Community Guidelines

The idea

Pockets is a place to keep your own moments and show them to people you choose. There’s no public feed here, so everything shared is shared with someone specific. It works best when everyone treats other people’s boards, and the people themselves, with respect. You don’t have to like how someone spent their Friday. You do have to leave them and their board alone.

What’s welcome

• Moments of any kind or size, from a birthday to a Tuesday nobody would have photographed.
• Sending a Pocket to your friends, or handing someone a link, when you want to.
• Reacting to a friend’s Pocket, and leaving a note on their board the way you’d sign a yearbook.
• Making your own Pocket of a moment other people were at too.

What’s not allowed

When you share a Pocket, react, or leave a note, don’t use Pockets to post or send:

• Content that is illegal, or that promotes illegal acts.
• Harassment, bullying, threats, or targeting of a specific person.
• Hate or slurs against people based on who they are.
• Sexual content involving minors, in any form. This is reported to the authorities.
• Pornographic or gratuitously violent or graphic content.
• Content that impersonates someone, or misrepresents who you are.
• Someone else’s private information shared without their consent.
• Spam, scams, or bulk collection of other people’s content.
• Anything that infringes another person’s copyright or other rights.

These rules apply to anything another person can see: Pocket titles, the photos and text on a board, notes left on someone else’s board, profiles, and links.

Reporting

If a Pocket, a note someone left on your board, or a person’s profile breaks these guidelines, report it. On a shared Pocket page or a profile here on the web, use the Report link: it opens a prefilled email to our team, because those pages have no signed-in session. You can also email us directly about anything that doesn’t fit that flow.

We read and review every report. The person you report is never told who filed it. For copyright specifically, see Copyright and content reporting.

Blocking

You can block a person, which cuts the connection in both directions: they can’t see your Pockets, send you a friend request, or leave a note on anything of yours, and you won’t see theirs. Blocking needs you to be signed in, so it happens in the app rather than on the public web pages. You can also peel a note off your own board at any time, whether or not you block the person who left it. If someone is bothering you and blocking doesn’t settle it, email us and we’ll help.

What happens next

When something breaks these guidelines, we may remove or restrict access to the content, turn off sharing for a Pocket, or, for serious or repeated violations, suspend or terminate an account. We aim to match the response to what happened, and to act faster on anything that puts someone at risk.

If we get it wrong

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, reply to us and explain why. We’ll take another look. The full terms that govern removals and appeals are in the Terms of Use.

Contact

Questions about these guidelines, or something you want to report that doesn’t fit the in-app flow: support@thepockets.app.