1. Overview
Community Connect provides livestreaming capabilities for community events, meetups, and member-hosted broadcasts. All livestreams hosted on the platform must comply with this policy, our Terms of Service, and applicable law. By starting a livestream on Community Connect, you accept responsibility for the content you broadcast.
2. Prohibited Livestream Content
The following content is strictly prohibited in all livestreams on Community Connect:
- Illegal activities: Content that depicts, promotes, or facilitates illegal acts including drug use, weapons offenses, theft, fraud, or any other criminal activity.
- Dangerous activities: Content that encourages or demonstrates actions that could cause serious physical harm to the streamer, viewers, or third parties.
- Hate speech and harassment: Content that promotes hatred, discrimination, or violence based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin. This includes targeted harassment of individuals or groups.
- Sexual content: Explicit, pornographic, or sexually suggestive content of any kind.
- Child safety: Any content that exploits, sexualizes, endangers, or facilitates harm to minors. Violations will be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and relevant law enforcement immediately.
- Misinformation: Content that deliberately spreads false or misleading information that could cause harm, including health misinformation or election-related disinformation.
- Intellectual property infringement: Broadcasting copyrighted music, video, or other material without proper licensing or authorization.
- Spam and deceptive practices: Misleading stream titles, fake giveaways, phishing attempts, or any deceptive content designed to manipulate viewers.
3. Streamer Responsibilities
If you host a livestream on Community Connect, you are responsible for:
- Ensuring all content you broadcast complies with this policy and applicable law.
- Monitoring your stream's live chat and taking action against participants who violate these rules.
- Obtaining all necessary permissions, licenses, and consents for any third-party content you broadcast, including background music.
- Ensuring that any guests or co-hosts appearing in your stream are aware of and comply with this policy.
- Not broadcasting in locations or situations where recording is prohibited without consent.
- Promptly ending a stream if prohibited content begins to appear and you cannot prevent it.
4. Live Chat Conduct
The live chat accompanying a livestream is subject to the same conduct standards as the rest of the platform. Participants in live chat may not:
- Post spam, repeated messages, or disruptive content.
- Harass, threaten, or bully the streamer or other viewers.
- Share links to malicious, illegal, or prohibited content.
- Impersonate Community Connect staff, the streamer, or other users.
Streamers and community administrators may remove participants from live chat at their discretion.
5. Moderation
Community Connect reserves the right to monitor, interrupt, remove, or suspend any livestream at its sole discretion, with or without prior notice, if it determines the content violates this policy, our Terms of Service, or applicable law. Moderation actions may include:
- Issuing a warning to the streamer during or after the broadcast.
- Terminating the livestream immediately.
- Removing the recorded stream from the platform.
- Temporarily or permanently suspending the streamer's account.
- Reporting content to law enforcement or appropriate authorities where required by law.
Community Connect is not obligated to monitor all livestreams in real time and does not assume liability for content broadcast by users. However, we take all reports seriously and act promptly on confirmed violations.
6. Reporting a Violation
If you witness a livestream that violates this policy, you can report it through the in-app reporting tools available during the stream, or by contacting us directly:
- Email: info@cconnect.vip with the subject line "Livestream Report"
- Include the stream title, streamer name, community name, and a description of the violation.
- Reports are reviewed as quickly as possible. For urgent safety concerns, reports are prioritized.
We do not tolerate false or malicious reports submitted in bad faith. Repeated false reporting may result in action against the reporting account.
7. Consequences of Violations
Violations of this policy may result in the following actions, depending on severity and frequency:
- First violation: Warning and stream termination.
- Repeat violations: Temporary suspension of livestreaming privileges or account suspension.
- Severe violations (e.g., child exploitation, credible threats of violence): Immediate permanent ban and referral to law enforcement.
Community Connect reserves the right to take any action it deems appropriate and is not bound to follow a progressive enforcement schedule for severe violations.
8. Recorded Streams & Data
Livestreams may be recorded and made available for replay to community members after the event, depending on the event organizer's settings. If a stream is recorded, participants should have no expectation of the conversation being ephemeral. Recorded streams that are found to violate this policy may be removed at any time, including after the live broadcast has ended.
9. Policy Changes
We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via email or a notice on the platform. Continued use of livestreaming features after changes take effect constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.
10. Contact
For questions about this policy or to report a violation, contact us at: info@cconnect.vip
