Aniview -Guidelines

Overview

These Guidelines summarise the rules and requirements that apply to all users („Users“ or „you“) and all types of use of Aniview’s („Company“ or „we“) Service. Users are all natural or legal persons, i.e. Customers and Concurrent Users, who have access to and use Company’s Service.   

Company wants Users to know what measures Company will take and what restrictions Company will impose on Users of the Service if Companx discovers violations of the Guidelines or of applicable law. Furthermore, Company would like to inform Users about how User can report to Company if User finds inappropriate Content on Company’s platform and in the Service that violates the Guidelines or applicable law. 

Finally, User should know what steps User can take to achieve a review of Company’s decisions (review, appeal), if User is convinced that Company made a mistake, and what legal remedies are available to User.

Prohibited and restricted content

On Company’s platform and during use of the Service Users shall not create channels that include or present Content or make available Content which:

• • is fraudulent or intentionally misleading or inaccurate; 
  • infringes any Intellectual Property Rights; 
  • violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation or other rights of any third party or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense; 
  • is malicious or derogatory, harmful, threatening, harassing, defamatory or hateful;
  • is abusive or contains pornography; 
  • is vulgar, obscene, profane;
  • covers restricted goods and services;
  • is terrorist; 

• is infected by viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel-bots etc.;

Explanations and Examples

Fraudulent, intentionally misleading or inaccurate Content

Fake engagement is not allowed and will be removed. Company does not accept fraudulent, intentionally misleading and inaccurate content.

This includes for example (but is not limited to):

• inaccurate, misleading or false content that may cause significant harm to individuals or society, regardless of intent, e.g. 

• • harmful content that contains harmful or misleading health or medical information or 
  • information on newsworthy events or civil discourse that has been manipulated in order to deceive or mislead Users or 
  • distorting or omitting information to scam other Users or to have an undue impact on User’s decision making;

• misinformation about civic and electoral processes, regardless of intent; 

• account behavior spamming or misleading Users;

• Content deceiving others to generate a financial or personal benefit to the detriment of a third party or entity through investement or financial scams, inauthentic identity scams and product and reward scams;

• fake or stolen documents, goods or services and manipulated information and data;

• discouraging or prohibiting negative reviews or selectively soliciting positive reviews from Users; 
• Content that has been posted by a competitor to undermine a business or product’s reputation;
• Content that has been posted from multiple accounts to manipulate a rating.

Content infringing Intellectual Property Rights or other rights of any third party 

It is not permitted to infringe Intellectual Property Rights. Here Users can see what Company means by Intellectual Property Rights. This restricted behavior includes for example (but is not limited to) the publishing and making available of Content such as images, videos or text infringing copyright, trademarks. personal rights (e.g. image rights) or other protected rights. 

Content violating any law, statute, ordinance or regulation 

It is not allowed to make available Content that is illegal or depicts illegal activities 

This includes for example (but is not limited to):

• images or any other Content that infringes anyone else’s legal rights, including copyright or personal rights; 
• all sexual abuse imagery and all Content that presents children in a sexual manner;
• Content on dangerous or illegal acts such as rape, organ sale, human trafficking;
• presentation of illegal products and services such as endangered animal products, illegal drugs, prescription drugs diverted to the illegal market, counterfeit products, dangerous weapons;
• images of graphic violence or which promote violence;
• Content produced by or on behalf of terrorist groups; 
• Content violating applicable law, regulation, by-law, code or order of any governmental body having jurisdiction;
• any material which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense;
• inflammatory Content.

Malicious, threatening, harmful, harassing, defamatory or derogatory Content

It is not permitted to make available malicious or derogatory Content. This also includes harrassment, hate speech, promotion of hateful ideologies, harmful and derogatory Content. 

This comprises for example (but is not limited to):

• • promotion of violent or hateful organisations or actors;
  • showing a behavior that threatens or humiliates people;

• promotion of criminal activities that may harm people, animals, or property;

• • showing, promoting, or sharing plans for suicide or self-harm;
  • showing or promoting disordered eating or any dangerous weight loss behaviors;
  • showing or promoting dangerous activities and challenges e.g. risking temporary or permanent disability or disfigurement or involving significant physical harm;

• showing or promoting inappropriate use of dangerous tools, such as knives, axes, chainsaws, and welding torches or weapons;

• showing child abuse;

• showing disturbing or extremely violent content as graphic violence and extreme physical fighting, real-world torture, body parts that are dismembered, mutilated, charred, burned, or severely injured, amounts of blood, death to animals or people;

• showing abuse, mistreatment and neglect of animals;
• presenting sexual activity between an animal and a human (bestiality);
• making available Content attacking a person or group of people because of specific attributes like ethnicity, origin, race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, disease, political or philosophical conviction;
• making available Content which is racially, ethnically or otherwise materially controversial;
• showing Content that contains a specific threat of harm against individuals or defined groups of people that would make a reasonable person fear for their mental or physical safety; 
• searching for and publishing private or identifying information about a particular individual or organization on the Internet, typically with malicious intent (doxxing);
• presenting Content that results in unwanted sexualization or objectification of a person, including claims about a person’s sexual activities, sexual orientation, or gender identity;
• making available any items that promote hate speech, hateful ideologies or hateful organizations, such as books and clothing with hateful logos.

