Code of Conduct - BeachSweat

Code of Conduct

Last modified on December 3, 2021

BY USING https://beachsweat.com/ AND THE BEACH SWEAT APP (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO HEREIN AS THE “PLATFORM” OR “BEACH SWEAT”) YOU AGREE TO THIS CODE OF CONDUCT (“CODE”) – PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.

This Code applies to your use of Beach Sweat and all Content on Beach Sweat and forms part of your agreement with us. This Code specifies what shall be, and what shall not be permitted on Beach Sweat.
In this Code, defined terms shall have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service.

A. You shall not use Beach Sweat except for your own personal use and do not sell, rent, transfer, or share your account or any Content obtained through your use of Beach Sweat to or with anyone else.

B. You shall only use Beach Sweat in a manner and for a purpose that is lawful.

C. You shall not upload, post, display, or publish Content on Beach Sweat that is illegal, fraudulent, defamatory, hateful, discriminatory, threatening or harassing, or which encourages or promotes violence or any illegal activity.

D. You shall not use Beach Sweat in any way which may exploit, harm, or attempt to exploit or harm any individual, regardless of their age or affiliation to Beach Sweat.  This shall include both employees and agents of Beach Sweat, as well as other users of the Platform.

E. You shall not transmit, upload, post, display, or publish Content on Beach Sweat that:

I. shows, includes or refers to:

a. any other individual other than yourself unless you have written documentation which confirms that all individuals shown or included or referred to in your Content have provided written consent to use their name or images (or both) in the Content;

II. shows, promotes, advertises or refers to:

a. firearms, weapons, or any goods whose sale, possession or use is subject to prohibitions or restrictions;

b. drugs or drug paraphernalia;

c. self-harm or suicide;

d. violence, rape, lack of consent, hypnosis, intoxication, sexual assault, torture, or sadomasochistic abuse;

e. escort services, sex trafficking, or prostitution;

III. contains unsolicited sexual content or unsolicited language that sexually objectifies, or is otherwise directed at any Beach Sweat employee or agent, or another user or anyone else in a non-consensual way, or contains fake or manipulated sexual content in relation to another user or anyone else (including “deepfakes”);

IV. contains sexually explicit Content, obscene, or pornography;

V. contains, promotes, advertises or refers to hate speech (being Content intended to vilify, humiliate, dehumanize, exclude, attack, threaten, or incite hatred, fear of, or violence against a Beach Sweat employee or agent, or another user, or any other group or individual based on race, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, caste, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, serious disease, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic);

VI. contains threatening, abusive, harassing, hateful, defamatory, discriminatory language, or incites hatred against any individual or group, or contains libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, language invasive to another’s privacy, or contains tortious, offensive, profane, or otherwise violent;

VII. contains Content which harms or exploits minors;

VIII. contains Content which depicts animal cruelty or violence towards animals;

IX. contains or refers to any Beach Sweat employee or agent, or another user, or anyone else’s personal data or private or confidential information (for example, telephone numbers, location information (including street addresses and GPS coordinates), names, identity documents, email addresses, log-in credentials for Beach Sweat including passwords and security questions, financial information including bank account and credit card details, biometric data, and medical records) without that person’s express written consent;

I. gives the impression that it comes from or is approved, licensed or endorsed by Beach Sweat or any other person or company;

II. causes or is calculated to cause inconvenience, or anxiety to any Beach Sweat employee or agent, or any other user, or anyone else or which is likely to upset, embarrass, or cause serious offence to anyone else;

III. is used or is intended to be used to extract money or another benefit from any Beach Sweat employee or agent, or any other user, or anyone else in exchange for removal of the Content;

IV. involves or promotes third party commercial activities or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes and other sales promotions, product placements, advertising, or job posting or employment ads, without our prior express consent, or which otherwise promotes fraudulent schemes, multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes, get rich quick schemes, online gaming and gambling, cash gifting, work from home businesses, or any other dubious money-making ventures; and/or

V. contains Content which violates or is otherwise prohibited by any applicable law.

B. Any of your Content that you make available through Beach Sweat shall not contain nudity, violence, sexually explicit, or offensive subject matter as may be determined by Beach Sweat in its sole discretion. Before using any camera or microphone on your equipment, you are responsible for telling anyone within range of said camera or microphone, including members of your household and guests, that they may be seen and heard by Beach Sweat, its employees, agents, and other users of the Platform.  You may not post or submit a photograph of another person, or otherwise make available any of your Content that includes the likeness of or audio or video content including another person without that person’s permission (or, if that person is minor, without the permission of his or her parent or legal guardian).

