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Community Standards

Last Updated: December 6, 2023

How To View This Document
Detection and Enforcement
We Care About You. Be Careful!
Attribution

Prohibited Goods and Activities
Exploitation, Abuse, and Minor Safety
Hate, Discrimination, and Extremism
Bullying, Harassment, and Other Abusive Behaviors
Personal and Confidential Information
Misinformation, Impersonation, and Deception
Violence, Graphic Content, and Dangerous Acts
Suicide and Self-Harm
Adult and Other Sensitive Content
Spam
Service Security and Access
Intellectual Property
Precedence

Introduction

Ollie exists to bring clarity to the modern web by empowering anyone to curate, share, and collaborate on collections of Content — for themselves, for the benefit of their larger community, or for the world. Our Service is intended to be a tool for positive growth and welcoming to all.

The internet, however, can be a questionable place. There is some Content that we shouldn't empower people to centralize and share — so we have these Community Standards to outline what we do and do not allow on our Service. If you find Content that does not belong on Ollie, please report it to us. You can do so either through our reporting tools or by emailing us at abuse@ollie.fyi. Your reports help us inform and update these Standards.

How To Interpret This Document

These Standards have been set to make sure everyone feels safe and comfortable using Ollie, as well as to help us abide by third-party platform rules. This document exists to clarify our expectations of Content and behavior on Ollie, and outline what is and is not allowed. These Standards are non-exhaustive and may change as the world and the needs of our community change. We ask that you not only follow what's written here but also behave with the spirit of these Standards in mind.

We reserve the right to restrict or remove any Content or accounts. That being said, we are committed to only doing so with good reason — based on context and the likelihood that the Content or behavior in question will threaten the safety, privacy, well-being, or dignity of others.

All terms used in these Standards but not defined shall have the meaning given to them in the Terms and Conditions.

Throughout this document, we will refer to Content, use of Service, and behavior that is and is not allowed on our Service. "Content" refers to anything you post or create on Ollie, including boards (and your arrangement of cards and sections on them), cards and links, comments, profiles, and messages.

Detection and Enforcement

When your boards are public or shared with others, we moderate them to protect everyone from harm and abuse. When your boards are private, they are private to you, and we will only access them when we have your permission or are required to by law. When you invite others to your private boards, we rely on the respective invited users to report any objectionable Content.

It's important to note that when you create Content in a private board, but share it to a public or shared board (or convert the private board into a shared board), that Content is no longer private to you, and will be subject to higher scrutiny.

Users can report others via the reporting features on Ollie or by emailing us at abuse@ollie.fyi. We take all reports seriously and review each one. We may employ automated tools for detecting, blocking, restricting, or otherwise preventing the creation and viewing of Content in violation of the Agreements.

We may temporarily restrict access to Content during the review process and remove it if it violates these Standards. We may temporarily or permanently ban accounts if they are involved in severe or repeated on-Service violations, and may consider actions on other platforms and offline behavior in these decisions. Circumstances that involve any instance of a threat of real-world harm to human life that is specific, credible, and imminent may be reported to law enforcement authorities. We do not allow users under 13 on Ollie, verify ages upon joining, and will remove them if we suspect they are under 13. For users in Europe, we do not allow users under 16. We may restrict certain Content from being shown to minors on our Service and provide opt-in screens for graphic or otherwise offensive Content. A minor is any person under the age of 18.

We Care About You. Be Careful!

We moderate Content to protect our users, like you. However, you might find the violating Content first. This might be misinformation, harmful and misguided advice, or even links to phishing sites or malware.

Content posted to Ollie should not be interpreted as an endorsement by Ollie, nor as a sign of validity, quality, or veracity. We ask that you use your best judgment when it comes to engaging with others' Content. We are not responsible for the Content or repercussions of Content posted by others on Ollie. Please report any objectionable Content immediately either through our reporting tools or via email to abuse@ollie.fyi.

