CapCut Community Guidelines

Introduction

Last Updated, June, 2022

CapCut is a video editing app that helps users create spectacular, high-quality videos. We are building an online community where people can create and share, and connect with others. We are also committed to keeping this community safe. Our Community Guidelines define a set of norms and common code of conduct for CapCut; they provide guidance on what is and is not allowed to make a welcoming space for everyone.

We will remove any content – including video, audio, image, comment, and text – that violates our Community Guidelines, and relevant account holders will be notified of our decisions.

Our Community Guidelines apply to everyone and to everything on CapCut. We proactively enforce them using a mix of technology and human moderation before content gets reported to us.

We recognize that some content that would normally be removed per our Community Guidelines could be in the public interest. Therefore, we may allow exceptions under certain circumstances, such as educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic content, satirical content, content in fictional settings, counterspeech, and content in the public interest that is newsworthy or otherwise enables individual expression on topics of social importance.

Violent extremism

We do not allow people to use our platform to threaten or incite violence, or to promote dangerous individuals or organizations.

Threats and incitement to violence

We consider incitement to violence as advocating for, directing, or encouraging other people to commit violence. We do not allow threats of violence or incitement to violence on our platform that may result in serious physical harm.

Dangerous individuals and organizations

We do not allow individuals or organizations on our platform who promote or are engaged in violence. We remove such individuals and organizations, including mass murderers, serial killers and rapists, hate groups, criminal organizations, terrorist organizations, and other non-state armed groups that target civilians.

Illegal activities and regulated goods

We prohibit the trade, sale, promotion, and use of certain regulated goods, as well as the depiction or promotion of criminal activities. We allow exceptions for content that provides value to the public, such as educational, scientific, artistic, and newsworthy content.

Criminal activities

Criminal activities cover a wide spectrum of acts punishable by law, including theft, assault, human exploitation, counterfeiting, and other harmful behavior. To prevent such behavior from being normalized, imitated, or facilitated, we remove content that promotes or enables criminal activities.

Weapons

We do not allow the depiction, promotion, or trade of firearms, ammunition, firearm accessories, or explosive weapons. We also prohibit instructions on how to manufacture those weapons. Content as part of a museum's collection, carried by a police officer, in a military parade, or used in a safe and controlled environment such as a shooting range may be allowed.

Drugs and controlled substances

We do not allow content that depicts or promotes the use or trade of drugs or other controlled substances.

Trade of tobacco and alcohol products

We do not allow the purchase, sale, trade, or solicitation of tobacco and alcohol products on our platform.

Frauds and scams

We do not permit anyone to exploit our platform to take advantage of the trust of users and bring about financial or personal harm. We remove content that deceives people in order to gain an unlawful financial or personal advantage, including schemes to defraud individuals or steal assets.

Gambling

We do not allow content promoting gambling services, or that could be perceived as advertising for casinos, sports betting, or any other commercial gambling activity.

Privacy, personal data, and personally identifiable information (PII)

We do not allow content that violates the confidentiality of personal data or personally identifiable information (e.g., social security information). We remove content that depicts personal data or personally identifiable information (PII) from the platform.

Violent and graphic content

We do not allow content that is gratuitously shocking, graphic, sadistic, or gruesome or that promotes, normalizes, or glorifies extreme violence or suffering on our platform.

Suicide, self-harm, and dangerous acts

We do not allow content depicting, promoting, normalizing, or glorifying activities that could lead to suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders. We also do not permit users to share content depicting them partaking in, or encouraging others to partake in, dangerous activities that may lead to serious injury or death.

We encourage users who are struggling with thoughts of self-harm or suicide, or who know someone is seriously considering suicide, to immediately contact local emergency services or a suicide prevention hotline.

Suicide

We remove content that displays suicide, suicidal ideation, or content that might encourage participation in other self-injurious behavior. We also remove content that depicts attempted suicide or content featuring a person engaging in behavior or intending to engage in behavior that is likely to lead to self-inflicted death. We prohibit any form of content that promotes, normalizes, or glorifies suicide, provides instructions for suicide, or posts that portray a suicide as heroic or honorable.

Self-harm and eating disorders

To avoid normalizing, encouraging, or triggering self-harm behavior, we do not allow imagery that depicts such behavior, regardless of the user's intention of posting it. We remove content that may encourage or normalize acts that are likely to lead to physical self-inflicted injury. Content that promotes eating habits that are likely to cause adverse health outcomes is also not allowed on the platform.

