PLATFORM RULES

Roadriven is an open platform that exists to share travels, ideas and perspectives from all around the world.

We welcome thoughtful and civil discussion from a broad spectrum of viewpoints. To maintain a safe, respectful, and welcoming environment for a wide range of people to engage in meaningful conversations, we prohibit certain conduct.

In deciding whether there has been a violation of the rules, we will take into consideration things like newsworthiness, the context and nature of the posted information, the likelihood and severity of actual or potential harms, account history, and applicable laws.

Violations of our rules may result in consequences such as account restrictions or suspension of your content. Roadriven has the sole authority and final decision as to whether content or behavior violates our rules.

If you find a post or account on Roadriven that you believe violates these rules, please report it to us at team@roadriven.com.

RULES

Capitalized terms here have the same meaning as defined in the Roadriven Terms of Service.

Threats of violence and incitement.

We do not allow content or actions that threaten, encourage, or incite violence against anyone, directly or indirectly.

Hateful content

We do not allow content that constitutes or promotes violence, harassment, or hatred against people based on characteristics like race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, disability, disease, age, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity.

We do not allow posts or accounts that glorify, celebrate, downplay, or trivialize violence, suffering, abuse, or deaths of individuals or groups. This includes the use of scientific or pseudoscientific claims or misleading statistics to pathologize, dehumanize, or disempower others. We do not allow calls for intolerance, exclusion, or segregation based on protected characteristics, nor do we allow the glorification of groups which do any of the above.

We do not allow posts or accounts that target others with slurs, tropes, or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. For example, this may include targeted or intentional misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals, or harmfully ableist language.

We do not allow hateful text, images, symbols, or other content, including in your username, profile, or bio.

Harassment

Roadriven exists to share and discover travels. We don’t tolerate harassment, which includes:

• Bullying, threatening, mocking, or shaming someone, or posting things likely to encourage others to do so
• Engaging in a repetitive or targeted campaign of harassment against someone or a group of people
• Using derogatory language, racial slurs, or obscenities to disparage or attack someone or a group of people
• Using Roadriven features like responses, private messages, mentions, follows, bookmarks in a way that attempts to or does annoy or harass someone, or to draw inorganic attention to your content on Roadriven

Privacy and Reputation

We do not allow the following:

• Posting images of, transcripts of, copies of, or links to private communications between private individuals without the explicit consent of all parties to the communication. Redacting names or other information does not supplant the need to secure permissions
• Doxing, which includes not only private or obscure personal information but also the aggregation of publicly available information to target, shame, blackmail, harass, intimidate, threaten, or endanger a person or group of people
• Posting intimate or explicit images taken or posted without the subject’s express consent
• Content that violates others’ privacy or personal safety, including sensitive or confidential information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, non-public phone numbers, physical addresses, email addresses, non-public data, or other similar information

Restricted categories

We do not allow posts or accounts that engage in the following restricted categories of activity:

• Promotion of controversial, suspect, or extreme content.
• Facilitation of gambling or betting
• Facilitation of buying or selling social media interactions, including off-platform
• Facilitation of sexual services
• Facilitation of copyright or other intellectual property violation
• Facilitation or evidence of violating the terms of service of Roadriven or third party(s)
• Providing reviews of businesses or products in a gratuitously harmful or abusive manner
• Facilitation of illegal hacking (e.g., stealing credentials, compromising personal data)
• Promotion of pseudoscience, disinformation, or other content that is contrary to public health or safety

Related conduct

We do not allow content or accounts that engage in on-platform, off-platform, or cross-platform campaigns of targeting, harassment, hate speech, violence, or disinformation. We may consider off-platform actions in assessing a Roadriven account, and restrict access or availability to that account.

Graphic content

We do not allow posting, linking to, or otherwise promoting pornographic images or videos. We do allow erotic writing and non-graphic erotic images.

Roadriven is a large network, and posts can travel in front of all different types of readers. We ask that you be mindful of unintentional viewers when selecting your images.

We do not allow gratuitously graphic or disturbing media, regardless of subject matter.

Exploitation of minors

We do not allow content promoting the sexual, violent, or other exploitation of minors, including the sexualization of fictional minors.

Promotion and glorification of self-harm

We do not allow content or activities that encourage, promote or glorify acts of self-harm, such as cutting, eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia, and suicide. If you encounter users contemplating or threatening self-harm, please report it.

Duplicate Content

We do not allow posting duplicate copies of the same content to Roadriven, whether from a single account or across multiple accounts, either publicly or as a private travel. (You are allowed to cross-post content from your blog to Roadriven, provided you own the rights for the content.)

Spam or Site Misuse

We do not allow spam or misuse of Roadriven. All spam or misuse will be immediately removed from Roadriven without notification. Examples of spam or misuse include:

• Posting content primarily to drive traffic to, or increase the search rankings of, an external site, product, or service
• Scraping and reposting content from other sources for the primary purpose of generating revenue or other personal gains
• Posting duplicate content, whether from a single account or across multiple accounts
• Travels where the content is clipped with the purpose of linking to the rest of the article on a different website
• Performing a disproportionately large number of interactions, particularly by automated means. This includes bulk or indiscriminate interactions, such as following of other accounts (follow spam) liking, bookmarking, leaving notes, or flagging content
• Repeatedly using responses, mentions, or other interactions as a method of promotion or marketing
• Participating in bounty campaigns or brigades to artificially inflate rankings for posts, accounts, businesses, or products
• Use or re-use content templates with slight modifications across multiple posts and accounts

For each of these behaviors, when we talk about “content” we mean not only posts but also any other feature that allows you to add your own text or media. When we talk about “interactions” we mean any feature that allows one user to interact with another person or post.

