Short Policy
We want Joy+ to be an authentic and safe place for practicing gratitude, empowering other users and a place to find inspiration. Help us foster this community. Post positive photos and videos and always follow the law. Respect everyone on Joy+, don’t spam people or post nudity.
Long Policy
Joy+ is a reflection of our diverse community of cultures, ages, and beliefs. Different points of view that create a safe and open environment for everyone is very important to us.
We created the Community Guidelines so you can help us foster and protect this empowering community. By using Joy+, you agree to these guidelines and our Terms of Conditions. We’re committed to these guidelines and we hope you are too. Overstepping these boundaries may result in deleted content, disabled accounts, or other restrictions.
Post photos and videos that are appropriate for a diverse audience.
We know that there are times when people might want to share nude images that are artistic or creative in nature, but for a variety of reasons, we don’t allow nudity on Joy+. This includes photos, videos, and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks. It also includes some photos of female nipples, but photos in the context of breastfeeding, birth giving and after-birth moments, health-related situations (for example, post-mastectomy, breast cancer awareness or gender confirmation surgery) or an act of protest are allowed. Nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures is OK, too.
People like to share photos or videos of their children. For safety reasons, there are times when we may remove images that show nude or partially-nude children. Even when this content is shared with good intentions, it could be used by others in unanticipated ways.
Foster meaningful and genuine interactions.
Help us stay spam-free by not artificially collecting likes, or shares, posting repetitive comments or content, or repeatedly contacting people for commercial purposes without their consent. Don’t offer money or giveaways of money in exchange for likes, comments or other engagement. Don’t post content that engages in, promotes, encourages, facilitates, or admits to the offering, solicitation or trade of fake and misleading user reviews or ratings.
You don’t have to use your real name on Joy+, but we do require Joy+ users to provide us with accurate and up to date information. Don’t impersonate others and don’t create accounts for the purpose of violating our guidelines or misleading others.
Follow the law.
Joy+ is not a place to support or praise terrorism, organized crime, or hate groups. Offering sexual services, buying or selling firearms, alcohol, and tobacco products between private individuals, and buying or selling illegal or prescription drugs (even if legal in your region) are also not allowed. Remember to always follow the law when offering to sell or buy goods or services. Accounts promoting online gambling, online real money games of skill or online lotteries are prohibited.
We have zero tolerance when it comes to sharing sexual content involving minors or threatening to post intimate images of others.
Respect other members of the Joy+ community.
We want to foster a positive, diverse community. We remove content that contains credible threats or hate speech, content that targets private individuals to degrade or shame them, personal information meant to blackmail or harass someone, and repeated unwanted messages. We do generally allow stronger conversation around people who are featured in the news or have a large public audience due to their profession or chosen activities.
It’s never OK to encourage violence or attack anyone based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, disabilities, or diseases. When hate speech is being shared to challenge it or to raise awareness, we may allow it. In those instances, we ask that you express your intent clearly.
Serious threats of harm to public and personal safety aren’t allowed. This includes specific threats of physical harm as well as threats of theft, vandalism, and other financial harm. We carefully review reports of threats and consider many things when determining whether a threat is credible.
Maintain our supportive environment by not glorifying self-injury.
The Joy+ community cares for each other, and is often a place where people facing difficult issues such as eating disorders, cutting, or other kinds of self-injury come together to create awareness or find support. Encouraging or urging people to embrace self-injury is counter to this environment of support, and we’ll remove it or disable accounts if it’s reported to us. We may also remove consent identifying victims or survivors of self-injury if the content targets them for attack or humour.
Be thoughtful when posting newsworthy events.
We understand that many people use Joy+ to share important and newsworthy events. Some of these issues can involve graphic images. Because so many different people and age groups use Joy+, we may remove videos of intense, graphic violence to make sure Joy+ stays appropriate for everyone.
We understand that people often share this kind of content to condemn, raise awareness or educate. If you do share content for these reasons, we encourage you to caption your photo with a warning about graphic violence. Sharing graphic images for sadistic pleasure or to glorify violence is never allowed.
Help us keep the community strong.
Each of us is an important part of the Joy+ community. If you see something that you think may violate our guidelines, please help us by using our build-in reporting option. We have a team that reviews these reports and works as quickly as possible within 24 hours to remove content that doesn’t meet our guidelines. Even if you or someone you know doesn’t have a Joy+ account, you can still file a report by emailing us at info@joyplus.ca. When you complete the report, try to provide as much information as possible, such as links, usernames, and descriptions of the content, so we can find and review it quickly. We may remove entire posts if either the imagery or associated captions violate our guidelines.
We may work with law enforcement, including when we believe that there’s risk of physical harm or threat to public safety.
For more information, check out our Help Center Privacy Policy.
Thank you for helping us create an empowering community,
The Joy+ Team