Acceptable use policy

These come down as soon as we find them, and usually end the account:

• Anything that sexualises a child, or shows a child being abused or exploited. We report it to NCMEC and preserve it for law enforcement. There are no exceptions.
• Intimate images shared without consent, including ones made or altered with AI. We act on a valid removal request within 48 hours and remove identical copies.
• Threats of violence, promoting terrorism, or encouraging someone to hurt themselves.
• Scams, phishing and fraud: fake login pages, payment or credential harvesting, fake investments, impersonating a person or company.
• Malware, or links to it.

• Harassment and hate: targeting a person to abuse, intimidate or humiliate them, sharing their private details (doxxing), or attacking people for who they are.
• Sexually explicit content. Blip is a tool for work; it isn't for pornography, even between consenting adults.
• Graphic violence shown to shock, rather than for news, education or safety.
• Infringing someone's rights: their copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity rights, or recording people where the law requires their consent and you don't have it.
• Other people's sensitive data (health, financial or government ID) shared without the authority to share it.
• Spam: unsolicited bulk messages, or links that send people somewhere other than they expect.
• Deceptive testimonials: fake reviews, or rewards for a testimonial without the disclosure.
• Illegal goods and services, and anything else that breaks the law where you or your viewers are.

• Getting around plan limits, link protections, screening, or a suspension or ban, including by opening new accounts.
• Probing, scanning or testing Blip's security without our written permission, or interfering with other people's use.
• Scraping, or using Blip as a file host for things that aren't recordings you share.
• Sending more API calls than your limits allow, or sharing API keys outside your workspace.

Depending on how serious it is, we may remove a Blip, turn off its link, embeds, walls and clips, hide a link until a person reviews it, suspend a workspace, or close an account and block the email from signing up again. We keep a removed file and its details as evidence rather than deleting them.

Automated screening checks a Blip's title, description, transcript, button link and a few frames when its link first goes public and when it's reported; it flags things for people to review. Only likely sexual content or anything involving a child is hidden before a person looks.

We tell the owner when we remove their Blip, and they can ask for another look from the Blip's page in Blip. A person reviews every appeal.

Every Blip page has a Report link, and Report content takes a link to anything on Blip. Copyright goes through the DMCA policy. If someone is in danger, call your local emergency number first.