GUIDELINES FOR USING VIEWCHAT
Welcome to Viewchat! Viewchat (the “Service” or the “App”) has made it possible for various people around the world to use this App not minding their language diversity or beliefs.Respect all users
Viewchat provides a place where you can interact with people from various nationalities, races, and cultural and religious backgrounds beyond routine life using real-time video. We prioritize your enjoyment through interaction based on common interests. Viewchat is a reflection of our diverse community of cultures, ages, and beliefs. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the different points of view that create a safe and open environment for everyone. In Viewchat, people can freely express themselves and get inspiration from each other. We want Viewchat to continue to be an authentic and safe place for inspiration and expression.
If you’re honest, kind, and respectful to others, you’ll always be welcome here. If you choose not to be, you may not last. Our goal is to allow users to express themselves freely as long as it doesn’t offend others. Everyone is held to the same standard on Viewchat. We’re asking you to be considerate, think before you act, and abide by our guidelines both on and offline. To achieve this, building a community where everyone can feel safe is a key. Below is a list of our community guidelines that we ask all users to abide by. If any user violates these guidelines, we may impose restrictions on the user at any time according to our policies.
We’re a very diverse community. This means you should respect other people’s beliefs, interests, and property while on Viewchat. Viewchat takes a strong stance against hate speech, rude or abusive behavior, bullying, and misogyny. You should behave the same way on Viewchat as you would in real life. Additionally, we encourage all of our users to report anyone who does not follow these behavioral guidelines. As a community rooted in kindness and respect, we expect all of our users to respect each other, themselves, and the Viewchat staffs.
Viewchat reserves the right to investigate and/or terminate your account without a refund of any purchases if you have violated the guidelines, misused the service, or behaved in a way that Viewchat regards as inappropriate or unlawful, including actions or communications that occur on or off the service. In addition, in certain instances, we may terminate your account for violating any of our supplemental terms. In the event that you violate these rules or our Guidelines, your authorization to use the Service will be automatically revoked.
Below is a list of our community policies. If you violate any of these policies, you might be banned from Viewchat. Seriously, don’t make us swipe left on you—because there will be no do-overs once we do. We encourage you to report any behavior that violates our policies and read up on our Safety Tips.
Viewchat is NOT FOR:
1. Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and NudityOriginally, we set a limit on the age of the Service’s usage. Your age will be changed by Viewchat legal department when it is believed that you created an account with a false age. Is Viewchat a sound App for children? The App is usually used for chatting and flirting. Despite what others might think, most users are still of the opinion that it is not suitable for children. Therefore, we do our best to minimize risk elements which minors might encounter. We strictly prohibit the minor under the age limit from the service and strongly restrict content which can negatively affect minors.
We strongly discipline not only sexual exploitation, but also suggestions of illegal acts against minors. As such, we do not allow images of unaccompanied minors in a profile. If you want to post photos of your children, please make sure that you are in the photo as well. If you see a profile that includes an unaccompanied minor, encourages harm to a minor, or depicts a minor in a sexual or suggestive way, please report it immediately. Once again, we strongly restrict content which encourages minors to inappropriate behavior.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content or activity that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies), including but not limited to:
Sexual intercourse
• Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude.
• Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
• Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
• Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
• Any of the above involving an animal
Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
• Restraints.
• Focus on genitals.
• Presence of aroused adult.
• Presence of sex toys.
• Sexualised costume.
• Stripping.
• Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles).
• Open-mouth kissing.
• Content of children in a sexual fetish context.
• Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context.
• Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.
Solicitation
Content that solicits
Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
Nude imagery of children
Sexualized imagery of children
Real-world sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit minors by:
Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information.
Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery.
Sexualization of children
Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes children.
Groups, Pages and profiles dedicated to sexualizing children.
Child nudity
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:
Close-ups of children’s genitalia
Real nude toddlers, showing:
Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
Real nude minors, showing:
Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
Uncovered female nipples.
No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing.
Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes.
Non-sexual child abuse
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
- Videos or photos depicting police officers or soldiers committing child abuse without sexual elements.
- Non-sexual child abuse images (unless explicitly requested to remain on the platform by judicial authorities, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners for the explicit purpose of ensuring the child's safety).
The following content will include a sensitive content warning screen to alert that it may contain potentially disturbing elements:
- Videos or photos depicting children being vigorously immersed in water within the context of religious rituals.
Additional information and/or context is needed to implement the following community guidelines: ViewChat inserts warning labels on the following content to notify that it may contain sensitive elements:
- Images published by news organizations depicting naked children in the context of famine, mass killings, war crimes, or crimes against humanity (unless accompanied by a violation caption or shared in relation to the violation, in which case the content will be deleted).
Furthermore, upon receiving reports from news media partners, NGOs, or other trusted safety partners, images depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse may be removed.
2. Adult Sexual Exploitation
Sexual harassment and exploitation are defined as severely prohibited and disciplined. Also, in the case of suggestive content or acts using objects (adult products, underwear, real dolls, etc.), we may impose restrictions on the Service.Distribution and exposure of illegal filming or pornography are prohibited. If any provision of digital sex crimes violated, intensive sanctions shall be executed. In the case of severe issues, Viewchat legal department shall discipline criminals and do our best to prevent recurrence, cooperating with external agencies.
