TymeLyne is designed to feel more like a trusted living room than a public popularity contest. These Community and Content Guidelines (“Guidelines”) explain what is and is not allowed so people can share Daily Updates, Timeline memories, and everyday interactions with greater safety, dignity, and control.

These Guidelines form part of the TymeLyne Terms of Use and apply whenever you access or use the Services. They are not an exhaustive list of every harmful act. We may act against conduct that clearly defeats the purpose or safety of these rules, even when the exact behavior is not named below.

1. Who and what these Guidelines cover

These Guidelines apply to every account, all behavior on TymeLyne, and every form of material submitted, displayed, transmitted, linked, or stored through the Services. This includes:

• usernames, names, profile photos, bios, Wiki fields, external links, and other profile information;
• Daily Updates, Timeline memories, reposts, photos, videos, audio, GIFs, notes, captions, carousels, weather or location context, and metadata;
• likes, reactions, responses, comments, tags, mentions, network requests, reports, and other interactions;
• edited, synthetic, manipulated, or artificial-intelligence-generated material; and
• attempts, threats, coordination, or instructions to carry out prohibited conduct, whether the conduct occurs publicly, privately, or through linked material.

The same rules apply regardless of whether content is shared with your Circle, Followers, both, only you, or another limited audience. Private or disappearing content is not exempt from safety rules.

You must also meet the age and eligibility requirements in the Terms of Use. Accounts below the applicable minimum age, or created without legally required parent or guardian consent, may be restricted or removed.

2. Our community principles

• Safety before reach. Features and enforcement should reduce serious harm, especially harm involving children, exploitation, violence, or privacy abuse.
• Consent and context matter. Permission to capture, upload, or share another person’s private information or intimate material cannot be assumed.
• Audience control is a responsibility. Choose your audience carefully and honor the context in which another person shared material with you.
• Authenticity without perfection. TymeLyne welcomes ordinary, emotional, funny, messy, and imperfect moments, but not impersonation, manipulation, or fraud.
• Proportionate enforcement. We consider severity, harm, context, intent, account history, age, and legal requirements when deciding what action to take.

3. Child safety and sexual exploitation

We prohibit:

• child sexual abuse or exploitation material, including real, illustrated, computer-generated, altered, or AI-generated depictions;
• grooming, sexual solicitation of a minor, sextortion, trafficking, or attempts to build trust with a child for sexual purposes;
• sexualizing minors, including sexual comments, fetishization, or presenting a minor in a sexualized manner;
• asking a minor to move a sexual conversation to another service or meet offline;
• sharing or possessing nude or sexually explicit material of yourself or another person when the depicted person is under 18; and
• accounts that misrepresent age to access minors, evade age protections, or enable child exploitation.

Non-sexual family images, breastfeeding, health information, education, and documentary discussion may be allowed when lawful, appropriately presented, and not exploitative. Never upload imagery that exposes a child’s private areas.

4. Sexual exploitation, intimate content, and nudity

We prohibit:

• non-consensual intimate imagery, including threats to share it, voyeuristic material, leaked sexual content, and altered or AI-generated intimate depictions;
• sexual assault, coercion, exploitation, sextortion, trafficking, or content that praises, promotes, or facilitates those acts;
• unsolicited sexual imagery, sexual harassment, or repeated sexual contact after someone has refused or disengaged;
• pornographic content, explicit sexual activity, sexual services, or content whose primary purpose is sexual gratification; and
• recording or sharing a person in a private or intimate situation without valid consent.

Non-sexual nudity may be allowed in limited contexts such as breastfeeding, birth, health, art, or documentary reporting when lawful and shared with appropriate consent. Context does not excuse exploitation or a privacy violation.

5. Violence, threats, dangerous conduct, and criminal organizations

We prohibit:

• credible threats, intimidation, wishes of serious harm, instructions to attack someone, or praise for a recent or planned violent act;
• content that recruits for, materially supports, praises, or promotes terrorist, violent-extremist, hate, trafficking, or organized-crime groups;
• gratuitous graphic violence, torture, mutilation, severe injury, or animal abuse;
• dangerous challenges, reckless weapon use, or instructions intended to enable serious physical harm or criminal activity;
• human trafficking, human smuggling, kidnapping, or recruitment into criminal activity; and
• using TymeLyne to coordinate violence, acquire victims, evade authorities, or obtain materials for a serious offence.

Newsworthy, educational, historical, counterspeech, or documentary material may be allowed when it does not glorify harm and is presented with appropriate context. Graphic material may still be removed when its safety risk outweighs its value.

6. Suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, and dangerous challenges

TymeLyne supports honest conversations about mental health, recovery, grief, and seeking help. We prohibit material that encourages, glorifies, coordinates, or provides actionable instructions for:

• suicide, self-injury, or another form of serious self-harm;
• disordered eating, purging, starvation, dangerous weight loss, or harmful body comparison;
• dangerous dares, challenges, stunts, or substance use likely to cause serious harm; or
• coercing, mocking, or pressuring another person into self-harm or dangerous behavior.

