Community Guidelines

VSCO is a place for self-expression, but also a community where everyone should feel safe. Along with our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, we've crafted our Community Guidelines to foster a community based on respect and understanding, while also celebrating the different cultures, perspectives, and values that make us human.

The following types of content or behavior violate our Community Guidelines, and could result in the Trust & Safety team removing content and/or suspending your account.

Click on the links below to jump to each section:

• Safety
• Inappropriate Content
• Misleading Content
• Intellectual Property
• Resources and Feedback

Safety

Violence and Threats

• What's not allowed:
  • Horrifying, violent, or distressing content, including animal abuse
  • Threatening to cause physical, emotional, or financial harm towards others

Bullying and Harassment

• What's not allowed:
  • Degrading, shaming, or the harassment of others

Harmful or Suicidal Content

• What's not allowed:
  • Promoting behavior intended to place minors at serious risk of harm (e.g. daring challenge games)
  • Graphic content that glorifies self-harm such as things like:
    • Eating disorders
    • Cutting
    • Suicide
  • Encouraging or telling another person to commit suicide or engage in self-harm
• Actions you can take:
  • If you or someone you know is considering self-harm or suicide, please know there are resources that can be found here

Private Information

• What's not allowed:
  • The solicitation of disclosure of any personally identifiable or private information of others or your own, such as things like:
    • Images of someone else's identity card, passport, work badge, or images with their car license plate showing

Inappropriate Content

Illegal Behavior

• What's not allowed:
  • Content engaging in illegal behavior or criminal activity, including things like:
    • Illegal drugs or other banned substances
    • Sexual services
    • Fraudulent activities
    • Engaging or trying to engage a minor in conversation for sexual purposes
    • Anything else that is against the law

Hateful Conduct

• What's not allowed:
  • Discriminating or promoting hatred or violence towards individuals or groups based on:
    • Race
    • Ethnicity
    • National origin
    • Religious affiliation
    • Gender identity
    • Sexual orientation
    • Age
    • Disability or diseases

Terrorism/Extremism and Hate Organizations

• What's not allowed:
  • Hate or extremist organizations with a record and clearly-stated intention to commit terrorist or violent criminal activity are prohibited from maintaining a presence on VSCO to promote any of their campaigns, plans, celebrate their violent acts, to fundraise, or recruit people.

Nudity and Sexually Explicit Content

• What's not allowed:
  • Sexually explicit or pornographic content, including digitally-created content that depicts things like:
    • Sexual intercourse
    • Masturbation
    • Genitals
    • Zoomed in, unclothed buttocks
    • Frontal nudity
  • Any nude content involving minors or content that appears to be sexualizing a minor will be removed and promptly reported to the proper authorities.

• Exceptions to the above rules:
  • Non-sexualized fine art (such as paintings and sculpture)
  • Mothers breastfeeding
  • Mastectomy scars

Misleading Content

Spam and Phishing

• What's not allowed:
  • Spammy or misleading content
  • Content intended to bother or harass others on VSCO

Impersonation

• What's not allowed:
  • Impersonating another person or organization in a way that deceives others

Intellectual Property

Copyrights and Trademarks

• What's not allowed:
  • Posting content that's someone else's copyrighted or trademarked work without permission
• Actions you can take:
  • Use this form to file a claim if your believe someone has used your or someone else's work without permission

Resources and Feedback

Help keep VSCO a safe place for everyone

Sometimes we need your help to keep VSCO a safe place for everyone.

If you see anything on VSCO that you feel violates our Terms of Use, or may indicate an imminent threat to the well-being or safety of that person or others, we want to know.

Actions you can take:

• Reporting violating content or behavior
• Get resources if you, or someone else you know is considering self-harm or suicide
• File a claim if you believe someone has used your or someone else's work without permission

We want to hear from you

VSCO is made better by you. Please don’t hesitate to share your feedback and experiences with us.