Please read this privacy policy (the “Policy”) carefully to understand how we use your personal information. If you do not agree with this Policy, your choice is not to use www.iamconnect.com site and mobile applications and its related sites, applications, services and goods or any other website operated by Connect Social that links to this Policy (the “Site”). By accessing or using this Site, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time; any changes we make to this Policy will be posted on this Site, we may also take any other steps, to the extent required by applicable law, including notifying you and/or seeking your explicit consent to material changes. Changes to this Policy are effective as of the stated "Last Updated" date. Other than where we have sought such explicit consent from you, your continued use of the Site after we make changes will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for any updates or changes.
THE SHORT VERSION
At Connect Social we care about your privacy. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose it to others except as disclosed in this Policy or required to provide you with the services of the Site and mobile applications and its related sites, applications, services and goods or any other Site, meaning - to allow you to buy, sell, share the information you want to share on the Site; to contribute on the forum; pay for products; post reviews and so on; or where we have a legal obligation to do so.
We collect information that you provide us or voluntarily share with other users, and also some general technical information that is automatically gathered by our systems, such as IP address, browser information and cookies to enable you to have a better user experience and a more personalized browsing experience.
We will not share information that you provide us in the process of the registration - including your contact information - except as described in this Policy. Information that you choose to publish on the Site (photos, videos, text, music, reviews, deliveries) - is no longer private, just like any information you publish online.
Technical information that is gathered by our systems, or third-party systems, automatically may be used for Site operation, optimization, analytics, content promotion and enhancement of user experience. In accordance with applicable local law, we may use your information to contact you - to provide notices related to your activities, or offer you promotions and general updates, but we will not let any other person, including sellers and buyers, contact you, other than through your user profile on the Site.
Your personal information may be stored in systems based around the world, and may be processed by third party service providers acting on our behalf. These providers may be based in countries that do not provide an equivalent level of protection for privacy as that enjoyed in the country in which you live. In that case, we will provide for adequate safeguards to protect your personal information You can exercise your rights over your personal information, by sending an email to info@iamconnect.com. More details about the rights applicable to you are in the long version of the Policy.
The above are just the highlights. We encourage you to read more about the information we collect, how we use it, understand the meaning of cookie (no, you can’t eat it) and more in the long version of our Policy below.
THE LONGER VERSION
Connect Social LLC. (and its affiliates) respects your privacy and is committed to protect the personal information of its users - Merchants, Brands and Ambassadors browsing the Site (“Users”) as well as interacting with Connect Social. We believe that you have a right to know our practices regarding the information we collect when you visit and/or use the Site. This Policy explains our privacy practices for the Site and services provided by Connect Social as well as privacy practices that apply to affiliates, merchants, and other collaborators who are individuals. By accessing and/or using the Site and its related sites, applications, services, goods and/or registering for a Connect Social account and/or using it as a collaborator to share comments on a specific project and/or registering to our affiliate or influencer or similar program, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy, including to our collection, use, disclosure, processing and retention of your personal information. You can also learn how to limit sharing of information in this Policy.
Information We Collect
When you register to the Site, we ask you to provide certain personal information, including a valid first name, last name, phone number and email address. In order to access the full site’s features we’ll ask you to provide additional information that you provide us, such as, your profile details, physical address, telephone number or other contact details, financial information (such as payment method and credit card number), purchases, education, profession and expertise, and additional authentication information (such as your government issued ID,or driving license, as permitted by applicable laws. We also collect information about your communications with Connect Social as well as communication with other users of Connect Social.
In addition, we collect information while you access, browse, view or otherwise use the Site. In other words, when you access the Site, we are aware of your usage of the Site, and gather, collect and record the information relating to such usage, including geo-location information, IP address, device and connection information, browser information and web-log information, and all communications recorded by Users through the Site. We use that information to enhance user experience, personalize your browsing experience as well as monitor the Site for preventing fraud and inappropriate content or behavior. We also collect supplemental information obtained from third parties such as demographic and navigation data, if applicable.
Additionally, in order to improve your online experience at Connect Social, we have implemented impression reporting. While you view our ads, we gather user Global Unique Identifier, HTTP request data like, user agent, IP, host, URL, country/continent from which request made, browser info, device/operating system/operating system version.
Once you register, your username and additional information regarding your activity is made public and is visible to all Users of the Site. This information includes photos you upload, your published portfolio, Gig information, ratings, and additional information you may choose to add to your profile.
How do we collect Information?
You directly provide us with most of the information we collect. You do this by filling out the registration details on the Site as well as by posting and sharing additional information voluntarily. This can include User's location, education and profession, sharing of portfolio and anything you choose to add to your user profile.
We also collect technical information indirectly and automatically through our systems. This information includes logging your Internet Protocol (IP) address, software configuration, operating system and use of cookies (cookies are small files sent from us to your computer and sometimes back). Cookies ultimately help us improve your navigation and ease of use of our Site. You can find further information about Cookies in this Policy below, under "Cookies".
We also collect information from third party vendors and/or partners and/or other commercially available sources such as data aggregators and public databases, who provide us data to supplement the information we collect about you, in accordance with applicable laws. For example, we may receive fraud warnings from service providers for our fraud prevention and risk assessment efforts.
We also receive certain information about you, if you are invited to Connect Social by another user (for example, as part of our collaboration tools and referral program), in such case we will receive limited information, such as your email address or other contact information, and we will use it for the same purpose it was provided and in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Do Not Track
Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. We do not honor browser requests not to be tracked online (known as “Do Not Track”), but our cookie policy below describes how you can opt out of receiving cookies.
How do we use the Information collected?
Where relevant under applicable laws, all processing of your personal information will be justified by a "condition" for processing. In the majority of cases, processing will be justified on the basis that:
- you have provided your consent for us to use your personal information for a specific purpose;
- our use of your personal information is necessary to perform a contract or take steps to enter into a contract with you (e.g. to provide you with services which you have purchased);
- the processing is necessary to comply with a relevant legal obligation or regulatory obligation that we have (e.g. fraud prevention); or
- the processing is necessary to support our legitimate interests as a business (e.g. to improve our services to you), subject to your interests and fundamental rights and provided it is conducted at all times in a way that is proportionate.
- to provide you with quality service and security, to operate the Site and to perform our obligations to you. For example, we use the information collected from you to verify your identity. We also use this information to establish and set up your account, verify or re-issue a password, log your activity, enable your communications with other members, provide customer support and contact you from time to time. The information helps us develop and improve our services to you and customize and personalize your experience (including by making gig suggestions, ranking search results, etc.).
- to ensure marketplace integrity, prevent fraud and maintain a safe and secure marketplace. For example, we use your information to track and prevent fraudulent activities and other inappropriate activities and, monitor content integrity, conduct security investigations and risk assessments, verify or authenticate information provided by you, enforce our Terms of Service and comply with applicable laws. We conduct certain behavioral analytics to achieve the above objectives and in limited cases, if we detect activity that we think poses a risk to the Connect Social marketplace, other users, our community, or third parties, automated processes may restrict or limit your ability to use Connect Social . If you would like to challenge any such decision, please contact us.
- to contact you, as requested by you or otherwise approved by you.
- to promote and advertise the Connect Social Site and marketplace. For example, we use the information collected from you for the purpose of sending direct marketing messages (as detailed below), to show you information that may be of interest to you, to organize and facilitate referral programs, contests or other promotional activities or events.
- to maintain appropriate business records, to comply with lawful requests by public authorities and to comply with applicable laws and regulations or as otherwise required by law.
Direct marketing:
- We use your personal information to send you direct marketing communications about our products, services or promotions from Connect Social that may be of interest to you or our related services. This may be via email, post, SMS, telephone or targeted online advertisements.
