HOTWYR

Acceptable Use Policy

Effective date: 9 November 2026

This policy is part of the HOTWYR Terms of Service. It says what you must not do with HOTWYR. If you break it, we may remove content, stop a recording, suspend your account or close it, and where the law requires, report it.

1. Recording

You must not:

  • Record a channel unless it is yours or the creator has given you permission. HOTWYR asks you to confirm this once per creator. Saying yes when it is not true breaks this policy.
  • Keep recording, or keep posting clips of, a creator who has told you to stop.
  • Record a stream that is not public: subscriber-only, paid, password-protected or private streams, or anything you had to get round a block, a paywall or a technical protection to reach.
  • Use HOTWYR to get round a site's rate limits, blocks or bans, or record a channel we have blocked at the creator's request.
  • Record people in a private setting who do not know they are on stream.

2. Clips and posts

You must not use HOTWYR to make or post anything that:

  • sexualises a child, or puts a child next to harm, in any way. We report child sexual abuse material to the authorities (the Internet Watch Foundation in the UK, and NCMEC where it applies) and close the account at once;
  • is intimate or sexual imagery of someone who has not agreed to it being shared;
  • harasses, bullies, threatens or targets a person, including streamers, their guests or their chat;
  • shares someone's private information (address, phone number, documents, faces of people who were not meant to be on stream) without their agreement;
  • attacks people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or age, or praises violence or terrorism;
  • is edited to mislead: makes a person appear to say or do something they did not, cuts words together to change their meaning, or presents a clip as something it is not;
  • defames someone (presents false claims as fact that harm their reputation);
  • breaks someone's copyright, trade mark or other rights, including music you do not have the right to use;
  • pretends to be the creator or their official account, unless you are, or they have asked you to;
  • breaks the rules of the platform you post to.

HOTWYR checks clips for some of this (slurs are bleeped and starred; titles and captions that put a child next to harm, or use the worst words, are refused at posting; risky clips wait for your approval). Those checks are a help. You are responsible for what you post, checked or not.

3. Posting volume

You must not:

  • post more than a platform allows, or use HOTWYR to spam: the same clip again and again, near-identical clips across many accounts, or misleading descriptions and hashtags to game a feed;
  • connect social accounts you do not own or are not allowed to manage;
  • buy, sell or rent accounts or engagement through HOTWYR.

4. The Service

You must not:

  • share your sign-in or let people outside your plan's seats use your account;
  • get round plan limits, usage meters or payment, for example by opening several free accounts;
  • probe, scan or attack HOTWYR, try to see another user's data, or overload it on purpose;
  • copy, scrape, resell or reverse engineer HOTWYR, or use it to build a competing product;
  • upload malware or anything meant to harm our systems or anyone else's;
  • use HOTWYR for anything illegal in the UK or where you are.

Found a security problem? Tell us at support@hotwyrstudio.com and do not use it. We will thank you, not chase you.

5. What we do when this policy is broken

Depending on how serious it is:

  • remove or disable the content;
  • stop a recording, block a channel for your account or for everyone;
  • turn off Auto-post for your account;
  • suspend or close your account (three upheld takedowns close it; anything involving harm to children closes it at once);
  • report it to the police or another authority when the law requires it or someone is at risk.

We usually tell you what we did and why, unless doing so would put someone at risk or break the law. If you think we got it wrong, write to support@hotwyrstudio.com.

6. Reporting something

  • Content made with HOTWYR that is yours, shows you, or breaks this policy: takedown@hotwyrstudio.com. The Terms, section 8, say what to include and what happens next.
  • A post on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram or another platform: report it on that platform too. They control what is published there.