Attribution

These Standards are based on those set by other online services and communities, including Notion, Reddit, Pinterest, TikTok, and Fanhouse. Some language has been adopted from their policies, with some additions specific to Ollie.

Policies

As a tool for organizing ideas and information, we never want users to feel unsafe on our Service or for our Service to be used to coordinate harm against others. As with all social interactions, context matters, and Content may be kept or removed with the underlying context in mind. Again, these policies are non-exhaustive, and we may moderate Content if we believe it will cause harm.

Violation of the following policies can result in an immediate and permanent ban from Ollie. When applicable, we may report the behavior to the appropriate legal authorities.

Each section is split up into sub-sections:

sub-section
🚫 Never Allowed	Content and behavior that we do not allow.
🚧 Currently Not Allowed	Content and behavior that we currently do not allow, but might allow in the future.
🟢 Allowed	Content and behavior that we wanted to specify as allowed (e.g. in a grey area with existing policies, or that is otherwise uncommon).

Don't worry — our "🟢 Allowed" sections are for the purpose of clarification. You are able to do much more outside of these clarifications, so long as they do not violate these Standards.

Prohibited Goods and Activities

At Ollie, we do not want to enable or facilitate activities that violate laws or regulations. Ollie isn't a place for facilitating the distribution, trade, sale, or encouragement of illegal or otherwise potentially harmful goods. It is also not a place for the promotion or facilitation of certain criminal or dangerous activities.

We consider illegal substances to be those that are regulated or illegal in the jurisdiction of posting — we may be required to remove them if it does.

While engaging with any Content on our site that is not prohibited by this policy, keep in mind that we are not a marketplace and take no responsibility for transactions you might decide to undertake in spite of this.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Criminal organizations: groups engaged in serious crimes, including violent crimes, trafficking, kidnapping, financial crimes, and cybercrime.
Dangerous individuals, such as mass murderers, serial killers, and rapists.
Dangerous groups, such as hate groups, terrorist organizations, or other non-state armed groups that target civilians.
Unlicensed sale, purchase, or trade of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and weapons (including firearms and accessories, firearm parts or attachments, and ammunition).
Unverified, unapproved, or rogue online pharmacies.
Offers, attempts, or instructions to bypass purchasing laws and regulations.
Illegal, lethal, or toxic substances.
Falsified official documents or currency.
Lethal weapons, like bombs or grenades (including 3D printed weapons).
Commercial sales of marijuana, marijuana products, and paraphernalia.
Commercial sales of certain weapons and attachments.
Harm to people, animals, or property.
Risking the safety of others, including pranks that risk physical harm or emotional distress, especially if showing or encouraging the participation of minors.
Human exploitation, including smuggling, bonded labor, domestic servitude, trafficking, and prostitution.
Paid services involving physical sexual contact.
Fraudulent services.
Vandalism or damage to property.
Poaching or illegal trade of wildlife.
Unlawful acquisition of, unlawfully acquired, goods — including counterfeiting and stolen goods.
Privacy-violating products or services.
Instructions and products for hacking or breaching security measures.
Sale of products in high demand due to regional, national, or international emergencies.
Scams and other exploitative financial practices, including but not limited to phishing, Ponzi schemes, multi-level marketing, pyramid schemes, fixed betting, and investment schemes with promises of high returns.
Promotion of casinos, sports betting, poker, lotteries, gambling-related software and apps, or any other commercial gambling activity.
Content containing personal data or personally identifiable information (PII — e.g, social security information, phone numbers, physical addresses).

🟢 Allowed

The following Content and behaviors are allowed:

Factual and non-promotional Content on the aforementioned subjects (for example, a historic documentary on human exploitation).
Content for prevention, responsible consumption (if legal in your current place of residence), and reduction of drug consumption and activity.
Content for legalization of controversial substances or activities.
Content for the prevention and reduction of gambling addiction.
Content for teaching game strategies, including poker.

Banned Users

We do not allow users who are involved in criminal organizations on Ollie. If we discover any such users, we ban the account. Any self-disclosed user information that states the account holder is a member of one of these organizations will be taken at face value and the account will be deleted.

