1. Our mission

Treffa aims to create a community of friends: fellow lovers of Earth, art, inspiration, and kindness. However, in order to maintain such a community we must share a common understanding of the guidelines for the community, of what we do and do not permit on our platform. These guidelines are our acceptable use policy, and if you find content that shouldn't be on Treffa, please report it to us via report@treffa.us. We use your reports to learn and evolve our standards, and work with subject matter experts to inform and update our guidelines.

2. Content safety

Treffa isn't a place for antagonistic, explicit, false or misleading, harmful, hateful, or violent content or behavior. We may remove, limit, or block the distribution of such content and the accounts, individuals, and groups that create or spread it based on how much potential for harm we deem it to pose. We are committed to presenting you with clear and transparent expectations that are easy to understand and follow. If you have questions or encounter problems on Treffa, please contact us via help@treffa.us.

3. Adult content

Treffa isn't a place for pornography. We limit the distribution of or remove mature and explicit content, including:

• Fetish imagery
• Vivid sexual descriptions
• Graphic depictions of sexual activity
• Images of nudity where the poses, camera angles, or props suggest pornographic intent

4. Exploitation

Treffa isn't a place for exploitation of people or animals. We'll remove or limit the distribution of content and accounts involved in practices that risk harm to people or animals, including sexual, physical, or financial exploitation. That includes:

• Sexualization or sexual exploitation of minors, like grooming, sexual remarks or inappropriate imagery. If we find it, we'll report it to relevant authorities such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
• Non-consensual images, meaning images of a private or sexual nature obtained or published without consent. This includes revenge porn and up-skirt images.
• Adult sexual services that may involve sexual or physical exploitation or trafficking, like sex cams and escort services.
• Human trafficking, slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labor.
• Other illegal commercial exploitation, like trading in organs or products made from human remains or body parts.
• The sale of wild animals or protected and endangered wildlife. For a full list of prohibited wildlife products, please visit World Wildlife Fund.
• Corpses, animal parts or products derived from cat or dog parts, or protected and endangered wildlife, including ivory.
• Irresponsible and harmful animal tourism or otherwise exploitative practices like organized animal fighting.

5. Hateful activities

Treffa isn't a place for hateful content or the people and groups that promote hateful activities. We limit the distribution of or remove such content and accounts, including:

• Slurs or negative stereotypes, caricatures and generalizations
• Support for hate groups and people promoting hateful activities, prejudice and conspiracy theories
• Condoning or trivializing violence because of a victim's membership in a vulnerable or protected group
• Support for white supremacy, limiting women's rights and other discriminatory ideas
• Hate-based conspiracy theories and misinformation, such as Holocaust denial
• Denial of an individual's gender identity or sexual orientation, and support for conversion therapy and related programs
• Attacks on individuals, including public figures, based on their membership in a vulnerable or protected group
• Mocking or attacking the beliefs, sacred symbols, movements, or institutions of the protected or vulnerable groups identified below

Protected and vulnerable groups include: People grouped together based on their actual or perceived race, color, caste, ethnicity, immigration status, national origin, religion, faith or lack thereof, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or medical condition. It also includes people who are grouped together based on lower socio-economic status, age, weight or size, pregnancy or veteran status.

6. Misinformation

Treffa isn't a place for misinformation, disinformation, mal-information or the individuals or groups spreading or creating it. We remove or limit distribution of false or misleading content that may harm users or the public's well-being, safety or trust, including:

• Medically unsupported health claims that risk public health and safety, including the promotion of false cures, anti-vaccination advice, or misinformation about public health or safety emergencies
• False or misleading content about individuals or protected groups that promotes fear, hate or prejudice
• False or misleading content that encourages turning individuals, groups of people, places or organizations into targets of harassment or physical violence
• Conspiracy theories, including about climate change or civic participation
• Content that originates from disinformation campaigns, including about climate change or civic participation
• Factual information that's published or deliberately modified to erode trust or inflict harm, such as changing or omitting of context, date or time
• Fabricated or meaningfully manipulated visual or audio content that erodes trust or causes harm

Civic participation misinformation:

• False or misleading content that impedes an election's integrity or an individual's or group's civic participation, including registering to vote, voting and being counted in a census.
• False or misleading information about the dates, times, locations and procedure for voting or census participation.
• Content that misleads voters about how to correctly fill out and submit a ballot, including a mail-in ballot, or census form.
• False or misleading information about who can vote or participate in the census and what information must be provided to participate.
• False or misleading statements about who is collecting information and/or how it will be used.
• False or misleading information about public safety that is intended to deter people from exercising their right to vote or participate in a census.
• Content that encourages or instructs voters or participants to misrepresent themselves or illegally participate.
• Content apparently intended to delegitimize election results on the basis of false or misleading claims.
• Threats against voting locations, census or voting personnel, voters or census participants, including intimidation of vulnerable or protected group voters or participants.

Climate misinformation:

• Content that denies the existence or impacts of climate change, the human influence on climate change, or that climate change is backed by scientific consensus.
• False or misleading content about climate change solutions that contradict well-established scientific consensus.
• Content that misrepresents scientific data, including by omission or cherry-picking, in order to erode trust in climate science and experts.
• Harmful false or misleading content about public safety emergencies including natural disasters and extreme weather events.

7. Harassment and criticism

Treffa isn't a place to insult, hurt or antagonize individuals or groups of people. There are good reasons to express criticism, but we may limit the distribution of or remove insulting content to keep Treffa a positive, inspiring place; this includes:

• Manipulated images intended to degrade or shame
• Shaming people for their bodies or assumed or actual sexual or romantic history
• Sexual remarks about people's bodies and solicitations or offers of sexual acts
• Criticisms involving name-calling, profanity and other insulting language or imagery
• Mocking someone for experiencing sadness, grief, loss or outrage

8. Private information

We don't allow content that reveals personal or sensitive information. This includes but is not limited to the following:

• Personal ID and passport information
• Private contact information and addresses
• Online login information (usernames and passwords)
• Photos of private people that they don't want posted online
• Personal financial or medical history

9. Self-injury and harmful behavior

Treffa isn't a place for content that displays, rationalizes or encourages suicide, self-injury, eating disorders or substance abuse. We'll limit the distribution of or remove such content, including:

• Self-harm instructions
• Suicidal thinking and quotes
• Graphic or otherwise triggering imagery or descriptions of self-harm
• Promotion of self-harm
• Mocking of people who self-harm or who have attempted or died by suicide
• Images of accessories used to self-harm
• Negative self-talk and insensitive humor about self-harming behavior
• Suicide pacts, challenges and hoaxes

10. Graphic Violence and Threats

Treffa isn't a place for graphic violence or threatening language. We limit the distribution of or remove such content, including:

• Content that shows the use of violence
• Disturbing scenes from before or after violent events
• Threats or language that glorifies violence

11. Violent actors

Treffa isn't a place for violent content, groups or individuals. We limit the distribution of or remove content and accounts that encourage, praise, promote, or provide aid to dangerous actors or groups and their activities. This includes:

• Extremists
• Terrorist organizations
• Gangs and other criminal organizations

12. Dangerous goods and activities

Treffa isn't a place for trading, selling, or promoting certain regulated goods (products or substances that can cause harm when used, altered or manufactured irresponsibly) or for the display or encouragement of dangerous activities. We limit the distribution of or remove such content and accounts, including:

• Individuals and unlicensed retailers offering to sell, purchase or trade alcohol, tobacco, drugs and weapons, including firearms and accessories, firearm parts or attachments, or ammunition
• Content from or about unverified, unapproved or rogue online pharmacies
• Offers, attempts, or instructions to bypass purchasing laws and regulation
• Instructions for creating lethal or toxic substances
• Instructions for creating lethal weapons, such as bombs or grenades, including 3D-printed weapons
• Sale of marijuana, marijuana products and paraphernalia
• Sale of weapons and attachments
• Harmful pranks or challenges that risk imminent physical harm or extreme emotional distress, especially if showing or encouraging the participation of minors

13. Harmful or Deceptive Products & Practices

Treffa isn't a place for practices and products that may be harmful or deceptive. We limit the distribution of or remove such content and accounts, including, but not limited to:

• Instructions and products for hacking or breaching security measures
• Online gambling and lotteries
• Counterfeit documents
• Privacy-violating products or services
• Exploitative financial practices

14. Impersonation

We don't allow accounts that impersonate or misrepresent their affiliation with any person or organization.