- In most cases our processing of your personal information for marketing purposes is based on our legitimate interest, although some cases (such as where required by law) will be based on your consent. You have a right to prevent direct marketing of any form at any time - this can be exercised by following the opt-out link attached to each communication or by sending an email.
- We take steps to limit direct marketing to a reasonable and proportionate level, and to send you communications which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you, based on the information we have about you.
How long do we keep your information?
We apply a general rule of keeping personal information only for as long as is required to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. However, in some circumstances we may retain your personal information for longer periods of time. We may retain your information for the following purposes:
- as long as it is necessary and relevant for our operations, e.g. so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenge; and
- in relation to personal information from closed accounts to comply with applicable laws, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, enforce our Site terms and take other actions as permitted by law.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 should provide any personal information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Parents and guardians should at all times supervise their children's activities. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that personal information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.
Sharing Personal Information with Third Parties
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
We combine your personal information with information we collect with your permission and improve and personalize our services, content and advertising and/or to prevent fraud. If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us, you can opt-out through the link attached to each communication or by sending an email.
We provide your personal details to third parties, only in order to operate the Site, provide our services to you, fulfil obligations imposed on us by applicable laws and regulations, and prevent fraud, infringements and illegal activities, as detailed below:
- We share your information with service providers that provide us with services for the purpose of operating the Site, opening and operating your account as well as providing ancillary services (example - payment vendors, CRM systems, forum hosting, community management services, IT SaaS services, mailing systems or technical consultants). Our contracts with these service providers do not permit use of your information for their own (marketing) purposes. Consistent with applicable legal requirements, we take commercially reasonable steps to require third parties to adequately safeguard your personal information and only process it in accordance with our instructions;
- We will share your information to law enforcement agencies, public authorities or other parties in order to respond to a subpoena or court order, judicial process or to regulatory authorities, if we believe we are required to do so by law, or that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processes; when we believe it necessary or appropriate to disclose personal information to law enforcement authorities, such as to investigate actual or suspected fraud or violations of law, breaches of security, or breaches of this Policy; to respond to claims against us; and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Connect Social , our customers, or the public;
- We share your information with payment processors, fraud detection agencies and similar third parties for the purpose of securing the site and protecting it against fraud, unauthorized transactions (such as money laundering), claims or other liabilities;
- We share your information with Connect Social’s corporate affiliates that are related by common control for the purpose of operating the Site, providing our services to you and for other purposes listed herein; and
- Your personal information will also be disclosed if we go through a business transition such as a merger, sale, transfer of all or a portion of Connect Social 's assets, acquisition, bankruptcy or similar event. In the event that we sell any business or assets, we will disclose your data to the prospective buyer. If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, information held by us about our users will be one of the transferred assets.
This Site is also protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and terms of service apply with respect to data collected by reCAPTCHA. The use of Google reCAPTCHA is required in order to prevent fraud and misuse of the Site by use of automated machines. To learn more, please see Google’s Privacy Policy.
Where We Store Your Personal Information
Some of the personal information you provide to us will be stored or processed on our behalf by third party suppliers and data processors and may be located in other jurisdictions, such as the United States and Canada, whose laws may differ from the jurisdiction in which you live. Whether to third parties or internally, any transfers of personal information from the European Economic Area (“EEA”) to countries not deemed to provide an adequate level of data protection are governed by European Union (EU) standard contractual clauses, or in the case of the United States, the EU - US Privacy Shield, and/or equivalent data transfer regulations to protect the security and confidentiality of personal information. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
Cookies
When you visit the Site, we use industry-wide technologies such as "cookies" (or similar technologies), which store certain information on your computer and which will allow us, among other things, to enable automatic sign-in to the Site, make your browsing much more convenient and effortless and allow us to test user experience and offer you personalized browsing or promotions. By continuing to use this Site, you are agreeing to our placing cookies on your computer or device in accordance with the terms of this Policy.
The Site uses cookies to collect statistical data about its use, to tailor the Site's functionality to suit personal preferences and to assist with various aspects of Site operation. These files contain a variety of information such as information about Connect Social webpages visited by you, the length of time you visited the Site, data about how you came to visit the Site, areas viewed by you within the Site, and additional information. Cookies remain on your device for the period described below.
The following is a more detailed explanation of the types of cookies we use:
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Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies are essential and help you navigate the Site. This helps to support security and basic functionality and are necessary for the proper operation of the Site, so if you block these cookies, we can't guarantee your use or the security during your visit. -
Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies are used to provide you the best user experience. These cookies are, for instance, used to personalize content for you in line with your location. It also allows the Site to remember choices made (like turning off use of cookies or which location you have previously selected) to provide more personal features. -
Performance cookies
Performance cookies help us to understand the behavior of users of the Site. This allows us to continuously improve the Site to provide the best information in support of our project aims. These cookies are also used to help us understand how effective our Site is; for instance, these cookies tell us which pages visitors go to most often and if they get error messages from web pages. All of the information that these cookies collect is aggregated, to assist us to improve how the Site works. Some of these cookies are managed by third parties, and you may refer to the third parties' own website privacy notifications for further information. In particular, we use Google Analytics cookies to obtain an overall view of user habits and volumes, and to help improve the overall experience on the Site. Google Analytics is a third-party web analysis service provided by Google Inc, which uses performance cookies and targeting cookies. The information generated by these cookies about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google Inc on servers in the United States.
Blocking or Deleting Cookies
We shall store a cookie on your computer or device to remember this for next time, so that we can store your preferences and save you time on subsequent visits by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same data. You may set your browser to block all cookies, including cookies associated with our services, or to indicate when a cookie is being set by us. You should do this through the browser settings for each browser you use. Please be aware that some of our services will not function if your browser does not accept cookies.
However, you can allow cookies from specific websites by making them "trusted websites" in your internet browser.
The following links may assist you in managing your cookies settings, or you can use the 'help' option in your internet browser for more details:
- Internet Explorer
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Adobe (flash cookies)
Information on deleting or controlling cookies is also available at www.aboutcookies.org (note that this website is not provided by Connect Social, and we therefore cannot ensure its accuracy, completeness or availability). It is important to remember that many of our services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. For example, cookies may, in certain cases, save you from the need to enter usernames and passwords, and allow session continuity.
External Links
Please note that the Site contains links to third party sites and if you link to a third party site from the Site, any data you provide to that site and any use of that data by the third party are not under the control of Connect Social and are not subject to this Policy. You should consult the privacy policies of each site you visit. This Policy applies solely to personal information collected by our Site. If you upload content, including your personal information, to a social network and then tag the Site, your submission will be subject to that social network's terms of use and privacy policy, even where you post on an official Fiver page on the social network. We do not have control over these terms of use and privacy policies and have not reviewed their adequacy. You should therefore review these before submitting any personal information.
Security
We take great care in maintaining the security of the Site and your information and in preventing unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, destruction or damage to it through industry standard technologies and internal procedures. Among other things, we regularly maintain a PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) certification (with respect to payment by credit cards). In addition, we contractually ensure that any third party processing your personal information equally provide for confidentiality and integrity of your data in a secure way. However, the transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure, and although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access. Users who have registered to the Site agree to keep their password in strict confidence and not disclose such password to any third party. Further information about our data security practices can be provided on request.