Exploitation, Abuse, and Minor Safety

You may not use our Service to exploit any person or animal. This includes sexual, physical, or financial exploitation.

In the following section, we refer to child sexual abuse material as CSAM.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Sexual, physical, psychological, or financial exploitation of any kind.
Exploitation or abuse of children, including but not limited to CSAM, grooming or manipulation of children, attempts to profit in any way from the exploitation of minors, any attempts to exploit or coerce minors on our site, any solicitation of nude imagery or real-world sexual contact between a minor and an adult, fetish Content, fantasy Content, promotion of pedophilia or any other depiction or description of children in a sexual manner (including intimate kissing). Depending on the context, this can include depictions of minors that are fully clothed and not engaged in overtly sexual acts, as well as interactions with minors on the site that do not contain sexual language. If found, we will report violators to relevant authorities such as the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and/or other relevant legal authorities.
Use, purchase, sale, or trade of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, drugs, or other controlled substances by a minor.
Neglect or other endangerment of a minor.
Activities that may jeopardize the well-being of a minor without warning of the hazards.
Non-consensual depictions of individuals obtained, created, or published without consent, such as in images or videos of a private or sexual nature. This includes revenge porn and up-skirt images.
Depictions or descriptions that capitalize on victims of abuse by resharing or re-enacting assault or confessions without the victims' consent.
Adult sexual services that may involve physical exploitation or trafficking, like sex cams and escort services.
Human organ trade or products made from human remains or body parts
Products made from or the sale of protected and endangered wildlife.
Irresponsible or harmful animal tourism or otherwise exploitative practices like organized animal fighting.

🚧 Currently Not Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Voluntary sex work.
Particularly graphic depictions of violence against people or animals, such as in war or slaughterhouses.

🟢 Allowed

The following Content and behaviors are allowed:

Factual and non-promotional Content on the aforementioned subjects (for example, a news story on the black market of organ trade).
Content for preventing, escaping, or recovering from sexual, physical, psychological, or financial exploitation.
Content directed towards minors for avoiding or recovering from involvement in alcohol, tobacco, drugs, or controlled substances.
Content that educates and warns against dangerous activities trending amongst minors.

Banned Users

We do not allow users who have been convicted of crimes against children to have an account on our Service. These crimes include sexual assault, molestation, murder, physical abuse or neglect, abduction, international parental kidnapping, trafficking, exploitation of minors for prostitution, live online sexual abuse of a minor, sexual exploitation of minors in the context of travel and tourism, attempts to obtain or distribute CSAM, and the production, possession, or distribution of CSAM. If we discover any such users, we ban the account. Any self-disclosed user information that states the account holder is a pedophile or minor sex offender will be taken at face value and the account will be deleted.

Hate, Discrimination, and Extremism

You may not use our Service in a hateful or discriminatory way, or for the promotion of hate or extremist groups. When evaluating hateful activity, we will consider both the context as well as the pattern of behavior.

Protected Groups

In the following sections, we will refer to the term "protected group". This refers to anyone in a group identified by any of the following:

Race
Color
Caste
Ethnicity
Immigration status
Citizenship
National origin or ancestry
Religion or faith
Sex or gender identity
Sexual orientation
Sexual or romantic history
Disability or medical condition
Lower socio-economic status
Age
Weight or size
Pregnancy
Parental status
Genetic information
Veteran status
Shared traumatic experiences (such as victims of violent tragedies and their families),
And/or any other characteristic protected by law.

