Community Guidelines

Last updated: 28 March 2024

Spark9 is a platform for you. Together we all keep Spark9 a place where creativity and originality live.

Thanks for being a member of the Spark9 community! Spark9’s mission is to provide a service that is suitable for all types of users, that values freedom of expression and the acceptance of a diverse range of ideas and opinions, and that enables its users to “share, create and connect” in a lawful, safe, inclusive, and supportive manner.

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Spark9 is committed to treating each user equally while allowing them to record their real lives and show them to the world. We respect the content published by our users and believe the content they create is worth seeing. Our mission is to provide users a platform to record and share their real lives. We encourage users to create original content that shares the world’s beauty with others. We hope our users see Spark9 as a platform to transmit warmth and beauty. We want to make Spark9 a platform that brings happiness by allowing users to interact through creative content, inspiring users with a passion for creativity and artistry. Through Spark9, our users will have access to a warm community of friends and creators.

We value the safety of our community and always strive to protect all Spark9 users by ensuring our content meets standards. The Spark9 Community Guidelines embody our constant adherence to our values. We will remove any content that violates our community guidelines to allow all users to freely and safely participate in the Spark9 community. User accounts involved in severe or repeated violations will be penalised or banned. If necessary, we will report breaches to relevant legal authorities and cooperate in investigations to ensure community safety.

Our community guidelines apply to Spark9 users and all content shared on Spark9. They aim to guide the content that may be published on our platform.

I. Violence or Criminal Behaviour

1. Violence and Violent Images

Content on our platform may not involve behaviour that can lead to the death of a victim or threats of violence in any form. We also prohibit frightening content, especially content that promotes or glorifies violence and violent images. If we discover content involving a risk of violence that may threaten public safety, we will ban the offending account. When we feel it necessary, we will cooperate with relevant government authorities.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content that may lead to violent acts or content that involves violence of any other form, including but not limited to:
2. Content involving the intention to commit highly violent acts
3. Content containing incitement to violence
4. Content describing the violent or accidental death of a natural person
5. Content describing physical violence
6. Content that is shocking, sadistic, or excessively vivid, making users uncomfortable, including but not limited to:
7. Content involving dismembered or burned human or animal remains
8. Gory content focusing on open wounds or injuries
9. Content involving the slaughter of real animals
10. Content involving animal cruelty

2. Dangerous People and Organisations

We prohibit individuals and organisations from using Spark9 to promote terrorism, crime, and other behaviours that threaten society. We will ban accounts that threaten or endanger our users or public safety. We also prohibit all content involving terrorist behaviour. Expressly, any content involving the following is not permitted: hate groups, violent extremist organisations, homicides, human trafficking, organ trafficking, arms trafficking, drug trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, blackmail, money laundering, fraud, and cybercrime. We will ban the accounts of terrorists, terrorist organisations, and criminals. We will cooperate with law enforcement authorities to handle such matters when necessary.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content that includes the names, symbols, signs, flags, slogans, uniforms, gestures, portraits, or other items representing dangerous individuals and/or organisations
2. Content that praises, glorifies, or supports dangerous individuals and/or organisations
3. Content involving violent harm to personal safety, such as assaults or kidnapping
4. Content that may endanger the personal safety of others, such as sneak attacks
5. Content involving the purchase, sale, or exchange of illegally obtained goods
6. Content that provides instructions for criminal activities
7. Other crime-related content

3. Child Abuse

Child abuse refers to physical or psychological harm caused to minors. Physical abuse is the intentional infliction of bodily harm on a child. Psychological abuse is the harming of minors through the threat of physical or sexual violence, bullying, or insults.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content describing the physical or psychological abuse of minors
2. Content encouraging or extorting the propagation of pornography by children
3. Sexual content involving minors
4. Content including sexual or pornographic language involving minors

4. Criminal Behaviour by Minors

Here, illegal behaviour includes but is not limited to the use of drugs, alcohol, or tobacco products and other unlawful behaviour performed by minors.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content describing the use, possession, or suspicion of use of alcohol, drugs, or tobacco products by minors
2. Videos of fights or bullying primarily involving minors

