Community Guidelines

Updated: September 2nd, 2021

The Leagues is currently in it’s alpha version. As we open to a bigger audience, this document will continue to evolve. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please reach out.
These Community Guidelines are meant to help you better understand:

• The principles that we think make The Leagues a special place
• The rules we expect you to follow as a user
• What to do if you encounter inappropriate behavior

Principles

The Leagues was designed to be a space for expressing and discovering thoughts. Below are a few of our guiding principles.

• Share your thoughts. The Leagues community wants to listen.
• Be respectful. Everyone, at all times.
• Be inclusive. Tolerate and welcome diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
• Act with empathy and understanding.
• Make meaningful connections.

These principles are intended to be high-level guidelines only. If you’re wondering what can get people removed from The Leagues, please see the Rules below.

Rules

By using The Leagues, you agree to abide by the following rules at all times. You also agree not to encourage others to violate these rules.

• You must use a real name and identity on the service.
• You must be at least 13 years of age to use The Leagues (or older if required by your country). If you are under 18 years old, you may only use The Leagues with approval from your parent or guardian.
• You may not engage in abuse, bullying, or harassment of any person or groups of people.
• You may not discriminate against, engage in hateful conduct directed at, or threaten violence or harm against any person or groups of people.
• You may not share, threaten to share, or incentivize the sharing of other people's private information without their prior permission.
• You may not distribute or upload any content that violates any intellectual property or other proprietary rights.
• You may not spread false information or spam, or artificially amplify or suppress information.
• You may not share or promote information (or synthetic or manipulated media) that is intended or likely to cause harm to any person or groups of people, including minors.
• You may not use the service for the purpose of conducting any illegal activities.
• If you witness a Rules violation, please follow the instructions below to report it.
• Follow these links for our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
• If you have feedback or questions, please let us know by contacting us at hello@theleagues.com.

• Follow these links for our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
• If you have feedback or questions, please let us know by contacting us at hello@theleagues.com.

Safety

Content Moderation: If someone has not violated any of the Rules, but you would still prefer not to interact with them, here are some tools you can utilize.

• Unfollow: You can unfollow a user at any time. To do so, navigate to the user’s profile and tap on the button that says “Following” to unselect it. They won’t be notified, and you won’t receive any further notifications about their activity.
• Block: You can block a user at any time. On their profile, click on the 3 vertical dots in the top right, and select “Block.” Blocked users will not be able to see, hear or reply to any of your posted thoughts.

• Blocked users will not be able to see, hear or reply to any of your posted thoughts.
• A blocked user’s thoughts or replies to a thought will be hidden from your feed by default, but there will be an icon to let you know that the hidden comment exists. If you would like to see or hear the thought, you can choose to tap the icon.

Incident Reporting: We depend on the vigilance of each user and the community to report violations of Rules. If you believe a user has violated a Rule, you can report a Trust & Safety incident. Note: Inappropriate use of the incident reporting system or intentional, false reports are against our rules and are taken seriously.

• To report a Rule Violation: From the thought you are reporting, tap the three horizontal dots at the top right of the screen, and then tap “Report an incident.”
• Here’s what you should know about reporting another user for a Rule violation: If you submit a report, we will not share your identity with the person you are reported.
• All reports that are submitted will be reviewed and investigated. The need for and type of corrective or disciplinary action needed will be determined on a case by case basis.
• We seek to be fair, consistent, and responsive in addressing all reported incidents
• If the violation directly targeted you, we will share certain information about the process and resolution with you (e.g., the stage of investigation, any concerns that you may be at risk for immediate harm, information on how the resolution could impact you).
• Intentional, false reports of violations are treated as a violation of the Rules.

If another user has reported you for violating a Rule, here’s what you should know:

• If a report has been filed against you, we will contact you through your The Leagues account with information about the nature of the report. We may keep some details private in order to protect the reporting user(s). If we are unable to reach you, we may restrict your account access temporarily until we are able to do so.
• We will notify you of the result of the investigation and its potential impact to you.
• If you believe a report has been falsely filed against you or you would like to appeal a decision, please contact us, including as much context as possible.
• Any attempt to retaliate against users who participate in reporting or investigation is a violation.
• These are examples of potential consequences for Rules violations (non-exhaustive):

• Provide a warning for a first offense of low severity and impact
• Request the removal of or directly remove offending content
• Restrict the ability to participate in some or all conversations
• Temporarily or permanently disable or remove the account
• Notify law enforcement when there is risk of physical harm or a threat to public safety

Consequences for confirmed violations may vary based on the type and severity of the violation, the impact to victim(s), the historical actions of the offending user, and the intent of the actions.

Legal Note: Finally, please keep in mind this quick legal note on our Community Guidelines, violations, and how we may enforce them:

• You are solely responsible for your interactions with other The Leagues users and you agree that we will have no liability or responsibility with respect to those interactions.
• We understand that not all The Leagues users will agree with our views as to what constitutes a violation of these Community Guidelines. However, to operate a functional platform, we must reserve the right to determine in our sole discretion what constitutes a violation.
• Our failure to enforce these Community Guidelines in each and every instance in which it might have application does not amount to a waiver of our rights under our Terms and Conditions or these Community Guidelines.
• We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change portions of these Community Guidelines at any time. If we do this, we will post the changes on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the date these terms were last updated.

Contact

We take these Community Guidelines seriously and ask that you follow them in the spirit in which they are intended. We further recognize that these guidelines must continually evolve, so please do contact us with questions, suggestions, or comments at hello@theleagues.com.