Note that this definition is broader than defined under some laws, for the purpose of making Ollie a welcoming environment for all. Note that this policy does not protect those who try to hide their hate in bad faith claims of discrimination.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Hate speech, intimidation, violence, or discrimination based on a protected group.
Hateful ideologies and their associated symbols, gestures, flags, uniforms, and other associated objects.
Slurs, negative stereotypes, caricatures, and generalizations, unless re-appropriated and used self-referentially by members of the protected group or used in a way that does not disparage (e.g. educational context).
Claiming individuals in protected groups are inferior in some way or referring to them as criminals, animals, or non-human entities.
Hate groups or people promoting hateful activities, prejudice, and conspiracy theories.
Condoning or trivializing violence because of a victim's membership in a protected group.
Promoting exclusion, segregation, or discrimination based on a protected group.
Support for discriminatory ideas, such as limiting women's rights.
Conspiracy theories and misinformation, like Holocaust denial.
Denial of an individual's gender identity or sexual orientation, including deadnaming, misgendering, support of conversion therapy, and related programs.
Attacks on individuals including public figures based on their membership in a protected group.
Mocking or attacking the beliefs, sacred symbols, movements, or institutions of a protected group.
Terrorist and criminal organizations.

🟢 Allowed

The following Content and behaviors are allowed:

Factual and non-promotional Content on the aforementioned subjects (for example, a documentary about QAnon or news stories about hate crimes).
Content for recovering or responding to hate or extremism.
Content for leaving or escaping from extremist groups.
Content for protesting against hate or extremism.

Banned Users

We do not allow users who are involved in terrorist organizations or organized hate on Ollie. These organizations are defined as follows:

terrorist organizations: non-state actors that threaten, use violence, or commit serious crimes against civilian populations in pursuit of political, religious, ethnic, or ideological objectives.
organized hate: individuals and organizations who attack people based on affiliation with a protected group. We consider attacks to include actions that incite violence or hatred, aim to dehumanize groups, or embrace a hateful ideology.

If we discover any such users, we ban the account. Any self-disclosed user information that states the account holder is a member of one of these organizations will be taken at face value and the account will be deleted.

Bullying, Harassment, and Other Abusive Behaviors

You may not use our Service to bully or harass others, either on or off our Service. When evaluating bullying or harassment, we will consider the context as well as the pattern of behavior.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Abusive, harassing, or bullying behavior, online or off, including but not limited to intimidation, spamming, trolling, coercion, and stalking.
Manipulated Content intended to degrade, shame, or otherwise portray another in a negative or compromising light.
Excessive profanity directed at a group or user.
Any behavior intended to discourage a user from participating on Ollie.
Name-calling, mocking, or other insults directed toward non-public figures.
Non-consensual remarks about people's bodies.
Coordinated harassment.
Wishing death, serious disease, or other serious harm to an individual.
Shaming or disparagement on the basis of attributes such as intellect, appearance, personality traits, assumed sexual or romantic history, bodies, and hygiene.
Mocking or disparaging someone for experiencing sadness, grief, loss, outrage, or a violent tragedy.
Attempts to make unwanted sexual contact, solicit sexual activity, or simulate sexual activity with another person.
Revealing or appearing to reveal details of a person's private sexual life, including sexual orientation, sexual history, or names of previous sexual partners, without the involved party's consent.
Blackmailing, hacking, or doxxing.
Using another user's account without their permission.
Threatening to reveal personal data or personally identifiable information (PII) as defined in the next section.
Calls to action to mass report or harass someone on or off our Service.
Using Service features such as "invites" to harass other users on our Service.

🟢 Allowed

The following Content and behaviors are allowed:

Factual and non-promotional Content on the aforementioned subjects (for example, a news story on cyberbullying).
Name-calling, mocking, or other insults directed towards public figures — within reason. Serious abusive behavior against public figures is prohibited.
Being annoying or disagreeing with someone.
Undirected profanity (that is, not directed towards another person and without an intent to do harm).

Please note that we can only take action for behavior violating our Terms of Service that occur within our Service, and have no jurisdiction over things that occur off of Ollie.

Personal and Confidential Information

For the sake of your security and the security of others, you should never post sensitive or confidential information on Ollie. Even if Content is posted on a private board on Ollie, it can be viewed if shared to a public board or if you invite other users to that board. Your posts and messages are NOT encrypted.