Recovery stories, prevention information, and supportive discussion are generally allowed when they avoid graphic detail, instructions, and romanticizing harmful behavior.

7. Hate, hateful organizations, and dehumanization

We prohibit attacks, exclusion, dehumanization, slurs, calls for discrimination, or support for violence directed at people based on protected characteristics. These may include race, color, caste, ethnicity, national origin, nationality, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, disability, serious medical condition, age, immigration status, or another characteristic protected by law.

We also prohibit praise, symbols used to support, recruitment, or propaganda for organizations dedicated to hate or violent extremism. Quoting or displaying hateful material may be allowed for counterspeech, education, news, or documentation when the context clearly condemns or critically examines it.

8. Bullying, harassment, stalking, and abuse

We prohibit:

• repeated unwanted contact, including using another account after being blocked;
• targeted insults or humiliation intended to cause serious distress, sexual harassment, threats, dogpiling, or coordinated abuse;
• stalking, monitoring, or publishing information to track another person’s location or movements;
• sharing humiliating private imagery, recordings, messages, or manipulated media without permission;
• doxxing or exposing personal information in a way likely to enable harassment, identity theft, fraud, or physical harm; and
• using reports, tags, network requests, reactions, or other features to intimidate, retaliate against, or silence someone.

Disagreement, criticism, satire, or a single unwanted remark is not automatically harassment. We consider repetition, severity, power imbalance, the target’s wishes, public-interest context, and the likelihood of harm.

9. Privacy, consent, and personal information

Do not:

• share passwords, authentication codes, financial details, government identifiers, medical records, private addresses, precise locations, or other sensitive information without authorization;
• record or publish a private conversation, private space, or intimate situation in violation of consent or law;
• use screenshots, screen recordings, downloaded media, or content from a limited audience to shame, threaten, exploit, or endanger another person;
• collect TymeLyne content or account data for surveillance, facial recognition, data brokerage, unauthorized profiling, or harassment; or
• impersonate a person to obtain private information, content, money, or access.

Sharing something with a Circle or limited audience does not guarantee secrecy, but recipients are still expected to respect consent, privacy, intellectual-property rights, and the original context.

10. Authenticity, impersonation, and deceptive media

We prohibit:

• accounts that impersonate another person, organization, or TymeLyne in order to deceive or cause harm;
• catfishing, fake identities used for fraud or abuse, and hacked or stolen accounts;
• manipulated or AI-generated content falsely presented as an authentic recording when it is likely to cause meaningful harm;
• fabricated evidence, fake emergencies, or altered private communications used to defame, blackmail, harass, or deceive; and
• usernames, profile fields, or imagery that contain prohibited slurs, threats, sexual exploitation, impersonation, or other severe abuse.

Parody, fan, commentary, and role-play accounts may be allowed when they are clearly identified and do not deceive people about affiliation, identity, or endorsement. Realistic synthetic or materially edited media should be clearly disclosed when a reasonable viewer could otherwise be misled.

11. Harmful false information

TymeLyne is not a general fact-checking service, and people may express opinions, beliefs, satire, predictions, and personal experiences. We may remove or restrict false or deceptively manipulated material when it is likely to cause significant harm, including:

• false instructions about how, when, or where to vote or participate in a civic process;
• dangerous medical claims or treatment instructions likely to cause serious injury;
• false emergency warnings, fabricated accusations, or impersonation likely to cause panic, violence, financial loss, or severe reputational harm;
• denial or malicious distortion of a documented tragedy used to target victims; and
• deceptive editing or synthetic media used to misrepresent a person’s words, actions, or identity in a harmful way.

A report that content is “false” does not guarantee removal. We consider the available evidence, context, satire or opinion, public interest, and potential harm.

12. Scams, fraud, spam, and platform manipulation

We prohibit:

• phishing, advance-fee fraud, investment fraud, romance scams, counterfeit schemes, identity theft, fake giveaways, pyramid schemes, or other deceptive requests for money or information;
• malware, malicious links, credential theft, fake support accounts, or attempts to obtain verification codes or account access;
• unsolicited bulk content, repetitive requests, spam reactions, or automated activity that degrades another person’s experience;
• buying, selling, or artificially generating accounts, followers, likes, reactions, responses, points, or other engagement;
• coordinated inauthentic behavior, report brigading, or manipulating enforcement systems; and
• misleading commercial promotions, undisclosed paid endorsements where disclosure is legally required, or false claims about products and services.

13. Illegal and regulated goods, services, and activities

Do not use TymeLyne to buy, sell, trade, promote, recruit for, or facilitate illegal or unlawfully regulated goods, services, or activities. This includes:

• illegal drugs, unlawfully supplied prescription medicines, controlled substances, or instructions intended to produce them;
• weapons, explosives, ammunition, or reckless and unlawful weapon use;
• human trafficking, sexual services, stolen goods, forged documents, or illicit markets;
• unlawful gambling, predatory financial schemes, or unlicensed high-risk financial services;
• tobacco, nicotine, vaping products, alcohol, cannabis, or other age-restricted goods when the promotion or transaction is unlawful or directed at minors; and
• instructions, recruitment, or coordination intended to commit or conceal a crime.

