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Predatory Behavior: Attempting to befriend or manipulate a minor for exploitation (e.g., grooming).

Adult Posing as Minor: Adults must not present themselves as minors or misrepresent their age to gain trust or access to underage users.

Sexualizing Minors: Any depiction, discussion, or behavior that sexualizes or objectifies children or minors, even if in jest.

Sexual Conversations: Engaging in or soliciting sexual interaction, behaviors, or material from minors.

Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM): Sharing, requesting, or discussing explicit images or content involving minors.

Sexual Extortion (Sextortion): Threatening to expose or misuse intimate imagery or personal information to exploit or coerce minors.

Child Sex Trafficking: Advertising, facilitating, or soliciting minors for commercial sex acts is strictly prohibited.

Coercion and Enticement: Encouraging or pressuring minors to participate in illegal or exploitative sexual activities.

Written/Graphic Explicit Descriptions: Any written or graphic content that sexualizes minors.

Promotion or Support of Child Exploitation and Abuse: Content that promotes, advocates, supports, or encourages participation in CSEA. This includes sharing links to third-party sites that contain prohibited content.

Violence and Sexual Content: Any depictions or discussions of violent or sexual acts involving minors.

Sexualization of Minors: Any depiction, discussion, or portrayal that sexualizes, trivializes, or normalizes relationships or inappropriate interactions between adults and minors is unacceptable. This includes any material, even if presented humorously or in jest, that minimizes the gravity of such interactions.

Glorification of Harmful Behaviors: Content that glorifies, trivializes, or encourages minors to engage in self-harm, substance use or abuse (including drug, alcohol, tobacco, etc), or other violent or dangerous acts.

Dangerous Activities and Challenges: Promoting or encouraging minors to engage in activities that could lead to serious physical injury or harm.

Substance Use and Abuse: Depicting the use or misuse of regulated goods, illegal drugs, prescription medications, or other substances (including drug, alcohol, tobacco, etc) by minors.

Inappropriate Sexual Content: Promotion, discussion, or portrayal of sexual content that involves or targets minors is strictly prohibited, including jokes, trolling, or other seemingly humorous references that could normalize, trivialize, or minimizes inappropriate interactions with minors, regardless of the legal age of consent.

Unsafe Interactions: Arranging, facilitating, or encouraging face-to-face meetings with minors—or luring them off-platform.

Unauthorized Sharing of Child Images: Any image of a minor shared without the explicit consent of the child’s parent or legal guardian is strictly forbidden. Any content involving images of minors that is flagged or reported as non-contextual, exploitative, or otherwise compromising to a minor’s dignity or safety will be subject to immediate review and removal in line with our commitment to protecting young members of our community.

False Age Claims: Users must not claim to be older or younger than their actual age. Providing misleading information about your age during registration or within any part of our apps over any period of time is strictly prohibited.

Age Mismatch: When the age selected by the user on their profile does not align with the age they have stated elsewhere.

Criminal Activities: Content that promotes, condones, or supports criminal and illegal activities, including organized criminals and criminal organizations, assaults, robberies, theft, burglary, arson, vandalism, or destruction of property.

Illegal & Regulated Goods: Depiction and/or promotion of illegal goods, such as illicit narcotics & high-risk drugs (e.g., cocaine, fentanyl).

Depiction of Criminal or Illegal Behavior: Users must not engage in or depict content of themselves or others participating in criminal or illegal activities or behaviors.

Encouragement and Coordination: Users must not encourage others to participate in criminal acts or provide platforms for coordinating such activities.

Instructional Material: Providing guidance on how to commit crimes (e.g., manufacturing illicit substances or using criminal tools).

Facilitation of Criminal & Illegal Activities: Buying, selling, or trading illegal or regulated items (e.g., drugs, weapons, alcohol, tobacco).

Cannabis Products: Discussions or depictions of cannabis, the cannabis plant, and cannabis products are permitted provided they do not involve the sale, trade, promotion, or consumption of cannabis. Users may share information or experiences related to cannabis without promoting its use.