Dangerous acts

We define risky activities or other dangerous behavior as acts conducted in a non-professional context or without the necessary skills and safety precautions that may lead to serious injury or death for the user or the public. We do not allow content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies such behavior, including amateur stunts or dangerous challenges.

Hateful behavior

We do not tolerate content that attacks or incites violence against an individual or a group of individuals on the basis of protected attributes. We do not allow content that includes hate speech or involves hateful behavior, and we remove it from our platform.

Attacks on the basis of protected attributes

We define hate speech or behavior as content that attacks, threatens, incites violence against, or otherwise dehumanizes an individual or a group on the basis of the following protected attributes:

Race

Ethnicity

National origin

Religion

Caste

Sexual orientation

Sex

Gender

Gender identity

Serious disease

Disability

Immigration status

Slurs

Slurs are defined as derogatory terms that are intended to disparage an ethnicity, race, or any other protected attributes listed above. To minimize the spread of egregiously offensive terms, we remove all slurs from our platform, unless the terms are reappropriated, used self-referentially (e.g., in a song), or do not disparage.

Hateful ideology

Hateful ideologies are those that demonstrate clear hostility toward people because of their protected attributes. Hateful ideologies are incompatible with the inclusive and supportive community that our platform provides and we remove content that promotes them.

Harassment and bullying

We do not tolerate members of our community being shamed, bullied, or harassed. Abusive content or behavior can cause severe psychological distress and will be removed from our platform.

Abusive behavior

We remove all expressions of abuse, including threats or degrading statements intended to mock, humiliate, embarrass, intimidate, or hurt an individual. To enable expression about matters of public interest, critical comments of public figures may be allowed; however, serious abusive behavior against public figures is prohibited.

Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment involves unwanted or inappropriate sexual behavior directed at another individual. We do not allow content, that sexually harasses others, regardless of user's intent, as such actions can cause great distress to targeted individuals.

Adult nudity and sexual activities

We do not allow nudity, pornography, or sexually explicit content on our platform. We also prohibit content depicting or supporting non-consensual sexual acts, the sharing of non-consensual intimate imagery, and adult sexual solicitation.

Sexual exploitation

Sexual exploitation is defined as any actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, power, or trust for sexual purposes, including profiting monetarily, socially, or politically from the sexual exploitation of another. We do not permit sexually exploitative content.

Nudity and sexual activity involving adults

Nudity and sexual activity include content that is overtly revealing of breasts, genitals, anus, or buttocks, or behaviors that mimic, imply, or display sex acts. We do not allow depictions, including digitally created or manipulated content, of nudity or sexual activity.

Minor safety

We are deeply committed to protecting the safety of minors on our platform. CapCut defines a minor as any person under the age of 18. We prohibit activities that perpetuate the abuse, harm, endangerment, or exploitation of minors on CapCut. Any content, including animation or digitally created or manipulated media, that depicts abuse, exploitation, or endangerment of minors is a violation on our platform and will be removed when discovered and known of. In the United States, we report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and supporting evidence to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to any additional relevant legal authorities.

Our users must meet the minimum age requirements to use CapCut, as stipulated in our Terms of Service. When an underage account is identified, we remove it.

Sexual exploitation of minors

CapCut will take action on any content or accounts involving CSAM or sexual exploitation of a minor. Sexual exploitation of minors includes any abuse of a position of power or trust for sexual purposes, including profiting financially, socially, sexually, or politically from the exploitation of a minor. CSAM is defined as any visual depiction of sexually explicit nudity or conduct of a minor, whether captured by predatory adults, peers, or self-generated by minors.

Do not post, upload, download, stream, or share:

• Content that shares, reshares, offers to trade or sell, or directs users off platform to obtain or distribute CSAM
• Content that engages with minors in a sexualized way, or otherwise sexualizes a minor
• Content that depicts, solicits, glorifies, or encourages child abuse imagery including nudity, sexualized minors, or sexual activity with minors
• Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies pedophilia or the sexual assault of a minor
• Content that re-victimized or capitalizes on minor victims of abuse by third party reshares or reenactments of assault or confessions

Nudity and sexual activity involving minors

Nudity and sexual activity involving minors include content that is overtly revealing of breasts, genitals, anus, or buttocks, or behaviors that mimic, imply, or display sex acts involving minors. We do not allow the depiction, including digitally created or manipulated content, of nudity or sexual activity.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

