Brek app Global Community Guidelines

Brek app is a lifestyle content community that includes various categories posted by photos or videos such as parenting, beauty, fashion, gourmet, travel, interior, fitness, pets. Brek app delivers informative content tailored to the audience's passions & interests. Users can discover fresh ideas and share their authentic experiences, and journey to a better life.

At Brek app, we are committed to keeping this community safe and providing users a comfortable space to express themselves creatively. We deploy a combination of policies, safety tools, and online resources to ensure the same. Our Community Guidelines reflect our values and define a standard code of conduct for users. These guidelines provide general guidance on what is and is not allowed on the platform, and they apply to everyone and everything shared on Brek app.

We update our Community Guidelines from time to time to evolve with community behavior and keep Brek app a safe place for creativity and joy.

Encouraging Authentic Content

Brek app encourages authentic stories and contents. Content generated by AI must be claimed upon content creation time. AI-generated content is discouraged and may be marked or demoted on the platform.

Zero Tolerance Policy

Brek app has zero tolerance for racist, bullying, and hateful content. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive and supportive community for all users.

Violent Extremism

We do not allow people to use our platform to threaten or incite violence or promote dangerous individuals or organizations. When there is a credible threat to public safety, we handle the issue by banning the account and cooperating with relevant legal authorities. To effectively protect our community, we may consider the information available on other platforms and offline to identify violent and extremist individuals and organizations on our platform. We will close their accounts if we find such individuals or organizations on Brek app.

Dangerous Individuals and Organizations

We do not allow individuals or organizations on our platform to promote or engage in violence. We remove such individuals and organizations, including mass murderers, serial killers and rapists, hate groups, criminal organizations, terrorist organizations, and other non-state armed groups that target civilians.

Terrorist Organizations

Terrorists and terrorist organizations are non-state actors that threaten violence, use violence, and/or commit serious crimes (such as crimes against humanity) against civilian populations to pursue political, religious, ethnic, or ideological objectives.

Organized Hate

Organized hate refers to those individuals and organizations who attack people based on protected characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, or immigration status. We consider attacks to include actions that incite violence or hatred, dehumanize individuals or groups, or embrace a hateful ideology.

Criminal Organizations

Criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groups that have engaged in serious crimes, including violent crimes (e.g., homicide, rape, robbery, assault), trafficking (e.g., human, organ, drug, weapons), kidnapping, financial crimes (e.g., extortion, blackmail, fraud, money laundering), or cybercrime.

Do not post:

  • Content that praises, promotes, glorifies, or supports dangerous individuals and/or organizations
  • Content that encourages participation in, or intends to recruit individuals to, dangerous organizations
  • Content with names, symbols, logos, flags, slogans, uniforms, gestures, salutes, illustrations, portraits, songs, music, lyrics, or other objects meant to represent dangerous individuals and/or organizations

Threats and Incitement to Violence

We consider incitement to violence as advocating for, directing, or encouraging other people to commit violence. We do not allow threats of violence or incitement to violence on our platform that may result in serious physical harm.

Do not post:

  • Statements of intent to inflict physical injuries on an individual or a group
  • Statements or imagery that encourage others to commit or that advocate for physical violence
  • Conditional or aspirational statements that encourage other people to commit violence
  • Calls to bring weapons to a location with the intent to intimidate or threaten an individual or group with violence
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons with an intent to incite violence

Illegal Activities and Regulated Goods

We prohibit the trade, sale, promotion, and use of certain regulated goods, as well as the depiction, promotion, or facilitation of criminal activities, including human exploitation. Content may be removed if it relates to activities or goods that are regulated or illegal in the majority of the region or world, even if the activities or goods in question are legal in the jurisdiction of posting.

Criminal Activities

Criminal activities cover a wide spectrum of acts punishable by law, including theft, assault, human exploitation, counterfeiting, and other harmful behavior. To prevent such behavior from being normalized, imitated, or facilitated, we remove content that promotes or enables criminal activities.

