Last Updated: August 5, 2024
Any persons that appear in any visual depiction of actual sexually explicit conduct appearing or otherwise contained on the websites located at https://www.playboy.com, https://www.playboy.com/app, https://www.playboyplus.com, https://www.playboytv.com, or https://www.iplayboy.com (the “Websites”) were at least 18-years old at the time those visual depictions were produced. The owner and operator of the Websites is not the primary producer (as that term is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2257) of any of the visual depictions contained on the Websites.
Exemption: Content Produced by Third Parties
The Websites’ operator is not the “producer” of any depictions of actual or simulated sexually explicit conduct depicted in content produced by third parties (“User Submitted Content”) that may appear on the Websites. The Websites’ operator limits its handling of this User Submitted Content and only performs the activities of transmission, storage, retrieval, hosting, or formatting of User Submitted Content that may depict sexually explicit conduct, all which User Submitted Content appears on the Websites as the result of actions taken by third-party users of the Websites. All parts of the Websites that have User Submitted Content are under the control of the relevant user, for whom the Websites are provided as an online service by the operator. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2257(h)(2)(B)(v) and 47 U.S.C. § 230(c), the Websites’ operator may delete User Submitted Content appearing on the Websites as the result of actions taken by the Websites’ users, which User Submitted Content is considered, in the operator’s sole discretion, to be indecent, obscene, defamatory, or inconsistent with the Websites’ policies and terms of service.
Exemption: Certain Content Produced by Website Operator
Certain images or videos appearing on the Websites, for which the Websites’ operator may be considered the “producer,” may be 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: (1) the produced images or videos do not portray any sexually explicit conduct defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A); (2) the produced images or videos do not portray depictions of the genitals or pubic area created after July 27, 2006; (3) the produced images or videos do not portray simulated sexually explicit activity occurring after the effective date of 18 U.S.C. § 2257A; or (4) the produced images or videos were created before July 3, 1995.
Designated Records Custodian
Without limiting the applicability of the above-stated exemptions, the Websites’ operator has designated the custodian, whose address appears below, to be the keeper of original records described in 18 U.S.C. § 2257 and 28 C.F.R. Part 75 for all materials appearing on the Websites that fall in the following categories: (1) marketing and advertising materials that contain visual depictions of actual or simulated sexually explicit conduct, which materials have been acquired or created by the Websites’ operator to promote the Websites; or (2) materials that are not exempt, as described above.
The named earlier records and their custodian can be found at the following location:
Custodian of Records
Playboy Enterprises International, Inc.
10960 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2200
Los Angeles, California 90024
United States of America