Frequently-Asked Questions:
  
Questions About the 18+  ID Card:

When is site switching over to the new "ID Card" system?
I have a fully-documented VCH screenname. Why do I need an site ID Card?
Where do I go to create my ID Card?
Does it take long to create my ID Card?
How do I edit/manage my ID Card?
I created my ID Card, what do I do next?
How do I add/edit/remove participants to my VCH screenname?
What is a Chathost Representative?
Where is the Chathost Representive log-in link to the ID-Card Manager?
I'm a Chathost Representative. How does all this work?
What's the best way to get status on my ID Card application?
  

I have multiple screennames. Will my my single set of age documents and ADS apply to all of them?
What Documentation is required from me?
What is the VCH License Agreement, and why is it necessary?
What is the Age Release Form, and why is it necessary?
What is the Age Documentation Session, and why is it necessary?
Is it necessary to upload copies of my Age-Release Form, photo ID, and other ID?
Can I take screenshots of the paperwork, and email or upload those to you?
Do I also have to mail site originals of my documentation?

If I've uploaded my Age Documentation Form and IDs, do I still need to host an Age Documentation Session?
Can anyone view my Age Documentation Session?
What happens to the images submitted during the Age Documentation Session?
You already have my age documents on file, why must I now perform an Age Documentation Session?
Will I be required to perform a new Age Documentation Session if I change my look (new hair color or style)?

If I've uploaded my Age Documentation Form and IDs, do I still need to host a Video Age Documentation Session?
Can anyone view my Video Age Documentation Session?
What happens to the images submitted during the Video Age Documentation Session?
You already have my age documents on file, why must I now perform a Video Age Documentation Session?
Will I be required to perform a new Video Age Documentation Session if I change my look (new hair color or style)?
  

What are "handles" and what are they used for?
Why are handles important in terms of the proof-of-age documentation that I provide to site?
Are my handles going to expire?
Can I change the information on my handles?
I have created 4 handles, but the person who was hosting under one of the handles will no longer be hosting.Can I update this handle with information for a new person?
OK, I'm ready to submit my age documentation and host an Age Documentation Session, so where do I go?
  

When is site switching over to the new "ID Card" system?

Since October 2003, all new chathosts to the site platform have secured their VCH screennnames with the new ID-Card system, and several existing chathosts have also upgraded their documentation to obtain their ID Card. On Jan 10, 2004, all live sessions hosted on the site platform must be supported by site' ID Cards. (To create your ID Card now, and apply it to your VCH Screenname(s) -- a simple process that involves filling out a few web forms and uploading/faxing some documents to site -- click here now.

There are many, many reasons. Click here to review all the benefits. What are some of the best reasons? 1.) Your ID Card gets you access to the ID-Card Manager, a supertool which lets you manage all of your screennames, handles, and documentation, from one screen. 2.) Your 18+ site ID Card is your all-access pass to all chathost features. With it, you can perform any task on site without having to perform repetitive or duplicative documentation. Want to show replays 24/7 under a new VCH screenname? Bingo -- your existing ID Cardd applies to your new VCH screenname. 3.) Perhaps best of all, your site ID Card never expires -- once you obtain your ID Card, you'll never be asked to prove that you're "still" over 18 again!

Regardless of whether you are new to site, or are a veteran chathost, getting your ID Card is quick and easy. Start by clicking here. After you create your ID Card, it's easy to link your existing VCH screennames to it, or add new VCH screennames.

Not at all. To create your ID Card, choose a name for your ID Card (such as, "John Q. Public"), and fill out a few quick web forms. Once your ID Card is created, you can add and edit VCH screennames, participant handles, and perform other tasks. To activate your ID-Card for hosting, use the handy-dandy "early-approval uploader" tool from within your ID-Card Manager to upload or fax site your signed paperwork (age-release form, VCH license agreement, etc), and photo IDs. Preliminary approval for hosting is typically granted the same day, provided that all submitted materials are in good order. (Your ID Card is given "permanent approval" status once you overnight or mail site with hard copies of your paperwork and proof-of-age/photo IDs.)

Go to the ID-Card Manager, or, alternatively, from within the Chathost Console, select the "ID Card Manager" option. (Note: The ID-Card Manager is password-protected; you must login using the ID-Card Name, and ID-Card Password you selected when first creating your ID Card)

First, associate VCH screennames with your ID Card. Here's how – Existing chathosts: From within your ID-Card Manager, under "VCH Screenname Options", select "Link an Existing Screenname". New Chathosts: From within your ID-Card Manager, under "VCH Screenname Options", select "Create a New VCH Screenname".

Once you have attached your ID Card to any new or existing VCH Screennames that you control, the next order of business is to associate your ID Card with one or more participant handles under those VCH screennames. (See next Q&A topic).

From within your ID-Card Manager, look for "Participant Handle Options". (A "Participant Handle" is the shorthand nickname to represent each person who might appear live on webcam under that VCH screenname. For example, if you are a single woman and host under "Women Home Alone" or "Dating", you'll likely have just one such handle. VCH screennames that host under "couples" will typically have two such handles). Managing participant handles is easy. If you create a new handle from within your ID-Card Manager (select "Create New Handle"), your ID Card will be attached to the new handle you create. If you want to add a participant handle to represent another individual (for example, your spouse/partner/friend), the other person must have their own ID Card, and must provide his permission to be added under your VCH screenname, which he can do by logging into his ID-Card Manager and granting your request. (Note: There's another way to accomplish the same objective: The other person can use his ID-Card manager to attempt to add himself as a participant to your VCH screenname. When he does so, you'll see his pending request in your ID-Card Manager, and you can choose to grant or deny his request.)

