UYL GLOBAL COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

UYL is a community platform for the public to engage one another through harnessing the power of the performance arts and visual arts.

At UYL, we are committed to keeping this community safe and providing users a comfortable space to express themselves creatively. We deploy a combination of policies, safety tools, and online resources to ensure the same. Our Community Guidelines reflect our values and define a standard code of conduct for users. These guidelines provide general guidance on what is and is not allowed on the platform, and they apply to everyone and everything shared on UYL. We update our Community Guidelines from time to time to evolve with community behaviour and keep UYL a safe place for creativity and joy.

VIOLENT EXTREMISM

We do not allow people to use our platform to threaten or incite violence or promote dangerous individuals or organisations. When there is a credible threat to public safety, we handle the issue by banning the account and cooperating with relevant legal authorities. To effectively protect our community, we may consider the information available on other platforms and offline to identify violent and extremist individuals and organizations on our platform. We will close their accounts if we find such individuals or organisations on UYL.

DANGEROUS INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS

We do not allow individuals or organisations on our platform to promote or engage in violence. We remove such individuals and organisations, including mass murderers, serial killers and rapists, hate groups, criminal organisations, terrorist organisations, and other non-state armed groups that target civilians.

TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS

Terrorists and terrorist organisations are non-state actors that threaten violence, use violence, and/or commit serious crimes (such as crimes against humanity) against civilian populations to pursue political, religious, ethnic, or ideological objectives.

ORGANISED HATE

Organised hate refers to those individuals and organisations who attack people based on protected characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or immigration status. We consider attacks to include actions that incite violence or hatred, dehumanise individuals or groups, or embrace a hateful ideology.

CRIMINAL ORGANISATIONS

Criminal organisations are transnational, national, or local groups that have engaged in serious crimes, including violent crimes (e.g., homicide, rape, robbery, assault), trafficking (e.g., human, organ, drug, weapons), kidnapping, financial crimes (e.g., extortion, blackmail, fraud, money laundering), or cybercrime.

Do not post:

• Content that praises, promotes, glorifies, or supports dangerous individuals and/or organisations
• Content that encourages participation in, or intends to recruit individuals to, dangerous organisations
• Content with names, symbols, logos, flags, slogans, uniforms, gestures, salutes, illustrations, portraits, songs, music, lyrics, or other objects meant to represent dangerous individuals and/or organisations

THREATS AND INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE

We consider incitement to violence as advocating for, directing, or encouraging other people to commit violence. We do not allow threats of violence or incitement to violence on our platform that may result in serious physical harm.

Do not post:

• Statements of intent to inflict physical injuries on an individual or a group
• Statements or imagery that encourage others to commit or that advocate for physical violence
• Conditional or aspirational statements that encourage other people to commit violence
• Calls to bring weapons to a location with the intent to intimidate or threaten an individual or group with violence
• Instructions on how to make or use weapons with an intent to incite violence

ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES AND REGULATED GOODS

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 behaviour. To prevent such behaviour from being normalised, imitated, or facilitated, we remove content that promotes or enables criminal activities.

Do not post:

• 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 labour, 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

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

PRIVACY, PERSONAL DATA, AND PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION (PII)

We do not allow content that violates the confidentiality of personal data or personally identifiable information (e.g., Identity Card Number). We remove content that depicts personal data or personally identifiable information (PII) from the platform.

Do not post:

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

VIOLENT AND GRAPHIC CONTENT

We do not allow excessively gruesome or shocking content, especially content promoting or glorifying abject violence or suffering. We do allow exceptions for certain circumstances, such as newsworthy content or raising awareness about social issues. When we identify a genuine risk of violence or threat to public safety, we ban the account and work with relevant legal authorities as necessary and when appropriate.

