Why this policy exists.
We want shapes to be a good place for people to share their work. This policy is part of our Terms of Service. It applies to everything you create, upload, publish, link to, embed or run through shapes, including pages, images, signup forms, custom code and what you ask Cove to write.
Do not publish or link to content that:
You may not:
- is illegal, or helps someone break the law;
- sexually exploits or endangers children, in any form, or is non-consensual sexual material. We may report suspected offences and will make reports where the law requires;
- threatens, harasses, bullies or stalks anyone, or incites violence or hatred against people for who they are;
- is a scam or deceives people, including phishing, fake shops, fake giveaways, impersonation, and misleading claims about identity, products, or health;
- infringes someone’s copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights;
- exposes other people’s private information, such as addresses, ID numbers, or private images, without permission;
- contains or links to malware, or tries to steal credentials or hijack a visitor’s device;
- promotes terrorism or violent extremism, or the sale of illegal goods, weapons or drugs where this is not permitted;
- is spam, including bulk or deceptive links meant to manipulate search engines or social platforms.
Do not misuse the service.
You also may not:
- Access, test or disrupt accounts, data, or systems that are not yours, or bypass limits and security.
- Overload shapes, or scrape or copy it in bulk, including through automated tools that ignore the rate limits.
- Create accounts or pages to evade a ban or to reserve names you do not intend to use.
- Resell, or share paid-plan access to people you do not represent.
- Use custom code to collect personal information from visitors without telling them, to track them across sites, to mine cryptocurrency, or to run anything that is harmful.
- Use Cove or an outside AI assistant to generate content that breaks this policy.
Collecting visitors’ information.
If your page collects email addresses or other personal information, give visitors a clear privacy notice and obtain any permission required for the purposes you choose. A signup submission is not permission for unrelated marketing. The built-in form does not verify address ownership, send a double-opt-in confirmation or keep a complete record of the notice and consent a visitor saw. shapes does not send your newsletters or manage unsubscribes for exported lists. Follow applicable privacy and anti-spam laws, protect the information, honour access and deletion requests, and provide an unsubscribe method when required. Do not add people to a list who have not asked to be on it.
Review the data practices of embeds, custom code and other resources before publishing. Obtain any required consent before non-essential tracking loads. shapes does not automatically block these integrations or provide a full consent-management platform for creator pages; its Cookie settings only controls shapes browser analytics. Cookieless page statistics may still involve personal data and do not remove your notice or consent responsibilities.
Reporting something.
If you see a page that breaks these rules, email [email protected] with the page address and what is wrong. For copyright, please follow the Copyright Policy. We cannot promise a reply to every report, but we review them.
Please do not send us passwords, sign-in links, payment-card numbers, or material that is itself illegal. If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.
What we do about it.
We may remove content, take a page offline, limit features, or suspend or close an account, with or without notice, depending on how serious and how likely to cause harm the problem is. We may also report illegal activity to the authorities and give them the information the law requires.
If we act on your account, we will tell you what we can. You can reply to the email to explain or to ask us to look again; we will consider it fairly, though the decision is ours.
Changes.
We may update this policy as new problems appear. The date at the top shows the latest version.