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To make the changes more clear they will be bolded while existing policies which are unchanged will not be bolded.

Official limitations on child/teenage photography;

• No photograph will be allowed to show a penis or vaginal area of any child of any age below the legal limit of eighteen (18).
••This includes infants and children under the age of two.
••There will be no exceptions for ‘artistic content’

•No photograph may display a nude minor with an appearance of being age two or older.
••This includes any angle of shot including front, side, back or any other possible viewpoint.
••This prohibition stands regardless of whether breasts or genitalia are visible or not.
••An exception for infants under the age of two with a bare bottom showing may be granted providing that neither penis nor vagina is visible. Exceptions are not guaranteed.

•Female children may be shown topless only if they appear to have not yet passed their second birthday.
••No female between the ages of two (2) and eighteen (18) may be depicted topless or implied to be topless in any manner whatsoever.

•Minors below the age of eighteen (18);
••May not be photographed in lingerie or undergarments.
••May not be photographed in any bondage or sadomasochistic scene or manner of dress.
••May not be photographed in any clearly sexual or alluring pose.
•••This applies for both clothed and unclothed photographs.
••May not be photographed in possession of sexual toys, condoms, or any related “adult” materials.

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It is easy to be lulled into a false sense of privacy and security while on the internet; it’s quite normal for some people to forget that public postings which you make can be seen potentially by millions of people and that statements that you make can be copied and spread far beyond the place and time where you made them.

This week I’d like to present a list of commonsense privacy and safety measures that everyone should bear in mind during their daily interaction here on deviantART or elsewhere.

PREVENTION AND SAFETY TIPS

Privacy tips

Remember that your deviantART account is always publicly viewable so everything that you say or do on site can be easily be read by anyone regardless of whether or not they have a deviantART account themselves.

•• Don’t post anything that could embarrass you later or expose you to danger. It is easy to mistakenly believe that only your friends will view your account, deviations and activity but the fact is that many complete strangers have access to what you post, including potential employers, colleges, your teachers and peers at school that you might not even know. You shouldn’t post photos or information you wouldn’t want people to know about you and never say anything which you don’t want to have held against you later.

•• Think before you post. What’s uploaded to the net can be downloaded by anyone and passed around or posted online pretty much forever. You shouldn’t post photos of yourself or your friends or family that you wouldn’t want to be spread around without your knowledge, possibly with malicious intent.

•• Protect your privacy. Since anyone can view your account page be careful about what sort of contact details that you provide. A publicly posted email address can easily be read by someone collecting addresses for a spam list, or looking for people to pitch a scam to, and even by people who would use it to send you insults, abuse, or worse.

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