Community Guidelines Overview
Voggt aims to continue the Fanatics tradition of bringing a diverse community of cultures, ages, and beliefs together through shared passions. This is a safe community where everyone can have fun and know they’ll be treated with respect.
Our Community Guidelines apply to everyone. By using Voggt, you agree to these guidelines, our Terms of Use and Privacy Notice. Violating these guidelines and Terms of Use and Privacy Notice may result in deleted content, suspensions, or permanent expulsion from the platform (or other restrictions). We hope you’re as committed as we are to protecting this community.
Prohibited Conduct and Content
We prohibit certain content, uses of, or activities on Voggt that we believe are harmful to our community. Our Terms of Use may also prohibit other kinds of conduct. More details can be found here. Examples of harmful or prohibited content, uses of, or activities on Voggt include but are not limited to the following:
Violent, Dangerous or Illegal Content
No Jerks allowed! That means no hate speech of any kind, harassing and bullying others, violent threats, incitement of violence or promotion of criminal activities and content that encourages or promotes dangerous or illegal activities is not permitted. To view these policies in their entirety:
- Hate Speech
We do not allow users or content that promotes or glorifies hatred toward people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or other prejudice. This includes organizations or symbols dedicated to hatred against these groups.
- Harassment and Bullying
We do not allow content that threatens individuals or that targets an individual, entity, or group with prolonged or malicious insults intended to degrade or shame, personal information meant to blackmail or harass someone and repeated unwanted messages.
- Violence and Incitement
We do not allow violent threats, incitement to violence, or promotion of criminal acts, or other activities that may harm people or property. We reserve the right to report any content or activity on Voggt to relevant law enforcement authorities.
- Illegal Activity
We do not allow content that promotes or encourages illegal activity or dangerous activities that risk serious physical harm or death. Activities such as instructional threat or cheating, hacking, bypassing payment for digital content or services, drug use or creation, instructions to kill or harm, dangerous or threatening pranks, or dangerous challenges.
- Misinformation
We do not allow misleading or deceptive content with serious risk of egregious harm. This includes certain types of misinformation that can cause real-world harm, like promoting harmful remedies or treatments, certain types of technically manipulated content, or content interfering with democratic processes.
Spam, Deceptive Practices and Scams
Come on, no scam artists! Do not purposefully deceive, promote or mislead or spam our community. To view these policies in their entirety:
- Fraud, Deception and Spam
We do not allow content that purposefully deceives, promotes, or contains information or material that is false, deceptive, misleading, spams our community or willfully misrepresent or otherwise defrauds or exploits others. This includes misrepresenting your affiliation with any person, brand, or entity and presenting untrue information about the origin of a product. Examples of fraudulent, deception or spam include, without limitation:
Live Stream or Video Spam
- Promises viewers they’ll see something but instead directs them to offsite.
- Gets views or traffic off Voggt by promising fans that they’ll make fast money.
- Sends audiences to sites that spread harmful software, try to gather personal info, or other sites that have a negative impact.
Comments Spam
- Comments where the sole purpose is to gather information from fans, misleadingly driving fans off Voggt or perform any of the prohibited behaviors noted above.
Misleading Metadata or Thumbnails
- Using the title, thumbnails, description to trick users into believing the content is something it is not.
Scams
- Content offering cash gifts, “get rich quick” schemes, or pyramid schemes
Shill bidding
- Impersonation
We do not allow impersonation. Impersonation includes, but is not limited to using another’s name, likeness, profile information, or any other identifying details without permission.
- Users are required to provide accurate and truthful information when creating an account or setting up a profile on Voggt.
- Profile information, such as user names, profile pictures, bios must reflect the true identity of the user and not intentionally mislead or confuse others.
- Users must not impersonate other Sellers, users, individuals, celebrities, public figures, entities, or organizations in a way that may mislead or deceive others.
- Users must not impersonate or infringe upon the trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights of individuals, companies or organizations. This includes using logos, graphics, or other assets associated with a brand without proper authorization. More details can be found Copyright and Trademark Infringement policy.
Sensitive Content
To maintain a safe respectful platform for the diversity in ages and different cultural backgrounds we do not allow content that is sexually explicit, pornographic or illegal. We do not allow content that endangers the emotional and/or physical well-being of any persons, especially minors, and we do not allow content which promotes suicide, self harm or content that poses a considerable risk to fans. To view these policies in their entirety:
- Child Safety
We do not allow content that endangers the emotional and/or physical well-being of any persons, especially minors. Content that endangers minors includes, without limitation:
- Infliction of emotional distress on minors: Content that could cause a minor emotional distress, including violence, coercing minors, exposing minors to mature themes and simulating parental abuse.
- Bullying and Harassment: Targets individuals for abuse or humiliation, reveals personal information, sexually harasses and encourages others to bully or harass
- Sexualization of minors: Sexually explicit content featuring minors and content that sexually exploits minors. We will report content containing child sexual abuse imagery to law enforcement.
