Acceptable Use & Safety Rules — CRÜ

CRÜ works when people can participate without fear, pressure, or exhaustion.

You must not:

• harass, threaten, bully, or degrade others
• repeatedly contact someone who has asked you to stop
• organise or encourage others to target a person or group (“dogpiling”)
• use slurs or hateful language towards protected groups

Disagreement is allowed. Contempt isn’t.

Consent and boundaries are non-negotiable.

You must not:

• pressure, guilt, coerce, or manipulate anyone into sharing photos, meeting up, sexting, or continuing a conversation
• persist after someone declines, ignores, or steps back
• threaten to expose, “out”, or retaliate against someone for setting a boundary
• sexualise someone in a targeted or persistent way without consent

No one is owed attention. If someone declines, that’s the end of it.

CRÜ is built to be privacy-respecting. Don’t fight that.

You must not:

• share private personal information (addresses, workplaces, phone numbers, legal names, socials, etc.) without clear permission
• try to identify anonymous or pseudonymous users
• track, stalk, or infer someone’s identity or location through hints, screenshots, triangulation, or “investigations”
• request or share “receipts” intended to expose someone’s identity

You must not post or share:

• sexual content involving minors (zero tolerance)
• non-consensual intimate imagery (including “revenge porn”)
• credible threats of violence
• instructions that facilitate serious wrongdoing or harm

If we believe someone is at risk of imminent harm, we may take urgent action.

You must not:

• scam, defraud, impersonate, or misrepresent yourself for gain
• solicit money under false pretences
• mass-message users to sell products, recruit, or farm attention
• run coordinated inauthentic activity (fake accounts, paid engagement, brigading)

CRÜ prioritises quality and calm over volume.

You must not:

• flood the Service with repetitive or low-effort content that drowns out others
• hijack threads with relentless agenda posting or self-promotion
• post primarily to provoke, derail, or exhaust others (“trolling”)

CRÜ can help people connect, but CRÜ does not supervise offline interactions.

If you choose to meet someone offline, consider:

• meet in public first
• tell a friend where you’re going
• leave early if anything feels off

You must not use CRÜ to facilitate stalking, intimidation, coercion, or retaliation.

You must not:

• scrape, crawl, harvest, or index user content without written permission
• automate posting, commenting, or messaging (bots/scripts)
• bypass rate limits, access controls, or visibility restrictions
• probe security, test vulnerabilities, or attempt to reverse engineer the Service
• introduce malware or attempt to disrupt the Service

Serious technical abuse may result in immediate restriction, suspension, or termination.

If you report something, do it in good faith.

You must not:

• file false or bad-faith reports to punish someone you dislike
• use reporting tools as a harassment mechanism
• retaliate against someone for reporting you (including threats or exposure attempts)

Actions we may take include:

• removing content
• reducing visibility or reach
• limiting features (posting, commenting, messaging)
• temporary suspension
• permanent removal

We aim to be proportionate. But if something is severe — especially privacy violations, threats, exploitation, non-consensual imagery, or technical abuse — we may act immediately.

We may not share full details of enforcement decisions where safety, privacy, legal constraints, or abuse of process is involved.

Rules can’t cover every situation. Edge cases happen.

We’ll use judgement to protect:

• safety
• privacy
• dignity
• the calm functioning of the community

That’s the point.