QuickTales Community Guidelines

Child Safety Policy

 

The safety of our creators, customers, and partners is our highest priority. We look to each of you to help us protect this unique and vibrant community. It’s important you understand our Community Guidelines regarding Child Safety, and the role they play in our shared responsibility to keep QuickTales safe.

QuickTales does not allow content that endangers the emotional and physical well-being of minors. A minor is someone under 18 years old.

If you find content that violates this policy, report it. If you believe that a child is in danger, you should get in touch with your local law enforcement to report the situation immediately.

Instructions for reporting violations of our Community Guidelines are available here.

What this policy means for you

If you're posting content

Don’t post content on QuickTales if it fits any of the descriptions below.

  • Sexualization of minors: Sexually explicit content featuring minors and content that sexually exploits minors including minor nudity posted with comedic intent. We report content containing child sexual abuse imagery to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who work with global law enforcement agencies.
  • Harmful or dangerous acts involving minors: Content showing a minor participating in dangerous activities or encouraging minors to do dangerous activities, particularly if someone watching could imitate the dangerous act or if the content encourages or praises the dangerous act. Never put minors in harmful situations that may lead to injury, including dangerous stunts, challenges, dares, or pranks. Dangerous acts include, but are not limited to, any act in the categories listed under Extremely Dangerous challenges, such as asphyxiation or electrocution.
  • Examples include content that shows minors:
  • Drinking alcohol
  • Using vaporizers, e-cigarettes, tobacco, or marijuana
  • Misusing fireworks
  • Using firearms unsupervised
  • Inflicting or advocating for the infliction of physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment or neglect of a child, including inflicting emotional distress on minors.
  • Content that contains infliction of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse of a child within an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic context and with blurring may receive an exception.
  • Content that could cause minor participants or viewers emotional distress, including:
  • Exposing minors to mature themes
  • Simulating parental abuse
  • Coercing minors
  • Violence
  • Cyberbullying and harassment involving minors: Content that:
  • Intends to shame, deceive or insult a minor
  • Reveals personal information like email addresses or bank account numbers
  • Contains sexualization
  • Encourages others to bully or harass

This policy applies to QuickTales content, photos, audio, video, descriptions, reactions, Albums, and any other QuickTales product or feature. Keep in mind that this isn't a complete list.

Please note these policies also apply to external links in your content. This can include clickable and non-clickable URLs, verbally directing users to other sites in audio, as well as other forms.

How to protect minors in your public content

Before publicly posting content of yourself, your family, or friends, think carefully about whether it may put anyone at risk of negative attention. Minors are a vulnerable population, and QuickTales has policies to protect them from unwanted attention. Use QuickTales' Who Can Listen settings to limit who can view the QuickTales you post.

Don’t post content Publicly on QuickTales that features minors and meets one or more of the following:

  • Photographed in private spaces at home such as bedrooms or bathrooms.
  • Features minors soliciting contact from strangers, dares or challenges online, or discussing adult topics.
  • Shows activities that could draw undesired attention to the minor, such as performing body contortions or ASMR.
  • Reveals personal details about a minor.

 

Examples

Here are some examples of content not allowed on QuickTales.

  • Posts featuring minors involved in provocative, sexual, or sexually suggestive activities, challenges and dares, such as kissing or groping.
  • Showing minors involved in dangerous activities. For example, physical stunts, using weapons or explosives, or using a controlled substance like alcohol or nicotine including use of vapes or e-cigarettes.
  • A video with tags like "for children" featuring family friendly cartoons engaging in inappropriate acts like injecting needles.
  • Offering money, praise, likes, or any other incentive to a minor to participate in physical contact with someone else.
  • A post that advertises sexual content featuring minors or abusive content featuring minors.
  • Predatory behavior involving communications with or about minors.
  • Aggregating innocent content of minors for the purposes of sexual gratification.
  • Fight or bullying content featuring kids without educational, documentary, scientific or artistic context and blurring.
  • Challenges, pranks, or stunts that pose the risk of physical injury or serious emotional distress.
  • Encouraging minors to participate in dangerous activities, even if there are no minors in the content.
  • Content simulating parental abuse or abandonment, simulating exposure to death or violence, or causing minors intense shame or humiliation.
  • Using cartoons, puppets, or family entertainment characters to appeal to children where content features adult themes like violence and sex.

