Policies for Content Posted by Users on Search

The policies below play an important role in maintaining a positive and informative experience for everyone using Search products featuring content posted by users. If we find content or behavior that violates these policies, we’ll respond appropriately, including potentially removing that content or terminating account privileges. We may also make exceptions to these policies based on artistic, educational, historical, documentary, or scientific considerations, or where there are other substantial benefits to the public. We’ll do our best to prevent poor quality content from ever appearing on Search products featuring content posted by users. We appreciate your help in keeping our products safe and helpful for everyone.

Spam

Don’t spam the forums or create topics or posts with spammy content, including content or URLs that are promotional or commercial in nature, repetitive, unrelated, or excessive.

Access to data

Appchin let you share information with other people, and you have control over how you share. For example, you can share post publicly or you can decide to keep private. Remember, when you share information publicly, your content may become accessible through search.

Dangerous Content

We don’t allow this service to be used to engage in illegal activities or to promote goods, services, or information that facilitates or causes serious and immediate harm to other people or animals. While we permit general information for educational purposes about this content, we draw the line when the content directly facilitates harm.

Adult Themed Content

We don’t allow content that contains nudity, sex acts, sexually suggestive activities or sexually explicit material. Medical or scientific terms related to human or sex education are generally permitted.

Advertisement

We don’t allow content that advertises products or services, including direct calls to purchase, links to other websites, company contact information, and other promotional tactics. We don’t allow sponsored content that’s concealed or misrepresented as independent content.

Pedophilia

We have zero tolerance towards content that sexually exploits children. This includes all child sexual abuse imagery (even cartoon images). We’ll remove and report such content as required by law, and we may also take other appropriate action, such as disabling accounts and terminating access to all contents within an account.

Copyrighted Content

Be aware of rules for photos and video when at events. We will respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. Repeated infringement of intellectual property rights, including copyright, will result in account termination.

Malicious behavior

We don’t allow Actions that steal data, secretly monitor or harm users or that are otherwise malicious.

We don’t allow Actions that interfere with, disrupt, damage, or access in an unauthorized manner the user’s device or other devices, computers, servers, networks, application programming interfaces (APIs), or services.

Hate Speech

Our products are platforms for free expression, but we don’t permit hate speech. Hate speech is content that promotes or condones violence against or has the primary purpose of inciting hatred against an individual or group on the basis of their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or any other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization.

Violence & Gore

We don’t allow violent or gory content that’s primarily intended to be shocking, sensational, or gratuitous.

Terrorist Content

We don’t permit terrorist organizations to use this service for any purpose, including recruitment. We’ll also remove content related to terrorism, such as content that promotes terrorist acts, incites violence, or celebrates terrorist attacks.

Data encryption

End-to-end encrypted App, all posts, including draft, comments and any files or media, are encrypted as the data travels between devices. Encryption converts data into scrambled text. The unreadable text can only be decoded with a secret key.

Website visitors

Appchin receives the website visitor’s IP address, which it processes to respond to the visitor’s request and for security purposes. Appchin does not use IP addresses to identify its visitors.

Crypto-currencies

Appchin does not allow app that facilitate the transaction of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoins.

Use of personal information

Appchin do not sell or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.