Abusive Content and pornography

We do not allow youth exploitation and abuse, sexual exploitation or gender-based violence, including non-consensual sexual acts, image-based sexual abuse, physical abuse and sexual harassment and the presentation of pornography.

This includes for example (but is not limited to):

• making available child sexual abuse material (CSAM); 

• threatening to share nude, intimate, or sexually explicit content without consent, usually to get money, sexual acts or more nude, intimate, or sexually explicit content (sextortion);

• • Promoting youth sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and sexual fetishism;
  • Promoting pedophilia, such as supporting any form of sexual contact, expressing feelings toward or endorsing sexual relationships between an adult and a minor;
  • Making available image-based sexual abuse by the creation, manufacture, or distribution of nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit content without the consent of the person in the content, for the purpose of sexualizing their body, or portraying them in a sexual manner;

• showing or promoting physical or psychological abuse, neglect, endangerment and psychological abuse of minors;

• expressing degrading or vulgar statements about a person’s intimate body parts, including genitalia, buttocks, and breasts;

• presenting human trafficking. This means exploiting others through the use of fraud, force or coercion considered to be a form of modern slavery, that can include sex, labor, minor, or organ trafficking, forced marriage, exploitative begging, and the recruitment of youth soldiers;

• Presenting pornography and depiction of sexual acts, genitals or fetishes;
• showing Content glorifying or promoting bestiality.

Vulgar, profane and obscene Content

It is not permitted to make available vulgar, profane and obscene Content on our platform.

This includes for example (but is not limited to):

• Content using profanity or obscenity to offend other Users or emphasize criticism;
• Content that is clearly and deliberately provocative by using vulgar or obscene terms.

Restricted Content

For some products or services subject to controls and local regulations, User must follow certain guidelines when posting Content. The Content User uploads may not feature calls to action or offers for the sale of products or services that are subject to local legal regulations. This includes, but is not limited to alcohol, gambling, tobacco, guns, health and medical devices, regulated pharmaceuticals, adult services, and financial services.

The Content for example (but not limited to) must not display:

• links to a landing page where it is possible to purchase restricted goods or services, such as alcohol, tobacco, drugs, fire-arms and dangerous weapons, regulated substances, counterfeit goods, endangered animals or part of it without following the local regulations;
• mentioning contact details like email address and/or phone numbers to contact for the purchase of restricted goods;
• promotional offers for restricted goods or services. For example, User shouldn’t upload Content that displays deals, coupons, pricing information or other promotions for a restricted product or service.

Terrorist Content

Company prohibits terrorist Content and the use of the Service by terrorist organizations for any purpose, including recruitment.

This includes for example (but is not limited to):

• Content that incites violence, promotes terrorist acts or celebrates terrorist attacks;
• Content produced by or on behalf of terrorist groups.

Infected Content

It is not allowed to upload infected content.

This comprises (but is not limited to) Content that contains any:

• viruses,
• trojan horses, 
• worms, 
• time bombs, 
• cancel-bots or 
• other computer programming routines 

that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any systems, data or personal information.

Permitted Content

In exceptional cases prohibited Content may be allowed because it can be in public interest to view. This public interest does not include any topic which might be of interest but refers to topics that inform, inspire or educate the community and enhance deliberation about matters of broad collective significance.

This may be for example the case, 

• if prohibited Content is presented for an educational, documentary, scientific, sartirical or artistic purpose or counterspeech, if the Content is related to the point of interest and sufficient information is provided for the User to be able to understand the context;
• if Content is presented for the purpose of a general discussion or public debate on a topic related to the Content and sufficient information is provided for the User to be able to understand the context.

This always requires weighing up the opposing interests and rights of individuals and entities taking into account human rights and the right of free expression.

All these decisions are made by human beings.

Report inappropriate Content

Content that violates our Guidelines or applicable law can be turned off or removed from our platform or Service. To report inappropriate content that User may find, User may follow the instructions below.

1. Identify the content you want to report
2. Follow the reporting mechanisms. Drop us an email at privacy@aniview.com or click on this link to register your appeal Provide details about the violation, If possible, provide additional details in the email or form text box, such as specific timestamps, usernames, or links to the offending content. This information will help us investigate the issue more effectively.
3. We will review your report:

• Our team will review your report promptly and take appropriate action based on our Guidelines and applicable law. This may include removing the content, suspending or terminating the user who posted it, or taking other necessary steps.

