Lounges maintains a strict policy against content that puts the emotional and physical well-being of minors at risk. For clarification, a minor is typically someone under the age of 18 in most countries or regions.
If you come across content that violates this policy, please report it immediately. In cases where a child may be in danger, it is essential to contact local law enforcement promptly.
Instructions on how to report violations of our Community Guidelines can be found here. If you encounter multiple videos or comments that require reporting, you can report the entire account.
Avoid uploading content on Lounges that falls into the following categories:
- Sexualisation of minors: Content featuring minors in sexually explicit or sexually exploitative contexts. Content containing child sexual abuse imagery will be reported to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, collaborating with global law enforcement agencies.
- Harmful or dangerous acts involving minors: Content showing minors participating in dangerous activities or encouraging them to do so. Avoid putting minors in situations that may lead to injury, including dangerous stunts, challenges, dares, or pranks.
- Infliction of emotional distress on minors: Content that may cause emotional distress to minor participants or viewers, such as exposing them to mature themes, simulating parental abuse, or coercing them.
- Misleading family content: Content targeting young minors and families that contain sexual themes, violence, obscenity, or other mature themes not suitable for young audiences.
- Cyberbullying and harassment involving minors: Content that targets minors for abuse, harassment, or humiliation, including revealing personal information, recording someone without consent, sexually harassing, or encouraging bullying or harassment.
This policy applies to videos, video descriptions, comments, Stories, Community posts, live streams, playlists, and any other Lounges product or feature. Additionally, the policy extends to external links in your content, such as clickable URLs or verbal directions to other sites.
Age-Restricted Content: Lounges may apply an age restriction to content that includes:
- Harmful or dangerous acts that minors could imitate: Content featuring adults engaged in dangerous activities that minors could replicate.
- Adult themes in family content: Content intended for adult audiences but easily confused with family content, including cartoons containing adult themes like violence or sex.
- Vulgar language: Content using sexually explicit language or excessive profanity.
- Content featuring minors: To safeguard minors on Lounges, content featuring children that doesn't violate our policies may have certain features disabled at both the channel and video level. These features include comments, live chat, live streaming, video recommendations, and Community posts.
To protect minors in your content:
- Ensure minors are supervised by adults while performing age-appropriate activities.
- Use privacy settings on Lounges to control who can view your videos.
- Don’t post content featuring minors in private spaces like bedrooms or bathrooms.
- Refrain from showcasing minors soliciting contact from strangers, discussing adult topics, or engaging in activities that may attract unwanted attention.
Examples of content not allowed on Lounges include sexually explicit activities involving minors, dangerous stunts performed by minors, and family-friendly cartoons engaging in inappropriate acts. This is just a partial list, and content creators should exercise caution before posting anything that may potentially violate this policy.
Consequences of violating this policy
If your content breaches this policy, Lounges will remove it and notify you via email. In some cases, links you post may also be removed if they are deemed unsafe.
For a first-time violation of the Community Guidelines, you may receive a warning without penalties to your channel. Subsequent violations may result in a strike against your account and accumulating three strikes within 90 days will lead to account termination.
Lounges has a zero-tolerance policy for predatory behaviour. If reported content raises concerns about a child's safety, the platform will assist law enforcement in their investigation. For repeated violations or severe abuse cases account termination may occur. For more information on terminations, consult the provided resources.