+You User Content and Conduct Policy

User Content and Conduct Policy

Our policies play an important role in maintaining a positive experience for our users.
Please follow these policies when using our products and services ("Services"). When we are
notified of a potential policy violation, we may review and take action, including limiting
or terminating a user's access to our Services.

1. Illegal Activities

Do not use our products to engage in illegal activities or promote dangerous and illegal
acts.

2. Malicious Products

Do not transmit viruses, malware or any other malicious or destructive code. Do not
distribute content that harms or interferes with the operation of the networks, servers or
other infrastructure of Google or others.

3. Hate Speech

Do not distribute content that promotes hatred or violence towards groups of people based
on their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status or sexual
orientation/gender identity.

4. Personal and Confidential Information

Do not distribute other people's personal and confidential information, such as credit card
numbers, confidential national ID numbers or account passwords, without their permission.

5. Account Hijacking

Do not access another user's account without their permission. Do not use our products for
phishing scams.

6. Child Safety

Do not distribute content that exploits children, such as child pornography (including
cartoon child porn) or content that presents children in a sexual manner.

7. Spam

Do not spam, including sending unwanted promotional or commercial content or unwanted or
mass solicitation.

8. Ranking Manipulation

Do not manipulate ranking or relevancy using techniques such as repetitive or misleading
keywords or metadata.

9. Gambling

Do not distribute content that facilitates online gambling, including online casinos,
sports betting or lotteries.

10. Sexually Explicit Material

Do not distribute content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts or sexually explicit
material. Do not drive traffic to commercial pornography sites.

Your Profile Picture cannot include mature or offensive content. For example, do not use a
photo that is a close-up of a person's buttocks or cleavage.

11. Violent or Bullying Behaviour

Do not distribute depictions of gratuitous violence. Do not threaten or bully other users.

12. Impersonation or Deceptive Behaviour

Do not use our products to impersonate other people.

13. Display Name

To help fight spam and prevent fake profiles, use the name that your friends, family or
colleagues usually call you. For example, if your full legal name is Charles Jones Jr., but
you normally use Charlie Jones or Junior Jones, either of those would be acceptable.

About our Policies and Terms

We may modify these policies so please check again here. Also, when applying our policies,
we may make exceptions based on artistic, educational or documentary considerations or when
there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action.


These policies apply generally to the content that you post on our Services. Some Services
have their own separate policies that can be found within those Services and apply to your
use of them. All Services are governed by their applicable terms of service.

Reporting Potential Issues

If you encounter content or a user that you believe violates the above policies, please
report it to us using the "Report Abuse" link (or similarly named link). Learn more about
reporting abuse.

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