Ollie is not a place for saving or sharing sensitive data, and we will remove any sensitive or confidential information shared on our site upon discovery.

PII: personally identifiable information

Personally identifiable information includes but is not limited to residential address, private email address, private phone number, bank statement, credit or debit card numbers, fingerprint, social security number, driver's license number, and passport number.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Sharing Content that is invasive of another's privacy or otherwise violates or compromises another person's legal rights, such as rights of privacy and publicity, including personally identifiable information (PII), sensitive personal information, or confidential information without the appropriate consent.
Posting online login information, such as usernames and passwords (yours or anyone else's).
Posting photos, videos, rumors, or other media of private people they don't want online.
Posting personal financial or medical history of others without the appropriate consent.

🟢 Allowed

The following Content and behaviors are allowed:

Factual, non-private, non-confidential, and non-promotional Content on the aforementioned subjects (for example, an article on password security).
Organizing resources for contacting public representatives through their endorsed channels.

Misinformation, Impersonation, and Deception

You may not use our Service to mislead, misinform, impersonate, or deceive others. In cases of parody, commentary, or fan accounts, please make it clear in the display name and user handle that this is the case.

While users are able to edit cards generated for links on Ollie, users should never use this feature to harmfully mislead others on the content of the links.

Definitions:

Misinformation: Content that is inaccurate, false, or misleading. We will remove misinformation that causes harm to individuals, our community, or the larger public, regardless of intent.
Impersonation: posing as another person or entity in a deceptive manner.
Deception: attempting to cause another person to accept as true what is actually false or invalid.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, use, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Misinformation that incites hate or prejudice.
Misinformation related to emergencies that induces panic.
Medical misinformation that can cause harm to an individual's health or risk public health and safety, including the promotion of false cures, anti-vaccine advice, or misinformation about public health or safety emergencies.
Misinformation about elections or other civic processes.
Misinformation related to the impacts of climate change, the human influence on climate change, or climate change that is backed by scientific consensus.
Misinformation about climate change solutions that contradict well-backed scientific consensus.
Misinformation that misrepresents scientific data, including by omission or cherry-picking, in order to erode trust in climate science and experts.
Harmful misinformation about public safety emergencies, including natural disasters and extreme weather events.
Misinformation regarding public safety.
Conspiracy theories.
Disinformation campaigns.
Digital forgeries (Synthetic Media or Manipulated Media) that mislead users by distorting the truth of events and cause significant harm to the subject of the video, other persons, or society, such as deep fakes.
Misinformation about who is collecting information and how it will be used.
Misleading financial advice.
Coordinated inauthentic behavior such as using multiple accounts to exert influence and sway public opinion while misleading individuals, our community, or our systems about the account's identity, location, relationships, popularity, or purpose.
Impersonation of another person or entity, including through account display names, handles, posted Content, and editing of posted Content.
Domains that mimic others.

🟢 Allowed

The following Content and behaviors are allowed:

Factual and non-promotional Content on the aforementioned subjects (for example, a report on social media misinformation).
Parody, commentary, or fan accounts, where it is clear in the display name and user handle that the account is not officially affiliated with the person or entity.
Edits to card previews that do not cause harm and do not mislead, unless the misleading is strictly for humor (e.g. a rickroll).
Misinformation that does not cause harm (e.g. "the sky is purple").

Violence, Graphic Content, and Dangerous Acts

Ollie is not a place for shock value, violence, or threats. We do not allow Content that is gratuitously shocking, graphic, sadistic, or gruesome — or the promotion or normalization of violence or suffering.

We do, however, understand that there are sometimes reasons to post violent Content, such as for educational or advocacy purposes — if you going to post something of that nature that does not violate these Standards, make sure to provide context that makes the reasons for posting clear to viewers.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Using, engaging in, or threatening violence or abuse.
Mass killings and mass killers, their manifestos, or imagery of their violence.
Terrorist Content, including propaganda.
Gangs and other criminal organizations.
Self-harm and suicide.
Dangerous acts that may lead to serious injury or death without warnings or disclaimers.
Inappropriate use of dangerous tools or objects.
Dangerous driving behavior.
Ingestion of substances that are not meant for consumption and could lead to severe harm.
Inaccurate instructions on how to perform dangerous activities, or any instructions on performing dangerous activities without disclaimers or warnings.
Games, dares, challenges, or stunts that might lead to injury or property damage.