C. When participating in communication of any kind through the Platform, you are solely responsible for how you express yourself. You may not use language that could be deemed offensive or vulgar to others.

D. Hate speech and discriminatory language is inappropriate, as is any obscene or disruptive language. Threatening or harassing any Beach Sweat employee, agent or other user is always unacceptable, regardless of language used. Violating any of these expectations will result in the immediate suspension or termination of your account.

E. You shall not participate in or encourage any illegal or dangerous activities when communicating through the Platform, which may include but not be limited to illegal drug use, phishing, human trafficking, prostitution, doxing, swatting, or sharing Content that glorifies or incites violence. Threats of harm to yourself or others are taken seriously—so don’t make them, especially as a joke. If you see something that puts any Beach Sweat employee, agent, or other users at risk, please report the same immediately to Beach Sweat and the appropriate authorities.

F. Usernames, email addresses, and other forms of identification used throughout the Platform are subject to the same rules established in Section H, herein above. Any username or other identifier which you as the user, have the ability to customize, must be appropriate and inoffensive. Any username or identifier that violates our standards or disrupts the Beach Sweat employees, agents, or other users of the Platform, will be required to be changed immediately, and additional limitations, and/or suspension or termination may take effect with respect to the offending account, per Beach Sweat’s sole discretion.

G. You shall not use Beach Sweat to engage in misleading or deceptive conduct, or conduct that is likely to mislead or deceive any Beach Sweat employee or agent, or any other user.

H. Respect the intellectual property rights of Beach Sweat and any and all Beach Sweat employees, agents, and all other users, by not recording, reproducing, sharing, communicating to the public or otherwise distributing their Content without authorization.

I. You shall not do anything that violates Beach Sweat’s or someone else’s rights, including intellectual property rights (examples of which are copyright, trademarks, confidential information, and goodwill), personality rights, unfair competition, privacy, and data protection rights.

J. You shall not use Beach Sweat to stalk, bully, abuse, harass, threaten or intimidate anyone else.

K. You shall not impersonate Beach Sweat, one of Beach Sweat’s employees, another user, or any other person or company or falsely state or suggest any affiliation, endorsement, sponsorship between you and Beach Sweat or any other person or company.

L. You shall not provide false account registration information or make unauthorized use of anyone else’s information or Content.

M. You shall not post or cause to be posted any Content which is spam, or which is otherwise inauthentic, repetitive, misleading or low quality.

N. You shall not use other media or methods (for example the use of codewords or signals) to communicate anything which violates this Code.

O. You shall not reproduce, print, distribute, attempt to download, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store or transmit any Content, except as permitted under the Beach Sweat Terms of Service.

P. You shall not knowingly, directly or indirectly, introduce any viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material into Content which is or may be malicious or technologically harmful.

Q. You shall not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to discover or derive any of the source code or other intellectual property of Beach Sweat.

R. You shall not use Beach Sweat in a way that could adversely affect our systems or security or interfere with any Beach Sweat employee or agent, or any other user’s use of Beach Sweat, including their ability to engage in real time activities through Beach Sweat.

S. You shall not use any automated program, tool or process (such as web crawlers, robots, bots spiders, and automated scripts) to access Beach Sweat or any server, network or system associated with Beach Sweat, or to extract, scrape, collect, harvest or gather Content or information from Beach Sweat.

T. You shall not use Beach Sweat’ name, logo or any related or similar names, logos, product and service names, designs, or slogans other than with our prior written consent to do so.

Breaches of this Code may lead to your account being suspended or terminated, as set out in the Beach Sweat Terms of Service.