These community
guidelines will be effective for all users from September 16, 2023. (Version
1.1)
Last revised
on: September 16th, 2023
Bantoo Link is committed
to fostering a community that is safe, respectful, and dedicated to social
media communication, entertainment, sharing of information, marketplace
interactions, job search, money transfer, remittance, as well as supporting diversity
and content creation. We have therefore developed the following Community
Guidelines which governs your use of the Bantoo Link platform, whether
you are a new user of the Bantoo Link's platform, a Creator, or a Community
Member. If you notice any potential violations of these Community Guidelines,
please notify us through email at [email protected]
Any capitalized term not defined in these Community Guidelines shall have the
meaning given to it in our Terms of Use.
>1. Prohibited User
Content.
You agree not to use the Bantoo Link platform to collect, upload, transmit,
display, or distribute any User Content that (i) Violates any third-party
right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right,
privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or
proprietary right; (ii) Violates any law or regulation, including, without
limitation, any applicable export control laws;(iii) that is in violation of
any law, regulation, or obligations or restrictions imposed by any third party.
(iv) contains content that meets our definition of sexual activity including: images
of visible genitalia, actual or implied sexual activity, fetish content, unless
any of the following conditions exist: content was posted in a a) satirical or
humorous context, b) educational or scientific context, c) imagery is not
sufficiently detailed and only body shapes or contours are visible, d) women
actively engaged in breast-feeding, e) photos of post-mastectomy scarring, f)
photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other art that depict nude figures.
v) Violence: You may not threaten violence including an intent to kill, inflict
serious physical harm, or threaten sexual assault, against an individual or a
group of people.
>2. Prohibited Activities.> In addition, you agree
not to: (i) upload, transmit, or distribute to or through the Site any computer
viruses, worms, or any software intended to damage or alter a computer system
or data; (ii) send through the Site unsolicited or unauthorized advertising,
promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any
other form of duplicitous or unsolicited messages, whether commercial or
otherwise; (iii) use the Site to harvest, collect, gather or assemble
information or data regarding other users, including e-mail addresses, without
their consent; (iv) interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on
servers or networks connected to the Site, or violate the regulations, policies
or procedures of such networks; (v) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the
Site (or to other computer systems or networks connected to or used together
with the Site), whether through password mining or any other means; (vi) harass
or interfere with any other user's use and enjoyment of the Site; or (vii) use
software or automated agents or scripts to produce multiple accounts on the
Site, or to generate automated searches, requests, or queries to (or to strip,
scrape, or mine data from) the Site (provided, however, that we conditionally
grant to the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use
spiders to copy materials from the Site for the sole purpose of and solely to
the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the
materials, but not caches or archives of such materials, subject to the
parameters set forth in our robots.txt file).
>3. Prohibition on
Impersonating Another Community. You may not create a community that copies another
community’s name or overall look and feel in such a way that makes it appear
that the community you have created belongs to or is affiliated with another
party.
>4. Enforcement of
Community Guidelines; Three Strikes Procedure>. We reserve the right
(but have no obligation) to review any User Content, and to investigate and/or
take appropriate action against you in our sole discretion if you violate these
Community Guidelines or any other provision of our Terms or otherwise create
liability for us or any other person. Such action may include removing or
modifying your User Content, terminating your Account in accordance with
Section 10 of our Terms of Use, and/or reporting you to law enforcement
authorities. Without limiting the foregoing, or any other provision of these
Community Guidelines or our Terms (or our rights under each), we recognize that
not all violations of our Community Guidelines should result in the immediate
termination of a user's Account in all cases. In lieu of Account termination,
therefore, we may issue Strikes to any user who violates our
Community Guidelines, or our Terms, and we may remove only the specific User
Content which violates our Community Guidelines, in our sole discretion. If we
issue a Strike to you based upon your use or misuse of the Site, or your User
Content, we will email you and/or provide a notification in your Account
settings which will specify: (a) which User Content was removed; and (b) which
specific provision of our Community Guidelines, or our Terms, was violated. If
you believe in good faith that a Strike was issued in error, you may appeal
such Strike by responding directly to the corresponding Strike notification
email within fifteen (15) days of its original send date. We will approve or
reject your appeal, in our sole discretion, within thirty (30) days of our
receipt of your appeal email, or as soon as reasonably practicable. If you
receive three Strikes within the same 180-day period, unless successfully
appealed, your Account will be automatically terminated and all of your associated
User Content will be permanently deleted from our databases. Additionally, if
your Account has been terminated for any reason, you hereby acknowledge and
agree that you are prohibited from using or creating another Account to
circumvent our Community Guidelines or our Terms. Any such circumvention or
attempted circumvention by a user shall be grounds for immediate termination of
any Account belonging to such user.
>Creators in their sole
determination may remove or modify any User Content, and/or request that Bantoo
Link remove Community Members from their community.
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