Do not post:

• Content of humans that depicts:
  1. Violent or graphic deaths or accidents
  2. Dismembered, mutilated, charred, or burned human remains
  3. Gore in which an open wound or injury is the core focus
  4. Real-world physical violence, fighting, or torture
• Content of animals that depicts:
  1. The slaughter or other non-natural death of animals
  2. Dismembered, mutilated, charred, or burned animal remains
  3. Animal cruelty and gore

SUICIDE, SELF-HARM, AND DANGEROUS ACTS

We do not allow content depicting, promoting, normalising, 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. We encourage individuals who are struggling with thoughts of self-harm or suicide or know someone is seriously considering suicide to contact the local emergency service immediately.

SUICIDE

We do not allow content that depicts suicide, suicidal ideation, or content that might encourage participation in other self-injurious behaviour. We also do not allow content that depicts attempted suicide or content featuring a person engaging in the behaviour or intending to engage in behaviour likely to lead to self-inflicted death. We restrict any form of content that promotes, normalises, or glorifies suicide, provides instructions for suicide, or posts that portray suicide as heroic or honourable.

Do not post:

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

SELF-HARM AND EATING DISORDERS

We do not allow content normalising, encouraging, or triggering self-harm behaviour, regardless of the user's intention of posting it. We remove content that may promote or normalise acts that are likely to lead to self-inflicted physical injury. Content promoting eating habits that are likely to cause adverse health outcomes is also not allowed on the platform.

Do not post:

• Content that depicts, promotes, normalises, 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, normalises, or glorifies eating disorders or other dangerous weight loss behaviours associated with eating disorders

DANGEROUS ACTS

Risky activities or other dangerous behaviour are 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, normalises, or glorifies such behaviour, including amateur stunts or dangerous challenges.

Do not post:

• 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

HATEFUL BEHAVIOR

We do not tolerate content that attacks an individual or a group of individuals based on protected attributes such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, severe disease, disability, or immigration status. We remove content that invokes hateful behaviours, including speech that dehumanises or segregates a protected group. We also consider hateful content that will result in communal violence in the real world. We suspend or ban accounts that have multiple hateful behaviour violations.

ATTACKS ON THE BASIS OF PROTECTED ATTRIBUTES

We define hate speech or behaviour as content that attacks, threatens, incites violence against, or otherwise dehumanises 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

Do not post:

• Hateful content related to an individual or group, including:
  1. Claiming that they are physically, mentally, or morally inferior
  2. Calling for or justifying violence against them
  3. Claiming that they are criminals
  4. Referring to them as animals, inanimate objects, or other non-human entities
  5. Promoting or justifying exclusion, segregation, or discrimination against them
• Content that depicts harm inflicted upon an individual or a group on the basis of a protected attribute

SLURS

Slurs are defined as derogatory terms intended to disparage an ethnicity, race, or any other protected attributes listed above. They are not tolerated on our platform because we do not want to contribute to the spread of egregiously offensive terms. However, we are aware that slurs can be used self-referentially or reappropriated. We may give exceptions when slurs are used in a song or other instances of a self-referential satirical context and/or reappropriation.

Do not post:

• Content that uses or includes slurs to insult an individual or group based on one of their protected attributes

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:

• 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

HARASSMENT AND BULLYING

Users should feel safe expressing themselves without fear of being shamed, humiliated, bullied, or harassed. We deeply understand the psychological distress that abusive content can have on individuals, and we do not tolerate abusive content or behaviour on our platform.

ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR

We remove all expressions of abuse, including threats or degrading statements intended to mock, humiliate, embarrass, intimidate, or hurt an individual. To enable expression about public interest matters, public figures' critical comments may be allowed; however, serious abusive behaviour against public figures is prohibited.

Do not post:

• 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 wilful harm or intimidation, such as cyberstalking 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 behaviour directed at another individual. We do not allow content, including comments or advances, that sexually harass others, regardless of user's intent, as such actions can cause great distress to targeted individuals.

