Community Guidelines

• Be honest. Ratings, posts, and profiles should reflect what you actually think and who you actually are.
• Be safe. Nothing on Wavely should put anyone in danger, online or off.
• Disagree with ideas, not people. Criticize the film, the restaurant, or the book as harshly as you like. Do not attack the people you are talking to.
• Respect privacy. Share your own life, not other people’s private information.

Wavely is not a place for violence or threats. We remove content that threatens, encourages, or celebrates violence, including:

• Threatening to hurt or kill anyone, or wishing serious harm on them.
• Encouraging or celebrating violence against people or animals.
• Instructions for making weapons or explosives intended to hurt people.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

Wavely is not a place for terrorist or violent extremist groups, or for people who carry out mass violence. We remove content that supports them, including:

• Representing, supporting, or praising terrorist or violent extremist organizations, or people who carry out mass violence.
• Recruiting for, or sharing propaganda of, such groups.
• Sharing footage made by perpetrators of attacks, or manifestos.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

We remove any content that sexualizes or endangers a minor, including:

• Any content that sexualizes a minor, including drawings, animation, and AI-generated images.
• Grooming: building a relationship with a minor in order to exploit them.
• An adult seeking romantic or sexual contact with a minor, or a minor’s private contact details.
• Content that shows or encourages the abuse, neglect, or endangerment of a child.

We report child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, as US law requires. If a child is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first.

We review every case with particular care. The account is permanently removed, and we also share information with law enforcement when the law requires it or when we receive a valid legal request.

We remove content that could lead someone to hurt themselves, including:

• Encouraging or instructing anyone to harm themselves or end their life.
• Content that promotes or glorifies self-harm or eating disorders, including challenges and competitions.

We review serious cases with particular care. Encouraging others to hurt themselves can lead to your account being permanently removed, and if we believe someone’s life is at risk, we may contact emergency services.

Criticize things as harshly as you like, but do not target people. We remove harassment and bullying, including:

• Targeting someone with insults, degrading comments, or repeated unwanted contact.
• Encouraging others to pile on, mass-report, or harass someone.
• Mocking someone for being a victim of violence or a tragedy.
• Sexual comments or advances someone has not welcomed.
• Using ratings or comments to attack a private individual rather than review a thing.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

Wavely is not a place for hate. We remove content that attacks people for who they are, including:

• Attacking, dehumanizing, or calling for the exclusion of people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or serious disease.
• Slurs and hateful stereotypes used to demean.
• Hateful symbols and imagery used to promote hatred.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

We remove sexually explicit content and nudity, including:

• Pornography, and sexually explicit images, videos, or text.
• Nudity, except non-sexual nudity in fine art, breastfeeding and childbirth, and medical or health education.
• Sexual services or solicitation.
• Links to sexually explicit content elsewhere.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

We remove graphic content shared to shock, and content that shows cruelty, including:

• Gratuitous gore, and images of serious injury or death shared to shock or celebrate.
• Content showing cruelty to animals.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

Share your own life, not other people’s private information. We remove content that exposes or targets people, including:

• Sharing someone’s home address, exact location, phone number, government ID, financial details, or private documents without their permission.
• Revealing where someone can be found in order to target them, including a precise location in a post’s photo or text.
• Threatening to expose someone’s private information.
• Sharing private conversations to harass or shame someone.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

We remove intimate images shared without consent, including:

• Sharing, or threatening to share, intimate or sexual images or videos of someone without their consent.
• Fake or digitally altered intimate images of a real person, including those generated with AI.

If an intimate image of you has been shared on Wavely, report it in the app, or email safety@usewavely.com with: a link to the content; a statement that you believe in good faith it was shared without your consent; your name, typed as your signature; and how we can reach you. Someone you authorize can send it for you. You do not need a Wavely account. We remove it, and make reasonable efforts to remove identical copies, within 48 hours of a valid request, as the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act requires.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

We remove accounts and content that mislead people about who is behind them, including:

• Pretending to be another person, brand, or organization in a way that misleads people.
• Using someone else’s photos as your own to deceive.
• Creating accounts to evade a suspension or a block.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

We remove spam and fake engagement, including:

• Buying, selling, or trading ratings, likes, follows, comments, or reposts.
• Using multiple accounts, bots, or automation to inflate or suppress engagement or ratings.
• Coordinating with others to push a rating up or down, regardless of experience.
• Repetitive, unsolicited, or bulk posting, commenting, or messaging.
• Scams, phishing, and misleading links.

The Rating Guidelines go into detail on what makes a rating honest.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

Wavely is not a place to buy, sell, or promote illegal or dangerous goods and activities. We remove this type of content, including:

• Selling, buying, or arranging the sale of illegal drugs, weapons, ammunition, explosives, stolen goods, counterfeit goods, or wildlife products. Wavely has no marketplace.
• Promoting gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or cannabis to minors.
• Promoting or facilitating human trafficking or exploitation.
• Instructions for committing serious crimes.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

We remove false or manipulated content that is likely to cause real harm, including:

• False claims about how, when, or where to vote or take part in a civic process, intended to stop people taking part.
• False health claims likely to cause serious harm, such as telling people to stop medical treatment.
• Media altered or generated to deceive people about real events or real people in a way likely to cause harm.

We review serious cases with particular care. They can lead to your account being permanently removed, and when the law requires it, when we receive a valid legal request, or when someone’s safety is at risk, we share information with law enforcement, including as evidence.

Post only what you made or have permission to share. Respect copyrights and trademarks. The Copyright Policy and the Trademark Policy explain how to report infringement and what happens when you do.

Repeated infringement can lead to your account being permanently removed, as the Copyright Policy explains.

Many people on Wavely are teenagers, and these guidelines are written with them in mind. We take particular care with reports involving people under 18, and act faster and more firmly on anything that could harm them. Adults must never seek private, romantic, or sexual contact with a minor. If someone makes you uncomfortable, block them and report them.

Communities can set stricter rules of their own, but never looser ones. A community organized around breaking these guidelines will be removed. See the Community Admin Guidelines.

Direct messages are private, but these guidelines still apply to them. If a message breaks them, report it. Nobody at Wavely sees a message unless it is reported, the law requires it, you ask us for help with it, or an automated check flags it as known illegal imagery, as the Privacy Policy explains.

Comments that may break these guidelines can be collapsed into a hidden section under a post, which anyone can choose to open. Severe violations are removed outright.

Report it. Reporting is anonymous: the person you report is never told who reported them. Reporting and Appeals explains how, and How We Enforce Our Rules explains what we do about it. If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services.