What these standards cover
These standards apply to public profiles, recipes, images, descriptions, links, subscriber-only content, and other material made available to other people through the service.
What DinDin may do, and what it does not undertake
DinDin may restrict or remove content or accounts that violate these standards or otherwise create legal, safety, fraud, payment, or platform risk. DinDin does not undertake a general obligation to pre-screen or monitor everything users publish.
Keep public content relevant to DinDin
Public Cook content should have a reasonable relationship to recipes, food, cooking, meal planning, kitchen technique or equipment, ingredient education, food photography, creator information relevant to the Cook profile, or properly disclosed lawful sponsorship or affiliate content.
DinDin may remove unrelated material even if a general-purpose social network might permit it.
Not allowed
- Illegal activity, or meaningful facilitation of illegal activity.
- Child sexual exploitation, grooming, trafficking, or child sexual abuse material.
- Pornography, sexual services, explicit sexual content, sexualized nudity, fetish content, or non-consensual intimate imagery.
- Threats, incitement or glorification of serious violence, terrorism or violent extremism, or operational instructions intended to facilitate serious violence.
- Hate or violence against protected groups, stalking, harassment, extortion, or coordinated abuse.
- Doxxing, private sensitive information, or deceptive impersonation.
- Scams, phishing, fabricated testimonials, fake endorsements, or materially deceptive commercial claims.
- Materially deceptive medical, nutrition, allergy, food-safety, or disease-treatment claims.
- Copyright, trademark, publicity, or privacy infringement.
- Malware, spam, credential theft, fake engagement, ranking or payment manipulation, or evasion of restrictions.
- Encouragement or actionable instructions for suicide, serious self-injury, poisoning, or intentional serious physical harm.
- Other material DinDin considers obscene, excessively graphic, exploitative, dangerous, materially deceptive, unlawful, or inappropriate for a general-audience food service.
AI-assisted content
AI-assisted content is not exempt from these standards. The Cook who chooses to publish it must review it and remains responsible for that publication under the Terms.
Sponsored and affiliate content
Disclose material relationships when legally required. Do not hide sponsorship or present paid advertising as an independent review.
Reports and enforcement
Reports help alert DinDin to a possible issue. They do not guarantee investigation, removal, suspension, or a response within any particular time.
These standards regulate user conduct and guide DinDin's enforcement discretion. They do not create a contractual right for one user to require DinDin to take action against another user, and they do not make a user a third-party beneficiary of another user's agreement with DinDin.
Knowingly false, fabricated, retaliatory, or abusive reports violate the Terms. Good-faith reports remain protected even when we ultimately disagree with the reporter.
Emergencies
If someone is in immediate danger, contact the appropriate emergency service. DinDin is not an emergency-response service.
Copyright complaints
A copyright complaint has its own process, because the law asks for particular information: use the Copyright and DMCA page. For impersonation, trademark or likeness problems, use the trademark and impersonation report; for a nonconsensual intimate image, use intimate image removal — both are linked below.
Questions can be submitted through DinDin's Contact page.