Rights of EU Users and Data Subjects
Under applicable EU regulation, you have the following rights in respect of your personal information:
- to obtain a copy of your personal information together with information about how and on what basis that personal information is processed;
- to rectify inaccurate personal information;
- to erase your personal information in limited circumstances where (a) you believe that it is no longer necessary for us to hold your personal information; (b) we are processing your personal information on the basis of legitimate interests and you object to such processing, and we cannot demonstrate an overriding legitimate ground for the processing; (c) where you have provided your personal information to us with your consent and you wish to withdraw your consent and there is no other ground under which we can process your personal information; and (d) where you believe the personal information we hold about you is being unlawfully processed by us;
- to restrict processing of your personal information where: (a) the accuracy of the personal information is contested; (b) the processing is unlawful but you object to the erasure of the personal information; (c) we no longer require the personal information for the purposes for which it was collected, but it is required for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim or (d) you have objected to us processing your personal information based on our legitimate interests and we are considering your objection;
- to challenge processing which we have justified on the basis of our legitimate interest;
- to object to decisions which are based solely on automated processing or profiling;
- where you have provided your personal information to us with your consent, to ask us for a copy of this data in a structured, machine-readable format and to ask us to share (port) this data to another data controller; or
- to obtain a copy of or access to safeguards under which your personal information is transferred outside of the EEA.
We will ask you for additional data to confirm your identity and for security purposes, before disclosing data requested to you. We reserve the right to charge a fee were permitted by law. We will decline to process requests that jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or would cause us to take any action that is not permissible under applicable laws. Additionally, as permitted by applicable laws, we will retain where necessary certain personal information for a limited period of time for record-keeping, accounting and fraud prevention purposes.
Your California Privacy Rights
This section describes the rights of California residents that are users of our Site under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). If you are a California resident, as of January 2020, you have certain rights regarding your personal information. In particular, you have a right to request that we provide you with the following information:
- The categories or specific pieces of personal information that we collect about you.
- The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
- The purposes for collecting, using, or selling that personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
- If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, the categories of personal information we have disclosed in the prior twelve months.
- If we sold your personal information, the categories of personal information we have sold in the prior twelve months.
You have a right to request that we delete your personal information under certain circumstances and exceptions. You also have a right not to be discriminated against for exercising your rights under the CCPA.
Note that we have provided most of the information described above in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, for details about the personal information we have collected over the last 12 months, including the categories of sources, please see the “Information We Collect” and “How do we collect Information?” sections. For details about the purposes of collecting this information, please see the “How do we use the Information collected?” section above. We share this information with the categories of third parties described in the “Sharing Personal Information with Third Parties” section. As previously mentioned in the Privacy Policy, we do not sell (as such term is defined in the CCPA) personal information and will not sell it without providing users with a right to opt out.
Updating Your Information
We take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate and up to date, and we provide you with the opportunity to update your information through your account profile settings. In the event that you believe your information is in any way incorrect or inaccurate, please let us know immediately. We will make sure we investigate the matter and correct any inaccuracies as quickly as possible where necessary or give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it - unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes. When updating your personal information, we will ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request. If for any reason you have a problem with deleting your personal information, please contact Connect Social 's Customer Support and we will make reasonable efforts to delete any such information pursuant to any applicable privacy laws.
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Site and visiting your account profile page.
If you delete your User Generated Content (“UGC”), as defined in the Connect Social Terms of Service, from the Site, copies of your UGC may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Site users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Site, including UGC, is governed by our Terms of Service.
Contact Us
To exercise any of your rights in connection with your personal information, we kindly ask that you send an email to info@iamconnect.com. Please include all the relevant details, so your email can be handled correctly. We will process any requests in line with any local laws and our policies and procedures.
Connect Social ™ builds technologies and services that enable people to connect with each other, build communities, and grow businesses. These Terms govern your use of Connect Social, Connect Shops, Connect Local, Connect Coin, Connect TV and the other products, features, apps, services, technologies, and software we offer except where we expressly state that separate terms (and not these) apply. These Products are provided to you by Connect Social, LLC.
We don’t charge you to use Connect Social ™ or the other products and services covered by these Terms, unless we state otherwise. Instead, businesses and organizations, and other persons pay us to show you ads for their products and services. By using our Products, you agree that we can show you ads that we think may be relevant to you and your interests. We use your personal data to help determine which personalized ads to show you.
We don’t sell your personal data to advertisers, and we don’t share information that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address or other contact information). Instead, advertisers can tell us things like the kind of audience they want to see their ads, and we show those ads to people who may be interested. We provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads that help them understand how people are interacting with their content. See Section 2 below to learn more about how personalized advertising under these terms works on the Connect Social ™ Products.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your personal data to determine some of the ads you see and provide all of the other services described below. You can also go to your settings pages of the relevant Connect Social ™ Product at any time to review the privacy choices you have about how we use your data.
1. The services we provide
Our mission is to build a platform for the people, built by the people. We want to be the “go to” social and shopping platform where people feel safe to share their content, where they love to shop because they are saving money and building their Connect Coin wallets. A place where they know they are protected, and where they can be confident in helping us build, because we are paying them not only for their data, but for shopping within our economy. Connect Social will always be transparent with our users, and always reward each user for helping us grow. We want to be the place where both the local and global community can come together to share a platform that not only benefits every individual, but every business, every shopper, everyone who comes into our community, because they can see they are appreciated and rewarded for their everyday actions. We are throwing the habits of “Big Tech” out the window, by rewarding every user for their participation within our platform, and promising them a secure cryptocurrency that is paying them for their participation in helping Connect Social grow. This is truly a synergistic economy and community built for families, for businesses, and for the world.
To help advance this mission, we provide the Products and services described below to you:
Provide a personalized experience for you:
Your experience on Connect Social ™ is unlike anyone else's: from the posts, stories, events, ads, and other content you see in Connect Social ™ News Feed or our video platform to the Shop Local and other features you might use, such as Connect Shops. For example, we use data about the connections you make, the choices and settings you select, and what you share and do on and off our Products - to personalize your experience.
Connect you with people and organizations you care about:
We help you find and connect with people, businesses and others that matter to you across the Connect Social ™ platforms. We use data to make suggestions for you and others - for example, merchants to visit, products you may be interested in purchasing, shows to watch, and people you may want to become friends with. Stronger ties make for better communities, and we believe our services are most useful when people are connected to people they care about.
Empower you to express yourself and communicate about what matters to you:
There are many ways to express yourself on Connect Social ™ to communicate with friends, family, and others about what matters to you - for example, sharing status updates, photos, videos, and stories across the Connect Social ™ Products (consistent with your settings), sending messages or adding content to your profile as well as showing you insights on how others engage with your content.
Help you discover content, products, and services that may interest you:
We show you personalized ads, offers, and other sponsored or commercial content to help you discover content, products, and services that are offered by the many businesses and organizations that use Connect Social ™ and other Connect Social ™ Products. Section 2 below explains this in more detail.
Research ways to make our services better:
We engage in research to develop, test, and improve our Products. This includes analyzing data we have about our users and understanding how people use our Products, for example by conducting surveys and testing and troubleshooting new features. Our Privacy Policy explains how we use data to support this research for the purposes of developing and improving our services.
Provide consistent and seamless experiences across the Connect Social ™ Company Products:
Our Products help you find and connect with people and merchants that are important to you. We design our systems so that your experience is consistent and seamless across the different Connect Social platforms that you use.
Ensuring access to our services:
To operate our global services and enable you to connect with people around the world, we need to transfer, store and distribute content and data to our data centers, partners, service providers, vendors and systems around the world, including outside your country of residence. The use of this global infrastructure is necessary and essential to provide our services.
2. How our services are funded
Instead of paying to use Connect Social ™ and the other products and services we offer, by using the Connect Social ™ Products covered by these Terms, you agree that we can show you ads that businesses and organizations pay us to promote on and off the Connect Social network. We use your personal data, such as information about your activity and interests, to show you ads that are more relevant to you.
Protecting people's privacy is central to how we've designed our ad system. This means that we can show you relevant and useful ads without telling advertisers who you are. We don't sell your personal data. We allow advertisers to tell us things like their business goal, and the kind of audience they want to see their ads. We then show their ad to people who might be interested.