Educational and Advocacy Discussions: Debating legality, advocating for regulation changes, and discussing medical contexts are allowed as long as they do not promote misuse or illegal activities.

In-App Items: Certain items, such as virtual cigarettes, vapes, weapons, and similar objects, are permitted within the game environment provided they do not facilitate real-world illegal activities or harm. These virtual items are strictly for in-game use and cannot be used to promote or engage in prohibited real-world actions.

Encouraging Self-Harm: Any content that encourages or normalizes self-harm, such as statements like "cutting is cool" or "everyone does it."

Suicide: Content promoting or advocating for suicide, including reasons to end one’s life or glorifying death over seeking help.

Eating Disorders: Content that encourages or supports eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia, or other harmful dietary behaviors.

Threats of Suicide and Harm: Posts where users threaten to harm themselves or commit suicide.

Graphic Depictions: Sharing graphic images, videos, or detailed descriptions of self-harm, injuries, or suicide methods.

Instructions and Methods: Providing instructions, tools, or techniques for committing suicide or self-injury.

Physical Challenges: Content depicting or encouraging dangerous physical challenges or stunts that could result in serious injury or death.

Substance Abuse: Promotion or depiction of the dangerous use or consumption of drugs, pharmaceuticals, alcohol consumption, or other substances posing significant risks of harm.

Real-World Harm: In-game or user-generated content that facilitates or encourages real-world activities leading to physical harm.

Mental Health Awareness: Content that raises awareness about mental health issues, promotes understanding, and reduces stigma.

Seeking Help: Users sharing their experiences of seeking professional help or encouraging others to seek assistance.

Educational Resources: Sharing information about mental health resources, helplines, and professional services without promoting self-harm or suicide.

Recovery Stories: Users sharing their journeys of overcoming self-harm or suicidal thoughts in a manner that emphasizes hope and recovery.

Inspirational Content: Positive messages that encourage resilience, self-care, and seeking support.

Artistic and Creative Expressions: Artistic depictions of self-harm or suicidal thoughts that do not promote or endorse such behavior. This includes fictional storytelling where the intent is not to glorify harm.

Age

Race, perceived race, or ethnicity

National origin

Sexual orientation

Gender, gender identity, or gender expression

Religion or religious affiliation or beliefs

Disability status, including diseases, bodily conditions, disfigurement, mobility issues, and mental impairment

Veteran status

Caste

Familial status

Physical or Sexual Threats: Threatening to cause physical or sexual harm to another user.

Real-World Harm: Threatening to inflict harm offline or inciting violence against people or property.

Doxxing & Account Attacks: Revealing or threatening to reveal personal information, sharing or hacking account information, or attempting to take over another’s account.

Extortion & Blackmail: Threatening to expose sensitive information or using coercion to manipulate others.

Targeted Harassment: Singling out an individual or group for ridicule, abuse, or intimidation.

Stalking: Persistently following or monitoring a user in a manner that invades their privacy, instills fear, or creates undue distress.

Targeted Trolling: Deliberately posting provocative, off-topic, or inflammatory content intended to elicit strong emotional reactions or disrupt conversations.

Unauthorized Contact: Attempting to contact someone who has blocked or muted you, including using alternative accounts or methods to bypass their privacy settings.

Sexual Harassment: Engaging in unwelcome sexual behavior, comments, or advances that demean or intimidate.

Degrading Comments: Insulting or demeaning an individual based on aspects such as personal appearance, intelligence, hygiene, or health/medical history.

Inciting Harassment: Encouraging or coordinating others to engage in harassment or abuse (e.g., posting abusive comments or maliciously reporting accounts).

Witch-Hunting: Any form of witch-hunting is prohibited. This refers to public accusations, calls to action, or targeted harassment against another player—including public posts, sharing screenshots of private conversations, in-room campaigns, or the creation of hashtags designed to rally the community against a specific player.

Coordinated Mass Reporting: When users, or multiple accounts created for this purpose, repeatedly report an individual or content to trigger enforcement action.

