Community Guidelines

Community Guidelines

The Rural TV Community

Rural TV strives to be a community in which all content creators can express themselves openly and in which they can engage in free, open communications about whatever subjects they choose. The Platform is provided to showcase content creators in rural and township communities using storytelling and creativity of all kinds so that Users can enjoy diverse and wide-ranging transformational content. However, in order to make that possible, it is necessary for all content creators to conduct themselves in a way that is respectful, honest and fair.

These Community Guidelines set out Rural TV rules of conduct for using any of our Services. These rules apply to using any Service offered on or via the Platform. By using the Platform, you are agreeing and undertaking to respect both the letter and spirit of these rules.

We may change these Community Guidelines at any time without notice. Any such changes shall take effect on the next occasion you use the Platform. Any such new rules may be displayed on-screen when you next use the Platform, and you may be required to read and accept them to continue using the Platform. However, you are responsible for checking these Community Guidelines before using the Platform and making yourself aware of any changes. For ease of reference, the top of these guidelines indicates the date they were last updated.

Content Guidelines

• Users must have the legal right to post any User Content they upload to the Platform, either by being the owner of the relevant rights or possessing a valid license which entitles them to upload that content to the Platform.
• User Content must not:
• infringe or violate the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party, including other creators;
• violate the local laws of the jurisdiction from which the relevant creator is accessing the Platform;
• incite or encourage other creators (or anyone else) to engage in activity which would be unlawful in your or their jurisdictions;
• be a reposting or a replication of any other creator’s Content which we have declared to be in breach of the Community Guidelines (or any other part of our terms).

Hate Speech

Members of the Rural TV community must communicate with each other respectfully and politely. Any form of harassment, hate speech, or discrimination is strictly prohibited. We encourage open and honest communication, but it must be conducted respectfully that does not infringe on the rights of others. If you disagree with someone, please do so respectfully.

We encourage free speech and recognize that some opinions and viewpoints may cause upset or offend others. However, we will not in any circumstances tolerate speech which incites, encourages or expresses hatred to or against any ethnic, religious, gender, or other groups which share an identity characteristic.

You must not post or upload hateful creator’s content. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Your creator’s content is likely to be considered hateful if it encourages or wishes for violence/physical harm to a particular group of people, encourages for exclusion or segregation of a particular group of people, or if it contains slurs that are intended to degrade or dehumanize a particular group of people.

You must also bear in mind that Rural TV is the vision of Threshing Floor Of Christ Ministries, which is a church body based in Pretoria, South Africa and supports the principles of Our Lord Jesus Christ. However, it will decline any content or creator that infringes to our Christ centered values without prior notice.

Terrorism and Extremism

The Platform expressly prohibits any content which glorifies, encourages, or seeks to recruit individuals to participate in terrorism or other extremist activity. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Non-Consensual and Unsolicited Sexual Material

Any sexual material which depicts images of sexual activity in which one or more participants are unwilling or unconsenting is prohibited. You must not upload it to the Platform.

This includes sexual material in which participants are unwillingly involved, including intimate photography/video of individuals who were unaware they were being photographed/filmed or unwilling to participate.

You must not send creator’s content which is sexual in nature to other creators who have not indicated that they wish to receive it from you by, for example, subscribing to your creator’