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Adda 365 — Community Guidelines

DRAFT v0.2 · 30 August 2026 · For counsel review — not yet in force. Written in the app's voice — these are user-facing. Legal anchors appear as footnote-style brackets for counsel and would render as a collapsible "the law behind this" section in-app.

Have fun responsibly. That's the whole app in two words. These guidelines are how ten thousand strangers on a campus stay safe enough to become friends, dates, and study groups.

1. Be 18+, be you

Everyone here passed a government-backed age check and a liveness selfie — so must you. No accounts for someone else, no catfishing, no AI-generated faces posing as yours. If any photo or video you post is AI-made or AI-altered to look real, you must mark it when uploading, and we'll label it — removing that label is a violation. Deepfakes of real people are banned outright, declared or not. (IT Rules 2021 as amended Feb 2026 — synthetic content declaration and labelling; impersonation.)

2. Consent runs everything

• A match is an invitation to talk, nothing more.
• "No" and silence both mean no. Repeated unwanted contact after a clear no is harassment — the app will literally ask you "are you sure?" before some messages send. Listen to it.
• Never share someone's photos, chats, or identity outside the app without their consent. Screenshots of private conversations posted to shame someone are a violation here and can be a crime out there. (BNS 2023 §§75–79 — sexual harassment, voyeurism, stalking; IT Act §66E.)

3. Absolutely never

• Intimate imagery without consent — sharing it, threatening to share it, or asking minors for anything. Reports of non-consensual intimate imagery are actioned within 24 hours; synthetic ("deepfake") intimate imagery within the faster timelines the law now sets. Content is destroyed, evidence is preserved, and we cooperate with police. (IT Rules Rule 3(2)(b); Feb 2026 Amendment; IT Act §§66E, 67, 67A.)
• Anyone under 18 — on the app, in your photos with romantic context, in your requests. Zero tolerance; we report where the law requires. (POCSO Act 2012.)
• Money asks and scams — investment "tips", crypto, loan requests, sugar arrangements, links to off-platform payments. The app warns recipients about money-talk in early chats; organised scamming is a ban and a report.
• Hate and threats — attacks on religion, caste, gender, sexuality, disability, or region; doxxing; rape "jokes"; violence talk. (Rule 3(1)(b) catalogue; BNS provisions.)
• Commercial use — advertising, OnlyFans-style funnels, MLM recruiting, political canvassing.

4. Wellness spaces are different

Circles and Q&A run on separate anonymous identities — even we can't connect your wellness activity to your dating profile, by construction, and nothing there ever affects your matches. What's shared in a circle stays in the circle. Doctor answers are general information from registered practitioners, not prescriptions or diagnosis; crisis messages get helpline information immediately and never block you from posting. (Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020.)

5. Games, plans, mixers

Real names at real events: plan check-ins exist so hosts know who came. Hosts must hold events at the announced public venue; "venue changed, come to my room" is a violation. Gender-balance caps at mixers are a safety feature, not a scoreboard. Tickets refund in full when we or the host cancel — see Terms §5.

5A. Vibe Checks (calls)

Calls exist here as short, guided interviews — and only when both of you say yes. What the prompts are for: keeping it fun and low-stakes. What the AI safety monitor is for: nudity, sexual content, and threats end the call instantly and go to a human reviewer — the same zero-tolerance list as everywhere else on the app. Calls are never recorded; flagged moments are preserved as evidence. Being on a call doesn't lower the bar: consent rules from §2 apply live, too.

6. When you report

Every profile and message has a report button. What happens: a human reviewer (not just an algorithm) looks at it; the reported person is not told who reported; enforcement runs warn → feature-limit → suspend → ban, proportionate to harm; serious harms skip the ladder. Chat history is tamper-evidently preserved, so "they edited the screenshot" is checkable — in both directions. False reporting to harass someone is itself a violation.

You'll get an acknowledgement within 24 hours and an outcome within 15 days (72 hours for illegal-content categories; 24 hours for intimate-imagery reports). Disagree with a decision? Appeal to the Grievance Officer (Terms §12), and beyond us to the government's Grievance Appellate Committee.

7. Off the app

Behaviour at events we list, or toward people you met here, counts — harassment doesn't get a pass for happening in the mess hall instead of the chat. If something happened to you offline, report it here too; we'll act on the account and help you find the right authorities.

8. Our promises back

No ads, no selling your data, no visibility-for-payment on matching, no desirability scores. Moderation aims at safety, not censorship of awkward flirting. Every enforcement action is logged and auditable, and these guidelines change only with notice.

These rules are the same in every country we operate in; the bracketed law references are India's, and each market's annex maps them to local equivalents (UK Online Safety Act, EU DSA, US federal and state law). Helplines shown in the app are localised to your market.

Emergency (India)? Call 112. Women's helpline 181. Cyber crime: cybercrime.gov.in or 1930. Mental health: Tele-MANAS 14416.