Do not participate in or encourage dangerous or illegal community activity
The ban covers participation and encouragement within the community. Examples include gambling, illegal drug use, phishing, human trafficking, prostitution, doxing, swatting and content glorifying or inciting violence.
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Don’t participate in or encourage illegal or dangerous activities within the community, including gambling, illegal drug use, phishing, human trafficking, prostitution, doxing, swatting, or sharing content that glorifies or incites violence.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to activity within the community; the examples are not exhaustive.
If you see something putting other players at risk, the rules direct you to use in-game reporting, naming Fortnite and Rocket League, or contact Epic’s player support team.
Epic prohibits child sexual exploitation or abuse content and activity on its services. This covers content or activity harming or threatening to harm a child through sexual exploitation, trafficking, extortion, grooming or abuse. The source defines a child as “anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority)”; it does not explain how the alternative age applies when different.
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Epic prohibits any child sexual exploitation or abuse (CSEA) content or activity on its services.
CSEA refers to any content or activity that harms or threatens to harm a child through sexual exploitation, trafficking, extortion, grooming, or abuse. A child is defined as anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority).
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to content and activity on Epic’s services.
The child definition states under 18 or the legal age of majority.
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The source does not specify which threshold controls where the legal age of majority differs from 18.
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defines (model-proposed): Creating, requesting or sharing child sexual abuse material is prohibited — The surrounding CSEA definition supplies the child-age wording for the abuse-material prohibition; it does not resolve which threshold controls when the legal age of majority differs from 18.
Advertising or soliciting a child for commercial sex is prohibited
The prohibited content includes child trafficking: advertising or soliciting a child for a commercial sex act. An exchange of any thing of value for sexual activity counts, including money, food, drugs or a place to stay. Creating, requesting or sharing such content is prohibited. The child definition uses under 18 or the legal age of majority.
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Prohibited actions include creating, requesting, or sharing content that contains:
Child trafficking, which is advertising or soliciting a child for a commercial sex act. A commercial sex act is where a person gives or receives a thing of value (e.g., money, food, drugs, a place to stay) in exchange for sexual activity.
A child is defined as anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority).
Qualifications & exceptions
A thing of value includes non-cash benefits.
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The source does not resolve differing ages of majority.
Contacting or befriending a child for sexual purposes is prohibited
The ban on predatory behavior includes contacting, talking with or befriending a child with the intent to ask for or offer sexual contact or share content for sexual purposes. The surrounding definition uses under 18 or the legal age of majority.
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This also includes predatory behavior towards children, like:
Child grooming, which is contacting, talking with, or befriending a child with the intent to ask for or offer sexual contact or share content for sexual purposes.
A child is defined as anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority).
Qualifications & exceptions
The specified sexual intent is part of the definition.
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The source does not resolve differing ages of majority.
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defined by (model-proposed): Child sexual exploitation or abuse is prohibited — The surrounding CSEA provision defines the child scope of grooming; grooming separately requires the stated sexual intent.
Threatening or blackmailing a child over sexual images is prohibited
Prohibited predatory behavior includes sextortion: threatening or blackmailing a child over the possibility of accessing or sharing nude or sexual images of them. The surrounding child definition uses under 18 or the legal age of majority.
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This also includes predatory behavior towards children, like:
Sextortion, which is threatening or blackmailing a child with the possibility of having access to or sharing nude or sexual images of them.
A child is defined as anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority).
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The source does not resolve differing ages of majority.
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defined by (model-proposed): Child sexual exploitation or abuse is prohibited — The surrounding CSEA provision supplies the child definition for the prohibition on threats or blackmail involving sexual images.
Content or behavior directed at minors must not put them at risk of harm
Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm. The listed restrictions extend to content or behavior that requests, instructs or promotes harmful activities. The specific examples do not exhaust the general ban.
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Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
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Applies to content or behavior directed to minors.
