Community guidelines

• Your own memories, your photos, and what you have the right to post.
• Dates and places as true as you know them; say "around" when you aren't sure.
• Crediting the source of a photo or text that isn't yours.
• Respect in comments and reactions, even with people you disagree with.

• Sexual content: nudity, sexually explicit content and sexual innuendo. Any content that sexualises a minor is strictly forbidden; we remove it, ban the account and report it to the authorities.
• Violence: gory or shocking images, threats, incitement to violence, glorifying terrorism, terrorist groups or their crimes, and encouraging self-harm.
• Hate and harassment: insults, bullying or harassment; incitement or discrimination based on religion, race, origin, nationality, sex or disability; and contempt of religions and what they hold sacred.
• Impersonation: pretending to be another person or organisation, or suggesting a link to them that doesn't exist.
• Other people's private data: posting someone else's address, phone number, identity documents, financial or health data, or photos of people in private situations without their consent, especially children.
• Infringement: posting photos or text you don't have the right to post.
• Deception and fraud: spam, ads, misleading links, scams, manipulating reactions, and knowingly presenting made-up events as real.
• Illegal activity: selling drugs, weapons or any prohibited goods, or promoting any criminal activity.
• Political campaigning: Khutoot isn't a platform for political campaigns, propaganda or mobilisation. Your personal memories of public events are welcome as long as they follow these guidelines.

You can record difficult events you lived through, but without shocking images of victims or the injured, and with respect for the dignity of those who have passed and their families' privacy. When you share a memory of someone who has died, share it as they and their family would have wanted.

Link your memory to someone else's only when they are truly connected, such as by a shared place or event. Don't use links to draw attention or to annoy. Every memory's owner can turn linking off or decline a link.

If you see something that breaks these guidelines, report it from the content's or account's menu. Reports are confidential, and we don't tell the content's owner who reported it. To ask for removal of something that infringes your rights, use the infringement form. If someone is in immediate danger, contact the authorities where you are at once.

We review reports and decide according to how serious and repeated the violation is: keep the content, hide it, delete it, warn its owner, or suspend the account temporarily or permanently. For serious violations we may act without a report or prior warning. You can ask for any decision to be reviewed from the Appeals page.

These guidelines don't list everything that may be a violation, and we may update them from time to time.