🚧 Currently Not Allowed

Until we have the appropriate age-restricted and opt-in features in place, you may not use our Service to distribute:

Graphically violent, disturbing, or obscene media, including depictions of humans involving violent or graphic deaths or accidents, dismembered, charred, or burned human remains, real-world physical violence, fighting, or torture. For depictions of animals, any slaughter or non-natural deaths, dismembered, mutilated, charred, or burned animal remains, and animal cruelty and gore.
Depictions of graphic medical procedures, such as invasive surgeries.

We will never allow users to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in graphically violent, disturbing, or obscene media, and will only allow it if it is important for educating on historic or current events.

🟢 Allowed

The following Content and behaviors are allowed:

Non-graphic, factual, and non-promotional Content on the aforementioned subjects (for example, news coverage of a tragedy).
Content containing depictions of processed animal meat intended for consumption — such as in supermarkets or cooking videos.
Content for helping victims of violence or abuse.
Educational Content on the risks of dangerous behaviors.
Violence or graphic Content within art, cosplay, or gaming, if not extremely horrific. The Content must be clearly fake or a performance. Content that might be mistaken for real will be removed. This includes fake blood, prop guns, knives, and swords.
Content containing fire poi, fire dancing, sword swallowing, and other professional performance activities.

Suicide and Self-Harm

The mental health of anyone on our Service is important to us. We do not allow Content that depicts engagement in or that might encourage anyone to engage in suicide or self-harm. We do, however, want Ollie to be a place where people can share resources for community support and recovery, and encourage users to do so.

If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or is considering hurting themselves, please contact local emergency services or a suicide prevention hotline. In the United States, you can call or text 988 to contact the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

If there appears to be an instance of a threat of real-world harm to human life that is specific, credible, and imminent, we may report it to law enforcement authorities.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Self-harm (including self-injury and disordered eating). This includes the distribution of self-harm instructions, tips or coaching on disordered eating, any dangerous weight loss behaviors, depictions of accessories used to self-harm, and graphic or otherwise triggering imagery of self-harm.
Suicide, including distribution of instructions for suicide and expressions of suicidal thinking and quotes.
Mocking of people who self-harm or who have attempted or died by suicide.
Negative self-talk and insensitive humor about self-harming behavior.
Suicide or self-harm pacts, dares, challenges, and hoaxes, including unhealthy body measurement challenges.
Any behavior that is likely to lead to self-inflicted death.

🟢 Allowed

The following Content and behaviors are allowed:

Non-graphic, factual, and non-promotional Content on the aforementioned subjects (for example, educational materials on recognizing signs of self-harm).
Content for recovering from self-harm and suicidal thoughts or attempts.
Content for recovering from eating disorders.
Content sharing personal experiences regarding the aforementioned subjects to raise awareness or find community support, so long as it does not encourage, glorify, or otherwise promote the harmful behavior, and comes with warnings when appropriate.

Adult and Other Sensitive Content

Ollie restricts some adult Content to protect minors on our Service Note that these policies apply to all depictions — including literature, imagery, and other media.

We understand that these policies might seem too restrictive, and we agree, especially in the areas of sexual health and art, as well as the fem(me)-centric restrictions on nipples. Ollie is a sex-positive and open-minded community, and while we may not agree with these restrictions, must abide by them to keep our site running.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, use, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Any non-consensual sexual acts and imagery, including rape and sexual assault.
Sharing nude, sexual, pornographic, or otherwise intimately exposed images without the consent of the depicted person(s), including digitally manipulated Content like deep fakes, nip-slips, revenge porn, and upskirt images.
Sexual solicitation, including offering or asking for sexual partners, favors, services, images, messages, and sex camming.
Items used or sold for pornographic purposes.
Sexual violence.

