depiction of sexually explicit nudity or conduct, whether captured by predatory adults, peers, or self-generated by minors. Privee will take action on any content or accounts involving sexual interactions and advances between an adult and a minor, or between minors with a significant age difference.

Do not post, upload, or share: 

• Content that shares, reshares, offers to trade or sell, or directs users off platform to obtain or distribute CSAM
• Content that engages with minors in a sexualized way, or otherwise sexualizes a minor (e.g., via product features like duets) 
• Content that depicts, solicits, glorifies, or encourages child abuse imagery including nudity, sexualized minors, or sexual activity with minors
• Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies pedophilia or the sexual assault of a minor
• Content that victimizes or capitalizes on minor victims of abuse by third party reshares or reenactments of assault or confessions

Grooming behavior

Grooming behaviors are those in which an adult builds an emotional relationship with a minor in order to gain the minor's trust for the purposes of future or ongoing sexual contact, sexual abuse, trafficking, or other exploitation. These behaviors include: flattery, requests for contact on or off platform, requests for personal information, solicitation of minor sexual abuse material, sexual solicitations or comments, and gift-giving.

Do not post, upload, or share: 

• Grooming advances
• Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies grooming behaviors
• Content that solicits real-world sexual contact between a minor and an adult or between minors with a significant age difference 
• Content that displays or offers nudity to minors
• Any solicitation of nude imagery or sexual contact, through blackmail or other means of coercion

Nudity and sexual activity involving minors

Nudity and sexual activity involving minors include content that is overtly revealing of breasts, genitals, anus, or buttocks, or behaviors that mimic, imply, or display sex acts involving minors. We do not allow the depiction, including digitally created or manipulated content, of nudity or sexual activity.

Do not post, upload, or share: 

• Content that depicts or implies minor sexual activities including penetrative and non-penetrative sex, oral sex, or intimate kissing
• Content that depicts sexual arousal or sexual stimulation involving a minor
• Content that depicts a sexual fetish involving a minor
• Content that depicts exposed human genitalia, female nipples or areola, pubic regions, or buttocks of a minor
• Content that contains sexually explicit language depicting or describing a minor
• Content depicting a minor that contains sexually explicit song lyrics
• Content with sexually explicit dancing of a minor, including twerking, breast shaking, pelvic thrusting, or fondling the groin or breasts of oneself or another 
• Content depicting a minor undressing
• Content depicting a minor in minimal clothing that is not situationally relevant to the location
• Sexualized comments, emojis, text, or other graphics used to veil or imply nudity or sexual activity of a minor

Harmful activities by minors

Harmful minor activities include the possession or consumption of substances prohibited for minors, the misuse of legal substances, engagement in illegal activities, participation in activities, physical challenges, or dares that may threaten the well-being of minors. We remove any such content from our platform.

Do not post, upload, or share: 

• Content that suggests, depicts, imitates, or promotes the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, or drugs by a minor
• Content that offers instruction targeting minors on how to buy, sell, or trade alcohol, tobacco, or controlled substances
• Content that depicts or promotes activities that may jeopardize youth well-being, including physical challenges, dares, or stunts

Physical and psychological harm of minors

Behaviors that place minors at risk of physical or psychological harm include physical abuse, neglect, endangerment, and psychological disparagement. We remove any such content from our platform. 

Do not post, upload, or share: 

• Content that depicts or promotes physical abuse, neglect, endangerment, or psychological disparagement of minors
• Content that depicts or promotes survivalist techniques without a warning asserting the hazards of replication

Crimes against children

• We do not allow users who have been convicted of crimes against children to have an account on our platform. These crimes include: sexual assault, molestation, murder, physical abuse or neglect, abduction, international parental kidnapping, trafficking, exploitation of minors for prostitution, live online sexual abuse of a minor, sexual exploitation of minors in the context of travel and tourism, attempts to obtain or distribute child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and the production, possession, or distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). 

• If we discover any such users, we will ban the account. Any self-disclosed user information that states the account holder is a pedophile or minor sex offender will be taken at face value and the account may be deleted.
  

Activities that undermine the security and reliability of Privee’s services are prohibited:

• Don’t hack the Privee website or app
• Don’t do anything that interferes with the normal use of Privee, introduce malicious code onto Privee, or make it difficult for others to use Privee
• Don’t use automated scripts to collect information from Privee
• Do not modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, or create any derivative products based on Privee, including any files, tables or documentation, nor attempt to regenerate any source code, algorithms, methods, or techniques embodied in Privee
  

Trust is central to the Privee community. Activities that undermine the integrity of the Privee community or the authenticity of others are prohibited.

Spam and fake engagement 

Fake engagement includes any content or activity that seeks to artificially inflate popularity on the platform. We prohibit any attempts to manipulate the platform to increase interaction metrics. 

Do not:

• Share instructions on how to artificially increase views, likes, followers, shares, or comments
• Attempt to or engage in selling or buying views, likes, followers, shares, or comments
• Promote artificial traffic generation services
• Operate multiple Privee accounts under false or fraudulent pretenses to distribute commercial spam

Impersonation

We don’t allow accounts that pretend to be another person or entity in a deceptive manner.  If we confirm a report of impersonation, we will ask the user to revise the profile or suspend or ban the account. We do allow parody, commentary, or fan accounts, as long as the user indicates in the bio and username that it is fan, commentary, or parody and not affiliated with the subject of the account. Do not:

• Pretend to be another person or entity by using someone else’s name, information, or likeness

Misinformation

Misinformation is defined as content that is inaccurate or false. While we encourage our community to have respectful conversations about subjects that matter to them, we do not permit misinformation that causes harm to individuals, our community, or the larger public regardless of intent.

Do not post, upload, or share: 

• Misinformation that incites hate or prejudice
• Misinformation related to emergencies that induces panic
• Medical misinformation that can cause harm to an individual's physical health
• Content that misleads community members about elections or other civic processes 
• Conspiratorial content that attacks a specific protected group or includes a violent call to action, or denies a violent or tragic event occurred
• Digital Forgeries (Synthetic Media or Manipulated Media) that mislead users by distorting the truth of events and cause harm to the subject of the video, other persons, or society

Do not:

• Engage in coordinated inauthentic behaviors (such as the creation of accounts) to exert influence and sway public opinion while misleading individuals and our community about the account's identity, location, or purpose
  

Intellectual property violations

Copyright is a legal right that protects original works of authorship (e.g., music, videos) and original expression of an idea (e.g., the specific way a video or music is expressed or created), although it does not protect underlying ideas or facts. A trademark is a word, symbol, slogan, design that identifies and distinguishes the source of a product or service. We encourage everyone to create and share original content. Content that infringes someone else's intellectual property rights is prohibited on our platform and will be removed if we become aware of it. The use of copyrighted work under certain circumstances, such as the fair use doctrine or other applicable laws, or the use of a trademark to reference, lawfully comment, criticize, parody, make a fan page, or review a product or service may not be considered a violation of our policies.

Do not post, upload, or share: 

• Content that violates or infringes someone else's copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights

We have a variety of ways of enforcing our rules, including, but not limited to:

• Asking you nicely to knock it off
• Asking you less nicely 
• Removal of content
• Temporary or permanent suspension of accounts
• Temporary or permanent removal of privileges from, or adding restrictions to, accounts (e.g., removal of verified status, restrict ability to post content, restrict ability to like/comment on content, etc.)