Community Standards

Introduction

In order to maintain a respectful, inclusive, and safe environment for everyone, we’ve created a set of community standards to serve as a moral compass for behavior on our platform. These standards help define what is acceptable in the chalkie community and marketplace, both in face-to-face interactions and online communications. They aren’t tied to any law, but are used to govern our platform policies. They reflect our attitudes, expectations, and social norms. Our community standards are rooted in our core values — respect, safety, acceptance, support, and open-mindedness.

Misrepresentation

Misrepresentation is defined as fraudulent, negligent, or innocent misstatements, or an incomplete statement of a material fact.

Do not:

• Post a fake name, location, gender, or photo in your user profile.
• Present a fake document(s) if asked to verify your identity.
• Write misleading content in your profile description, skills, or education.
• Provide Licensed services without the right license.

Spam

We define spam on chalkie as a messaging activity that is unwanted, repeatedly occurring, and disruptive to the experience of recipients. Spam can take many forms ranging from unwanted offers to commercially-motivated solicitations that aim to drive traffic or attention to websites, products, and services outside of chalkie.

Please respect our members’ privacy by not contacting them with offers, questions, suggestions, or anything which is not directly related to their chalkie requests.

Do not:

• Contact users with offers, questions, suggestions, or anything unrelated to their studies.
• Send multiple unsolicited or deceptive messages.
• Abuse our communication tools to distribute mass messages.

Prohibited Services

chalkie is an open marketplace where users can offer or request a great variety of academic services. However, for a number of reasons, we prohibit certain types of services on chalkie. Some services can pose unwanted risks for our users like legal or financial risks; others are simply not in line with our values and policies.

It is prohibited to post, offer, or ask for writing or completion of:

• Homework
• Assignments
• Academic papers
• Bibliography
• Quizzes
• Letters of recommendation
• College applications

Objectionable Content

Hate Speech

chalkie defines hate speech as words or ideas that are designed to incite violence or hatred against a person, or group of people, defined on the basis of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, religion, age, disability, or other similar ground. chalkie is committed to moving swiftly and aggressively to investigate conduct that has been flagged as hate speech, and will respond in a manner that is consistent with existing laws and the values of the company. We take hate speech violations very seriously, and anyone using hate speech towards another user or towards our customer support representatives will be removed from chalkie. We will also take action against any user asking or delivering hate speech-related content on chalkie.

Do not:

• Use violent or dehumanizing speech against a person or group of people defined on the basis of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, religion, age, disability, or other similar ground.

Discrimination

Under chalkie’s community standards, discrimination means unfair or unequal treatment of an individual or group based on age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, race, religion, and sexual orientation.

chalkie will investigate claims of discrimination on a case-by-case basis, and defend protected groups whenever possible.

Do not:

• Express your unwillingness to work with a person or a group of people based on age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, race, religion, sexual orientation, or other similar ground.
• Publish, offer, or ask for any content that expresses or supports discriminatory ideas.
• Offer or ask for the writing or editing of texts that support discriminatory ideas or practices.

Adult, Nudity, and Sexual Activity

Explicit content meant to be sexually gratifying is not allowed on chalkie. If detected or reported, sexually explicit content will be blocked and participants could be banned from the the app.

Fake News

chalkie defines Fake News as false or intentionally misleading information or propaganda that is developed and presented as authentic news. If it is reported or flagged that chalkie’s platform is being used to create or promote the spread of fake news; we will investigate and take action accordingly.