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Community Standards

Last updated: Monday July 08, 2024.

As part of our ongoing efforts to make ez Connect a trusted platform for its users, we’ve developed guidelines that go hand-in-hand with our Terms and Conditions. They outline the do’s and don’ts of using ez Connect so that we can best keep you (and your audience!) safe. Please take a few minutes to review our Community Standards and digest ‘em, since – like our T&Cs – you’re agreeing to abide by them by using your ez Connect.

If you come across content on a ez Connect that violates the standards below, please report it.

Adult content

You may:

  • create links to adult content as long as it is legal in your region, doesn’t advertise full service sex work, and is marked as sensitive*
  • advertise adult media that you create and sell on other platforms.

You may not:

  • upload adult media (e.g. images or videos), including nudity, to your ez Connect– including in your avatar, link thumbnails, background, PDFs, or Link Apps such as Store product images
  • embed social media feeds that would display adult content directly on your ez Connect
  • advertise full service sex work
  • share adult content created with generative AI to impersonate another individual
  • use ez Connect commerce or payment locked links to collect payment or donations for adult content directly through ez Connect

* When adding a link to your ez Connect, you may find that the sensitive content label is automatically applied.

Hate speech

ez Connect is a place to share beliefs and ideas as long as it does not cause harm, incite hatred or violence, or discriminate against individuals and groups based on race, skin color, national origin, religious beliefs, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or medical condition. We’re also not a platform that should be used to glorify perpetrators of hatred, violence, or discrimination either.

Electoral fraud

Don’t use ez Connect to impede your local/national electoral process, which includes misleading the public about where and how to participate, or about who can participate, and selling or attempting to sell your right to vote.

URLs

ez Connect usernames are meant for everyone– so don’t buy, sell, hoard or trade them. Don’t secure a username without the intention of using it, or with the intention to ‘domain squat’, i.e. to prevent someone else from using it, or to profit from reselling it. This is illegal in some countries, and ez Connect does not allow it.

Illegal goods and services

Don’t use ez Connect to advertise, encourage, or facilitate the sale of regulated or illegal goods, services, or activities, including (but not limited to):

  • Alcohol*
  • Controlled substances
  • Tobacco products, including e-cigarettes
  • Weapons, weapon schematics, accessories and ammunition, including firearms and real-life replicas lacking indicators that clearly denote they cannot be fired
  • Fireworks and explosives
  • Body parts (including body fluids, blood etc.) or offers of humans for sale
  • Endangered or protected species or parts of
  • Regulated plants, insects, animals
  • Offers for adoption/surrogacy
  • Counterfeit goods
  • Recalled items
  • Stolen items
  • Products offered through multi-level marketing schemes
  • Embargoed goods
  • Hazardous/toxic materials
  • ID documents
  • Personal information or mailing lists
  • Gambling, including casino and betting games**
  • Human trafficking

* You may advertise the sale of alcohol with a liquor licence, but you may not sell alcohol directly through ez Connect commerce links.

** Fantasy sports do not fall under this policy and may be freely shared on ez Connect.

Spam and fraud

  • linking out to external sites which might collect personal information under false pretenses
  • creating a large number of accounts to advertise goods/services/domains
  • creating a large number of accounts to collect affiliate per-click funds

Harassment

Don’t use ez Connect to target individuals with the intention to intimidate, harass, threaten, or bully.

Extremist/terrorist content

Don’t use ez Connect to advertise, propagandize, praise, or collect funds for extremist groups or their activities.

Child harm

ez Connect has a no tolerance policy for child harm. Do not upload or link out to content that harms minors or endorses harming minors, including: child sexual abuse material, solicitation of minors, and imagery that feature underage individuals within an inappropriate context. We actively report any such cases of child endangerment or harm uploaded to or linked out from ez Connect to relevant authorities, e.g. the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Self-harm

We want ez Connect to be a place where Linkers can feel safe as they discuss the journey of recovery in a healthy way, but we also want everyone to feel safe when visiting. As a result, we prohibit content that promotes or idealizes suicide, self-mutilation, or disordered eating.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, please consider reaching out for help. Organizations such as 7 Cups, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, and IMAlive provide anonymous, free, and 24/7 support across many countries and languages.

Shocking or violent content

Don’t use ez Connect to share content intended to shock and disturb visitors such as gore, mutilation, excessive violence, or physical abuse.

Copyright and trademark

You should not upload content that infringes an individual’s intellectual property rights (including copyright, trademarks, and patents). If you believe your intellectual property rights are being infringed because of content on ez Connect, please reach out to us.

Privacy and impersonation

Maintaining individual privacy is very important on ez Connect! We don’t allow ez Connect profiles that expose others’ personal identifying information (billing details, IDs, etc.) or collect identifying information (including IP addresses) without the appropriate legal basis (e.g. explicit consent). We also don’t allow profiles that expose private media (e.g. image-based sexual abuse, including that which was created with generative AI) or that impersonate other individuals or organisations.

If you collect personal information from visitors, you must ensure that you have a privacy notice that visitors can review before providing their personal data. This privacy notice must comply with all applicable privacy laws and regulations.

Misinformation

Don’t use ez Connect to post, share or spread misinformation or disinformation. This includes any content that jeopardises public safety, including but not limited to manipulated media, documentation, or conspiracy theories.

Examples:

  • content that is false, inaccurate, disproven, or designed to misinform others re: current events, social issues or crises
  • content intended to impede your local/national electoral process (please refer to our policy re: electoral fraud)
  • content that was created with the use of generative AI in an attempt to impersonate, harass, sexualize (e.g. “deepfakes”), or misinform with the intent to harm
  • content suggesting potentially harmful alternatives to medical treatment claims that falsely exaggerate or trivialise the effects of or origin of medical conditions or their scientifically-backed treatments, including in relation to COVID-19