We also provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads to help them understand how people are interacting with their content on and off Connect Social ™. For example, we provide demographic and interest information to advertisers to help them better understand their audience. We don’t share information that directly identifies you (information such as your name or email address that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are). We collect and use your personal data in order to provide the services described above to you.
3. Your commitments to Connect Social ™ and our community
We provide these services to you and others to help advance our mission. In exchange, we need you to make the following commitments:
1. Who can use Connect Social ™
When people stand behind their opinions and actions, our community is safer and more accountable. For this reason, you must:
- Provide Verified identification, including photo ID, Verified Date of Birth, Verified First and Last Name, Verified Address, Verified email address, Verified mobile number and gender.
- Provide accurate information about yourself.
- Create only one account (your own) and use it for personal purposes.
- Not share your password, give access to your Connect Social ™ account to others, or transfer your account to anyone else.
- You are under 13 years old.
- We've previously disabled your account for violations of our Terms or the Community Standards or other terms and policies that apply to your use of Connect Social ™. If we disable your account for a violation of our Terms, the Community Standards, or other terms and policies, you agree not to create another account without our permission. Receiving permission to create a new account is provided at our sole discretion, and does not mean or imply that the disciplinary action was wrong or without cause.
- You are prohibited from receiving our products, services, or software under applicable laws.
We want people to use Connect Social ™ Products to express themselves and to share content that is important to them, but not at the expense of the safety and well-being of others or the integrity of our community. You therefore agree not to engage in the conduct described below (or to facilitate or support others in doing so):
- You may not use our Products to do or share anything:
- That violates these Terms, the Community Standards or other terms and policies that apply to your use of our Products.
- That is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent (or assists someone else in using our Products in such a way).
- That you do not own or have the necessary rights to share.
- That infringes or violates someone else's rights, including their intellectual property rights (such as by infringing another’s copyright or trademark, or distributing or selling counterfeit or pirated goods), unless an exception or limitation applies under applicable law.
- You may not upload viruses or malicious code, use the services to send spam, or do anything else that could disable, overburden, interfere with, or impair the proper working, integrity, operation, or appearance of our services, systems, or Products.
- You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access.
- You may not proxy, request, or collect Product usernames or passwords, or misappropriate access tokens.
- You may not sell, license, or purchase any data obtained from us or our services, except as provided in the Platform Terms.
- You may not misuse any reporting, flagging, dispute, or appeals channel, such as by making fraudulent, duplicative, or groundless reports or appeals.
If we remove content that you have shared in violation of the Community Standards, we’ll let you know and explain any options you have to request another review, unless you seriously or repeatedly violate these Terms or if doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons. For information on account suspension or termination.
To help support our community, we encourage you to report content or conduct that you believe violates your rights (including intellectual property rights) or our terms and policies, if this feature exists in your jurisdiction.
We also can remove or restrict access to content features, services, or information if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate misuse of our services or adverse legal or regulatory impacts to Connect Social ™.
3. The permissions you give us
We need certain permissions from you to provide our services:
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Permission to use content you create and share: Some content that you share or upload, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property laws.
You retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (things like copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share on Connect Social ™ and other Connect Social company products you use. Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want.
However, to provide our services we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a "license") to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Products and services as described in Section 1 above.
Specifically, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent you’re your privacy and application settings). This means, for example, that if you share a photo on Connect Social ™, you give us permission to store, copy, and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as Connect Social ™ Products or service providers that support those products and services. This license will end when your content is deleted from our systems.
You can delete individual content you share, post, and upload at any time. In addition, all content posted to your personal account will be deleted if you delete your account. Account deletion does not automatically delete content that you post as an admin of a page or content that you create collectively with other users, such as photos in Shared Albums which may continue to be visible to other album members.
- Permission to use your name, profile picture, and information about your actions with ads and sponsored or commercial content: You give us permission to use your name and profile picture and information about actions you have taken on Connect Social ™ next to or in connection with ads, offers, and other sponsored or commercial content that we display across our Products. For example, we may show your friends that you are interested in an advertised event or have liked a Connect Social ™ merchant. Ads and content like this can be seen only by people who have your permission to see the actions you've taken on Connect Social ™.
- Permission to update software you use or download: If you download or use our software, you give us permission to download and install updates to the software where available.
If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Products (for example, images, designs, videos, or sounds we provide that you add to content you create or share on Connect Social ™), we retain all rights to that content (but not yours). You can only use our copyrights or trademarks (or any similar marks) as expressly permitted by Connect Social. You must obtain our written permission (or permission under an open-source license) to modify, translate, create derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer our products or their components, or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us, unless an exception or limitation applies under applicable law.
4. Additional provisions
1. Updating our Terms
We work constantly to improve our services and develop new features to make our Products better for you and our community. As a result, we may need to update these Terms from time to time to accurately reflect our services and practices, to promote a safe and secure experience on our Products and services, and/or to comply with applicable law. We will only make any changes if the provisions are no longer appropriate or if they are incomplete, and only if the changes are reasonable and take due account of your interests or if the changes are required for safety and security purposes or to comply with applicable law. We will notify you (for example, by email or through our Products) at least 30 days before we make changes to these Terms and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect, unless changes are required by law. Once any updated Terms are in effect, you will be bound by them if you continue to use our Products.
We hope that you will continue using our Products, but if you do not agree to our updated Terms and no longer want to be a part of the Connect Social ™ community, you can delete your account at any time.
2. Account suspension or termination
We want Connect Social ™ to be a place where people feel welcome and safe to express themselves and share their thoughts and ideas.
If we determine, in our discretion, that you have clearly, seriously or repeatedly breached our Terms or Policies, including in particular the Community Standards, we may suspend or permanently disable your access to Connect Social ™ and our platforms, and we may permanently disable or delete your account. We may also disable or delete your account if you repeatedly infringe other people’s intellectual property rights or where we are required to do so for legal reasons. We may disable or delete your account if after registration your account is not confirmed, your account is unused and remains inactive for an extended period of time, or if we detect someone may have used it without your permission and we are unable to confirm your ownership of the account.
Where we take such action, we’ll let you know and explain any options you have to request a review, unless doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.
If you delete or we disable or delete your account, these Terms shall terminate as an agreement between you and us, but the following provisions will remain in place: 3, 4.2-4.5.
3. Limits on liability
We work hard to provide the best Products we can and to specify clear guidelines for everyone who uses them. Our Products, however, are provided "as is," and to the extent permissible by law, we make no guarantees that they always will be safe, secure, or error-free, or that they will function without disruptions, delays, or imperfections. To the extent permitted by law, we also DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not control or direct what people and others do or say, and we are not responsible for their actions or conduct (whether online or offline) or any content they share (including offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful, and other objectionable content).
We cannot predict when issues might arise with our Products. Accordingly, our liability shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law under no circumstance will we be liable to you for any lost profits, revenues, information, or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive, or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms or the Connect Social ™ network. (however caused and on any theory of liability, including negligence), even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
4. Disputes
We try to provide clear rules so that we can limit or hopefully avoid disputes between you and us. If a dispute does arise, however, it's useful to know up front where it can be resolved and what laws will apply.
If you are a consumer, the laws of the country in which you reside will apply to any claim, cause of action, or dispute you have against us that arises out of or relates to these Terms or the Connect Social ™ network, and you may resolve your claim in any competent court in that country that has jurisdiction over the claim. In all other cases, and for any claim, cause of action, or dispute that Connect Social ™ files against you, you and Connect Social ™ agree that any such claim, cause of action or dispute must be resolved exclusively in the U.S. District Court of Nevada or a state court located in Clark County. You also agree that you submit to the personal jurisdiction of either of these courts for the purpose of litigating any such claim, and that the laws of the State of Nevada will govern these Terms and any claim, cause of action, or dispute without regard to conflict of law provisions. Without prejudice to the foregoing, you agree that, in its sole discretion, Connect Social ™ may bring any claim, cause of action, or dispute we have against you in any competent court in the country in which you reside that has jurisdiction over the claim.
