Community Guidelines

Effective date: [Effective Date]. Site: AwakenedSky.com, operated by [Legal Entity Name]. These guidelines form part of our Terms of Service.

Who the community is for

The AwakenedSky community is the members' place for astrology with friends, family and people near them: profiles, channels, chat, local groups, meetups, Astrology Socials and the teachers' talks. Membership of the community is open to members aged 18 and over, as our Terms of Service require. Children are Radiants, whose charts live inside a parent's account, and members aged 13 to 17 in a Household use the personal tools with a parent's permission and have no community profile, channels or chat. These guidelines apply everywhere members meet through AwakenedSky, online and in person, and they keep the community a safe and useful place for every member.

Kindness and respect

Every member is treated with respect, whatever their background, beliefs, body, age, gender, orientation, ability or level of experience with astrology. Members disagree about charts and methods, and disagreement is welcome when it is about the idea and stays courteous to the person. Harassment, threats, insults, slurs, hate speech, stalking and attempts to shame or frighten another member are removed, and the member who posts them may lose access to the community.

Reading with care

Members read charts for one another, and a reading given in the community is given with care. Predictions of death, illness, accident, divorce or disaster about another person are not allowed, and neither are readings meant to frighten, manipulate or pressure anyone. A member who reads another person's chart reads it for that person's benefit and only when asked. Our Disclaimer applies to every reading shared in the community, and no member's reading is medical, legal, financial or psychological advice.

No selling and no recruiting

The community is free of sales pressure, and unsolicited offers, advertising, paid reading pitches, recruitment into other groups, businesses or programs, multilevel marketing and fundraising for outside causes are not allowed in profiles, channels, chat or groups. Members may list their own websites and social accounts in their profile links. Professional readings belong on AstrologyPro.com, where the Academy's certified Diviners hold their professional profiles.

Privacy and birth data

Birth data is personal, and every member keeps the privacy of others. A member never posts another person's chart, birth date, birth time, birthplace, address, contact details or photograph without that person's consent. A child's chart or details are kept out of every public place in the community, whoever posts them. Members save the charts of family, friends and coworkers only with their permission or where they would reasonably expect it, and they remove a person's chart when that person asks. Sharing private messages without the sender's consent is not allowed.

Content that is never allowed

These kinds of content are removed whenever we find them, and they may lead to the immediate closing of an account and a report to the authorities:

• Sexual content of any kind involving a minor, and any content that sexualizes children.
• Intimate images of any person shared without that person's consent, and sexually explicit content of any kind.
• Threats of violence, content that promotes self-harm or terrorism, and content that celebrates violence against any group.
• Content that infringes another person's copyright or trademark, including the School's own paid works.
• Impersonation of another person, of a teacher of the School or of the School itself.
• Spam, scams, phishing, malware and links meant to deceive.
• Content that breaks the law, or that encourages others to break it.

Your content and your license to us

Members own what they post in the community, and posting gives [Legal Entity Name] no ownership of it. When you post a profile, a message, an image or a file, you grant [Legal Entity Name] a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, store, copy, display and transmit it within AwakenedSky and the Wave Check app, for as long as it stays posted, so that the community can work as designed. You confirm that you have the right to post it. When you delete content, it leaves the community at once, copies in our backups are deleted within [35 days], and a copy that another member has quoted in their own message stays with that message.

Blocking and reporting

Every member can block another member, which stops that member from messaging them or seeing their profile. Every profile, message and post carries a report button, and a report goes to our moderators with the content and the reason given. Reports are confidential, and the member reported is never told who reported them. A member who is in danger contacts the local emergency number first, and then tells us at [support email].

How we moderate

Our moderators review reports and may remove content, warn a member, limit what a member can post, suspend an account or close it, according to how serious the breach is and whether it has happened before. We act on our own judgment, in good faith, to keep the community within these guidelines and the law, and we may act on content that no one has reported. A member whose content was removed or whose account was limited, suspended or closed may ask for a review by writing to [support email] within 30 days, and a moderator who did not make the first decision reviews it.

Intimate images shared without consent

Any person, member or not, may ask us to remove an intimate image or video of themselves that was posted without their consent, including an image made or altered by computer. This request process follows the federal Take It Down Act, 47 U.S.C. 223a, and it is open to anyone whose image appears on our sites. A request is sent to [support email] with the subject "Removal request" or through the report button, and it includes:

• The person's physical or electronic signature, or the signature of someone authorized to act for them.
• Enough information for us to find the image, such as the page address or the member's name.
• A brief statement that the person has a good faith belief that the image was posted without their consent, with any information that helps us confirm it.
• A way to reach the person, such as an email address.

We remove the image, and make reasonable efforts to remove known copies of it on our sites, as soon as possible and within 48 hours of receiving a valid request. The member who posted it may lose their account, and we cooperate with law enforcement where the law requires it. Requests made in bad faith or with false statements are refused, and we keep a record of every request and of the action we took.

Meeting in person

Local groups, meetups and Astrology Socials follow our Events and Meetups policy: meet in public or well-known places, hosts look after their rooms and the people in them, and children attend only with a parent or guardian. Recording of the teachers' talks follows our Recording Notice, and copyright complaints follow our Copyright and DMCA policy.

All policies