Do not post:

  • Content that depicts or promotes acts of physical harm, such as assault or kidnapping
  • Content that risks the safety of others, including swatting
  • Content that depicts or promotes human exploitation, including human smuggling, bonded labor, domestic servitude, sex trafficking, or prostitution
  • Content that depicts or promotes the poaching or illegal trade of wildlife
  • Content that offers the purchase, sale, trade, or solicitation of unlawfully acquired or counterfeit goods
  • Content that provides instructions on how to conduct criminal activities

Weapons

We do not allow the depiction, promotion, or trade of firearms, ammunition, firearm accessories, or explosive weapons. We also prohibit instructions on how to manufacture those weapons. Content as part of a museum's collection, carried by a police officer, in a military parade, or used in a safe and controlled environment such as a shooting range may be allowed.

Do not post:

  • Content that displays firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition, or explosive weapons
  • Content that offers the purchase, sale, trade, or solicitation of firearms, accessories, ammunition, explosive weapons, or instructions on how to manufacture them

Drugs, Controlled Substances, Alcohol, and Tobacco

We do not allow the depiction, promotion, or trade of drugs or other controlled substances. The trade of tobacco and alcohol products is also prohibited on the platform.

Do not post:

  • Content that depicts or promotes drugs, drug consumption, or encourages others to make, use, or trade drugs or other controlled substances
  • Content that offers the purchase, sale, trade, or solicitation of drugs or other controlled substances, alcohol, or tobacco products (including vaping products)
  • Content that provides information on how to buy illegal or controlled substances
  • Content that depicts or promotes the making of illicit alcohol products
  • Content that depicts or promotes the misuse of legal substances, or instruction on how to make homemade substances, in an effort to become intoxicated

Frauds and Scams

We do not permit anyone to exploit our platform to take advantage of the trust of users and bring about financial or personal harm. We remove content that deceives people in order to gain an unlawful financial or personal advantage, including schemes to defraud individuals or steal assets.

Do not post:

  • Content that depicts or promotes phishing
  • Content that depicts or promotes Ponzi, multi-level marketing, or pyramid schemes
  • Content that depicts or promotes investment schemes with promise of high returns, fixed betting, or any other types of scams

Gambling

We do not allow content promoting gambling services, or that could be perceived as advertising for casinos, sports betting, or any other commercial gambling activity.

Do not post:

  • Content that promotes casinos, sports betting, poker, lotteries, gambling-related software and apps, or other gambling services

Privacy, Personal Data, and Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

We do not allow content that violates the confidentiality of personal data or personally identifiable information (e.g., social security information). We remove content that depicts personal data or personally identifiable information (PII) from the platform.

Do not post:

  • Content that contains personal data or personally identifiable information (PII)

Violent and Graphic Content

We do not allow excessively gruesome or shocking content, especially content promoting or glorifying abject violence or suffering. We do allow exceptions for certain circumstances, such as newsworthy content or raising awareness about social issues. When we identify a genuine risk of violence or threat to public safety, we ban the account and work with relevant legal authorities as necessary and when appropriate.

Do not post:

Content of humans that depicts:

  • Violent or graphic deaths or accidents
  • Dismembered, mutilated, charred, or burned human remains
  • Gore in which an open wound or injury is the core focus
  • Real-world physical violence, fighting, or torture

Content of animals that depicts:

  • The slaughter or other non-natural death of animals
  • Dismembered, mutilated, charred, or burned animal remains
  • Animal cruelty and gore

Suicide, Self-Harm, and Dangerous Acts

We do not allow content depicting, promoting, normalizing, or glorifying activities that could lead to suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders. We also do not permit users to share content depicting them partaking in, or encouraging others to partake in, dangerous activities that may lead to serious injury or death.

We encourage individuals who are struggling with thoughts of self-harm or suicide or know someone who is seriously considering suicide to contact the local emergency service immediately.

Suicide

We do not allow content that depicts suicide, suicidal ideation, or content that might encourage participation in other self-injurious behavior. We also do not allow content that depicts attempted suicide or content featuring a person engaging in the behavior or intending to engage in behavior likely to lead to self-inflicted death. We restrict any form of content that promotes, normalizes, or glorifies suicide, provides instructions for suicide, or posts that portray suicide as heroic or honorable.