Additionally, users are not allowed to use profanity, graphic, sexual, or explicit language within display names, handles, and URLs.

🚧 Currently Not Allowed

Until we have the appropriate age-restricted and opt-in features in place, the following are not allowed:

Profanity and explicit language in board titles and descriptions.
Excessive profanity or explicit language in any Content.
Graphic or sexual language in any Content.
Pornography and other mature audience Content (including literature, imagery, and other media) depicting nudity or explicit sexual acts.
Fetish imagery.
Vivid sexual descriptions.
Explicit or implied sexual activity, including intimate kissing, penetrative and non-penetrative sex, oral sex, masturbation, sex toys, semen, and ejaculation.
Sexual arousal or sexual stimulation.
Images of nudity where poses, camera angles, or props suggest pornographic intent, including implied nudity (e.g. hand bras, pixelation of explicit areas, and emojis covering bare or visible genitals or breasts).
Depiction of human genetalia, nipples, or areola on fem(me)-presenting bodies, public regions, or anus.
Any media in which a person is not fully clothed.
Links to NSFW or pornographic sites including but not limited to OnlyFans, Fansly, 18+ Snapchats, adult-themed Patreons, and adult-themed Twitter pages.

🟢 Allowed

The following Content and behaviors are allowed:

Non-graphic and factual Content on the aforementioned subjects (for example, a report on pornographic tastes in a country).
Diagrams used for educational purposes.
Fully-clothed images not violating these Standards, even if clothing is sparse: images where all explicit parts are fully covered and that do not show or appear to show explicit parts of the body. For example, an image of a woman in a bikini.
Content not containing nudity or explicit sexual acts that address sexual health and wellness, mastectomies, breastfeeding or education, or shown in art.

Spam

Ollie aims to be a trusting, enjoyable, useful, and welcoming community. We prohibit activities that might degrade the quality of our Service or erode the trust in our site.

In the following sections, we define "user engagement" as any kind of indicator of user interaction with Content on the site, such as views, likes, followers, shares, or comments.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Using automation that hasn't been explicitly approved by Ollie, including services that automatically perform actions on your behalf.
Sharing instructions on how to artificially increase user engagement.
Selling or buying user engagement.
Promoting artificial traffic generation services.
Using or creating multiple accounts or software to artificially increase user engagement.
Asking people to engage with Content on your behalf for your personal gain.
Forming or joining a group that generates user engagement together.
Inauthentic accounts or creating accounts en masse.
Creating accounts created to violate these policies or to evade a prior ban.
Creating Content that is overly repetitive, long, misleading, or irrelevant, including messages.
Making repeated unwelcome contact with other users on our Service.
Attempting to make money from other users or web traffic on Ollie in ways that are misleading, detract from user experience, or don't add value for users.
Attempting to deceive other users in ways that may cause harm.
Linking to websites that are unsafe, deceptive, untrustworthy unoriginal, or otherwise harmful to others — including but not limited to malware, phishing, scams, and deceptive popups.
Posting Content that redirects to circumvent a domain block or disguise a link's source.
Using bots that harm or break Ollie, including ones intended to promote Content, products, or services.
Any other spam-like behavior, or manipulation, such as sending out mass invites or mass following users, "stuffing" Content with irrelevant keywords, or changing existing Content to be vastly different from its original meaning.

🟢 Allowed

The following Content and behaviors are allowed:

Non-graphic, factual, and non-promotional Content on the aforementioned subjects (for example, a report on bots on a social media platform).
Creating multiple accounts to serve different purposes, such as having a personal account and a business account.

Service Security and Access

We prioritize the safety, security, and experiences of the Ollie community, and do not allow unauthorized access to the Service. Any attempts to undermine or abuse the security, integrity, or reliability of our Service, products, or services are prohibited.

