Creator Policy

Operator: JoCoding, Inc. (a Delaware corporation, United States), 1111B S Governors Ave, STE 80543, Dover, DE 19904, United States, mu07010@jocoding.net

1. Who can do what

• Browsing, downloading, playing and liking levels work without signing in (an anonymous account per install).
• Only signed-in accounts can upload and report. Sign-in is with an Apple or Google account only; there is no email and password sign-up.
• Before uploading, you must agree that "I made this myself and did not use anyone else's pictures or music without permission."
• Each account can upload a set number of levels per day and keep a set number of levels waiting for review (server settings; the current production defaults are 5 per day and 3 waiting). Reports are also limited per day (20).

2. What you cannot upload

• Sexual content, and anything that makes a minor look sexual (in pictures, titles or intros).
• Real violence or gore, or content that encourages self-harm.
• Hate, harassment or discrimination against a person or group.
• Someone else's work (pictures, characters, logos, music) used without permission. Photos or likenesses of real people used without consent.
• Content that reveals personal information (names, phone numbers, addresses, face photos and so on).
• Ads, scams, content that pulls players to other apps or sites, and misleading titles.
• Illegally recorded images and child sexual abuse material. These are made private as soon as they are found, and the preservation and reporting process applies (section 5).

3. Review before publishing

• The app checks the bundle rules first (size, image format, beat rules), but the server checks everything again.
• Before publishing, every picture and every title and intro is checked automatically. The automated review service has not been chosen yet. Until it is, the server keeps every level waiting for a person to review it (closed by default).
• The same picture is reviewed only once, by its hash. Downloads are not reviewed again.

4. Reporting and takedowns

• You can report a level from the level screen without leaving the app. Reasons: sexual content, violence, hate or harassment, someone else's work, spam or misleading, puts a child at risk, something else.
• When reports from different accounts reach a threshold (currently 3), the level is hidden automatically and waits for an operator. A single report that a child is at risk hides the level right away.
• Operators see every picture and the song details in the admin screen, and can approve, reject, take down, republish, or suspend the uploader's uploads. Every action records who did what, when and why.
• A level that is taken down disappears from lists and downloads right away. Devices that already downloaded it can no longer play it after the next check, and the reason is shown.
• Creators can take down their own levels at any time. Deleting your account also takes down the levels you uploaded.

5. Child safety and illegally recorded images

• General-purpose moderation services state that they do not detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM). A separate known-CSAM hash matching tool is therefore required. Until it is connected, nothing is published automatically.
• When there is a match, or a person finds such content:
  1. The level is made private immediately and downloads are blocked (on a match, the server rejects and hides it automatically).
  2. The bundle is not deleted. It is moved to restricted storage and preserved (1 year under 18 U.S.C. §2258A in the United States).
  3. The designated person is notified. After confirming, they report it to the designated authority (NCMEC CyberTipline in the United States). Reports are never sent automatically.
  4. The uploading account's uploads are suspended.

6. Enforcement

• Levels that break the rules: rejected or taken down.
• Repeated or serious violations: upload suspension (admin screen) and, where needed, account suspension.