15. Content

All of our Community Guidelines apply to comments, Requests, Recommendations, tags, messages, images, descriptions and links. In addition all such content should be relevant. We may remove contents that violate our guidelines, including those that contain:

• Irrelevant or non-purposeful material
• Spam
• Sexually explicit content
• Self-harm content
• Misinformation
• Hateful activities
• Harassment or privacy violations
• Copyright or trademark infringement

16. Messages

All of our Community Guidelines apply to messages sent between users. Messages should also be welcomed and relevant. In addition to users' ability to block someone from sending additional unwelcome messages, we may warn or suspend accounts that violate our guidelines, including by sending messages that contain:

• Spam
• Sharing or solicitation of sexually explicit content
• Self-harm or suicide content
• Misinformation
• Hateful activities such as racial slurs
• Harassing content or behavior
• Exploitation of private information

17. Intellectual property and other rights

To respect the rights of people on and off Treffa:

• Don't infringe anyone's intellectual property, privacy or other rights.
• Don't do anything or post any content that violates laws or regulations.
• Don't use Treffa's name, logo or trademark.

18. Site security and access

To protect the Treffa platform, we ask that you:

• Don't access, use or tamper with our systems or our technical providers' systems.
• Don't break or circumvent our security measures or test the vulnerability of our systems or networks.
• Don't use any undocumented or unsupported method to access, search, scrape, download or change any part of Treffa or its content.
• Don't try to reverse engineer our software.
• Don't try to interfere with people on Treffa or our hosts or networks, such as by sending a virus, overloading, spamming or mail-bombing.
• Don't collect or store personally identifiable information from Treffa or people on Treffa without permission.
• Don't share your password, let anyone access your account or do anything that might put your account at risk.
• Don't attempt to buy or sell access to your account or username, or otherwise transfer account features for compensation.

19. Spam

We want the inspiration and ideas on Treffa to be high-quality and useful, so we remove spam when we find it. We ask that you be considerate of others' experiences on Treffa and don't spread spam or engage in spammy behavior.

Our guidelines around spam are:

• Don't use automation that hasn't been explicitly approved by Treffa. This includes unauthorized services that automatically perform actions on your behalf.
• Don't create or operate accounts that aren't authentic, create accounts en masse, or create new accounts for the purpose of violating these guidelines.
• Don't create or save content that is repetitive, deceptive, or irrelevant in an attempt to make money.
• In general, don't attempt to make money from other users or user web traffic in ways that are misleading, detract from the users' experiences, or don't add value for users.
• Don't link to websites that are unsafe, deceptive, untrustworthy, unoriginal, or that facilitate or encourage spam.
• Don't send repeated, unsolicited messages, especially if your messages are commercial or deceptive in nature.
• Don't make repetitive or irrelevant comments. Comments should be authentic and original. We also ask that you be kind to others by keeping your commentary respectful and constructive.
• Don't create repetitive Requests. Each request should be authentic and original.
• Don't create repetitive Recommendations. Each recommendation should be thoughtful, authentic and original.
• Don't operate multiple accounts or coordinate with other people with the purpose of manipulating the Treffa platform.
• Don't use any other unscrupulous tactics to attempt to improperly influence distribution, clicks, or other metrics, including: buying or selling engagement, "stuffing" irrelevant keywords, or generating inauthentic traffic.

20. Links

All of our Community Guidelines apply to links included in tags, descriptions, comments, profiles, Requests, Recommendations, and messages. All links must be considered relevant and we may remove links that violate our guidelines, including those that contain:

• Irrelevant or non-purposeful material
• Spam
• Sexually explicit content
• Self-harm content
• Misinformation
• Hateful activities
• Harassment or privacy violations
• Copyright or trademark infringement

Lastly, be sure to follow all relevant laws and regulations.