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18 U.S.C. 2257 Statement

18 U.S.C. 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements Compliance Statement

All persons who appear in any visual depiction of actual or simulated sexually explicit conduct on Bold18.com were eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time the depiction was created.

Exemption statement

Bold18.com is operated by BoldLink. BoldLink is not a primary or secondary producer, as those terms are defined in 18 U.S.C. 2257 and 28 C.F.R. Part 75, of any of the visual content uploaded to Bold18.com by its users. That content is produced and uploaded by the verified users who own the accounts it is posted from (“Creators”). With respect to that content, BoldLink acts solely as a provider of hosting, storage and transmission services and does not hire, contract for, manage or otherwise arrange for the participation of the persons depicted. BoldLink is therefore exempt from the record-keeping requirements of 18 U.S.C. 2257, 18 U.S.C. 2257A and 28 C.F.R. Part 75 for that content, including under 18 U.S.C. 2257(h)(2)(B)(v) and 28 C.F.R. 75.1(c)(4)(ii).

Creator obligations

Every Creator who uploads content to Bold18.com is the producer of that content and is solely responsible for complying with 18 U.S.C. 2257, 18 U.S.C. 2257A, 28 C.F.R. Part 75 and all similar laws that apply to them. Under our Terms of Service, every Creator must:

  • pass government ID and liveness verification confirming they are at least 18 years old before uploading any content;
  • verify the identity and age of every person depicted in their content using government-issued identification, and keep copies of those documents;
  • obtain and keep written consent from every person depicted, to be depicted, to the public distribution and upload of the content to Bold18.com, and, where the content can be downloaded, to its download by other users;
  • provide all of those records to BoldLink promptly upon request.

Questions and reports

Questions about this statement, and any report of content that may depict a person under 18, can be sent to Show contact email. Content that may depict a minor is removed immediately and reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).

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