Do not post:

• Content depicting or promoting non-consensual sexual acts, including rape, molestation, supporting sexual violence
• Content depicting or promoting sexual solicitations, including asking for sex or sexual partners, sex chat or conversations, nude imagery, or sexually suggestive imagery

NUDITY AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY INVOLVING ADULTS

Nudity and sexual activity include content that is overtly revealing of breasts, genitals, anus, or buttocks, or behaviours 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.

Do not post:

• 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 protecting the safety of minors on our platform. We do not tolerate activities that perpetuate the abuse, harm, endangerment, or exploitation of minors on UYL platform. Any content, including animation or digitally created or manipulated media, that depicts abuse, exploitation, or endangerment of minors is a violation on our platform and will be removed when detected. We will report and escalate such content to relevant legal authorities to prevent ongoing or potential sexual exploitation or abuse towards minors. Users must meet the minimum age requirements to use UYL (as stipulated in our Terms of Services. We remove their accounts from our platform when underage account holders are identified.

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. UYL 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:

• 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 sexualised way, or otherwise sexualises a minor
• Content that depicts, solicits, glorifies, or encourages child abuse imagery including nudity, sexualised minors, or sexual activity with minors
• Content that depicts, promotes, normalises, or glorifies pedophilia or the sexual assault of a minor
• Content that victimises or capitalises on minor victims of abuse by third party reshares or reenactments of assault or confessions

GROOMING BEHAVIOUR

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

Do not post:

• Grooming advances
• Content that depicts, promotes, normalises, or glorifies grooming behaviours
• 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 behaviours 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:

• 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
• Sexualised 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:

• 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 jeopardise youth well-being, including physical challenges, dares, or stunts

PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HARM OF MINORS

Behaviours 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:

• Content that depicts or promotes physical abuse, neglect, endangerment, or psychological disparagement of minors

CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN

We do not allow users who have been convicted of crimes against children to have an account on UYL. These crimes include: sexual assault, molestation, murder, physical abuse or neglect, abduction, international parental kidnapping, trafficking, exploitation of minors for prostitution, online sexual abuse of a minor, attempts to obtain or distribute child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and the production, possession, or distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). We will ban the account if we discover any such users. Any self-disclosed user information that states the account holder is a paedophile or minor sex offender will be taken at face value, and the account may be deleted.

INTEGRITY AND AUTHENTICITY

Content intended to deceive or mislead any community members endangers our trust-based community. We do not allow activities that may undermine the integrity of our platform or the authenticity of our users. We remove content or accounts that involve spam or fake engagement, impersonation, misleading information that causes harm, or that violate any intellectual property rights.

Spam and fake engagement

Content or activity that seeks to artificially inflate popularity on the platform is prohibited. We also prohibit any attempts to manipulate platform mechanisms to increase interaction metrics.

Do not post:

• 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

MISINFORMATION

We do not permit misinformation that could cause harm to our community or the larger public. While we encourage our users to have respectful conversations about the subjects that matter to them, we remove misinformation that could cause harm to an individual's health or broader public safety.

Do not post:

• 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 behaviours (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). However, it does not protect underlying ideas or facts. A trademark is a word, symbol, slogan, and design that identifies and distinguishes a product or service source. 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.

Do not post:

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

PLATFORM SECURITY

In addition to the content and behaviour outlined above, our policies prohibit activities that undermine the UYL service:

Do not post:

• Do not hack the UYL website, app, or associated networks or bypass its measures to restrict users' access
• Do not distribute files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other materials that are malicious or harmful
• Do not modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, or create any derivative products based on UYL, including any files, tables, or documentation, nor attempt to regenerate any source code, algorithms, methods, or techniques embodied in UYL
• Do not use automated scripts to collect information from UYL

Thank you for being a part of our sharing community and working with us to maintain a safe space for all users. If you come across content or accounts that you believe may violate our Community Guidelines, please report in the corresponding place so we can review and take appropriate action.