Community Guidelines

At Live Penalty, our mission is to provide the best shared live gaming experience created by our growing community where gamers and players can interact safely. To achieve this goal, we ask that all users participate in such a way that promotes a friendly, positive experience for our global community.

In addition to our Terms of Service, we provide the following guidelines for our community. These guidelines fall under a common sense philosophy and apply to all user generated content and activity on our services. This is considered a living document that we regularly update based on the evolution of the Live Penalty community and service. Additional guidelines or specific exceptions may be applicable for certain services or properties under Live Penalty.

To protect the integrity of our community, as the provider of the service, we at Live Penalty reserve the right to suspend any account at any time for any conduct that we determine to be inappropriate or harmful. Such actions may include: removal of content, a strike on the account, and/or suspension of account(s).

Breaking the Law

You must respect all applicable local, national, and international laws while using our mobile app. Any content or activity featuring, encouraging, offering, or soliciting illegal activity is prohibited.

Suspension Evasion

All suspensions are binding until expiration or removal upon appeal. Any attempt to circumvent an account suspension or chat ban by using other accounts, identities, personalities, or presence on another user’s account will also result in suspension. Suspension evasion will not only increase the length of suspension, but may lead to an indefinite suspension.

Self-Destructive Behaviour

Any activity that may endanger your life or lead to your physical harm is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: suicide threats, intentional physical trauma, illegal use of drugs, illegal or dangerous consumption of alcohol, and dangerous or distracted driving. We do not make exceptions for self destructive behaviour performed as a stunt or gag made in jest, or meant to entertain, when the behaviour could reasonably be expected to cause physical injury.

Violence and Threats

Acts and threats of violence will be taken seriously and are considered zero-tolerance violations and all accounts associated with such activities will be indefinitely suspended. This includes, but is not limited to:

Attempts or threats to physically harm or kill others
Attempts or threats to hack, DDOS, or SWAT others
Use of weapons to physically threaten, intimidate, harm, or kill others

Hateful Conduct and Harassment

Hateful conduct is any content or activity that promotes, encourages, or facilitates discrimination, denigration, objectification, harassment, or violence based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or serious medical condition or veteran status, and is prohibited. Any hateful conduct is considered a zero-tolerance violation. We will take action on all accounts associated with such conduct with a range of enforcement actions, including and up to indefinite suspension.

Harassment is any content or activity that attempts to intimidate, degrade, abuse, or bully others, or creates a hostile environment for others, and is prohibited. Depending on the severity of the offence, your account may be indefinitely suspended on the first violation.

We prohibit using Live Penalty to facilitate hateful conduct or harassment, whether the targets are on or off Live Penalty. Individuals, communities or organisations that do so are not allowed to use our services. We may take action against users for hateful conduct or harassment that occurs off Live Penalty services that is directed at Live Penalty users.

Learn more about our hateful conduct and harassment policies and enforcement.

Unauthorised Sharing of Private Information

Do not invade the privacy of others. It is prohibited to share content that may reveal private personal information about individuals, or their private property, without permission. This includes but is not limited to:

Sharing personally identifiable information (such as real name, location, or ID)
Sharing restricted or protected social profiles or any information from those profiles
Sharing content that violates another’s reasonable expectation of privacy, for example streaming from a private space, without permission

Impersonation

Content or activity meant to impersonate an individual or organisation is prohibited. Any attempts to misrepresent yourself as a member of Live Penalty representatives is a zero-tolerance violation and will result in indefinite suspension.

Spam, Scams, and Other Malicious Conduct

Any content or activity that disrupts, interrupts, harms, or otherwise violates the integrity of Live Penalty services or another user’s experience or devices is prohibited. Such activity includes:

Posting large amounts of repetitive, unwanted messages or user reports
Distributing unauthorised advertisements
Phishing
Defrauding others
Spreading malware or viruses
Misinformation (such as feigning distress, posting misleading metadata, or intentional channel miscategorization)
Tampering (such as artificially inflating follow or live viewer stats)
Selling or sharing user accounts
Reselling Live Penalty services or features (such as channel Moderator status)
Defacing, or attempting to deface, website pages or other Live Penalty services (such as uploading inappropriate or malicious content)
Cheating a Live Penalty rewards system (such as the Drops or channel points systems)

Nudity, Pornography, and Other Sexual Content

Nudity and sexually explicit content or activities, such as pornography, sexual acts or intercourse, and sexual services, are prohibited.

Content or activities that threaten or promote sexual violence or exploitation are strictly prohibited and may be reported to law enforcement. Child exploitation will be reported to authorities via the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Sexually suggestive content or activities are also prohibited, although they may be allowed in educational contexts or for pre-approved licensed content, in each case subject to additional restrictions.

Extreme Violence, Gore, and Other Obscene Conduct

Content that exclusively focuses on extreme or gratuitous gore and violence is prohibited.

Intellectual Property Rights

You should only share content on Live Penalty that you own, or that you are otherwise authorised to share on Live Penalty. If you share content on Live Penalty that you do not own or otherwise do not have the rights to share on Live Penalty, you may be infringing another person’s intellectual property rights. This includes any third party content included in your content, derivative creations, or performances of others’ copyrighted content. We encourage you to assess your content for adherence to applicable intellectual property laws and the proper application of principles such as fair use, and to secure all appropriate rights needed, before sharing your content on Live Penalty.

Any unauthorised content you share on Live Penalty may be subject to a takedown by the rights holder(s) to remove the infringing content from Live Penalty, and is a violation of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Multiple violations of our policies may lead to a permanent suspension of your account.

Examples of content you cannot share on Live Penalty without permission from the copyright owners or other authorisation include:

Sharing other Live Penalty creators’ content
Playing pirated games or on unauthorised private servers
Sharing content from other sites
Showing movies, television shows, or sports matches
Playing music you do not own or do not have the rights to share

Content Labelling

You are expected to accurately label your content to the best of your ability. When choosing a category or tag, please choose whichever best describes your content. Deliberate or extensive misuse of titles, tags, games/categories, or other metadata are prohibited.

Cheating in Online Games

Any activity, such as cheating, hacking, botting, or tampering, that gives the account owner an unfair advantage in an online multiplayer game, is prohibited. This also includes exploiting our live broadcast in order to harass others.