Copyright and trademark infringement

Respect the copyrights and trademarks of others. Per our Terms of Service, we require users to have permission to post the content they publish on Roadriven. Users found in violation of our copyright rules are not eligible for warning, appeal, or restoration. Deletion of copyright violations is not grounds for reinstatement.

Deceptive conduct

We do not allow deceptive conduct on Roadriven. This includes:

• Posting content or impersonating a person or organization in a way likely to deceive people. We have our special Username Policy.
• Using Roadriven for phishing or fraud. Don’t use tags, links, titles, or other metadata in a misleading way. Don’t link to or embed malicious or harmful code or software in your posts
• Using deception to generate revenue or traffic
• If you have received free goods or services, or anything of value in connection with the topic of a post, you must make this clear.

Ads, Promotions, and Marketing

• First party promotion is allowed, and you may promote and link to your own business, website, mailing list, or fundraiser.
• Third-party advertising and sponsorships are not allowed. You may not advertise or promote third-party products, services, or brands through Roadriven posts, publications, or newsletters. This includes images that indicate brand sponsorship in a post or newsletter, or as part of a publication name or logo.
• Affiliate links, such as links out to AirBnb with an affiliate code, or any other link out where you will receive a commission or other value, are allowed in posts. However, you must disclose the inclusion of these links in your post. This can be a simple sentence in the footer.

Embedded Content and Collection of Personal Information

To ensure the data privacy and security of our users, embedded content must comply with the following requirements. An “embed” includes a link, form, or a request for information or other content.

Embeds directly collecting data through Roadriven form fields, comments or other onsite means are not allowed. This includes embeds that facilitate the submission of email addresses, credit card information or other personal information. If you want to collect information from your readers, you will need to follow these requirements:

• If you link out from your post on Roadriven to a form hosted elsewhere, that form must make it clear to a user that they are no longer in the Roadriven network and the information they disclose is subject to the third-party’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy,
• If the link directs users to your own platform to subscribe to your newsletter, blog or other content you create, then in your Roadriven content immediately next to the link you must disclose that the link will take the user offsite outside of Roadriven
• If your content includes a form that sends user information to you or a third-party, immediately next to or within the form you must disclose that the form will send the user’s information to an offsite third-party outside of Roadriven that is subject to that offsite third-party’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, or offsite outside of Roadriven, to you directly.

Paid, automatic, bulk, or non-genuine interactions

Roadriven depends on various user behaviors — like follows and likes — to determine what content to feature and make the site work well for everyone. We don’t allow artificial behaviors that skew this system and as a result degrade or distort other users’ experiences.

This includes:

• Buying, selling, or trading in accounts or account interactions — including views, reads, follows, likes, bookmarks, responses, or other traffic
• Using services, apps, or arrangements that offer you more views, reads, follows, likes, or other interactions on your Roadriven account or content
• Registering accounts, posting content, or interacting with users or content automatically, systematically, or programmatically

OTHER

Prohibitions on Use of the Services

You agree not to do, try to do, or cause a third party to do any of the following, except without the express written consent of Roadriven:

• Access or tamper with non-public areas of the Services, our computer systems, or the systems of our technical providers
• Access or search the Services by any means other than the currently available, published interfaces (e.g., APIs) that we provide
• Forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive, or false source-identifying information
• Use the Services in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the Services, or interfere with any other use of the Services
• Use any software, script, robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to access the Services for any purpose, including without limitation to scrape or otherwise copy any of the data or content on the Services
• Use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the data or content on the Services, or to engage in any other unauthorized purpose
• Otherwise use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Services
• Otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services.

How to report a violation

If you find a post or account on Roadriven that violates these rules, please report it to us by writing to team@roadriven.com.

If you break the rules

We strive to be fair, but we reserve the right to suspend accounts or remove content, without notice, for any reason, particularly to protect our services, infrastructure, users, or community. If you attempt to evade suspension by creating new accounts or posts, we will suspend your new accounts and posts.

Notice

Upon investigating or disabling content associated with your account, we will notify you, unless we believe your account is automated or operating in bad faith, or that notifying you is likely to cause, maintain or exacerbate harm to someone.

Appeals

If you believe your content or account has been restricted or disabled in error, or believe there is relevant context we were not aware of in reaching our determination, you can write to us at team@roadriven.com. We will consider all good faith efforts to appeal.

Government Takedown Requests

If Roadriven receives a request from a government actor to restrict access to content associated with your account, we will notify you unless we are prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others. Where applicable, we will work to limit legally-ordered content restrictions to jurisdictions where we have a good faith belief that we are legally required to restrict the content.

APPLICABILITY

We may enforce, or not enforce, these policies at our sole discretion. These policies don’t create a duty or contractual obligation for us to act.
We also may change these rules at any time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of these rules and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our website or providing you with a notification).