Do not post:

  • Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies suicide
  • Content that provides instructions for suicide
  • Suicide games, dares, pacts, or hoaxes

Self-Harm and Eating Disorders

We do not allow content normalizing, encouraging, or triggering self-harm behavior, regardless of the user's intention of posting it. We remove content that may promote or normalize acts that are likely to lead to self-inflicted physical injury. Content promoting eating habits that are likely to cause adverse health outcomes is also not allowed on the platform.

Do not post:

  • Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies self-harm or eating disorders
  • Content that provides instructions on how to engage in self-harm or eating disorders
  • Self-harm or eating disorder games, dares, pacts, or hoaxes
  • Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies eating disorders or other dangerous weight loss behaviors associated with eating disorders

Dangerous Acts

Risky activities or other dangerous behavior are acts conducted in a non-professional context or without the necessary skills and safety precautions that may lead to serious injury or death for the user or the public. We do not allow content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies such behavior, including amateur stunts or dangerous challenges.

Do not post:

  • Content that shows the potentially inappropriate use of dangerous tools, vehicles, or objects
  • Content that depicts or promotes ingesting substances that are not meant for consumption or could lead to severe harm
  • Dangerous games, dares, or stunts that might lead to injury

Hateful Behavior

We do not tolerate content that attacks an individual or a group of individuals based on protected attributes such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, severe disease, disability, or immigration status. We remove content that invokes hateful behaviors, including speech that dehumanizes or segregates a protected group. We also consider hateful content that will result in communal violence in the real world. We suspend or ban accounts that have multiple hateful behavior violations.

Attacks on the Basis of Protected Attributes

We define hate speech or behavior as content that attacks, threatens, incites violence against, or otherwise dehumanizes an individual or a group on the basis of the following protected attributes:

  • Race
  • Ethnicity
  • National origin
  • Religion
  • Caste
  • Sexual orientation
  • Sex
  • Gender
  • Gender identity
  • Serious disease
  • Disability
  • Immigration status

Do not post:

  • Hateful content related to an individual or group, including:
    • Claiming that they are physically, mentally, or morally inferior
    • Calling for or justifying violence against them
    • Claiming that they are criminals
    • Referring to them as animals, inanimate objects, or other non-human entities
    • Promoting or justifying exclusion, segregation, or discrimination against them
  • Content that depicts harm inflicted upon an individual or a group on the basis of a protected attribute

Slurs

Slurs are defined as derogatory terms intended to disparage an ethnicity, race, or any other protected attributes listed above. They are not tolerated on our platform because we do not want to contribute to the spread of egregiously offensive terms. However, we are aware that slurs can be used self-referentially or reappropriated. We may give exceptions when slurs are used in a song or other instances of a self-referential satirical context and/or reappropriation.

Do not post:

  • Content that uses or includes slurs to insult an individual or group based on one of their protected attributes

Hateful Ideology

Hateful ideologies are those that demonstrate clear hostility toward people because of their protected attributes. Hateful ideologies are incompatible with the inclusive and supportive community that our platform provides and we remove content that promotes such ideologies.

Do not post:

  • Content that praises, promotes, glorifies, or supports any hateful ideology
  • Content that contains names, symbols, logos, flags, slogans, uniforms, gestures, salutes, illustrations, portraits, songs, music, lyrics, or other objects related to a hateful ideology
  • Content that denies well-documented and violent events have taken place affecting groups with protected attributes
  • Claims of supremacy over a group of people with reference to other protected attributes
  • Conspiracy theories used to justify hateful ideologies

Harassment and Bullying

Users should feel safe expressing themselves without fear of being shamed, humiliated, bullied, or harassed. We deeply understand the psychological distress that abusive content can have on individuals, and we do not tolerate abusive content or behavior on our platform.

Abusive Behavior

We remove all expressions of abuse, including threats or degrading statements intended to mock, humiliate, embarrass, intimidate, or hurt an individual. To enable expression about public interest matters, public figures' critical comments may be allowed; however, serious abusive behavior against public figures is prohibited.