Remember these are just some examples, and don't post content if you think it might violate this policy.

What happens if content violates this policy

If your content violates this policy, we will remove the content and send you an email to let you know. If we can’t verify that a link you post is safe, we may remove the link. Note that violative URLs posted within the QuickTale itself or in the QuickTale’s metadata may result in the QuickTale being removed.

We may terminate your account for repeated violations of the Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. We may also terminate your account after a single case of severe abuse, or when the account is dedicated to a policy violation.

We have zero tolerance for predatory behavior on QuickTales. If we think a child is in danger based on reported content, we’ll help law enforcement investigate the content.

 

Educational, Documentary, Scientific & Artistic (EDSA)

Sometimes, content that would otherwise violate our Community Guidelines may stay on QuickTales when it has Educational, Documentary, Scientific, or Artistic (EDSA) context. In these cases, the content gets an EDSA exception.

How QuickTales evaluates Educational, Documentary, Scientific & Artistic (EDSA) content

Our Community Guidelines aim to make QuickTales a safer community. Sometimes, content that would otherwise violate our Community Guidelines may stay on QuickTales when it has Educational, Documentary, Scientific, or Artistic (EDSA) context. In these cases, the content gets an EDSA exception.

Here are tips for how you can add context—more information that informs or educates viewers—to your EDSA content.

 

Note: Adding context to your EDSA content doesn’t guarantee that it will get an EDSA exception.

 

How content gets an EDSA exception

Our content reviewers assess whether content gets an EDSA exception on a case-by-case basis. First, we check if there’s a Community Guidelines violation in the content. If there’s a violation, we review if there’s enough context in the content to make an EDSA exception. We review WHAT context is present and WHERE the context is.

 

What context to add to your EDSA content

The type of context you must include to get an EDSA exception depends on what’s in the content.

 

We make most EDSA exceptions when content has one or more of the following:

1. Basic facts about what’s happening in the content: Identify who’s in the content, describe what the content shows or when and where it takes place, or explain why certain content is present.

 

2. Condemnation, opposing views, or satire: Communicate that your content condemns certain claims, includes opposing points of view, or is satirical.

 

3. Discouragement of dangerous behavior: Tell viewers not to imitate what’s in the content.

 

Note: The above examples aren't a complete list of the context that you can add to your EDSA content. When in doubt, add multiple forms of context to your EDSA content. To help prevent content from causing harm, include the info in your audio, not just your QuickTale’s title or description. When in doubt, include different types of context described above. Be sure to include this information in the content itself, like the audio, to help avoid the content potentially causing harm.

 

WHERE to add context to your EDSA content

You can add context to your:

  • Photo
  • For example, you can add a text overlay.
  • Audio
  • For example, you can add narration including condemnation or a countervailing point of view.
  • QuickTale title
  • QuickTale description

 

Note: We don’t make EDSA exceptions for context that may be in reactions, tags, profile descriptions, or other surfaces.

 

What about other types of content, like audio reactions?

The same policies and guidelines that apply to a QuickTale also apply to other types of content.

 

Content that may not get EDSA exceptions

 

Certain content may not be allowed on QuickTales, even if it has context added.

  • Child Sexual Abuse Media (CSAM)
  • Imagery or audio of violent physical sexual assaults
  • Footage taken by the perpetrator of a deadly or major violent event that shows weapons, violence, or injured victims
  • Unmodified reuploads of content created by or glorifying violent terrorist or criminal organizations
  • Instructions on how to self-harm or die by suicide
  • Instructions on how to build a bomb that’s meant to injure or kill others
  • Instructions on how to manufacture a firearm or prohibited accessories
  • Offers of prohibited sales
  • Instructions on how to use computers or information technology to compromise personal data or cause serious harm to others
  • Content that reveals an individual’s private information, such as their home address, email addresses, sign-in credentials, phone numbers, passport number, or bank account information (doxxing)
  • Hardcore pornography
  • Spam

 

These are just some examples of content that may not be allowed, even if context is added.


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