Acceptable Use Policy
Rules for prohibited content, platform manipulation, and commercial activity.
Effective 28 August 2026 · Last updated 28 August 2026
Prohibited Content
Users must not use CQ Gram to publish, promote, or facilitate content that is unlawful or seriously harmful. This includes content involving:
- credible threats of violence;
- sexual exploitation of minors;
- non-consensual intimate imagery;
- malicious exposure of highly sensitive personal information;
- fraudulent schemes, phishing, and malware;
- illegal trafficking;
- deliberate impersonation for fraud;
- material whose distribution is unlawful; or
- content CQ Gram is legally required to restrict or remove.
Context matters, including educational, documentary, historical, technical, journalistic, and safety-related contexts.
Spam & Platform Manipulation
Users must not artificially manipulate CQ Gram. Prohibited conduct includes:
- automated fake accounts and account farming;
- artificial followers, likes, or reactions;
- coordinated fake engagement;
- mass unsolicited messages and repetitive promotional spam;
- malicious bots and deceptive engagement schemes;
- attempts to manipulate rankings or recommendations; and
- attempts to circumvent Platform enforcement.
CQ Gram may remove artificial engagement from Platform statistics.
Commercial Activity
CQ Gram may establish rules governing commercial accounts, advertisements, sponsorships, marketplace activity, and affiliate content. Users must not engage in fraudulent commercial activity. Where law requires disclosure of sponsorship or affiliate relationships, the user is responsible for making appropriate disclosures.
Security Research
Security vulnerabilities should be reported responsibly. Users must not exploit vulnerabilities to access unrelated user information, damage the Service, alter data, maintain unauthorized persistence, extort, or publicly disclose sensitive information in a manner that creates unnecessary risk. Good-faith reports may be submitted through Contact Us.