Do not post:

  • Content that insults another individual, or disparages an individual on the basis of attributes such as intellect, appearance, personality traits, or hygiene
  • Content that encourages coordinated harassment
  • Content that disparages victims of violent tragedies
  • Content that depicts willful harm or intimidation, such as cyberstalking or trolling
  • Content that wishes death, serious disease, or other serious harm on an individual or public figure

Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment involves unwanted or inappropriate sexual behavior directed at another individual. We do not allow content, including comments or advances, that sexually harass others, regardless of user's intent, as such actions can cause great distress to targeted individuals.

Do not post:

  • Content that attempts to make unwanted sexual contact
  • Content that simulates sexual activity with another user, either verbally, in text (including emojis), or through the use of any in-app features
  • Content that disparages another person's sexual activity
  • Content that alters or morphs an image of another individual to portray or imply sexual suggestiveness or engagement in sexual activity
  • Content that reveals or threatens to reveal a person's private sexual life, including threats to publicize digital content, sexual history, and names of previous sexual partners
  • Content that exposes, or threatens to expose, a person's sexual orientation without their consent or knowledge

Threats of Hacking, Doxxing, and Blackmail

We define doxxing as the act of collecting and publishing personal data or personally identifiable information (PII) for malicious purposes. Threatening to hack or dox with an intent to harass or blackmail another individual can cause serious emotional distress and other offline harm. We consider these online behaviors as forms of abuse and do not allow them on our platform.

Do not post:

  • Content that threatens to reveal personal data or personally identifiable information (PII), including residential address, private email address, private phone number, bank statement, social security number, or passport number
  • Threats of blackmail or hacking another individual's account
  • Content that incites or encourages others to hack or reveal another person's account, personal data, or personally identifiable information (PII)
  • An individual's account, personal data, or personally identifiable information for others to abuse, troll, or harass

Adult Nudity and Sexual Activities

We do not allow sexually explicit or gratifying content on our platform, including animated content of this nature. Displaying nudity or sexual activities is sensitive to some audiences in our community, and overtly sexual content can also be offensive. We allow nudity and sexually explicit content exceptions for educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purposes.

Sexual Exploitation

Sexual exploitation is an act committed through non-consensual exploitation of another person's sexuality for sexual gratification, financial gain, personal benefit or advantage, or any other non-legitimate purpose.

Do not post:

  • Content depicting or promoting non-consensual sexual acts, including rape, molestation, supporting sexual violence
  • Content depicting or promoting sexual solicitations, including asking for sex or sexual partners, sex chat or conversations, nude imagery, or sexually suggestive imagery

Nudity and Sexual Activity Involving Adults

Nudity and sexual activity include content that is overtly revealing of breasts, genitals, anus, or buttocks, or behaviors that mimic, imply, or display sex acts. We do not allow depictions, including digitally created or manipulated content, of nudity or sexual activity. We are mindful of content that may be offensive or culturally inappropriate in certain regions or may not be suitable for users of all ages.

Do not post:

  • Content that explicitly or implicitly depicts sexual activities including penetrative and non-penetrative sex, oral sex, or erotic kissing
  • Content that depicts sexual arousal or sexual stimulation
  • Content that depicts a sexual fetish
  • Content that depicts exposed human genitalia, female nipples or areola, pubic regions, or buttocks
  • Content that contains sexually explicit language for sexual gratification

Minor Safety

We are deeply committed to protecting the safety of minors on our platform. We do not tolerate activities that perpetuate the abuse, harm, endangerment, or exploitation of minors on Brek app. Any content, including animation or digitally created or manipulated media, that depicts abuse, exploitation, or endangerment of minors is a violation on our platform and will be removed when detected. We will report and escalate such content to relevant legal authorities to prevent ongoing or potential sexual exploitation or abuse towards minors.

Users must meet the minimum age requirements to use Brek app (as stipulated in our Terms of Services). We remove their accounts from our platform when underage account holders are identified.

