Curated Community Community Guidelines

Curated Community is a space to make kind connections in a safe, inclusive, and respectful way. In order to foster healthy and equitable connections, we hold our members accountable for the way they treat each other.

Our Community Guidelines help keep our members safe. They make it clear what content and conduct is not acceptable (on our platform and off).

Profile Guidelines

1. Age. You need to be at least 18 years old to join Curated Community. Creating a profile that intentionally misrepresents you as being under the age of 18 is not allowed. We reserve the right to ask for your ID to verify your age, and we'll block you from the platform if you're underage.
2. Profile Photo. We require at least your initial profile photos to depict only you and to clearly show your face. We do not permit:
   • Profile photos that are heavily distorted or contain exaggerated or unnatural digital effects to the point where it cannot be clearly determined that you're the person in the photos
   • Memes or photos with only — or primarily — text as a profile photo
   • Profile photos of children on their own
3. Username. Members are allowed to use initials, abbreviations, contracted or shortened versions of their name, nicknames, full names, and middle names. Members do not have to use their legal name or full name, but usernames should be an authentic representation of the name you use in everyday life. We do not permit:
   • Any words or phrases that violate our Community Guidelines
   • Using the name of a celebrity or fictional character
   • Words or characters (other than a valid name) including descriptive words, symbols (e.g. $, *, @,), emojis, numbers, or punctuation

Content and Conduct Guidelines

Bullying and Abusive Conduct
Our community is for creating kind connections. We don't allow content or behaviour that makes any individual or group feel harassed, bullied, or targeted. This includes belittling, insulting, or intimidating behaviour; making unsolicited comments about someone's appearance; engaging in emotional abuse; blackmail; repeated unwanted contact; or wishing, encouraging, or praising acts of violence.

Identity-Based Hate
We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive community on Curated Community. We prohibit content or behaviour that promotes or condones hate, dehumanisation, degradation, or contempt against marginalised or minoritised communities based on the following protected attributes: race/ethnicity , national origin/nationality/immigration status, caste, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability or serious health condition, or religion/belief.

Scams and Theft
Curated Community prohibits any scam or theft activity intended to defraud or manipulate members out of financial or material resources. This includes requesting or seeking financial support, lying about your intentions for financial gain, or faking romantic intentions to deceive members out of financial or material resources.

Sexual Harassment
We do not tolerate sexual harassment. We consider sexual harassment to be any non-physical, unwanted, and unwelcome sexual behaviours between members.

Violent and Graphic Content
We don't permit violent, graphic, or gory content. This includes descriptions of violence in usernames or profile content, photos containing real or realistic-appearing blood, bodily fluids, or injury, or images depicting guns of any kind (except on a uniformed member of law enforcement or military personnel).

Platform Manipulation

We prioritise fostering a community built on genuine connections, so any attempts to artificially influence connections, matching, conversations, or engagement through the use of automation or scripting is strictly prohibited.

Safety Reporting

Safety is a top priority at Curated Community. We use a combination of human moderators and automated systems to monitor and review Curated Community accounts and interactions for content that may be against our Community Guidelines, against our Terms and Conditions, or otherwise harmful. Our members play a critical role in the safety of Curated Community by reporting content or behavior that may violate our Community Guidelines. If anything happens that makes you feel uncomfortable or unsafe, we highly encourage you to report the member directly on the platform or email us at team@curated-community.com

Enforcement Philosophy

All members must comply with the platform rules described and referenced in our Community Guidelines. If you behave in a way that goes against Curated Community's Community Guidelines, values, or otherwise act in any way we believe to be potentially harmful to Curated Community or its members, we may take a range of actions on your account. When determining the penalty for violating our community guidelines, we consider a number of factors.

For example, we may:

1. Remove the content
2. Issue a warning
3. Ban the offending member from Curated Community

When necessary, we also may cooperate with law enforcement to assist in potential criminal investigations related to member conduct.