The universal access page for the ID-Card Manager (for Chathost Reps and individual Chathosts alike) is http://chathosts.site.net

It's really quite easy, especially when you understand that there are two kinds of ID Cards: 1.) Individual ID Cards: Individual models are documented by their own individual ID cards. When they access their ID-Card Manager, they can add, edit and control their own VCH screennames and their own participant handles. 2.) VCH Representative ID Cards: You, as a Chathost Representative, also have an ID Card. And with your ID Card, you can add, edit and control the Individual ID-Cards that you represent. (And, through those individual ID cards, you can also manage VCH screennames and participant handles). Got it? Here it is, in a nutshell: Individual ID Cards -- which document an actual person -- are used to control screennames and handles. VCH Representative ID Cards -- which document a representative or company -- control individual ID Cards. Consider the following example:

(Suzy) Suzy is a striking brunette super-model who, when she's not strutting down the fashion runways in Milan, appears on site four days a week, under the VCH screenname "GORGEOUS-SUZY". Using her ID-Card Manager, Suzy logs in under the individual ID Card she has created, which she has named, "SUZY Q. SMITH". From within her ID-Card Manager, Suzy can take ADS screenshots for her age-documentation, upload paperwork and photo IDs to site, create and edit VCH screennames, and control participant handles for those same VCH screennames.

(Suzy's Representative): SuperModel Suzy knows very little about PCs, and is represented by an elite modeling studio, "Ford Modeling", who takes care of all the technical stuff. Ford Modeling also acts as Suzy's "Chathost Representative", and has its own special site ID Card, which it has chosen to name "FORD MODELS". Once Suzy's Individual ID Card is created, Ford Modeling can log in to its ID-Card Manager under its own "FORD MODELS" card, and include Suzy's ID Card among those that it represents.

(How does Ford lay claim to Suzy's ID-Card?): When Ford Modeling logs into the ID-Card Manger under "FORD MODELS", and attempts to add Individual ID Card "SUZY Q. SMITH" to the list of individuals it represents, site sends a confirmation message to Suzy's ID-Card Manager: "Accept request to be represented by 'FORD MODELS'?" To complete the transaction, Suzy must log into her ID Card Manager, where the request will be waiting for her, and approve the request. Suzy can also initiate the process from within her own ID-Card manager: She can attempt to add herself under the "FORD MODELS" VCH Rep ID-Card Name. To approve her request to be represented by Ford, Ford must log in under the "FORD MODELS" ID-Card Name and approve Suzy's request.

Finally, if you are a Chathost Representative, in addition to the Chathost Representative Agreement you are required to submit, there's also a portion of each individual chathost's paperwork that you are responsible for. On the individual chathost's Age Release Agreement, you must ndash; and sign – the section labeled "Chathost Representative Information".

At different stages throughout the documentation-submission process, you can expect to receive automated emails from site acknowledging receipt. However, that's neither the most current, nor the most comprehensive status information available to you. The BEST source of information on the current status of your pending ID-Card is to go to your ID-Card Manager select the "Review My ID-Card Documentation" link, where the right column will tell you the current status on each component of your pending ID-Card, plus give you a hotlink into specific messages that site' verification staff has waiting for you. (IF there are any such messages, look for the red hotlink, "You have current messages from site' staff".)

To activate your ID Card for hosting, you must sign some paperwork and prove to site that you are at least 18 years of age. The ID-Card Manager makes it super-easy, and even provides an "early-approval" facility whereby you can fax or upload most materials to site for same-day review, so you could be hosting later today. (Permanent approval, however, is not granted until hardcopy materials are received from you by site via regular or overnight mail).

Individual chathosts must provide site with a documentation package that consists of three elements, each of which are accessed through the "Review My Documentation" link in ID-Card Manager: The VCH License Agreement (paperwork; see next Q&A), the Age-Release Form (paperwork plus photo IDs, see next Q&A), and an "Age Documentation Session" (an interactive session where you take webcam snapshots and videoclips of yourself, for site' documentation files). For more information about these three forms of documentation, please see the Q&A below, or, alternatively, consult site' Guide to Age Documentation resource.

The Video Chathost License Agreement is the document that sets forth the obligations and responsibilities between site and the individual video chathost. It explains what site is, what it can do, and what it can't do. It explains what the chathost function is, what chathosts can do and what they cannot do. The VCH License agreement is available in HTML . The VCH License Agreement may be faxed or uploaded to site, through the "Early-Approval Uploader" facility in your ID-Card Manager. (select the "Review my ID-Card Documentation" option).

To submit this material to site, use your ID-Card Manager, and select the "Review my ID-Card Documentation" link.

The Age-Release Form (and accompanying photo IDs) is a document package that site requires to 1.) Prove that you are an adult at least 18 years of age, 2.) Comply with federal documentation laws that require us to maintain records concerning the legal ages of all participants on the service, 3.) obtain your consent to perform all necessary research and background investigations to confirm your representations on this document, and 4.) other purposes as stated within the document itself. The Age Release Form is available in HTML. The Age Release Form may be faxed or uploaded to site, through the "Early-Approval Uploader" facility in your ID-Card Manager. (select the "Review my ID-Card Documentation" option). Note: Due to legibility problems, site does not accept photo IDs via fax. To qualify for Early-Approval consideration, your photo IDs must be uploaded using the web form in your ID-Card Manager

To submit this material to site, use your ID-Card Manager, and select the "Review my ID-Card Documentation" link.

The Age Documentation Session (ADS) is an interactive session where you take webcam snapshots and videoclips of yourself, as well as your photo ID, and which are automatically submitted to site' documentation files.

To perform an ADS and submit this material to site, use your ID-Card Manager, and select the "Review my ID-Card Documentation" link.

Just visit here with your ID Card to get started.