Community Guidelines

During your time on Feme, we request you to treat your interactions with other users as though these were interactions in the real world. The platform comprises many users like you, and we want them to be as comfortable as you in their engagements and conversations on the App.

Adhering to the guidelines below will help us maintain a community that enables creation of safe and enriching bonds. If you violate any of these guidelines, appropriate action might be taken including content removal, and in extreme circumstances, informing authorities, account suspension or termination, and forfeiture of money.

1. Hate Speech and Discrimination

   Do not post hateful or discriminatory content or images or symbols in the App or in your profile image or profile header or bio. Treat others with dignity and respect and do not post any content that is hateful or contains personal attacks. Discourteous, impolite, rude statements intended to harm others or induce mental stress are prohibited.

2. Religiously Offensive Content

   Be respectful to the religious beliefs of others. Do not publish anything hurtful to the sentiments of others or insults their religion or customs and/or causes communal discord. Gods or religious deities, prophets, figureheads, reincarnations, leaders, religious symbols, emblems etc should not be abused or disfigured in any post.

3. Terrorism and Extremism

   Do not post content that supports, encourages or glorifies terrorism or extremism or criminal syndicates or gangs. Do not post content produced by terrorist outfits, criminal organizations, or make references to prominent terrorists, criminal figures, or provide content glorifying acts committed by such personalities, and encourage others to carry out, participate in similar acts of violence.

4. Self-harm and Suicide

   Mental health and well-being of our users is one of the most important tenets. While we support users who wish to relate their experiences and learnings on self-harm, suicidal thoughts, depression, or any other mental health concerns, any promotion of suicide or self-harm or content that poses risk to other users is prohibited.

   Mental Health Resources: If you believe that a user is at risk, please contact local emergency services. The Government of India's Mental Health Rehabilitation Helpline can be reached at 1800-599-0019.

5. Violent Content

   Do not post content that threatens, depicts or glorifies violence, or encourages acts of violence to humans or animals. Do not use our App for direct or indirect threats of physical harm, theft, vandalism, wrongful confinement, bodily, mental or financial harm. Content with imagery of corpses, severed limbs, gory depictions, medical procedures, which may shock or disgust viewers are not permitted.

6. Graphic or Obscene or Sexual Content

   Do not post graphic, obscene and/or sexual content or content that is obscene or pornographic or sexually graphic or pedophilic or contains explicit bestiality, non-consensual sexual acts or incest or depictions of deceased persons or contains violent sexual content including depicting rape or could be seen as depraved. Our App has a zero-tolerance approach to content that depicts children sexually or contains revenge porn.

   Do not post any content or engage in any activity that contains sexually explicit remarks, or innuendoes directed at any specific person or persons, or the sharing of sexual (or sexually suggestive) information or media in relation to a person without their consent or any content which may be invasive of a person's bodily privacy. We do not permit explicit images or videos that appear to be taken without the consent of another person or people.

7. Cyberbullying

   We do not allow users to engage in bullying or harassment. You must not post content that contains personal attacks, abusive language, slangs or expletives in any languages; name calling, malicious insults with racial undertones or make comments on anyone's attributes, including their physical attributes. You must not violate another user's privacy by posting information and images of them without their consent.

8. Invasion of Privacy

   We expect users to respect the privacy of others. Do not publish, share, or encourage the publication of any personal information of another person that invades their privacy or capture, share, publish images of a person's private areas.

9. Illegal Activities

   Much like in the real world, do not break the law when you use our App. Our App does not permit any unlawful behaviour or illegal activities. Do not post content that is illegal or encourages other users to participate in any illegal activity. This includes buying or selling of narcotics, illegal or prescription drugs, alcohol, tobacco products, psychotropic substances or any other category of items that are not permitted to be traded between private individuals. Do not use the platform to offer access to lotteries, gambling, and real money games or encourage money laundering, prostitution, human or child trafficking, organised violence or any other criminal activity.

10. Identity Theft and Impersonation

    Identity theft is serious. Do not impersonate any other person or pose as another person, brand or organisation in a confusing or deceptive manner.

11. Misinformation and Fake News

    Always verify information or news before you post it on our App. Do not knowingly share false, misleading or unverified information or morphed or manipulated images, videos or any media that is false. Any parody or satire must be clearly specified.

12. Spamming, Scamming and Phishing

    Do not negatively affect the experiences of other users by messaging in bulk from multiple accounts to amplify content or disrupt conversations. Do not send people unsolicited communications.

13. Intellectual Property Infringement

    Before posting ensure that content does not belong to another person and that you have the right to do so. Do not upload movies or videos or textbook or notes or literary or musical or dramatic or other content that uses a brand or a logo owned by another person without their explicit permission. In case of a complaint we will take down such content.

14. Malicious Programs

    Do not share content that contains a program with any virus or code capable of causing harm, loss to users or that could disrupt, cause harm, limit the functionality of the platform.

15. Child Safety

    Our App is designed to preserve the safety of minors i.e those under 18 years. In accordance with law, minors are not allowed on the platform. Any content that exploits or promotes child sexual exploitation is prohibited. Content that depicts or promotes child exploitation is not allowed including, but not limited to:

    • Visual depictions of children engaged in obscene, indecent, sexually explicit acts or conduct
    • Links to third-party sites that host child pornographic content
    • Facilitating child abuse
    • Sending sexually explicit media to a child
    • Recruiting or advertising an interest in a commercial sex act involving a child, or in harboring and/or transporting a child for sexual purposes