Community Guidelines
Effective date: January 15, 2025
These Community Guidelines form part of our Terms of Service. To keep Yap.Chat safe and welcoming, please follow them. Violations may result in warnings, restrictions, or a permanent ban.
Age & Eligibility
- You must meet the minimum age set out in our Terms of Service to use the Service.
- Where local law prohibits access to services like ours, you may not use the Service.
Respectful Behavior
- No harassment, bullying, threats, stalking, blackmail, or hate speech.
- No slurs or discrimination based on protected characteristics (e.g., ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability).
- No spam, scams, solicitation, or unauthorized advertising, and no promoting competing services.
- No impersonating other people or misrepresenting your identity.
Content & Conduct
- No nudity, sexual content, or pornographic behavior on the general Service.
- Absolutely no sexual content involving minors (zero tolerance). Such activity will be reported to the authorities.
- No graphic violence, gore, or self-harm content.
- Show your live self on camera—no prerecorded loops, static screens, or third-party footage.
- Do not record, capture, or redistribute another user's video, audio, or messages without their explicit consent and a lawful basis.
- Do not stream copyrighted material you do not own or control.
- Do not request personal data (IDs, financial info, addresses) or attempt doxxing.
- This is not a dating site: avoid sexual solicitation and inappropriate requests.
Payments & Fair Use
- Only purchase Credits with a payment method you are authorized to use.
- No payment fraud, no fraudulent or abusive chargebacks, and no false refund claims (for example, falsely claiming a purchase was accidental, unauthorized, or unused).
- Do not attempt to resell, transfer, or trade Credits, or to arrange payment outside the Service.
- Payment fraud and chargeback abuse will result in a permanent ban and forfeiture of remaining Credits, as described in our Terms of Service.
Safety, Moderation & Reporting
- To protect our community, conversations may be monitored and limited logs or moderation screenshots may be retained in line with our Privacy Policy.
- We use automated signals and human review to detect spam, abuse, and policy violations.
- Use the in-product Report control to flag misconduct or unsafe behavior. We aim to review reports and respond within three (3) business days.
- We may notify or cooperate with authorities when required by law.
Security & Misuse
- No bypassing bans, rate limits, or security mechanisms.
- No scraping, reverse engineering, unauthorized bots, or API abuse.
- No malware, phishing, or illegal content of any kind.
Questions
If you have questions about these guidelines, contact us at [email protected]. We aim to respond within three (3) business days.