a. Who has to verify their age?
Every member who joins a NSFW/18+ Telegram group within the community regardless if you have been in the group before or verified in another 18+ group in the community.
b. How do I verify my age?
You are required to contact a member of the staff team for the community you have joined.
To verify your age you will need to submit your age, dob, or both to the admin you have contacted.
In some circumstances you may be asked for ID, but this is not a default form of age verification. Please do no share ID with any member of staff unless asked.
If you have any other questions about age verification that this page didn't answer please ask a member of the staff team.
c. Why would I be asked for ID?
To prevent minors from knowing how to circumventing this age check/verification process we cannot disclose our policies about when we choose to check your ID. Sometimes it is at random and sometimes it is part of our policy. We cannot disclose which one was the reason you were asked for ID (policy or random).
d. Why do you have this process in place?
Telegram doesn't require user to list their age on their profile or have it displayed publicly. Even if they did any date can be put there. Sure that does mean they can give us just any date upon joining, but that is why we have policies in place of when to check for ID, random ID checks, and it also absolves us of legal liability if they lied to us about their age.
g. If I already verified with ID for another group in the community do I have to re-verify in a different group?
No, simply tell me mod/admin you contacted for verification that you already had your ID checked and tell them who did it or what group it was in so they can check with the other mod/staff team. (Each group in the network has their own mod/staff team and log channels).
h. What do you do with ID's after they are verified?
If a user uses Telegram's secret chat like we recommend then there is no way for us to capture, save, or store the ID. The secret chat system prevents users from saving images and taking screenshots of the chat.
Staff are trained to delete any message that contain sensitive information, including photos of ID's, after verification. They might ask the chat member to delete it themselves (and make sure to check "delete for both participants") for extra peace of mind.
We do not store any ID's or face pics anywhere for any reason.
Since staff deal with this sensitive information they are bound by an NDA that states they are to protect the information shared with them and delete it once they are done with their verification.
Failure to do so will result in legal action from Lucid Creations Media and they assume legal liability and responsibility for not properly protecting such data and information.
All rules, Terms, policies, guidelines and community standards regarding the community and Lucid Creations Media is subject to change without notice.
It is a privilege, not a right, to be allowed into and to have access to this community and your access to this community may be terminated or suspended immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach community standards, the community's terms, or the terms of Lucid Creations Media. The community staff team is the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards and reserve the right to suspend, limit or terminate access to the community including any permissions and privileges allotted within them. Breach of community standards include, but are not necessarily limited to, failure to follow any rules, policies, guidelines, or standards listed on this page or another within the community's website.
We evaluate each incident on a case by case basis. If a member is found to have breached any rules, terms, or standard of the community then appropriate action will be taken based on the severity. Potential actions staff may take for such breaches may include a verbal warning from a moderator, a warning from our bot, temporary or permanent restrictions from using certain features inside the groups (embedded links, sending media like; videos, music, and pictures, sending stickers & gifs, etc), and a temporary or permanent ban.
An automatic escalation of consequences will likely be considered and used if you receive 3 warns in a short time frame regardless of the severity of a single offense or accumulative offense(s). Note that warns are forgiven after continued good behavior. The timeline for the removal of any warn is based on the rule, severity of offense against the rule, and if any warns preceding it.
Staff will not discuss disciplinary actions in public under any circumstances and will not discuss it in private with any person(s) who aren't directly involved. Disciplinary actions can be appealed using our appeal form or by contacting any staff member. If any discussions regarding a disciplinary action were to be continued after staff requested the discussions to cease then disciplinary action will be taken against violators of the request; this does include asking for details or trying to appeal disciplinary actions on someone else's behalf. Staff are only permitted to publicly disclose the following information about disciplinary actions: the rule, policy, guideline, or community standard the person broke, if the person received any prior disciplinary actions, if the person was in any probationary period prior to actions taken, if the person was banned or kicked before, and how long a ban set for. Any other information will not be disclosed.
f. If I was in the group before this policy was enacted and enforced do I have to (re)verify or show my ID?
No, this only applies to joining members. However if you choose to join another 18+ group in our network you will have to (re)verify there. Failure to do so will result in a network-wide ban.