- Nudity
In order to maintain a safe respectful platform for the diversity in ages and different cultural backgrounds of our community, we do not allow content that is sexually explicit, pornographic or illegal. Accordingly, we do not allow streams, photos, videos, and digitally created content that shows sexually explicit or pornographic material. This includes content or products that explicitly describe or display sex organs, sex acts or erotic behaviour.
- Suicide and Self-Harm
We do not allow content that promotes suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders, or content that is intended to shock or disgust, or that poses a considerable risk to fans. What to do if you find this content and believe someone is in danger:
- Immediately contact local emergency services for help
- Report here to bring to our attention
- If you find yourself being negatively affected by any mental health, suicide, self-harm, or eating disorder related content you come across, know that there is support available and you’re not alone.
Off-Platform Behavior
We recognize that toxicity and abuse can spread to Voggt from outside our platform in a way that is detrimental to our community. To mitigate this harm, we will take reported off-service context into account when evaluating violations of any of our policies. At Voggt we value the integrity of our community, and expect all individuals associated with our platform to uphold certain standards of behavior both on and off our platform. This Off-Platform behavior policy sets forth our guidelines for conduct outside of the platform to maintain a positive and inclusive environment.
We will use this evidence to support and inform our enforcement decisions.
Off-platform behavior that may impact your ability to use Voggt includes, without limitation:
- Deadly violence and violent extremism;
- Terrorist activities or recruiting;
- Explicit and/or credible threats of mass violence (i.e. threats against a group of people, event, or location where people would gather);
- Leadership or membership in a known hate group;
- Carrying out or deliberately acting as an accomplice to non-consensual sexual activities and/or sexual assault;
- Sexual exploitation of children, such as child grooming and solicitation/distribution of underage sexual materials;
- Actions that would directly and explicitly compromise the physical safety of the Voggt community;
- Threats against Voggt, its parent or related entities or their staff;
- Harmful misinformation actors, or persistent misinformation superspreaders.
Prohibited Items
This includes but is not limited to the following:
- Slurs or epithets of any kind,
- Slavery items, including reproductions, such as tags, shackles, documents, bills of sale, etc.,
- Items with racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise demeaning portrayals, for example through caricatures or other exaggerated features, including figurines, cartoons, housewares, historical advertisements, and golliwogs,
- Offensive representations of any group including, without limitation, Native Americans or other indigenous peoples,
- Historical Holocaust-related and Nazi-related items, including reproductions,
- Any item that is anti-Semitic or any item from after 1933 that bears a swastika,
- Media identified as Nazi propaganda, or
- Listings that imply or promote support of, membership in, or funding of a terrorist organization.
Voggt reserves the right to reject any item, remove any listing, or any other action against any user found, in Voggt’s sole discretion, to be in violation of this policy, including without limitation, account suspension, and/or permanent ban.
Copyright and Trademark Infringement Property Rights
Voggt is committed to helping people and organizations protect their intellectual property rights. Terms of Use and these Community Guidelines do not allow posting content that violates someone else’s intellectual property rights, including copyright and trademark. For more information, please view the Fanatics Copyright and Trademark Infringement Property Rights Policy.
Privacy
The privacy of our visitors is important to us. Our Privacy Notice explains how Voggt handles personal information about you that we collect, use, and share through our website, as well as lets you know how you can review and update this information. For more information, please read the full Privacy Notice.
Seller Guidelines
Our Seller Guidelines apply to everyone who sells items on our platform. By signing up for a Seller account on Voggt, you agree to the Seller Guidelines our Community Guidelines and our Terms of Use. Violating these Seller Guidelines and/or Terms of Use, as determined by us in our sole discretion, may result in deleted content, suspension, permanent ban from the platform/community or other restrictions. For more information, please visit the Seller Guidelines under the Seller Section of this Help Page.
Community Guidelines
These Community Guidelines apply to everyone who participates in a break, places a bid, or purchases an item on our platform. By creating an account on Voggt and participating in a break, placing a bid or purchasing an item, you agree to these Community Guidelines and our Terms of Use. Violating these Guidelines and/or Terms of Use, as determined by us in our sole discretion, may result in cancelled or delayed orders, suspension, permanent ban from the platform/community or other restrictions.
Changes to Guidelines
Please note that these Guidelines may be changed, modified, or altered by us at our sole discretion at any time without prior notice. If we materially change the Guidelines, we will notify you through a notice, updated Guidelines on Voggt or by email (sent to the email address specified in your account, if any), prior to or upon the change(s) becoming effective. Accordingly, when you access or use Voggt, you should check the version of the Guidelines and be aware of any changes since the last version. Your continued use of Voggt following the posting of any changes to these Guidelines means that you accept such changes and your access to and use of Voggt will be governed by the Guidelines in effect at the time of such access or use.