In doing your part to keep Ollie safe and secure:

Never click on suspicious links.
Never engage in requests for information about your Ollie account details, such as relevant login information.
Never log in to Ollie on public computers, and if you do, ensure that you log out and clear your sessions, cookies, and history.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Interfering or with or otherwise negatively impacting any aspect of the Service or any third-party products or services integrated or connected to the Service.
Buying or selling access to your account or for transferral of account features.
Accessing, using, or tampering with our systems or technical providers' systems.
Hacking the Ollie website, app, or associated networks, or bypassing its measures to restrict user access, unless as part of an authorized bug bounty program.
Distributing files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other materials that are malicious or harmful.
Interfering with people on Ollie or our hosts or networks, like sending a virus, overloading, spamming, or mail-bombing.
Using automated scripts or any other undocumented or unsupported method to collect information from or change Ollie.
Storing or collecting personally identifiable information from Ollie or people on Ollie without permission.
Modifying, adapting, translating, reverse engineering, disassembling, decompiling, or creating derivative products based on Ollie, including any files, tables, or documentation.
Attempting to regenerate any source code, algorithms, methods, or techniques embodied in Ollie.
Abusing our reporting system, such as reporting non-objectionable Content to harass others or frequently misreporting Content that does not violate our policies.
Hotlinking to Content hosted on Ollie.
Interfering with normal use and experience of the site.

Intellectual Property

Copyright is a legal right that protects original works of authorship (e.g., music, videos) and original expression of an idea (e.g., the specific way a video or music is expressed or created), although it does not protect underlying ideas or facts. A trademark is a word, symbol, slogan, or design that identifies and distinguishes the source of a product or service. Content that infringes on someone else's intellectual property rights is prohibited on our Service and will be removed if we become aware of it.

The use of copyrighted work under certain circumstances, such as the fair use doctrine or other applicable laws, or the use of a trademark to reference, lawfully comment, criticize, parody, make a fan page, or review a product or service, may not be considered a violation of our policies. You do not need to worry about Content generated by Ollie through a link. These are designated by the sites to be used as references and are fair use. Never claim any work you did not create as your own.

🚫 Never Allowed

You may not use our Service to engage in, encourage, promote, glorify, incite, facilitate, distribute, normalize, or instruct others to engage in:

Infringing on anyone's copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights.
Using Ollie's name, logo, or trademark in a way that confuses people.
Pretending that work done by another is your own.
Anything that violates laws or regulations.

If you are a copyright owner or authorized on behalf of one, and you believe that the copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes Infringement, please follow the instructions laid out in our Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) Policy to send us a notice.

Precedence

Conflict of Agreements

In the event of a conflict within this document between restrictions in allowances, restrictions laid out on Content shall control. In the event of any inconsistency, conflict, or ambiguity as to the rights and obligations of the parties under the Agreements, the Terms of Service shall control and supersede any such inconsistency, conflict, or ambiguity.

Translation

These Standards were originally written in English (US). In the event of a conflict between a translated version of these Standards and the English version, the English version will control.

Contact Us

Thank you for your participation and commitment to making Ollie a positive, safe, and inclusive community. Again, if you encounter Content or users that you believe are violating these Standards, please let us know through our reporting features or by emailing abuse@ollie.fyi.

Feedback

Other than through your reports, we welcome direct Feedback on these Standards. While we've tried to be as thorough as possible, there is no perfect system. We will absolutely get it wrong sometimes. Sometimes, policies will unfairly affect certain groups. If there are any policies that you believe to be too lenient or too restrictive, we'll hear you out at team@ollie.fyi.

Change log

December 8, 2022: Added Community Standards.
December 14, 2022: Capitalize terms defined in Terms of Service and convert references to Services into Service (singular), switch all references to Platform to Service. Adds precedence clause. Minor wording and styling changes.
December 6, 2023: Update language to reflect change in ownership and remove language related to paid services.

If you need a copy of any document for a specific date, please email us at legal@ollie.fyi.