5. Other
- These Terms make up the entire agreement between you and Connect Social, LLC. regarding your use of our Products. They supersede any prior agreements.
- Some of the Products we offer are also governed by supplemental terms. If you use any of those Products, supplemental terms will be made available and will become part of our agreement with you.
- If any portion of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the unenforceable portion will be deemed amended to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and if it can’t be made enforceable, then it will be severed and the remaining portion will remain in full force and effect. If we fail to enforce any of these Terms, it will not be considered a waiver. Any amendment to or waiver of these Terms must be made in writing and signed by us.
- You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms to anyone else.
- These Terms do not confer any third-party beneficiary rights. All of our rights and obligations under these Terms are freely assignable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise.
- We may change the username for your account in certain circumstances (for example, if someone else claims the username and it appears unrelated to the name you use in everyday life).
- We always appreciate your feedback and other suggestions about our products and services. But we may use feedback and other suggestions without any restriction or obligation to compensate you, and we are under no obligation to keep them confidential.
- We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
All transactions will be fulfilled within 1 hour.
There are no refunds.
Our mission is to build a platform for the people, by the people. We will be your “go-to” social and shopping platform where you feel safe to share content, and where you love to shop because you are saving money and building your Connect Coin wallet. A place where you know you are protected, and where you can be confident in helping us build because we are paying you not only for your data but for shopping within our economy. Connect Social will always be transparent with our users, and always reward each user for helping us grow. We want to be a place where both the local and global community can come together to share a platform that not only benefits every individual but every business, every shopper, and everyone who comes into our community because they can see they are appreciated and rewarded for their everyday actions. We are throwing the habits of “Big Tech” out the window, by rewarding every user for their participation within our platform and promising them a secure cryptocurrency that is paying them for their participation in helping Connect Social grow. This is truly a synergistic economy and community built for families, for businesses, and for the world.
Connect Social is a platform built by the people for the people and your voice is important to us. These standards are in place to ensure a safe and secure environment for everyone while still respecting your constitutional rights and freedoms.
The 2 most important policies that we want everyone to adhere to is as follows
Violence and Criminal Behaviour
Violence and Incitement
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
- Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
- Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
- Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
- Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
- Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defence or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
- Statements of intent to commit violence, or
- Statements advocating violence, or
- Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
- Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
- Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defence, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
- Statements of intent to commit violence, or
- Calls for action of violence, or
- Statements advocating for violence, or
- Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
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Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
- Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
- Language explicitly stating that goal, or
- Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
- Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same).
Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime
Do not post content that falls into the following categories:
Harm against people
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Outing:
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Content that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with anyone who is alleged to:
- Be a member of an outing-risk group; and/or
- Share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member(s) of an outing-risk group; and/or
- Have performed professional activities in support of an outing-risk group (except for political figures)
- Content that exposes the undercover status of law enforcement, military, or security personnel if:
- The content contains the agent’s full name or other explicit identification and explicitly mentions their undercover status.
- The imagery identifies the faces of the law enforcement personnel and explicitly mentions their undercover status.
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Content that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with anyone who is alleged to:
- Swatting, specifically statements of intent, calls to action, representing, supporting, advocating for, depicting, admitting to or speaking positively about it.
- Depicting, promoting, advocating for or encouraging participation in a high-risk viral challenge.
Statements of intent, calls to action, representing, supporting or advocating for, or depicting, admitting to or promoting:
- Acts of physical harm against animals committed by you or your associates except in cases of hunting, fishing, religious sacrifice, food preparation or processing, pest or vermin, self-defence or redemption.
- Staged animal vs. animal fights, including acts committed by a third party.
Statements of intent, calls to action, representing, supporting or advocating for harm against property that depicts, admits to, or promotes the following acts committed by you or your associates:
- Vandalism.
- Hacking when the intent is to hijack a domain, corrupt or disrupt cyber systems, seek ransoms or gain unauthorized access to data systems.
- Theft when committed by you or your associates, as well as positive statements about theft when committed by a third party.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
- Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Community or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
- Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
- Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Community or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
- An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
- Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
- Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
Content that:
- Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
- Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
- Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
- Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Content that:
- Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
- Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
- Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
- Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
- Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
- Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
- Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
- Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
- Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
- Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
- Posted by a Page, Community or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
- Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
- Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood
- Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Content that:
- Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
- Posted by a Page, Community, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
- Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
- Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Community, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
- Asks for alcohol or tobacco
- Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
- Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
- Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Do not post:
Content that provides instructions on, engages in, promotes, coordinates, encourages, facilitates, recruits for, or admits to the offering or solicitation of any of the following activities:
- Deceiving others to generate a financial or personal benefit to the detriment of a third party or entity through:
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Investment or financial scams:
- Loan scams
- Advance fee scams.
- Gambling scams
- Ponzi or pyramid schemes.
- Money or cash flips or money muling.
- Investment scams with promise of high rates of return.
- Inauthentic identity scams:
- Charity scams.
- Romance or impersonation scams
- Establishment of false businesses or entities.
- Product or rewards scams:
- Grant and benefits scams.
- Tangible, spiritual or illuminati scams.
- Insurance scams, including ghost broking
- Fake jobs, work from home or get-rich-quick scams.
- Debt relief or credit repair scams.
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Investment or financial scams:
- Engaging and co-ordinating with others to fraudulently generate a financial or personal benefit at a loss for a third party, such as people, businesses or organisations through:
- Fake documents or financial instruments by:
- Creating, selling or buying of:
- Fake or forged documents.
- Fake or counterfeit currency or vouchers.
- Fake or forged educational and professional certificates.
- Money laundering
- Creating, selling or buying of:
- Fake documents or financial instruments by:
- Stolen information, goods, or services by:
- Credit card fraud and goods or property purchases with stolen financial information
- Trading, selling or buying of:
- Personal Identifiable Information.
- Fake and misleading user reviews or ratings
- Credentials for subscription services.
- Coupons.
- Sharing, selling, trading, or buying of:
- Future exam papers or answer sheets.
- Betting manipulation (for example match fixing).
- Manipulation of measuring devices such as electricity or water meters in order to bypass their authorised or legal use.
SAFETY
Suicide and Self Injury
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for
- Suicide
- Self-injury.
- Eating disorders.
It is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury.
Child Sexual Exploitation Abuse and Nudity
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.
Content that solicits
- Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
- Nude imagery of children
- Sexualized imagery of children
- Real-world sexual encounters 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
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.
Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualized images or videos of children
- Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows children in a sexualized context.
- Groups, Pages and profiles targeted to sexualizing children.
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:
- Close-ups of children’s genitalia
- Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
- Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
- Real nude toddlers, 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.
- Real nude minors, showing:
- Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes.
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.
Adult Sexual Exploitation
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.
- 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:
- Imagery is non-commercial or produced in a private setting.
- Person in the imagery is (near) nude, engaged in sexual activity or in a sexual pose.
- Lack of consent to share the imagery is indicated by meeting any of the signals:
- Vengeful context (such as, caption, comments or page title).
- Independent sources (such as, law enforcement record) including entertainment media (such as, leak of images confirmed by media).
- A visible match between the person depicted in the image and the person who has reported the content to us.
- The 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:
- Vengeful context and/or threatening context, or
- A visible match between the person depicted in the image and the person who has reported the content to us.
- The person who reported the content to us shares the same name as the person depicted in the image.
- Lack of consent is indicated by:
Do not: Tier 1: Target anyone maliciously by:
- Repeatedly contacting someone in a manner that is:
- Unwanted, or
- Sexually harassing, or
- Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
- Attacking someone based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
- Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people.