5. Illegal Activities and Restricted Items

To protect our community, we generally do not allow the depiction, exchange, or promotion of firearms, ammunition, firearm accessories, or explosives. We also prohibit content related to how these weapons are made. We will delete content that involves activities or items that are illegal or restricted in most regions of the world, even if the activities or items (such as gambling or marijuana) are legal in a specific jurisdiction.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content involving drugs or controlled substances
2. Content involving the purchase, sale, or exchange of illegally obtained drugs, dangerous chemical substances, and controlled medications
3. Content that displays firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition, or explosives
4. Content involving the provision, sale, exchange, or solicitation of firearms, accessories, ammunition, explosives, or information about the manufacture of weapons.
5. Content related to gambling, gambling groups, or locations of gambling, including but not limited to slot machines and baccarat

Contact us at: feedback@spark9asia.com

II. Content Safety

1. Suicide, Self-harm, and Dangerous Behaviour

Users may not promote or encourage suicide or self-harm. When we receive reports of users threatening to commit suicide or harm themselves, we will take all possible measures to help them. If you see a member of our community express thoughts of suicide or self-harm, please get in touch with us.

Suicide

We will delete all content that depicts suicide or suicidal tendencies or may encourage participation in such behaviours. This includes content involving attempted suicide or content that is characterised by someone who engages or intends to engage in behaviour that may lead to their death. We prohibit content that in any form praises, glorifies, or promotes suicide or teaches others how to commit suicide.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content that provides instructions for committing suicide
2. Content that praises, promotes, or glorifies suicide

Self-harm

We do not allow images that depict self-harm, no matter the intention of the user in publishing such photos or videos. We will delete any content that encourages or may encourage any behaviour that may result in physical self-harm.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content involving self-harm
2. Content that provides instructions for harming oneself

2. Dangerous Behaviour

Dangerous activities performed outside of a particular environment or without the necessary skills may result in severe injury or death to the performers or bystanders. We do not allow content that encourages, promotes, or glorifies such behaviour, including certain stunts.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content that describes the improper use of dangerous tools
2. Content involving dangerous challenges that may result in injuries, death, or other high-risk consequences
3. Content that displays the consumption of things that are not edible or drinkable
4. Content that displays the violation of traffic regulations
5. Content that shows persons not of legal age driving vehicles

3. Harassment and Bullying

We want users to feel safe and respected when using our platform. Users should be able to freely express themselves without fearing being humiliated, bullied, or harassed. We understand that this type of content may cause psychological harm to users, so we will not tolerate such content on the platform.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content that incites others to harass or threaten targeted individuals
2. Content that encourages harassing behaviours such as spamming, organised efforts to discredit or embarrass users, or attacking others outside the platform
3. Content that threatens others with personal injury or property damage
4. Content that compromises the health of the platform ecosystem

4. Abusive Behaviour

We do not permit any content that describes abuse, including but not limited to threats of violence, sexual harassment, and insults based on a person’s appearance, intelligence, or personal characteristics.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content that threatens individuals with violence
2. Content that may cause death, serious illness, physical injury, or other harm to individuals
3. Content that incites violence or harassment
4. Content that insults individuals based on personal attributes such as intelligence, appearance, personality characteristics, or hygiene
5. Content that celebrates violence and slanders victims

5. Safety of Minors (advised in consideration of the overall competitive situation)

We are committed to the safety of minors. We prohibit the publication of content that puts minors at risk. We do not allow the description or transmission of content involving the abuse of minors, nude images of minors, or sexual exploitation of minors. In addition, we do not allow content depicting minors engaging in illegal activities. In some regions, users must meet minimum age requirements to use Spark9. When we discover underage users, we will ban their accounts.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content that shows the private parts of minors
2. Content describing the sexual exploitation of minors
3. Content describing sexual behaviour involving minors

6. Privacy Violations

Content that reveals or threatens to reveal information that can be used to identify individuals can cause severe emotional distress and lead to real-world injuries.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content that discloses or threatens to disclose information that can identify an individual, including but not limited to home addresses, private email addresses, private phone numbers, bank statements, social security numbers, or passport numbers.
2. Content involving personal information not authorised by the subject

