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Community Guidelines

Creating a safe, inclusive, and respectful community

Catchme is a space to make kind connections in a safe, inclusive, and respectful way. In order to enhance healthy relationships, we hold our members accountable for the way they treat each other. Our Community Guidelines help keep our members safe by making it clear what content and conduct is not acceptable (on our platform and off).

Safety First

Protecting our community is our top priority

Inclusive

Welcoming to all students regardless of background

Respectful

Treating everyone with kindness and respect

Authentic

Being genuine and honest in all interactions

Profile Guidelines

Age Requirements

  • You need to be at least 18 years old to join Catchme
  • Creating a profile that intentionally misrepresents you as being under 18 is not allowed
  • We reserve the right to ask for your ID to verify your age
  • We'll block you from the platform if you're underage

Profile Photos

We want your profile to be your authentic self! That's why we require at least two of your profile photos, with the first photo depicting only you.

We will restrict/block your account if you upload:

  • Profile photos that are heavily distorted or contain exaggerated digital effects
  • Memes or photos with only — or primarily — text as a profile photo
  • Profile photos of children on their own
  • Profile photos with unclothed children

Names and Usernames

Students/Members have to use their legal name or full name. Usernames should be an authentic representation of the name you use in everyday life.

We do not permit:

  • Any words or phrases that violate our Community Guidelines
  • Using the name of a celebrity or fictional character
  • Words or characters including descriptive words, symbols (e.g. $, *, @), emojis, numbers, or punctuation

Content and Conduct Guidelines

Nudity and Sexual Activity Content

We don't permit nude, sexually explicit, or sexually vulgar profile content. We also don't allow the commercial exchange of any romantic or sexual activity, content, or services, including attempts to sell, advertise, or buy adult sexual content.

Abusive Content

We don't allow content or behavior that makes any individual or group feel harassed, bullied, or targeted. This includes:

  • Belittling, insulting, or intimidating behavior
  • Making unsolicited comments about someone's appearance
  • Engaging in emotional abuse
  • Blackmail
  • Repeated unwanted contact
  • Wishing, encouraging, or praising acts of violence

Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Molestation

Zero Tolerance Policy: We do not tolerate any form of child sexual exploitation, molestation and abuse. We don't allow content that sexualizes or endangers children, real or fictional.

For the purposes of this policy, a child is anyone under the age of 18. It's prohibited to upload, store, produce, share, or entice anyone to share child sexual abuse material, even if the intent is to express outrage or raise awareness about this issue.

Commercial and Promotional Activity

Our platform is not a marketplace. We don't allow using Catchme for unsolicited commercial or promotional purposes.

Controlled Goods and Substances

We don't allow members to use our platforms to buy, sell, supply, distribute, or directly facilitate the purchase, sale, supply, or distribution of illegal drugs and/or the misuse of controlled goods and substances.

This includes: e-cigarettes, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, or the misuse of legal substances like prescription drugs, tobacco, or alcohol.

Dangerous Organizations and Individuals

We don't permit organizations or individuals that proclaim, glorify, condone, or are known to support a violent, dangerous, or terrorist-based mission to have a presence on Catchme.

Identity-Based Hate

We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive community on Catchme. We prohibit content or behavior that promotes or condones hate, dehumanization, degradation, or contempt against marginalized or minoritized communities based on protected attributes:

  • Race/ethnicity
  • National origin/nationality/immigration status
  • Caste
  • Sex, gender identity or expression
  • Sexual orientation
  • Disability or serious health condition
  • Religion/belief

Inauthentic Profiles

Catchme celebrates authenticity, and we expect all our members to represent themselves accurately on their profile.

We don't allow impersonation or misrepresentation on our platform. This includes catfishing (creating an online persona that isn't you) or falsely stating facts about yourself including name, gender, age, and permanent location.

Physical and Sexual Violence

We don't allow any content, imagery, or behavior that commits or threatens credible acts of physical or sexual violence. This includes physical stalking, using our platform to assist exploitation or human trafficking, and sexual assault of any kind.

Scams and Theft

Catchme prohibits any scam or theft activity intended to defraud or manipulate members out of financial or material resources. This includes requesting financial support, lying about your intentions for financial gain, or faking romantic intentions to deceive members.

Sexual Harassment

Catchme prohibits sexual harassment. We consider sexual harassment to be any non-physical, unwanted, and unwelcome sexual behaviors between students/members.

This includes cyberflashing (sharing unsolicited sexually explicit images), in-person indecent exposure, sharing or threatening to share sexual or intimate images without consent, sending unwanted sexual comments or images, and fetishization.

Spam

We do not permit any kind of unwanted or irrelevant content sent in bulk or high frequency. This includes sharing misleading links, creating excessive accounts causing disruption, or having multiple active profiles to engage in unwanted interactions.

Suicide and Self-Injury Promotion

We care deeply about our member students and understand that some may struggle with mental health, self-injury, suicidal thoughts, substance use, or eating disorders.

While we allow members to share personal experiences with these issues in a safe way, we don't allow any content that depicts, promotes, glorifies, or assists in activities that could lead to suicide, self-injury, or disordered eating or body image.

Safety Reporting

Safety is a top priority at Catchme. We use a combination of human moderators and automated systems to monitor and review Catchme accounts for content that may be against our Community Guidelines, against ourTerms and Conditions, or otherwise harmful.

How to Report

Our members play a critical role in the safety of Catchme by reporting content or behavior that may violate our Community Guidelines.

If anything happens that makes you feel uncomfortable or unsafe, we highly encourage you to Unmatch with or Report the user.

False Reports

Please consider that disagreeing with or disliking a member or their content is not necessarily a reason to report them.

We may take action against a member if we've found them to be intentionally creating false or inappropriate reports against other members solely based on their protected attributes.

Enforcement Philosophy

All students/members must comply with the platform rules described and referenced in our Community Guidelines. If you behave in a way that goes against TheCatchMeApp's Community Guidelines, values, or otherwise act in any way we believe to be potentially harmful to Catchme or its members, we may take a range of actions on your account.

Potential Actions

When determining the penalty for violating our community guidelines, we consider a number of factors. For example, we may:

  • Issue a warning
  • Ban the offending member from Catchme App

Off-Platform Conduct

Your treatment towards others outside of the Catchme app can also result in action against your account. If we're made aware of harm between members on dates, meetups, via text message or other platforms, or relevant alleged criminal conduct, we may take action as if it happened on our platform.

Law Enforcement Cooperation

When necessary, we also may cooperate with law enforcement to assist in potential criminal investigations related to member conduct.

Appeals Process

If you believe we've made a mistake in taking action on your account or content, you can always contact us.

Contact Support Team

Need to Report Something?

Our safety team is here to help keep our community safe and welcoming for everyone.

Report Safety Concern