Deceptive Practices

Principle

Our policies prohibit behaviors that are misleading, inauthentic, and deceptive in order to protect the integrity, authenticity, and safety of our users and our platform. Accounts that engage in these behaviors or exhibit patterns of abuse may be suspended or banned.

Dishonest behavior

We do not allow products and services that might expose, steal, or infringe upon an individual's privacy. We also prohibit any unlawful activities, such as circumventing access restrictions, identity theft, document falsification, and making misleading or deceptive claims.

Examples of what is not allowed:

• Products or services that might be or are considered deceptive or misleading

• Unlawfully circumventing technical or other access restrictions to infringe upon intellectual or other property rights

• Identity theft or the stealing of any personal information, including:

  • Through the use of malware, spyware, or any unauthorized or unlawful means of obtaining information

  • Through background check platforms, such as products that allow you to check a person's criminal record, driving record, education history, employment history

  • Through lookup directories that provide access to personal information, such as products that allow you to look up a person's name, age, address, phone number

• Document falsification, forgery, or counterfeiting

• Making deceptive claims, omitting information on fees, charges, and tariffs, or proposing harmful business models

Financial misrepresentation

We do not allow the promotion of deceptive, false, or misleading claims about a product or service, setting unrealistic expectations regarding a product or service's effectiveness or characteristics, offering products, services, schemes, or deals at unreasonably low prices compared to the market average to scam individuals out of money or personal data, or distributing a high volume of identical or similar content across one or multiple accounts.

Examples of what is not allowed:

• A lack of information on how a product or service can deliver financial outcomes

• Ads that are misleading because they do not mention risk associated with the product or service

• Flaunting or showing off money

• Exaggerated financial claims, such as:

  • Ambiguous claims on how to get rich with no information as to how

  • Exaggerated financial gain from participation in schemes or games, including from government benefits

  • Guarantees of winning

In some cases, the following may be allowed:

• Informative ads about how to benefit from public benefits without the promise of high financial gains

• Ads that do not guarantee a win