18 U.S. Code § 2257 Statement
"Lewd" is a web-based platform, managed and operated by Safewords, LLC. ("Safewords"), for individuals to publish their own content, not a producer of the published content. We cooperate with law enforcement and content reports to immediately remove material once determined to be in violation of our terms or policies.
Compliance
This platform allows for the submission of sexual material and content of an adult nature.
With this in mind, we ensure compliance by:
- Requiring all users and visitors to be over 18 years old;
- Requiring and verifying identity of users prior to allowing for the monetization of uploaded content;
- All published material and content can be reported if illegal, unlawful, or harmful to our community. Our team reviews these reports diligently and removes such content if deemed against our terms or content policies.
Exception: Content Produced by Third Parties
The operator of this website and platform (the "Website") is not the “producer” of any depictions of actual or simulated sexually explicit conduct that may appear on the Website.
The operator of the Website limits its handling of this content, and only performs the activities of transmission, storage, retrieval, hosting, or formatting of material that may depict sexually explicit conduct, all of which material appears on the Website as the result of actions taken by third-party users of the Website.
All parts of the Website that contain user-generated material are under the control of the relevant user, for whom the Website is provided as an platform for displaying such material, as long as it complies with our terms and policies.
In accordance with 18 U.S.C. § 2257(h)(2)(B)(v) and 47 U.S.C. § 230(c), the operator of the Website may remove materials or content appearing on the Website as the result of actions taken by the Website’s users, which materials or content are considered, in the operator’s sole discretion, to be indecent, obscene, defamatory, or inconsistent with the polices and terms of service for the Website, in addition to our Community Guidelines.
For further assistance and/or information in finding the content's originating source, please contact our team at [email protected].
Exemption: Content Produced by Website Operator
The extent that any media appears on the Website, for which the operator of the Website may be considered the “producer”, those images and videos are exempt from the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 2257 and 28 C.F.R. Part 75 for one or more of the following reasons:
- the produced material do not portray any sexually explicit conduct defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A);
- the produced material do not portray depictions of the genitals or pubic area created after July 27, 2006; or
- the produced material do not portray simulated sexually explicit activity occurring after the effective date of 18 U.S.C. § 2257A;