4. Additional Information:

• Please note that we do not disclose the specific actions taken in response to individual reports.
• We appreciate your help in maintaining a safe and positive experience for everyone on our platform.

Remember: We encourage you to report only content that you genuinely believe violates our Guidelines or applicable law. Making false reports may have consequences for your account.

If User wants to be informed if his reported content has been reviewed and a decision has been made, Company asks User to provide Company with his contact details here along with the appropriate message.

If User Provides Company with his contact details, User will receive a confirmation about the receipt of his report. Furthermore, he will be informed on Company’s decision.

Restrictions to use of Company’s Service

Company’s intention is to help Users to find reliable and valuable information on Company’s platform and Service, including Customer Content. When Company finds Customer Content that does not comply with these Guidelines or with applicable law, Company may take action by turning off Customer Content temporarily, removing Customer Content or suspending or terminating Customer’s access to Service. 

Before taking action, Company will provide Customer who has made available unappropriate Content with advance notice and warning when reasonably possible, describe the reason for Company’s action, and give Customer an opportunity to fix the problem, unless there are objective and concrete reasons to believe that doing so would:

• cause harm or liability to a Customer, to a third party or to Company;
• violate the law or a legal enforcement authority’s order;
• compromise an investigation;
• compromise the operation, integrity or security of the Service.

If Company recognises a possible violation of Guidelines, Customer Content may be turned off temporarily to check the facts and to monitor, if the problem is fixed. When Company realises that the problem has been fixed or the risk of violating Guidelines has been diminished, Company lifts the restrictions.

If there are objective and concrete reasons to believe that any Customer Content 

• breaches Guidelines, 

• breaches the Agreement,

• violates applicable law or 

• could harm Customers, third parties or Company

Company reserves the right to take down some or all Customer Content in accordance with applicable law. Details are explained in the Guidelines.

Company reserves the right to suspend or terminate Customer’s access to the Service or delete or ban Customer’s account if any of these things happen:

• Customer materially and manifestly or repeatedly breaches the Guidelines; 
• Customer provides manifestly illegal content.

Details and examples for the reasons of suspending and terminating Customer’s account can be found in the Guidelines. 

Furthermore, Company reserves the right to suspend for a reasonable period of time and after having issued a prior warning the processing of notices and complaints through the notice and action mechanisms and internal complaints-handling systems by Customers that frequently submit notices or complaints that are manifestly unfounded. 

For more information about how Company disables accounts and what happens when Company does so, see this Help Center page. 

Company will always take appropriate and objective action. The decision to turn off or remove Customer Content and/or to suspend access, and for how long, and to terminate access will depend on factors such as the nature and severity of the illegal Content, the history of the Customer’s behaviour, including the amount of manifestly illegal Customer Content posted, and, if identifiable, the intent of the Customer. When making a decision Company weighs up between the Customer’s individual interests and human rights and the right of free expression taking into account public interest.

All the decisions are made by human beings.

Company provides Customer with a clear and specific statement of reasons for every decision made. This statement of reasons contains

• concrete information on the decision and measures of Company and the consequences;
• the facts and circumstances relied on in taking the decision;
• a reference to the legal ground or, in case of incompatability with the Agreement, to the contractual ground relied on;
• an explanation why the behaviour of Customer is considered to be illegal or incompatible with the contractual ground;
• the possibilities for redress available to Customer in respect of the decision.

Complaints Handling Process

If Customer receives a notification of a Content turn off or removal or account ban or deletion and believes that it was done in error, then he can appeal the decision. Further information how to appeal can be found here…Customer can view the status of your appeal in ….

After receiving Customer’s request for review (appeal), Company will review its decision and will make a new one. If Customer’s appeal is approved, Customer’s Content or account will be reinstated (unless Customer has already deleted Customer’s account or Customer Content).

If User has been informed about a decision of Company which refers to his report and he is of the opinion that the decision was made in error, he has also the possibility to appeal the decision. The same rules apply as for Customer’s appeal.

Dispute Settlement

If Customer disagrees with Company’s Content decision and Customer resides or is located in the European Union, Customer can raise that decision with a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body in order to resolve the issue. As soon as the certified out-of-court dispute settlement bodies have been selected, a reference can be found here. As not all EU Member States have been able to appoint their Digital Service Coordinators yet, who are responsible for this selection, the selection of the certified out-of-court dispute settlement bodies is still pending.

The same rules apply if User disagrees with Company’s decision which refers to his report.

Court Settlement

Customer or User are also free to resolve their claims or any disputes between Company and Customer or User in the competent court according to the Agreement (judicial redress).