Impersonation of individuals or accounts is strictly prohibited on Lounges. Additionally, Lounges enforces trademark holder rights to prevent confusion regarding the source of goods and services advertised in a channel or its content.
If you come across any content that violates this policy, please report it promptly.
For a clear understanding, here's what these policies mean for you as a content creator:
- Account Impersonation: Creating a account that deliberately mimics another channel's profile, background, or overall appearance to make it appear as someone else's channel. It's important to note that the intent to copy another account is sufficient, even if the copied account isn't an exact replica.
- Personal Impersonation: Uploading content that appears to be posted by someone else, deceiving viewers into thinking that the individual in question is behind the content.
- For those operating fan accounts, it's essential to explicitly state in your account name or handle that your channel is a fan account and not representing the original creator, artist, or entity that you celebrate.
Examples of content not allowed on Lounges include:
- Lounges profiles using the same identifier (name or handle) and image as another profile, with minor variations like inserting spaces or replacing letters with numbers.
- Using someone else's real name, username, image, brand, logo, or personal information to mislead viewers into believing you are that person.
- Setting up a profile that pretends to be a specific person, posting content on their behalf.
- Creating a profile using a person's name and image, and then posting comments on other accounts as if they were made by that person.
- Profiles claiming to be a 'fan account' in the channel description, without explicitly stating so in the account name or handle, or accounts posing as others and reuploading their content.
- Impersonating an existing news profile.
It's crucial to refrain from posting content that might potentially violate this policy.
Consequences of violating this policy may lead to the termination of your account. For more information on account terminations, please refer to the provided resources. Let's work together to maintain a positive and trustworthy environment on Lounges.