Last-Minute Removals: Intentionally withdrawing offered items at the last moment.

Split Trades: Dividing a single trade into multiple parts to confuse or deceive.

Price Manipulation: Changing item prices at the final moment to gain an unfair advantage.

Item Withdrawal: Removing items from the trade window at the final second.

Fake Tips: Sending misleading messages to manipulate trade outcomes.

Account Info Requests: Inappropriately asking for personal account details.

Off-Platform Deals: Proposing payments or exchanges outside the official system.

False Refund Claims: Submitting dishonest or false refund requests to Apple, Google, PocketWorlds, HighRise, Everskies, or another provider.

Chargeback Abuse: Engaging in unauthorized chargebacks or refund disputes for completed transactions.

Manipulative Claims: Making fraudulent claims about missing purchases or technical issues to gain unauthorized benefits.

Messages Flooding: Sending numerous messages in a short period, whether in public chats or private inboxes, with the aim of disrupting the conversation.

Bulk Messaging: Sending repetitive or unsolicited messages to multiple users.

Comment Flooding: Posting the same message multiple times to overwhelm or disrupt.

Misleading Metadata: Using deceptive tags or sensational content to artificially boost engagement.

Redirecting Users: Creating experiences designed solely to lure users off app.

Audio Disruption: Injecting background noise, excessive loudness, screaming, or harsh noises that render intended audio unintelligible.

Experience Flooding: Invading or overwhelming experiences or groups to disrupt the overall user experience or reputation.

Automated Spamming: Utilizing macros, scripts, or any other automated methods to flood room chats with spam.

Excessive Tagging: Tagging the same player repeatedly with the intent to disturb or harass them.

Deceptive or False Representation: It is strictly prohibited to misrepresent yourself or impersonate any entity, including PocketWorlds, Highrise, Everskies, our staff, celebrities, or other users, by creating fake accounts or posts.

Inauthentic Account Verification: Misrepresenting your identity or subverting the process—such as using another person’s identity, fake credentials, pre-taken selfies, or delegating verification—is strictly prohibited.

Network Manipulation: Operating networks of inauthentic accounts to manipulate platform dynamics or promote biased narratives.

Disruptive Automation: Using bots to generate disruptive content, engagements, or interfere with user interactions.

Bug Abuse: Using bugs, glitches, or unauthorized modifications to gain unfair advantages.

Exploit Sharing: Distributing methods to exploit the platform’s systems.

Unauthorized Bots: Using automated tools or bots to perform actions that typically require human intervention, such as mass account creation or automated interactions.

In-App Bots:

Reporting Bugs:

Unauthorized Code: Incorporating another developer’s code without explicit permission.

Media Misuse: Using media (images, music, etc.) created by others without proper licensing or consent.

Logo Misuse: Using a brand’s logo or design elements without authorization.

Unauthorized Merchandise: Selling or sharing items featuring trademarked logos without permission.

Infringing Content: Uploading or distributing content that violates copyright or trademark laws.

Fabricated Claims: Submitting inaccurate or false reports about users or content.

Targeted Reporting Abuse: Instances where users, either individually or as part of a group, repeatedly submit unfounded or false reports against another user. This includes the use of primary or alternate accounts.

Fraudulent Requests: Making dishonest refund or support requests to manipulate outcomes.

False Claims: Submitting untruthful claims about missing purchases or technical issues.

Persistent Outcome Contestation: Persistently requesting additional clarification or a revised outcome even after our decision has been clearly communicated.

Explicit Sexual Acts: Showing or describing sexual intercourse or other explicit sexual acts.

Implied Sexual Activity: Content that strongly suggests sexual activity without explicit detail.

Simulated Sexual Activity: Depictions or descriptions of simulated sexual acts that appear realistic, including digital-based sexual acts.

Sexual Roleplay: Simulated or described sexual activities through narratives, actions, avatars, or themed environments that cross acceptable boundaries.

