Emerald Chat Community Guidelines
Last Updated: 2024-10-31
Emerald Chat was created to provide a platform where people could connect with others from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Emerald Chat’s Community Guidelines are intended to support that goal by providing general guidance on what is and isn’t allowed on Emerald Chat. They are not intended to comprehensively identify every type of inappropriate or unlawful conduct or content. Users should be guided by common sense and should treat their fellow users with respect.
These Community Guidelines apply to your access to and use of the Emerald Chat website and any services offered by Emerald Chat (collectively, the “Services”). Emerald Chat reserves the right to revise these Community Guidelines at any time for any reason, and updates will be posted to the Services. These Community Guidelines are in addition to the Emerald Chat Terms of Service, which also apply to your access to and use of the Services.
Emerald Chat reserves the right to ban (temporarily or permanently) or take other appropriate action with or without notice with respect to any user that engages in conduct that Emerald Chat determines, at its sole discretion, to be inappropriate or harmful, whether or not such conduct is identified below.
If you encounter conduct or content on the Services that you believe violates any of the guidelines below or if you have other safety concerns about the Services, please contact Emerald Chat at [email protected] and include “Emerald Chat-Safety” in the subject line. While Emerald Chat is not responsible to you as a user for enforcing these Community Guidelines, reports of violations are helpful to us.
Parental control protections are commercially available and may assist you in limiting minors’ access to materials that may be harmful or inappropriate for them. Information on such parental controls can be found on websites like https://www.connectsafely.org/controls/.
Prohibited Conduct and Content
- Violations of the Law: You must comply with all applicable local, national, and international laws while using the Services. Any content, activity, or conduct that features, encourages, offers, or solicits illegal activity or content is prohibited. Emerald Chat reserves the right to report any such violations to law enforcement.
- Ban Circumvention: Any attempt to circumvent a ban, whether temporary or permanent, is prohibited.
- Violence and Threats: Threats of violence or threats to harm others are strictly prohibited. This includes threats to physically harm others, attempts to intimidate others, threats to disclose personal information or private content, and threats intended to force another user to engage in unwanted or inappropriate conduct.
- Hateful Conduct and Harassment: Conduct or content that attacks or denigrates others based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration status, disability, or national origin is prohibited. Harassment, including unwelcome sexual advances, malicious false reporting, and personal attacks, is prohibited.
- Nudity, Pornography, and Sexually Explicit Content: Nudity, pornography, and sexually explicit conduct are prohibited on the moderated sections of the Services. Content or conduct that threatens or promotes sexual violence or exploitation is strictly prohibited across all sections of the Services and may be reported to law enforcement.
- Conduct or Content Involving Minors: All conduct or content that exploits, sexualizes, or endangers the safety of minors in any way is strictly prohibited. Such conduct will be reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and/or the appropriate law enforcement agencies.
- Unauthorized Sharing of Private Information: Respect others’ privacy. Do not attempt to obtain or share content that may reveal private, personal information about individuals without their permission.
- Impersonation: Impersonating someone else or attempting to deceive other users about who you are (including by providing false information) is prohibited.
- Self-Harm: Content or conduct that glorifies, encourages, or promotes self-harm is prohibited.
- Animal Cruelty: Conduct or content involving or promoting harm or cruelty to animals is prohibited.
- Marketing and Advertising: The Services may not be used to market, advertise, or promote any goods or services.
- Bots: Use of bots of any kind to access or use the Services is prohibited.