We’re not asking you to comb your hair to one side. We have no dress code, but please keep it classy and appropriate for public consumption. No nudity, no sexually explicit content, and don’t chronicle all of your sexual desires in your bio. If you show nudity, offend somebody or run advertisements, then you risk getting your account banned. Please follow the commonsense.
Distribution and exposure of illegal filming or pornography are prohibited. If any provision of digital sex crimes violated, intensive sanctions shall be executed. In the case of severe issues, Viewchat legal department shall discipline criminals and do our best to prevent recurrence, cooperating with external agencies.
Do not post:
In instances where content consists of any form of non-consensual sexual touching, necrophilia, or forced stripping, including:
Depictions (including real photos/videos except in a real-world art context), or
Sharing, offering, asking for or threatening to share imagery, or
Descriptions, unless shared by or in support of the victim/survivor, or
Advocacy (including aspirational and conditional statements), or
Statements of intent, or
Calls for action, or
Admitting participation, or
Mocking victims of any of the above.
We will also take down content shared by a third party that identifies victims or survivors of sexual assault when reported by the victim or survivor.
Content that attempts to exploit people by any of the following:
Sextortion: Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery from people with threats to expose their intimate imagery or intimate information
Sharing, threatening, stating an intent to share, offering or asking for non-consensual intimate imagery that fulfills all of the 3 following conditions: 1) Imagery is non-commercial or produced in a private setting. 2) Person in the imagery is (near) nude, engaged in sexual activity or in a sexual pose. 3) Lack of consent to share the imagery is indicated by meeting any of the signals: ○1Vengeful context (such as, caption, comments or page title). ○2Independent sources (such as, law enforcement record) including entertainment media (such as, leak of images confirmed by media). ○3A visible match between the person depicted in the image and the person who has reported the content to us. ○4The person who reported the content to us shares the same name as the person depicted in the image.
Secretly taken non-commercial imagery of a real person's commonly sexualized body parts (breasts, groin, buttocks, or thighs) or of a real person engaged in sexual activity. This imagery is commonly known as “creepshots” or “upskirts” and includes photos or videos that mock, sexualize or expose the person depicted in the imagery.
Threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations that meets the following criteria: Lack of consent is indicated by: ○1Vengeful context and/or threatening context, or ○2A visible match between the person depicted in the image and the person who has reported the content to us. ○3The person who reported the content to us shares the same name as the person depicted in the image.
3. Hate Speech, Defamation, and Insult
Any speech or gesture that promotes, advocates for, or condones racism, bigotry, hatred, or violence against individuals or groups based on factors like (but not limited to) race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, disability, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity is not allowed.Do not insult others/certain groups by below behaviors:
Mocking others’ appearance
Slandering and maligning others
Swearing and cursing
Offending others with the finger
Content which ridicules and insults celebrity, politician or dead person
4. Prostitution, Trafficking, and Compensated dating
Promoting or advocating for commercial sexual services, human trafficking or other non-consensual sexual acts is strictly prohibited and will result in your account being banned from Viewchat. Offering, suggesting, or promoting any sexual services including prostitution, erotic massage, and “compensated dating”
5. Scamming
Viewchat has a zero-tolerance policy on predatory behavior of any kind. Anyone attempting to get other users’ private information for fraudulent or illegal activity may be banned. Any user caught sharing their own financial account information (PayPal, Venmo, etc.) for the purpose of receiving money from other users may also be banned from Viewchat. Any behavior or content that offers an investment in exchange for money
Any behavior or content related to fishing or scamming
6. Dangerous acts and challenges
We define dangerous acts or other dangerous behavior as activities 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. This includes amateur stunts or dangerous challenges.We do not permit users to share content depicting, promoting, normalizing or glorifying dangerous acts that may lead to serious injury or death. We also do not allow content which promotes or endorses collective participation in dangerous or harmful activities that violate any aspect of our Community Guidelines.
Do not post, upload, stream, or share:
Content that shows the potentially inappropriate use of dangerous tools or objects
Content that depicts dangerous driving behavior
Content that depicts or promotes ingesting substances that are not meant for consumption and could lead to severe harm
Content that describes or provides instructional detail on how to perform a dangerous activity
Dangerous games, dares, challenges, or stunts that might lead to injury or property damage
7. Suicide and self-harm
We care deeply about the health and well-being of the individuals who make up our community. We do not allow content depicting, promoting, normalizing, or glorifying activities that could lead to suicide, self-harm, or disordered eating. 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 suicide or self-harm, or who know someone is seriously considering suicide, to immediately contact local emergency services or a suicide prevention hotline.We remove content that depicts suicide, involves suicidal ideation, or that might encourage suicidal or self-injurious behavior. We also remove content that depicts attempted suicide or behavior 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. Circumstances that involve any instance of a threat of real-world harm to human life that is specific, credible, and imminent may be reported to law enforcement authorities.
Do not post, upload, stream, or share:
Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies suicide or self-harm
Content that provides instructions for suicide or how to engage in self-harm
Suicide or self-harm games, dares, challenges, pacts, or hoaxes