Lawful educational discussion, harm-reduction information, news, and recovery content may be allowed when it does not facilitate a prohibited transaction or serious harm.

14. Intellectual-property and identity rights

Share only material you created or have permission or another lawful right to use. Do not infringe copyright, trademark, publicity, database, or other proprietary rights; remove ownership information; sell unauthorized copies; or falsely suggest endorsement.

Rights holders may submit a notice using the process described in the TymeLyne Terms of Use. Users may request review when they believe material was removed by mistake. Accounts that repeatedly or seriously infringe rights may be restricted or terminated.

15. Platform security and misuse

You may not:

• hack, probe, disrupt, reverse engineer, introduce malware, or bypass access, security, reporting, age, privacy, rate, or enforcement controls;
• scrape, crawl, archive, or collect content or account data through unauthorized automated means;
• sell, rent, purchase, transfer, or share accounts or authentication credentials;
• circumvent a block, suspension, termination, feature restriction, or content removal; or
• use TymeLyne to build surveillance tools, data-broker products, facial-recognition databases, or unauthorized AI-training datasets.

16. What context may change a decision

We may consider whether content has clear educational, documentary, scientific, medical, artistic, historical, satirical, counterspeech, recovery, or public-interest value. Helpful context may include captions, warnings, blurring, condemnation, and whether the account is sharing firsthand evidence.

Context is not a free pass. We generally do not make exceptions for child sexual exploitation, non-consensual intimate material, trafficking, credible threats, instructions for imminent serious harm, or exposure of private information that creates a serious safety risk.

17. Reporting and protecting yourself

Use TymeLyne’s in-app reporting controls to report a post or account. Select the closest available category and provide useful context where possible. You may also contact support for a safety, legal, intellectual-property, or account concern.

• Block or remove. Blocking or removing an account can stop or limit future contact and change network access. Use these controls whenever they help you feel safer.
• Preserve evidence safely. For serious threats, fraud, or exploitation, retain relevant usernames, dates, links, or screenshots when it is safe and lawful to do so.
• Do not redistribute child sexual abuse material. Do not download, copy, email, or forward suspected child sexual abuse material as evidence. Report the content or account through available tools and contact appropriate authorities where necessary.
• Report honestly. Do not submit knowingly false, repetitive, retaliatory, or coordinated reports. Misuse of reporting tools may itself result in action.
• Emergency assistance. Contact local emergency services first if someone is in immediate danger. TymeLyne does not monitor every report or communication in real time.

We may contact a reporter for additional details. We generally do not disclose the reporter’s identity to the reported user, but information may be disclosed when required by law or reasonably necessary to investigate and protect people.

18. How TymeLyne enforces these Guidelines

TymeLyne may use reports, account signals, automated tools, and human review to identify possible violations. We do not promise to proactively review every item or prevent every violation. Depending on the circumstances, we may:

• take no action when the material does not violate these Guidelines;
• send a warning, request a change, or provide safety information;
• remove content, links, profile fields, usernames, or other material;
• limit visibility, interactions, network access, or use of a feature;
• require age, ownership, consent, or account-security verification;
• temporarily restrict, freeze, suspend, or permanently terminate an account;
• prevent creation or use of replacement accounts or take other technical measures;
• preserve records for safety, legal, investigation, or dispute purposes; or
• notify service providers, rights holders, regulators, emergency services, or law enforcement when reasonably necessary and lawful.

Severe violations—especially child exploitation, trafficking, terrorism, credible threats, non-consensual intimate imagery, or coordinated serious harm—may result in immediate removal and account termination without prior warning.

19. How decisions are made

Moderation decisions may consider the content itself, surrounding conversation, selected audience, consent, target vulnerability, age, severity, likelihood and immediacy of harm, whether the conduct is repeated, account history, public-interest value, and applicable law.

A piece of content may be allowed in one context and removed in another. For example, a slur used to attack someone differs from the same term quoted in counterspeech or education. Enforcement may be imperfect, and similar-looking cases may have different facts that are not visible to users.

20. Notices and appeals

When appropriate and legally permitted, we may notify an affected user about the content or rule involved and the action taken. We may withhold or limit details when disclosure could expose another person, enable evasion, compromise security, interfere with an investigation, or create legal or safety risk.

If you believe an enforcement decision was mistaken, request review through any available in-app process or contact support promptly. Include the affected username or content, the approximate date, the decision you are challenging, and why you believe it should change. An appeal does not guarantee restoration.

21. Changes to these Guidelines

We may update these Guidelines as TymeLyne’s features, risks, community, or legal obligations change. We will revise the “Last updated” date and provide additional notice when required or when a change materially affects what users may share or how enforcement works.

22. Contact us

For questions about these Guidelines, reports that cannot be submitted in the app, appeals, urgent safety concerns, or legal notices, contact:

Include the username or email associated with your account, the affected content or account, relevant dates, and a clear description of the concern. Do not send your password or one-time verification code. For immediate danger, contact local emergency services before contacting TymeLyne.