- Attacking someone through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
- Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
- Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies or terrorist attacks by name or by image, with claims that they are:
- Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event.
- Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
- Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address or email address.
- Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity.
- Making severe sexualized commentary
- Sharing derogatory sexualized photoshopped imagery or drawings
- Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
- Posting content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
- Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
- Calling for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
- Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity.
- Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease.
- Sexualizing another adult.
- Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread:
- Attacks referenced in Tier 1, 2 and 4 of this policy.
- Targeted cursing.
- Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease or physical harm.
- Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
- Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
- Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases except in the context of criminal allegations against adults about non-consensual sexual touching.
- Pages or Groups created to attack through:
- Targeted cursing.
- Negative physical descriptions.
- Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
- Expressions of contempt or disgust.
- Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
- For adults and minors:
- Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
- Claims about sexually transmitted disease
- Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
- Content that praises, celebrates or mocks their death or medical condition.
- Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
- For minors:
- Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
- Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
- Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
- Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
- Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
- Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality.
- Content sexualizing another adult.
- Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts.
- Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury.
- In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
- Negative character or ability claims.
- First-person voice bullying only if the object targets more than one private individual.
- Targeted cursing.
- Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Coordination, advocacy or promotion of exclusion.
- Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose off-line harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them.
- Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
- Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
- Videos of physical bullying shared in a non-condemning context.
- First-person voice bullying.
- Unwanted manipulated imagery.
- Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
- Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
- Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
- Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
- Non-negative character or ability claims.
- Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context.
- Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
Do not post:
Content or exhibited behavior that may lead to human exploitation, which includes any of the following:
- Sex trafficking, covering minors and adults.
- Sales of children or illegal adoption.
- Orphanage trafficking and orphanage volun-tourism.
- Forced marriages.
- Labor exploitation (including bonded labor).
- Domestic servitude.
- Non-regenerative organ trafficking.
- Forced criminal activity (e.g. forced begging, forced drug trafficking).
- Recruitment of child soldiers.
- Recruitment of potential victims through force, fraud, coercion, enticement, deception, blackmail or other non-consensual acts.
- Facilitation of human exploitation by coordinating, transporting, transferring, harboring or brokering of victims prior or during the exploitation.
- Exploitation of humans by promoting, depicting or advocating for it.
Privacy Violations
Do not post:
Content that shares or solicits any of the following private information, either on Connect Social or through external links:
Personally identifiable information about yourself or others
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Personal identity: identifying individuals through government-issued numbers.
- National identification number (for example Social Security Number (SSN), Passport Number, National Insurance/Health Service Number, Personal Public Service Number (PPS), Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)).
- Government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel.
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Personal information: directly identifying an individual, by indicating the ID number or registration information and the individual’s name.
- Records or official documentation of civil registry information (marriage, birth, death, name change or gender recognition, and so on).
- Immigration and work status documents (for example, green cards, work permits, visas, or immigration papers).
- Driver’s licenses or license plates, except when license plates are shared to facilitate finding missing people or animals.
- Credit Privacy Number (CPN).
- Digital identity: authenticating access to an online identity
- Email addresses with passwords.
- Digital identities with passwords.
- Passwords, pins or codes to access private information.
- Personal contact information of others such as phone numbers, addresses and email addresses, except when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, find missing people, animals, or objects, or contact business service providers.
- Financial information.
- Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
- Non-public financial records or statements.
- Bank account numbers with security or pin codes.
- Digital payment method information with log in details, security or pin codes.
- Credit or debit card information with validity dates or security pins or codes.
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Financial information about businesses or organizations, unless originally shared by the organization itself, including:
- Financial records or statements except when the financial records of the business are publicly available (for example, listed on stock exchanges or regulatory agencies, and so on)
- Bank account numbers accompanied by security or pin codes.
- Digital payment method information accompanied by log in details, security or pin codes.
- Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
- Residential information
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Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
- The residence is a single-family home, or the resident's unit number is identified in the image/caption.
- The city/neighborhood or GPS pin (for example, a pin from Google Maps) are identified.
- The content identifies the resident(s).
- That same resident objects to the exposure of their private residence, or there is context of organizing protests against the resident (This does not include embassies that also serve as residences).
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Content that exposes information about safe houses by sharing any of the below, unless the safe house is actively promoting information about their facility
- Actual address (Note: "Post Box only" is allowed.)
- Images of the safe house.
- Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house.
- Information exposing the identity of the safe house residents.
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Imagery that displays the external view of private residences if all of the following conditions apply:
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Medical information
- Records or official documentation displaying medical, psychological, biometric, or genetic hereditary of others.
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Information obtained from hacked sources.
- Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, content claimed or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
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A reported photo or video of people where the person depicted in the image is:
- A minor under 13 years old, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
- A minor between 13 and 18 years old, and the content was reported by the minor.
- An adult, where the content was reported by the adult from outside the United States and applicable law may provide rights to removal.
- Any person who is incapacitated and unable to report the content on their own.
OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT
Hate Speech
Do not post:
Tier 1
Content targeting a person or group of people (including all groups except those who are considered non-protected groups described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses or representing less than half of a group) on the basis of their aforementioned protected characteristic(s) or immigration status with:
- Violent speech or support in written or visual form
- Dehumanizing speech or imagery in the form of comparisons, generalizations, or unqualified behavioral statements (in written or visual form) to or about:
- Insects.
- Animals that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior.
- Filth, bacteria, disease and feces.
- Sexual predator.
- Subhumanity.
- Violent and sexual criminals
- Other criminals (including but not limited to “thieves,” “bank robbers,” or saying “All [protected characteristic or quasi-protected characteristic] are ‘criminals’”).
- Statements denying existence.
- Mocking the concept, events or victims of hate crimes even if no real person is depicted in an image.
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Designated dehumanizing comparisons, generalizations, or behavioral statements (in written or visual form) that include
- Black people and apes or ape-like creatures.
- Black people and farm equipment.
- Caricatures of Black people in the form of blackface.
- Jewish people and rats.
- Jewish people running the world or controlling major institutions such as media networks, the economy or the government.
- Denying or distorting information about the Holocaust.
- Muslim people and pigs.
- Muslim person and sexual relations with goats or pigs.
- Mexican people and worm-like creatures.
- Women as household objects or referring to women as property or "objects".
- Transgender or non-binary people referred to as "it".
- Dalits, scheduled caste or ‘lower caste’ people as menial laborers.
Content targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) with:
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Generalizations that state inferiority (in written or visual form) in the following ways:
- Physical deficiencies are defined as those about:
- Hygiene, including but not limited to: filthy, dirty, smelly.
- Physical appearance, including but not limited to: ugly, hideous.
- Mental deficiencies are defined as those about:
- Intellectual capacity, including but not limited to: dumb, stupid, idiots.
- Education, including but not limited to: illiterate, uneducated.
- Mental health, including but not limited to: mentally ill, retarded, crazy, insane.
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Moral deficiencies are defined as those about:
- Character traits culturally perceived as negative, including but not limited to: coward, liar, arrogant, ignorant.
- Derogatory terms related to sexual activity, including but not limited to: whore, slut, perverts.
- Physical deficiencies are defined as those about:
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Other statements of inferiority, which we define as:
- Expressions about being less than adequate, including but not limited to: worthless, useless.
- Expressions about being better/worse than another protected characteristic, including but not limited to: "I believe that males are superior to females."
- Expressions about deviating from the norm, including but not limited to: freaks, abnormal.
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Expressions of contempt (in written or visual form), which we define as:
- Self-admission to intolerance on the basis of a protected characteristics, including but not limited to: homophobic, islamophobic, racist.
- Expressions that a protected characteristic shouldn't exist.
- Expressions of hate, including but not limited to: despise, hate.