Sexual Exploitation of Minors

Sexual exploitation of minors is defined as any abuse of a position of power or trust for sexual purposes, including profiting financially, socially, sexually, or politically from the exploitation of a minor. Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is defined as any visual depiction of sexually explicit nudity or conduct, whether captured by predatory adults, peers, or self-generated by minors. Brek app will take action on any content or accounts involving sexual interactions and advances between an adult and a minor, or between minors with a significant age difference.

Do not post:

  • Content that shares, reshares, offers to trade or sell, or directs users off platform to obtain or distribute CSAM
  • Content that engages with minors in a sexualized way, or otherwise sexualizes a minor
  • Content that depicts, solicits, glorifies, or encourages child abuse imagery including nudity, sexualized minors, or sexual activity with minors
  • Content that depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies pedophilia or the sexual assault of a minor
  • Content that revictimizes or capitalizes on minor victims of abuse by third party reshares or reenactments of assault or confessions

Integrity and Authenticity

Content intended to deceive or mislead any community members endangers our trust-based community. We do not allow activities that may undermine the integrity of our platform or the authenticity of our users. We remove content or accounts that involve spam or fake engagement, impersonation, misleading information that causes harm, or that violate any intellectual property rights.

Spam and Fake Engagement

Content or activity that seeks to artificially inflate popularity on the platform is prohibited. We also prohibit any attempts to manipulate platform mechanisms to increase interaction metrics.

Do not:

  • Share instructions on how to artificially increase views, likes, followers, shares, or comments
  • Attempt to or engage in selling or buying views, likes, followers, shares, or comments
  • Promote artificial traffic generation services

Misinformation

We do not permit misinformation that could cause harm to our community or the larger public. While we encourage our users to have respectful conversations about the subjects that matter to them, we remove misinformation that could cause harm to an individual's health or broader public safety.

Do not post:

  • Misinformation that incites hate or prejudice
  • Misinformation related to emergencies that induces panic
  • Medical misinformation that can cause harm to an individual's physical health
  • Content that misleads community members about elections or other civic processes
  • Conspiratorial content that attacks a specific protected group or includes a violent call to action, or denies a violent or tragic event occurred
  • Digital Forgeries (Synthetic Media or Manipulated Media) that mislead users by distorting the truth of events and cause harm to the subject of the video, other persons, or society

Do not:

  • Engage in coordinated inauthentic behaviors (such as the creation of accounts) to exert influence and sway public opinion while misleading individuals and our community about the account's identity, location, or purpose

Intellectual Property Violations

Copyright is a legal right that protects original works of authorship (e.g., music, videos) and original expression of an idea (e.g., the specific way a video or music is expressed or created). However, it does not protect underlying ideas or facts. A trademark is a word, symbol, slogan, and design that identifies and distinguishes a product or service source. We encourage everyone to create and share original content. Content that infringes someone else's intellectual property rights is prohibited on our platform and will be removed if we become aware of it.

Do not post:

  • Content that violates or infringes someone else's copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights

Platform Security

In addition to the content and behavior outlined above, our policies prohibit activities that undermine the Brek app service:

  • Do not hack the Brek app website, app, or associated networks or bypass its measures to restrict users' access
  • Do not distribute files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other materials that are malicious or harmful
  • Do not modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, or create any derivative products based on Brek app, including any files, tables, or documentation, nor attempt to regenerate any source code, algorithms, methods, or techniques embodied in Brek app
  • Do not use automated scripts to collect information from Brek app

Identifying and Demoting Promotional Content or Ads

Brek app reserves the right to identify and demote potential promotional content or ads. We aim to maintain an authentic user experience and ensure that content is not overly commercial. Any content identified as promotional or advertising may be marked accordingly and its visibility reduced on the platform.

Content Moderation and Account Suspension

Brek app reserves the right to moderate or remove any content that may violate the community rules. We also reserve the right to suspend any account or future accounts identified to be associated with the individual who may violate these guidelines.

Thank you for being a part of our sharing community and working with us to maintain a safe space for all users. If you come across content or accounts that you believe may violate our Community Guidelines, please report them in the corresponding place so we can review and take appropriate action.