Do not promote eating disorders or negative body image to minors
The child-safety rule prohibits content or behavior directed to minors that requests, instructs or promotes eating disorders or negative body image. This includes dangerous weight-loss or weight-management behavior and belittling a child’s body type. A weight-management behavior is dangerous if likely to create a significant immediate or long-term health risk, with anorexia and bulimia given as examples.
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Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Eating disorders and negative body image, which includes dangerous weight-loss or weight-management behaviors or belittling a child because of their body type. A weight-management behavior is considered dangerous if it is likely to create a significant and immediate or long-term health risk (e.g., anorexia, bulimia).
Qualifications & exceptions
Dangerous weight-management behavior involves likely significant immediate or long-term health risk.
Do not promote dangerous activities or challenges to minors
The child-safety rule covers requesting, instructing or promoting dangerous activities and challenges through content or behavior directed to minors. This includes depictions of real-world activities with visible or imminent serious physical harm, or activities likely to cause serious physical harm if imitated.
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Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Dangerous activities and challenges, which includes portraying activities in the real-world that involve visible or imminent serious physical harm or if imitated would likely lead to serious physical harm.
Qualifications & exceptions
Includes likely serious physical harm if the activity is imitated.
Do not promote drugs, alcohol or other unsuitable substances to minors
The child-safety rule prohibits content or behavior directed to minors that requests, instructs or promotes drugs and alcohol. Its examples cover illegal, prescription and over-the-counter drugs; alcohol; tobacco; synthetic nicotine products such as vapes and E-cigarettes; and other regulated substances unsuitable for children.
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Drugs and alcohol, which includes illegal drugs, prescription and over-the-counter drugs, alcohol, tobacco products, synthetic nicotine products (like vapes and E-cigarettes), and other regulated substances not suitable for consumption by children.
Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Do not promote sexual products or services to minors
The child-safety rule prohibits content or behavior directed to minors that requests, instructs or promotes sexual products or services. Examples include sexual aids or guides, sex-related entertainment and escort services.
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Sex products and services, which includes sex products (e.g., sexual aids or guides) and sexual services (e.g., sex-related entertainment and escort services).
Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Content or behavior directed to minors must not request, instruct or promote suicide or self-harm. The examples expressly include sharing or promoting plans for physical self-harm.
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Suicide and self-harm, which includes sharing or promoting plans for physical self-harm.
Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Do not target children with interactions that endanger their physical safety
The child-safety rule covers interactions targeting a child that endanger their physical safety. Examples include arranging a face-to-face meeting or luring a child off-platform to chat in order to subject them to harm. The example’s harmful purpose matters; this wording is not a blanket ban on every off-platform conversation.
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Interactions targeted at a child that endanger their physical safety, such as planning to meet with a child face-to-face or luring a child off-platform to chat, in order to subject them to harm.
Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Qualifications & exceptions
Meeting and off-platform examples are tied to the purpose of subjecting the child to harm.
Do not share your own or anyone else’s account information
Epic instructs users to keep account information safe and private and not share their own or others’ account information. It warns that giving account access creates risk, advises suspicion of offers that seem too good to be true, and says there is no such thing as free V-Bucks.
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Keep account information safe and private. Giving access to your account puts you at risk. If something seems suspicious or too good to be true, it probably is. There’s no such thing as free V-Bucks. Do not share your account information or the account information of others.
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qualifies (model-proposed): Do not share or threaten to share other people’s personal information — The general personal-information rule strongly discourages sharing your own information, while the account-security rule expressly forbids sharing your own account information. The stricter rule concerns account information, not every kind of personal information.
Security & Safeguards · Procedure
Epic points to separate moderation and account-security resources
For more detail on content moderation, Epic directs users to its Safety and Security Center. For ways to protect yourself and information on Epic’s current safety measures, it points to an account-security FAQ. Those linked pages are not supplied in this source, so their specific practices are not established here.
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For more information about our content moderation practices, please visit our Safety and Security Center.
When it comes to safety within the Epic ecosystem and staying secure we believe in providing you all the tools necessary. You can find a full set of all the things you can do to better protect yourself and what we currently do to keep you safe in our FAQ.
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Specific moderation practices and security measures on the linked pages are not supplied.