We want to provide the best shared community experiences where our members and partners can interact comfortably and consciously. To achieve this goal, we ask that all users and visitors to the KANARA community participate in such a way that promotes a friendly, positive experience for all.
In addition to our Terms of Service, we provide the following guidelines for our community. These guidelines fall under a common-sense philosophy and apply to all user-generated content and activity on our services. This is considered a living document that we regularly update based on the evolution of the KANARA community and service. Additional guidelines or specific exceptions may be applicable for certain services or properties under the KANARA Service.
To protect the integrity of our community, we at KANARA, as the provider of the service, reserve the right to suspend any account at any time for any conduct that we determine to be inappropriate or harmful. Such actions may include: removal of content, a strike on the account, and/or suspension of account(s).
Suspension Evasion
All suspensions are binding until expiration or removal upon appeal. Any attempt to circumvent an account suspension or chat ban by using other accounts, identities, personalities, or presence on another user’s account will also result in suspension. Suspension evasion will not only increase the length of suspension but may lead to an indefinite suspension.
Self-Destructive Behavior
Any activity that may endanger your life or lead to physical harm is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: suicide threats, intentional physical trauma, illegal use of drugs, illegal or dangerous consumption of alcohol, and dangerous or distracted driving. We do not make exceptions for self-destructive behavior performed as a stunt or gag made in jest, or meant to entertain when the behavior could reasonably be expected to cause physical injury.
Violence and Threats
Acts and threats of violence will be taken seriously and are considered zero-tolerance violations and all accounts associated with such activities will be indefinitely suspended. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Attempts or threats to physically harm or kill others
- Attempts or threats to hack, DDOS, or SWAT others
- Use of weapons to physically threaten, intimidate, harm, or kill others
Hateful Conduct and Harassment
Hateful conduct is any content or activity that promotes, encourages, or facilitates discrimination, denigration, objectification, harassment, or violence based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or serious medical condition or veteran status, and is prohibited. Any hateful conduct is considered a zero-tolerance violation. We will take action on all accounts associated with such conduct with a range of enforcement actions, including and up to the indefinite suspension.
Harassment is any content or activity that attempts to intimidate, degrade, abuse, or bully others, or creates a hostile environment for others, and is prohibited. Depending on the severity of the offense, your account may be indefinitely suspended on the first violation.
We prohibit using KANARA to facilitate hateful conduct or harassment, whether the targets are on or off KANARA. Individuals, communities or organizations that do so are not allowed to use our services. We may take action against users for hateful conduct or harassment that occurs off KANARA services that are directed at KANARA users.
Learn more about our hateful conduct and harassment policies and enforcement.
Unauthorized Sharing of Private Information
Do not invade the privacy of others. It is prohibited to share content that may reveal private personal information about individuals, or their private property, without permission. This includes but is not limited to:
- Sharing personally identifiable information (such as real name, location, or ID)
- Sharing restricted or protected social profiles or any information from those profiles
- Sharing content that violates another’s reasonable expectation of privacy, for example streaming from a private space, without permission
Impersonation
Content or activity meant to impersonate an individual or organization is prohibited. Any attempts to misrepresent yourself as a member of KANARA representatives is a zero-tolerance violation and will result in indefinite suspension.
- Spam, Scams, and Other Malicious Conduct
- Any content or activity that disrupts, interrupts, harms, or otherwise violates the integrity of KANARA services or another user’s experience or devices is prohibited. Such activity includes:
- Posting large amounts of repetitive, unwanted messages or user reports
- Distributing unauthorized advertisements
- Phishing
- Defrauding others
- Spreading malware or viruses
- Misinformation
- Tampering (such as artificially inflating personal session stats)
- Selling or sharing user accounts
- Reselling KANARA services or features
- Defacing, or attempting to deface, website pages or other KANARA services (such as uploading inappropriate or malicious content)
- Cheating a KANARA rewards system (such as the points system)
- Any activity, such as cheating, hacking, botting, or tampering, that gives the account owner an unfair advantage in the app is prohibited. This also includes submitting modified session data to increase point earnings or utilising motorised boards to skew session results.
Nudity, Pornography, and Other Sexual Content
Nudity and sexually explicit content or activities, such as pornography, sexual acts or intercourse, and sexual services, are prohibited.
Content or activities that threaten or promote sexual violence or exploitation are strictly prohibited and may be reported to law enforcement. Child exploitation will be reported to authorities via the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
Sexually suggestive content or activities are also prohibited, although they may be allowed in educational contexts or for pre-approved licensed content, in each case subject to additional restrictions.
Learn more about our sexual content policies and enforcement.
Extreme Violence, Gore, and Other Obscene Conduct
Content that exclusively focuses on extreme or gratuitous gore and violence is prohibited.
Intellectual Property Rights
You should only share content on KANARA that you own, or that you are otherwise authorized to share on KANARA. If you share content on KANARA that you do not own or otherwise do not have the rights to share on KANARA, you may be infringing another person’s intellectual property rights. This includes any third-party content included in your content, derivative creations, or performances of others’ copyrighted content. We encourage you to assess your content for adherence to applicable intellectual property laws and the proper application of principles such as fair use and to secure all appropriate rights needed, before sharing your content on KANARA.
Any unauthorized content you share on KANARA may be subject to a takedown by the rights holder(s) to remove the infringing content from KANARA, and is a violation of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Multiple violations of our policies may lead to a permanent suspension of your account.
Data and Content
You are expected to accurately label your session data, personal information, and content to the best of your ability. When choosing a category or tag, please choose whichever best describes your content. Deliberate or extensive misuse of titles, tags, games/categories, or other metadata is prohibited.
