Effective Date: July 18, 2024
The following terms, as well as our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Additional Terms, apply to all users while on GETTR and using GETTR Live. You are responsible for ensuring that your content while using GETTR’s live stream feature complies with all applicable laws, statutes, and regulations.
Community safety is a cornerstone of GETTR's livestreaming service. We strive to provide a platform where users can share and connect without fear of encountering illegal, harmful, or negative interactions. Our guidelines help balance user expression with community safety, setting expectations for behavior and content on our service. Violations of these guidelines can result in actions including content removal, suspension of livestreaming privileges, and account termination.
Compliance and Prohibited Content
Adherence to Laws and Regulations: Users must comply with all applicable laws, statutes, and regulations while livestreaming.
Prohibited Content: The following types of content are strictly forbidden:
Illegal or Harmful Material: Content that is illegal, harmful, defamatory, or obscene.
Intellectual Property Infringement: Unauthorized use of copyrighted material or trademarks.
Harassment and Hate Speech: Any form of harassment, abuse, or hate speech.
Self-Harm and Dangerous Behavior: Content that glorifies, promotes, or encourages self-harm, physical harm, or dangerous activities.
Violence and Threats: Acts or threats of violence, terrorism, and violent extremism.
Sexual Violence and Exploitation: Content that promotes or threatens sexual violence or exploitation.
Youth Endangerment: Any content or activity that endangers minors, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
GETTR Live Use Restrictions and Limitations
Abuse of GETTR Live Streaming Services: GETTR reserves the right to monitor your GETTR Live activity and suspend your live-streaming privileges if it determines, in its sole discretion, that the GETTR Live service is being abused. This includes, but is not limited to, continuously live streaming with no or minimal audience engagement, which may place undue burden on GETTR’s overall capabilities and resources. Additionally, abuse may include the use of offensive, inappropriate, or illegal content, spamming, harassment, or any activities that violate GETTR’s Terms of Use or Community Guidelines. Users engaging in such activities may face temporary or permanent suspension of GETTR Live, as well as potential further action as deemed necessary by GETTR.
GETTR Live Privileges: GETTR reserves the right to grant users different levels of livestream privileges, including but not limited to tiered livestreaming hours and tiered livestream video storage hours. GETTR reserves the right to adjust users' livestream hours and/or storage hours at GETTR's sole discretion, and without notice to the user. The specific details and levels of these privileges will be communicated to users as part of our ongoing commitment to enhancing the GETTR Live experience.
Livestream Content Retention: Any and all livestream media content that remains unviewed for a period of thirty (30) consecutive days may be subject to deletion, archival, or removal from the GETTR platform. GETTR reserves the exclusive right, at its sole discretion, to take such actions without prior notice to the user. This content retention policy is implemented to ensure efficient use of our resources and may be enforced without exception.
Content Responsibility and Reporting
User Responsibility: Users are responsible for ensuring their content is accurate, legal, and compliant with GETTR’s Community Guidelines, and all other applicable terms governing the GETTR platform.
Monitoring and Enforcement: GETTR reserves the right to monitor livestreams and remove content that violates these terms. Repeated violations may result in account suspension or termination.
Reporting Violations: Users play a crucial role in maintaining community standards by reporting content or behavior that violates our guidelines. Reports are reviewed by GETTR's global Safety Operations team, which works 24/7/365 to ensure a swift response.
Content Ownership, Licensing, and Liability
Ownership and Licensing: Users retain ownership of their livestream content but grant GETTR a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, distribute, and display the content, as further detailed on GETTR Terms of Use. Livestreams are public and can be accessed by anyone.
Disclaimer and Liability: GETTR disclaims all warranties related to livestreaming services and is not liable for any content streamed by users. Users acknowledge that livestreams are public and subject to monitoring.
Dispute Resolution
Arbitration: Disputes related to livestream usage are subject to binding arbitration in accordance with GETTR's Terms of Use.
Additional Safety Measures
Customization Tools: Streamers and moderators have access to customizable safety tools to help maintain their channel standards and protect their community.
Collaborative Safety Efforts: GETTR works with users, moderators, and external safety and policy experts to regularly review and update these guidelines.
Off-Service Conduct: GETTR enforces against severe off-service offenses that pose a substantial safety risk to the community, with actions taken based on verifiable evidence.
Unauthorized Sharing of Private Information: Sharing someone else’s sensitive data without permission is prohibited and can result in enforcement actions.
Commitment to Community Well-Being
GETTR is dedicated to fostering a vibrant and inclusive community. We continually work to enhance our policies and tools to ensure that everyone can safely and comfortably participate in our livestreaming service.