Kinks & Fetishes: Content or behaviors involving non-conventional sexual practices (e.g., bondage, domination, submission, etc.) intended primarily for sexual gratification.

Exhibitionism & Voyeurism: Publicly displaying one’s body for arousal or observing others’ private activities without consent for sexual pleasure.

Public or Group Sexual Discussions: Explicit sexual language, conversations, roleplay, or sexually explicit text-based content are not permitted in public posts, group chats, public forums or spaces, or any form of content that can be widely seen (including usernames, items, room names, and world names). This restriction helps prevent unsolicited exposure to explicit content and maintains a community space that is appropriate for all ages.

Sexualized Public Posts: Posting or sharing explicit sexual references, descriptions, or simulations of sexual acts on public profiles, posts, or in comment sections is prohibited. Public content should remain suitable for a general audience and foster a respectful community atmosphere.

Unwanted Sexual Communication: Initiating or continuing sexual discussions, explicit inquiries, or advances without the recipient's explicit consent or after a user has clearly expressed disinterest. This includes persistent or unsolicited sexual messages in both private and public communications, ensuring that all interactions are consensual and respectful.

Coded Language & Euphemisms: Using explicit slang, innuendos, or coded language intended to imply or describe sexual acts, even if not overtly graphic.

Provocative Sounds: Sharing audio clips of moaning, heavy breathing, or other sounds intended to arouse.

Sexual ASMR: Producing ASMR content that mimics sexual sounds or behavior with the intent to provoke a sexual response.

Implied Activity: Posting images or videos that suggest sexual activity through strategic poses, shadows, or camera angles without explicit display.

Provocative Poses: Displaying subjects in body language or poses that imply sexual interest or behavior without depicting explicit acts.

Sexualized Props & Settings: Using props (e.g., beds, intimate objects) or designing environments that imply sexual behavior without a non-sexual artistic context.

Sexually Suggestive Attire: Content depicting individuals in revealing or provocative clothing, such as lingerie, underwear, or other revealing garments. While fashion and artistic expression are valued, content purposefully designed to be sexually provocative is prohibited.

Contextual Exceptions: Imagery that includes attire like swimwear is acceptable when presented in a non-sexualized context and not intended to provoke a sexual response.

Inappropriate Room Themes & Items: Creating or designing virtual rooms and environments that incorporate overt sexual imagery or simulate explicit sexual activities.

Sexualized Avatars & Animations: Customizing avatars with overtly sexual poses, gestures, animations, or attire that simulate or imply sexual behavior.

Misuse of Virtual Items: Using virtual items, props, or tools to simulate sexual interactions or creating items with explicit or suggestive designs.

Promotion of Sexualized Events: Organizing, advertising, or hosting events with explicit sexual content or themes intended solely for adult audiences.

Sexualized Thumbnails: Using thumbnails that feature overt sexual imagery, provocative poses, or explicit content intended to arouse.

Fully Unclothed Content: Depicting bare sensitive body parts—such as genitalia, fully exposed breasts (particularly of women and girls), and buttocks—is not allowed in real-life images, videos, digital content, or artistic representations, including drawings, sketches, and AI-generated art.

Implied Nudity: Content that suggests nudity without explicit exposure—such as strategic poses, shadows, silhouettes, or partial concealment that implies the presence of unclothed intimate areas—is prohibited across all formats, including artwork and digital creations.

Digital, Animated & Artistic Nudity: Any depiction of nudity in animations, avatars, AI-generated content, or artistic representations, such as drawings or sketches, that display unclothed sensitive body parts is strictly forbidden.

Significant Body Exposure: Content that shows partially uncovered intimate body parts—including genitalia, buttocks, and breasts with visible nipples or areolas—is not permitted, even when clothed in underwear, sheer fabrics, or similarly revealing attire. This applies to real-life content, digital formats, and artistic depictions.

Implied Sensitive Exposure: Visual content that implies exposure of sensitive body parts through posing, framing, or suggestive artistic techniques will be treated as significant exposure and is not allowed.

