KiftMe Rules

What’s welcome

• A sharp, unpopular or opposing opinion.
• Criticizing an idea, a religion, a party, a government.
• Telling what you went through, even when it’s hard: a breakup, a loss, an addiction, an illness.
• Talking about sexuality, bodies and relationships to understand, learn or heal.
• Fiction, humor, satire and parody, when it’s clear that’s what it is.
• Asking for help, for yourself or for someone else.

Protecting minors

Zero tolerance. The text or image in question is removed at once; as soon as the team confirms the sexual exploitation of a minor, the account is suspended then closed, and the relevant authorities are notified where the law requires it. Details: our child safety standards.

• Any image, text or request that sexualizes a minor.
• Asking a minor for photos, pushing them to expose themselves, or blackmailing them.
• Trying to get close to a minor to manipulate them (grooming).

Sexuality and nudity

Talking about sexuality is fine. Showing or soliciting is not.

• Pornography and explicit sexual descriptions.
• Sharing someone’s intimate image without consent, or threatening to.
• Sexually soliciting someone who didn’t ask for it.

Harassment

Disagreement isn’t harassment. Going after a person again and again is.

• Targeting the same person repeatedly to put them down.
• Organizing or joining a group humiliation.
• Unwanted sexual comments or advances.
• Coming back to someone who blocked you, under another name or another way.

Hate

Criticizing a belief or an idea is allowed. Attacking people for who they are is not.

• Dehumanizing people for their origin, religion, gender, orientation, disability or nationality.
• Calling for them to be excluded, discriminated against or harmed.
• Glorifying violence committed against them.

Threats and violence

Fiction and telling what happened to you belong here. A real threat never does.

• Threatening someone with violence, even “as a joke”.
• Inciting harm against a person or a group.
• Recruiting for, or glorifying, a violent or terrorist organization.

Shocking violence

Images or stories of very graphic real violence have no place here, even to denounce it. Talking about a violent event is still fine, without the shocking detail.

• Photos or videos of serious injuries, bodies or torture
• Detailed stories of real violence meant to shock or glorify

Self-harm

Saying you’re not okay, telling what you’re going through or how you got through it is welcome. If you’re in danger right now, call 112 or find a line near you at findahelpline.com.

• Encouraging someone to hurt themselves or end their life.
• Sharing methods, amounts or dangerous challenges.
• Presenting eating disorders as a goal.

Illegal and dangerous activities

Talking about it, learning, bearing witness: yes. Concretely helping someone do it: no.

• Selling or supplying drugs, weapons or prescription medicine.
• Explaining concretely how to commit a crime.
• Pushing minors toward alcohol, tobacco or drugs.

Personal information

Everyone decides what they say about themselves. No one decides it for others.

• Revealing someone’s address, number, school, class, workplace or location.
• Showing an ID, bank or medical document, yours or someone else’s.
• Gathering information about someone in order to find them.

Scams and spam

An uncomfortable opinion isn’t spam. Deceiving people is.

• Phishing, fake contests, fake offers, requests for money.
• Trying to get a password, a code or banking details.
• Repeating the same message or creating subjects in bulk to pull people elsewhere.

Impersonation

You are you. Parody is fine when it’s obvious at first glance.

• Pretending to be another person, a brand or an institution.
• Creating an account to get around a block or a suspension.

Copyright

Share what you have the right to share. A rights holder can report a work that belongs to them; the person concerned can dispute it, and the work is restored if the dispute is founded. No machine decides a copyright question on its own.

• Reusing someone else’s whole work as if it were yours.

Minimum age

KiftMe is open from age 15. If you think someone is under 15, report their profile. Between 15 and 17, the rules are the same, with extra protections: your profile can’t become discoverable, and some features are limited.

Everything else

A situation fits no box but puts someone in danger? Report it anyway: a person will look at it.

When a rule is broken

Depending on severity: a warning, a subject shown to fewer people, an expression or message removed, a temporary suspension, and as a last resort account closure.

Exploitation of a minor and serious threats lead to immediate action.

A report alone is never proof of a fault: it is reviewed, then we decide.

Every decision tells you which rule is involved, what changes and how to dispute it. It also says whether it was made automatically.

Disputing is free and reviewed by a person. If the decision was a mistake, everything is restored.

Reporting

Every subject, expression, message and profile has a “…” menu with “Report”. The reported person doesn’t know who reported them. You can also block someone at any time. In immediate danger, call 112.

When these rules change

We let you know in the app. If the change is significant, we ask you to read and accept the new rules before writing again; you can keep reading in the meantime.

Write to us

A question about these rules or about a decision: [email protected].