Community Guidelines
The Short
We want The Covenant to continue to be an authentic and safe place for inspiration and expression. Help us foster this community. Post only your own WHISPERS and always follow the law. Respect everyone on The Covenant.
The Long
The Covenant reflects our diverse community of cultures, ages, and beliefs. There are different points of view that create a safe and open environment for everyone.
We created the Community Guidelines so you can help us foster and protect this amazing community. By using The Covenant, you agree to these guidelines and our Terms of Use. You are obligated to follow these guidelines in using The Covenant. Not following these guidelines may result in deleted content, disabled accounts, or other restrictions.
In some cases, we allow content for public awareness which would otherwise go against our Community Guidelines – if it is newsworthy and in the public interest. We do this only after weighing the public interest value against the risk of harm and we look to international human rights standards to make these judgments.
- Share only WHISPERS that you have created or have the right to share.
As always, you own the content you post on The Covenant. Remember to post authentic content, and don’t post anything you’ve copied or collected from the Internet that you don’t have the right to post. Learn more about intellectual property rights.
- Post WHISPERS that are appropriate for a diverse audience.
We know that there are times when people might want to share nude images that are artistic or creative in nature, but for a variety of reasons, we don’t allow nudity in the Visionary Vault of The Covenant.
- Foster meaningful and genuine interactions.
Help us stay spam-free by not artificially collecting likes, followers, or shares, posting repetitive comments or content, or repeatedly contacting people for commercial purposes without their consent. Don’t offer money or giveaways of money in exchange for likes, followers, comments, or other engagement. Don’t post content that engages in, promotes, encourages, facilitates, or admits to the offering, solicitation or trade of fake and misleading user reviews or ratings.
You don’t have to use your real name on The Covenant, but we do require The Covenant users to provide us with accurate and up to date information. Don’t impersonate others and don’t create accounts for the purpose of violating our guidelines or misleading others.
- Follow the law.
The Covenant is not a place to support or praise terrorism, suicide, murder manifestos, organized crime, or hate groups. Remember to always follow the law. We have zero tolerance when it comes to promoting abuse of any type.
- Respect other members of The Covenant community.
We want to foster a positive, diverse community. We remove content that contains suicide, manifestos, credible threats or hate speech, content that targets private individuals to degrade or shame them, personal information meant to blackmail or harass someone, and repeated unwanted messages. We do generally allow stronger conversation around people who are featured in the news or have a large public audience due to their profession or chosen activities. It’s never OK to encourage violence or attack anyone based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, disabilities, or diseases. When hate speech is being shared to challenge it or to raise awareness, we may allow it. In those instances, we ask that you express your intent clearly. Serious threats of harm to public and personal safety aren’t allowed. This includes specific threats of physical harm as well as threats of theft, murder, vandalism, and other financial harm. We carefully review reports of threats and consider many things when determining whether a threat is credible. Sharing graphic images is not allowed on The Covenant.
- Maintain our supportive environment by not glorifying self-injury.
The Covenant community cares for each other and is often a place where people facing difficult issues such as eating disorders, cutting, or other kinds of self-injury come together to create awareness or find support. We try to do our part by providing education in the app and adding information in the HELP CENTER so people can get the help they need.
Encouraging or urging people to embrace self-injury is counter to this environment of support, and we’ll remove it or disable accounts if it’s reported to us. We may also remove content identifying victims or survivors of self-injury if the content targets them for attack or humor.
Help us keep the community strong:
- Each of us is an important part of The Covenant community. If you see something that you think may violate our guidelines, please help us by using our built-in reporting option. We have a global team that reviews these reports and works as quickly as possible to remove content that doesn’t meet our guidelines. Even if you or someone you know doesn’t have an The Covenant account, you can still file a report. When you complete the report, try to provide as much information as possible, such as links, usernames, and descriptions of the content, so we can find and review it quickly. We may remove entire posts if either the imagery or associated captions violate our guidelines.
- You may find content you don’t like but doesn’t violate the Community Guidelines. If that happens, you can choose not to watch those particular Whispers.
- Many disputes and misunderstandings can be resolved directly between members of the community. This community is designed for personally created Whispers so no copyright or trademark issues should arise. If by chance there becomes a dispute, please contact the Help Center.
- We may work with law enforcement, including when we believe that there’s risk of physical harm or threat to public safety
For more information, check out our Help Center and Terms of Use.
You are a part of the most unique and caring community in the world. It is your choice as to make your content private or public. All public content is to be created with the tools of the platform and with the acknowledgement of making the planet a service to others mentality. Thank you for helping us create the best community in the world,