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Expressions of dismissal, including but not limited to: don´t respect, don't like, don´t care for
- Expressions of disgust (in written or visual form), which we define as:
- Expressions that suggest the target causes sickness, including but not limited to: vomit, throw up.
- Expressions of repulsion or distaste, including but not limited to: vile, disgusting, yuck.
- Referring to the target as genitalia or anus, including but not limited to: cunt, dick, asshole.
- Profane terms or phrases with the intent to insult, including but not limited to: fuck, bitch, motherfucker.
- Terms or phrases calling for engagement in sexual activity, or contact with genitalia, anus, feces or urine, including but not limited to: suck my dick, kiss my ass, eat shit.
Content targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) with any of the following:
- Segregation in the form of calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting segregation.
- Exclusion in the form of calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting, defined as
- Explicit exclusion, which means things like expelling certain groups or saying they are not allowed.
- Political exclusion, which means denying the right to right to political participation.
- Economic exclusion, which means denying access to economic entitlements and limiting participation in the labour market.
- Social exclusion, which means things like denying access to spaces (physical and online) and social services, except for gender-based exclusion in health and positive support Groups.
Violent and Graphic Content
Do not post:
Imagery of people
Videos of people or dead bodies in non-medical settings if they depict
- Dismemberment.
- Visible internal organs; partially decomposed bodies.
- Charred or burning people unless in the context of cremation or self-immolation when that action is a form of political speech or newsworthy.
- Victims of cannibalism.
- Throat-slitting.
Sadistic Remarks
- Sadistic remarks towards imagery that is deleted or put behind a warning screen under this policy, unless there is a self-defence context or explicit educational context in a medical setting.
- Sadistic remarks towards imagery of one or more persons subjected to violence and/or humiliating acts by one or more uniformed personnel doing a police function.
- Offering or soliciting imagery that is deleted or put behind a warning screen under this policy, when accompanied by sadistic remarks.
- Explicit sadistic remarks towards the suffering of animals depicted in the imagery.
Do not post:
- Imagery of real nude adults, if it depicts:
- Visible genitalia except in the context of birth giving and after-birth moments or if there is medical or health context situations (for example, gender confirmation surgery, examination for cancer or disease prevention/assessment).
- Visible anus and/or fully nude close-ups of buttocks unless photoshopped on a public figure.
- Uncovered female nipples except in the context of breastfeeding, birth giving and after-birth moments, medical or health context (for example, post-mastectomy, breast cancer awareness or gender confirmation surgery) or an act of protest.
- Imagery of sexual activity, including:
- Explicit sexual activity and stimulation
- 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.
- Explicit stimulation of genitalia or anus, defined as stimulating genitalia or anus or inserting objects, including sex toys, into genitalia or anus, where the contact with the genitalia or anus is directly visible.
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Implied sexual activity and stimulation, except in cases of medical or health context, advertisements, and recognized fictional images or with indicators of fiction:
- Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when the genitalia and/or the activity or contact is not directly visible.
- Implied stimulation of genitalia or anus, defined as stimulating genitalia or anus or inserting objects, including sex toys, into or above genitalia or anus, when the genitalia and/or the activity or contact is not directly visible.
- Other activities, except in cases of medical or health context, advertisements, and recognized fictional images or with indicators of fiction, including but not limited to:
- Erections
- Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
- Sex toys placed upon or inserted into mouth.
- Stimulation of naked human nipples.
- Squeezing female breasts, defined as a grabbing motion with curved fingers that shows both marks and clear shape change of the breasts. We allow squeezing in breastfeeding contexts.
- Fetish content that involves:
- Acts that are likely to lead to the death of a person or animal.
- Dismemberment.
- Cannibalism.
- Feces, urine, spit, snot, menstruation or vomit.
- Bestiality.
- Adult sexual activity in digital art, except when posted in an educational or scientific context, or when it meets one of the criteria below and shown only to individuals 18 years and older.
- Explicit sexual activity and stimulation
- Extended audio of sexual activity
Do not post:
Content that offers or asks for adult commercial services, such as requesting, offering or asking for rates for escort service and paid sexual fetish or domination services.
Attempted coordination of or recruitment for, adult sexual activities, except when promoting an event or venue, including but not limited to:
- Filmed sexual activities.
- Pornographic activities, strip club shows, live sex performances or erotic dances.
- Sexual, erotic or tantric massages.
- Offering or asking for sex or sexual partners (including partners who share fetish or sexual interests).
- Sex chat or conversations.
- Nude photos/videos/imagery/sexual fetish items.
- Sexual slang terms.
Content that is implicitly or indirectly offering or asking for sexual solicitation and meets both of the following criteria. If both criteria are not met, it is not deemed to be violating. For example, if content is a hand-drawn image depicting sexual activity but does not ask or offer sexual solicitation, it is not violating:
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Criteria 1: Offer or ask
- Content that implicitly or indirectly (typically through providing a method of contact) offers or asks for sexual solicitation.
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Criteria 2: Suggestive Elements
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Content that makes the aforementioned offer or ask using one of the following sexually suggestive elements:
- Contextually specific and commonly sexual emojis or emoji strings, or
- Regional sexualized slang, or
- Mentions or depictions of sexual activity (including hand drawn, digital, or real-world art) such as sexual roles, sex positions, fetish scenarios, state of arousal, act of sexual intercourse or activity (e.g. sexual penetration or self-pleasuring), or
- Poses.
- Audio of sexual activity or other content
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Content that makes the aforementioned offer or ask using one of the following sexually suggestive elements:
Sexually-explicit language that goes into graphic detail beyond mere reference to:
- A state of sexual arousal (e.g wetness or erection) or
- An act of sexual intercourse (e.g sexual penetration, self-pleasuring or exercising fetish scenarios).
- Except for content shared in a humorous, satirical, or educational context, as a sexual metaphor or as sexual cursing.
Integrity and Authenticity
Account Integrity and Authentic Identity
We do not allow the use of our services and will restrict or disable accounts or other entities (such as pages, communities, and events) if you:
- Severely Violate our Community Standards.
- Persistently Violate our Community Standards.
- Coordinate as part of a network of accounts or other entities in order to violate or evade our Community Standards.
- Represent Dangerous Individuals or Organizations.
- Create or use an account that demonstrates an intent to violate our Community Standards.
- Create an account to evade our enforcement actions, including creating an account to bypass a restriction or after we have disabled your previous account.
- Impersonate others by:
- Using their photos with the explicit aim to deceive others.
- Creating an account assuming to be or speak for another person or entity.
- Creating a Page assuming to be or speak for another person or entity for whom the user is not authorized to do so.
- Are under 13 years old.
- Are prohibited from receiving our products, services or software under applicable laws
Do not:
- Post, share, either manually or automatically, at very high frequencies.
- Require or claim that users are required to engage with content (e.g. liking, sharing) before they are able to view or interact with promised content.
- Encourage likes, shares, follows, clicks or the use of apps or websites under false pretenses, such as:
- Offering false or non-existent services or functionality (e.g. “Get a ‘Dislike’ button!”)
- Failing to direct to promised content (e.g. “Click here for a discount code at Nordstrom”; false play buttons)
- The deceptive or misleading use of URLs, defined as:
- Cloaking: Presenting different content to Connect Social users and Connect Social crawlers or tools.
- Misleading content: Content contains a link that promises one type of content but delivers something substantially different.
- Deceptive redirect behavior: Websites that require an action (e.g. captcha, watch ad, click here) in order to view the expected landing page content and the domain name of the URL changes after the required action is complete.
- Like/share-gating: Landing pages that require users to like, share, or otherwise engage with content before gaining access to content.
- Deceptive landing page functionality: Websites that have a misleading user interface, which results in accidental traffic being generated (e.g. pop-ups/unders, clickjacking, etc.).
