yap.chat

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.