Contact us at: feedback@spark9asia.com

III. Inappropriate Content

1. Hate Speech

We do not allow hate speech to be posted or disseminated on our platform.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content involving racial discrimination
2. Content that incites religious hatred
3. Content that promotes fascism
4. Any language or action that promotes or gives evidence of the rejection, isolation, or discrimination against an individual

2. Cruelty and Insensitivity

We strictly restrict content that is cruel and insensitive. This content is defined as follows: Content that targets people who have suffered severe physical or psychological harm.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Claims that such people are biologically or morally inferior
2. Demands or justifications that violence against such people is appropriate
3. Claims that such people are criminals
4. Disparaging references to such people as animals, inanimate objects, or other non-human entities
5. Any behaviour that promotes or gives evidence of the rejection, isolation, or discrimination against such people

3. Nudity and Sexuality

We do not allow pornographic content, including animated pornographic content. There are many risks associated with sexualised content, such as legal consequences in certain jurisdictions. In addition, in some cultures, sexual content can be offensive.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Content that describes, depicts, or incites non-consensual sex
2. Content that engages in, promotes, or glorifies sexual seduction or sexual objectification
3. Content involving adult pornography or nudity
4. Explicit descriptions of pornographic works, including pornographic works involving sexual organs and sexual behaviour
5. Malicious descriptions of sexual behaviour or sexual organs
6. Descriptions of sexual fetishes

Contact us at: feedback@spark9asia.com

IV. Information Authenticity

Authentic content is the foundation on which we have built our community. Our authenticity policy aims to create a safe community environment built on mutual trust and responsibility among users.

1. Spam Information

We prohibit content or activities that attempt to maliciously increase users’ popularity on the platform or the malicious manipulation of platform mechanisms to increase the number of interactions.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Sharing instructions to fraudulently increase views, likes, followers, shares, or comments
2. Using false or fraudulent excuses to operate multiple accounts or using any other method to coordinate activities that violate platform guidelines on a large scale, including collaborative attempts to create fake activities or distribute commercial spam

2. Misleading Information

We do not permit any misinformation that can cause harm to our community or the general public. We will delete misinformation that may be harmful to public safety. We also prohibit rumours and misleading content.

The following content is prohibited:

• Misinformation designed to incite fear, hatred, or prejudic

3. False Information or Policies Regarding COVID-19

We prohibit the dissemination of medical misinformation contrary to the medical information provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) or local health authorities regarding COVID-19.

The following content is prohibited:

1. Incorrect information about treatment: claims that COVID-19 does not exist or is not deadly.
2. Incorrect information about prevention: claims that it is unnecessary to protect against COVID-19 or false information about preventive measures.
3. Incorrect information about the spread of the disease: claims that any group or individual has immunity to the virus or that the virus cannot be spread.

4. False Identities

We encourage users to use their factual ID information to use our platform. When users use their real IDs, we believe, they will be more conscientious about their statements and actions. In addition, this will create a community environment based on mutual trust and responsibility. Therefore, we do not permit users to use our platform fraudulently or to commit fraud.

Expressly, it is forbidden to log in to the platform using a false name or age or create accounts using false identities.

The following content is prohibited:

• Using false information or stealing other people’s identities (including profile pictures, videos, and text) to impersonate others when publishing content

Contact us at: feedback@spark9asia.com

V. Intellectual Property

We encourage everyone to create and share original content. We do not allow users to post or distribute content that infringes on the copyrights or intellectual property rights of others.

The following content is prohibited:

• Content that infringes on the copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights of a third party

If you see content or behaviour that may violate the Spark9 Community Guidelines, please get in touch with us so that we can promptly take appropriate measures to maintain the safety of our community.

Contact us at: legal#spark9asia.com (replace # with @)

Users who commit the abovementioned violations will be banned from certain functions or prohibited from interacting with others. Spark9 will officially ban the accounts of users who commit serious or repeated violations and prevent these users from using Spark9 in the future.

Spark9 officially reserves the right to interpret these guidelines and the right to modify and publish these guidelines.

These guidelines will take effect from the date of publication.