- Typosquatting: An external website pretends to be a reputable brand or service by using a name, domain or content that features typos, misspellings or other means to impersonate well-known brands using a landing page similar to another, trusted site to mislead visitors (e.g. www.iamc0nnect.com, www.iam_connect.com).
- And other behaviors that are substantially similar to the above.
Do not:
Attempt to compromise user accounts, profiles, abuse our products or services, gather sensitive information through deceptive means, or attempt to engage in unauthorized access, including:
- Gaining access to accounts, or user data other than your own through deceptive means or without explicit permission from the account, profile, or entity owner.
- Encouraging or deceiving users to download or run files or programs that will compromise a user’s online or data security, including through malicious software or websites. Such files and programs will be deemed malicious software or "malware" if they harm or gain unauthorized access to a computer, device, or network.
- Attempting to obtain, acquire or request another user’s login credentials, personal information or other sensitive data - whether explicitly or through deceptive means such as phishing (e.g. fake surveys designed to capture log-in info or links to fake login pages or impostor websites) or the use of malicious software or websites.
- Publicly sharing your own or others’ login information, either on platform or through a third-party service.
- Creating, sharing or hosting malicious software including browser extensions and mobile applications, on or off the platform that put our users or products and services at risk.
- Providing online infrastructure, including web hosting services, domain name system servers and ad networks that enables abusive links such that a majority of those links on Connect Social violate the spam or cybersecurity sections of the Community Standards.
Do not:
- Misuse Connect Social reporting systems to harass others.
- Conceal a Page’s purpose by misleading users about the ownership or control of that Page.
How to Invite
Ambassador sends Invitation through profile menu
- Each ambassador has a unique referral URL which does not expire
- Super Admin does not have a public profile page and can only update profile through dashboard. This information can be seen on the sign up page.
- Invitations should not be sent to users who already have a registered account
About our Privacy Statuses
Post, Gallery, & Social Information
- Personal Network:
- It consists of the users who have joined Connect Social using your referral link.
- It will also include the user whose referral link was used by you to join the Connect Social.
- Extended Network
- It consists of the users who have joined Connect Social using your Tier 1’s referral link.
- It will also include the user whose referral link was used by the user who sent you the referral link.
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Friends
- It consists of users that are added to your friend list.
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Connections
- It consists of users that are added to your connection list
- Public
- Public will be combination of the above mentioned networks
- Friends, Connections, Personal & Extended Network will be able to send you a message and vice versa
KYC Wallet Activation
Rank Advancements
A new user signing up will be having | No rank |
After successful KYC rank of that user will be | Ambassador |
After successful KYC of first tier 1 of the same user rank will be | Resident |
After successful KYC of first tier 2 of the same user rank will be | Citizen |
Award Mechanism
- An ambassador will get coins as joining bonus, but wallet will be activated after KYC
- Tier 1 reward will be given to an ambassador after the referred user has completed KYC.
- Tier 2 reward will be given to an ambassador after the referred user has completed KYC.
If you are under the age of eighteen (18), you may use the payments features through the Connect Social platform only with the involvement of your parent or guardian. Make sure you review the Payments Terms with your parent or guardian so that you both understand all your rights and responsibilities. We have provided some section headers for your convenience, but you should carefully read through these Community Payment terms in order to understand your rights and responsibilities, as well as ours.When you make payments through the Connect Social platform, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically any important regarding your payments or your account. Protecting the privacy of your financial information is important to us, please review our Privacy Policy for users in the U.S and Canada, as well as our privacy policy for users outside of the U.S and Canada, to learn more about what information we share, what we do not share, and how we keep your information safe.
1. Making Payments
- Payment credentials. When you make a payment through the Connect Social platform, you agree to provide a valid payment credential. When you have successfully added your payment credential, we will allow you to initiate a transaction using the payments features through the Connect Social platform.
- Pricing. Pay attention to the details of the transaction, because your total price may include taxes, fees, and shipping costs, all of which you are responsible for paying.
- Extra terms. You may be presented with additional terms related to a specific payment before you confirm the transaction. Those additional terms will also govern that transaction.
- Foreign Exchange. If your transaction requires a currency exchange, we will use foreign exchange rates provided by one or more external vendors. We aim to upload files from our vendors with the current exchange rates into our system on a daily basis. However, these processes could be delayed or fail for any number of reasons. If this happens the foreign exchange rates used will be the ones from the last file received, typically the ones from the previous day.
2. Payment Methods
- Payment credentials. For your convenience, we allow you to fund your transactions using a number of different sources, like credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, ACH or other cryptocurrenies.
- Authority. When you provide a payment credential to us, you confirm that you are permitted to use that payment credential. When you fund a transaction, you authorize us (and our designated payment processor) to charge the full amount to the payment credential you designate for the transaction. You also authorize us to collect and store that payment credential, along with other related transaction information. We may also use certain payment card updater services, whose availability varies by issuer, to ensure we have the most up-to-date information about payment credential we store.
- Authorization. If you pay by credit or debit card, we may obtain a pre-approval from the issuer of the card for an amount, which may be as high as the full price of your payment. Your card will be charged at the time you initiate a payment, or shortly thereafter. If you cancel a transaction before completion, this pre-approval may result in those funds not otherwise being immediately available to you.
- Failed payments. If your transaction results in an overdraft or other fee from your bank, you alone are responsible for that fee.
3. Actions We May Take
4. Disputes and Reversals
- Duty to notify us. If you believe that an unauthorized or otherwise problematic transaction has taken place under your account, you agree to notify us immediately, so that we may take action to prevent financial loss. Unless you submit the claim to us within 30 days after the charge, you will have waived, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all claims against us arising out of or otherwise related to the transaction.
- Technical difficulties. If you experience a technical failure or interruption of service that causes your payment to fail, you may request that your transaction be completed at a later time.
5. Notices and Amendments to These Payments Terms
- Notice to you. By using payments features through the Connect Social platform, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically any important information regarding your payments or your account. We may also provide notices to you by posting them on our website, or by sending them to an email address or street address that you previously provided to us. Website and email notices shall be considered received by you within 24 hours of the time posted or sent; notices by postal mail shall be considered received within three (3) business days of the time sent.
- Notice to us. Except as otherwise stated, you must send notices to us relating to payments through the Connect Social platform and these Payments Terms by email to support@iamconnect.com
- Amendment guidelines. We may update these Payments Terms at any time without notice as we deem necessary to the full extent permitted by law. The Payments Terms in place at the time you confirm a transaction will govern that transaction.
7. Additional Terms
- Terms of Service and conflict of terms. Our Terms of Service (“Terms”) apply to your use of payments features through the Connect Social platform. In the event of any conflict between these Payments Terms and the Terms, the Payments Terms shall prevail.
- Conflict of laws. Some countries may restrict or prohibit your ability to make payments through the Connect Social Platform. Nothing in these Payments Terms should be read to override or circumvent any such foreign laws.
- Courtesy translations. These Payments Terms were written in English (US). To the extent any translated version of these Payments Terms conflicts with the English version, the English version controls.
- Trade sanctions. You must not use payments features through the Connect Social platform in connection with activities, individuals, or entities that are located in a country or region that is embargoed by the United States or that would otherwise violate applicable U.S. or non-U.S. trade sanctions.
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“Us”. Without limiting Section 7.1, above, the following are the entities to which “us,” “we,” or “our” refer:
- To the extent you store payment credentials or use Connect Social -Processed Payments and are a resident of or have your principal place of business in the U.S. or Canada, these Payments Terms are between you and Connect Social LLC., a Nevada corporation.
- To the extent you store payment credentials or use Connect Social -Processed Payments and are a resident of or have your principal place of business in a country other than the U.S. or Canada, these Payments Terms are between you and Connect Social LLC., a private company in Nevada USA.