• Content that depicts or implies minor sexual activities including penetrative and non-penetrative sex, oral sex, or intimate kissing
• Content that depicts sexual arousal or sexual stimulation involving a minor
• Content that depicts a sexual fetish involving a minor
• Content that depicts exposed genitals, buttocks, the pubic region, or female nipples of a minor
• Content that contains sexually explicit language depicting or describing a minor
• Content depicting a minor that contains sexually explicit song lyrics
• Content with sexually explicit dancing of a minor, including twerking, breast shaking, pelvic thrusting, or fondling the groin or breasts of oneself or another
• Content depicting a minor undressing
• Content depicting a minor in minimal clothing that is not situationally relevant to the location
• Sexualized comments, emojis, text, or other graphics used to veil or imply nudity or sexual activity of a minor

Harmful activities by minors

Harmful minor activities include the possession or consumption of substances prohibited for minors, the misuse of legal substances, engagement in illegal activities, participation in activities, physical challenges, or dares that may threaten the well-being of minors. We remove any such content from our platform.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

• Content that suggests, depicts, imitates, or promotes the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, or drugs by a minor
• Content that offers instruction targeting minors on how to buy, sell, or trade alcohol, tobacco, or controlled substances
• Content that depicts or promotes activities that may jeopardize youth well-being, including physical challenges, dares, or stunts

Physical and psychological harm of minors

Behaviors that place minors at risk of physical or psychological harm include physical abuse, neglect, endangerment, and psychological disparagement. We remove any such content from our platform.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

• Content that depicts or promotes physical abuse, neglect, endangerment, or psychological disparagement of minors

Grooming behavior

Grooming behaviors are those in which an adult builds an emotional relationship with a minor in order to gain the minor's trust for the purposes of future or ongoing sexual contact, sexual abuse, trafficking, or other exploitation. These behaviors may include: flattery, requests for contact on or off platform, requests for personal information, solicitation of minor sexual abuse material, sexual solicitations or comments, and gift-giving.

Do not post, upload, stream, or share:

• Grooming advances
• Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies grooming behaviors
• Content that solicits real-world contact between a minor and an adult or between minors with a significant age difference
• Content that displays or offers nudity to minors
• Content that solicits minors to connect with an adult on another platform, website, or other digital space
• Any solicitation of nude imagery or sexual contact, through blackmail or other means of coercion

Crimes against children

We do not allow users who have been convicted of crimes against children to have an account on our platform. These crimes include: sexual assault, molestation, murder, physical abuse or neglect, abduction, international parental kidnapping, trafficking, exploitation of minors for prostitution, live online sexual abuse of a minor, sexual exploitation of minors in the context of travel and tourism, attempts to obtain or distribute CSAM, and the production, possession, or distribution of CSAM. If we discover any such users, we ban the account. Any self-disclosed user information that states the account holder is a pedophile or minor sex offender will be taken at face value and the account will be deleted.

Integrity and authenticity

We do not allow activities that may undermine the integrity of our platform or the authenticity of our users. We remove content or accounts that involve fake engagement or misleading information that causes harm.

Spam and fake engagement

Fake engagement includes any content or activity that seeks to artificially inflate popularity on the platform. We prohibit any attempts to manipulate the platform to increase interaction metrics.

Misinformation

Misinformation is defined as content that is inaccurate or false. While we encourage our community to have respectful conversations about subjects that matter to them, we do not permit misinformation that causes harm to individuals, our community, or the larger public regardless of intent.

Intellectual property violations

Copyright is a legal right that protects original works of authorship (e.g., music, videos) and original expression of an idea (e.g., the specific way a video or music is expressed or created), although does not protect underlying ideas or facts.

A trademark is a word, symbol, slogan, design that identifies and distinguishes the source of a product or service. We encourage everyone to create and share original content.

Content that infringes someone else's intellectual property rights is prohibited on our platform and will be removed if we become aware of it. The use of copyrighted work under certain circumstance, such as the fair use doctrine or other applicable laws, or the use of a trademark to reference, lawfully comment, criticize, parody, make a fan page, or review a product or service may not be considered a violation of our policies.

If you believe that any content uploaded or made available through our platform infringes your intellectual property rights, you may submit a report to us.

Platform security

Our policies prohibit any activities that undermine the security and reliability of the CapCut service:

• Do not hack the CapCut website, app, or associated networks, or bypass its measures to restrict user access
• Do not distribute files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other materials that are malicious or harmful
• Do not modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, or create any derivative products based on CapCut, including any files, tables or documentation, nor attempt to regenerate any source code, algorithms, methods, or techniques embodied in CapCut
• Do not use automated scripts to collect information from CapCut

Thank you for being a part of our vibrant global community and working with us to maintain a welcoming space for all users. If you come across content or accounts that you believe may violate our Community Guidelines, please let us know so we can review and take appropriate action. For further details on how to report a content or account to us, please see this introduction video.