Protection of Minors: Any depiction of significant body exposure involving minors, including in real-life, digital, animated, or artistic formats, or content that risks uninvited sexualization of young people, is strictly prohibited.

Torture & Physical Abuse: Depictions of real-world torture, human suffering, or severe physical abuse.

War Crimes & Human Rights Violations: Support or glorification of war crimes or human rights violations, including acts of torture.

Graphic Deaths & Accidents: Footage or images of graphic content showcasing blood, excessive injury, human remains in an exploitative or graphic manner, real-world fatal accidents, executions, or deadly violence.

Dismemberment & Mutilation: Visuals of severed limbs, burned or charred bodies, and extreme bodily harm, including post-mortem injuries.

Extreme Physical Fighting: Videos or images depicting excessive real-world violence, such as street fights, gang violence, or physical assaults meant to harm.

Disturbing Public Footage: Graphic or distressing footage of events that may be in the public interest to view (e.g., clashes with law enforcement, the aftermath of a bombing, or natural disasters) but are too violent or disturbing for general audiences.

Bodily Fluids & Functions: Excessively graphic depictions of human or animal bodily fluids, including urine, vomit, feces, or other excretions.

Graphic Blood Imagery:Explicit and uncontextualized depictions of blood, including pooling, splattering, or excessive amounts, designed to shock or cause distress.

Disturbing Depictions of Wounds and Injuries: Content focusing on graphic portrayals of wounds, injuries, or other traumatic harm, especially when presented in a sensationalized or gratuitous manner without sufficient context.

Close-Ups of Organs: Graphic imagery of internal organs or medical conditions designed to provoke disgust.

Close-Ups of Certain Animals: Unnecessary close-ups of insects, rodents, or decomposing creatures that may cause distress.

Animal Abuse & Torture: The staging of animal fights (e.g., dogfighting, cockfighting) and any acts of slaughter, mutilation, or torture that cause unnecessary harm or suffering to animals.

Neglect & Mistreatment: Content showing abused, malnourished, or abandoned animals where the intent is to promote harm rather than advocate for their welfare.

Dismemberment & Extreme Harm to Animals: Graphic images of severely injured, burned, or mutilated animals, including those harmed by accidents or human actions.

Illegal Wildlife Practices: Content depicting the poaching of endangered species or the illegal wildlife trade, including the sale or exchange of live animals or parts of protected species, such as ivory, tiger bones, or rhinoceros horns.

Bestiality: Any content that depicts, promotes, or normalizes sexual activity between humans and animals.

Terrorism & Mass Casualty Events: Content depicting, glorifying, or trivializing terrorist attacks, mass shootings, or large-scale violence.

Natural Disasters & Aftermath: Content that shows the aftermath of hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or other disasters in a way that is exploitative or overly graphic.

Historical Atrocities: Content that trivializes or makes light of genocides, war crimes, or crimes against humanity.

Hunting & Ethical Practices: Content related to legal hunting and fishing, including trophy photos, is allowed as long as it is not excessively graphic or presented in a manner intended to disturb or offend.

Cultural & Educational Content: Traditional or culturally significant practices related to food preparation, agriculture, or hunting are permitted when shared in an educational or respectful manner.

News & Public Awareness: Some distressing content, such as discussions of war crimes or human rights violations, may be allowed for educational or journalistic purposes when presented responsibly and not in a glorifying or exploitative manner.

Email addresses

Passwords or access tokens

Residential addresses or physical locations

Financial data (e.g., credit card and bank account information)

Health-related information

Phone numbers

Sensitive identifiers (e.g., Social Security numbers, government-issued IDs)

Full legal names (in contexts where anonymity is expected)

Threatening to expose another user's personal data to intimidate, coerce, or cause harm.

Using personal information as leverage for manipulation or demands.

Implying intent to publish private information (e.g., emails, phone numbers, addresses) without consent.

Unauthorized Disclosure: Publicly sharing another user's personal details without consent.

Exposing Private Content: Disseminating private conversations, photos, videos, or other sensitive content without permission.