Law Insider Code of Conduct

LAST UPDATED: 23/6/2020

Each participant in our Law Insider community is responsible for maintaining and abiding by this Community Conduct Policy. Violations of our rules may result in consequences such as account restrictions, limited distribution of your posts, and suspension of your account.

We may enforce, or not enforce, this policy at our sole discretion. This policy does not create a duty or contractual obligation for us to act. We also may change this policy or our rules at any time.

Threats of violence and incitement

We do not allow content or actions that threaten, encourage, or incite violence against anyone, directly or indirectly.

Hate speech

We do not allow content that promotes violence or hatred against people based on characteristics like race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, disease, age, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity.

We do not allow posts or accounts that glorify, celebrate, downplay, or trivialize violence, suffering, abuse, or deaths of individuals or groups. We do not allow calls for intolerance, exclusion, or segregation based on protected characteristics, nor do we allow the glorification of groups which do any of the above.

We do not allow hateful text, images, symbols, or other content in your username, profile, or bio.

Harassment

Law Insider encourages the sharing and discussion of ideas. We don’t tolerate harassment, which includes:

• Bullying, threatening, or shaming someone, or posting things likely to encourage others to do so
• Using interactive features, like comments, mentions, or follows, in a way intended to annoy or harass someone
• Reviewing businesses or products in a gratuitously harmful or abusive manner

Privacy and Reputation

We do not allow the following:

• Posting copies of private communications between private individuals without the explicit consent of all parties to the communication
• Doxing, which includes not only private or obscure personal information but also the aggregation of publicly available information to target, shame, blackmail, harass, intimidate, threaten, or endanger
• Posting intimate or explicit images taken or posted without the subject’s express consent
• Content that violates others’ privacy, including sensitive or confidential information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, non-public phone numbers, physical addresses, email addresses, or other non-public information

Restricted categories

We do not allow posts or accounts that engage in the following restricted categories of activity:

• Promotion of harmful conspiracies
• Facilitation of gambling or betting
• Facilitation of buying or selling user interactions, including off-platform
• Facilitation of illegal sexual services
• Facilitation of copyright violation or other intellectual property infringement

Related conduct

We do not allow posts or accounts that engage in on-platform, off-platform, or cross-platform campaigns of targeting, harassment, hate speech, violence, or disinformation.

Duplicate Content

We do not allow posting duplicate content, whether from a single account or across multiple accounts.

Spam

We do not allow spam on Law Insider. All spam will be immediately removed from Law Insider, without notification. While it is hard to define this content with precision or completeness, here are some representative behaviors we look for that are characteristic of spam:

• Posting content primarily to drive traffic to, or increase the search rankings of, an external site, product, or service
• Scraping and reposting content from other sources for the primary purpose of generating revenue or other personal gains
• Posting duplicate content, whether from a single account or across multiple accounts
• Stories where the content is clipped with the sole purpose of linking to the rest of the article on a different website
• Performing a disproportionately large number of interactions, particularly by automated means. This includes bulk, indiscriminate interactions.
• Repeatedly using responses or other interactions as a method of promotion
• Use or re-use content templates with slight modifications across multiple posts and accounts

For each of these behaviors, when we talk about “content,” we mean not only blog posts but also any other feature that allows you to add your own text or media. When we talk about “interactions,” we mean any feature that allows one user to interact with another, or with a blog post.

Paid, automatic, bulk, or non-genuine interactions

Law Insider depends on various user interactions — like comments and likes — to determine what content to feature and make the site work well for everyone. So, we don’t allow artificial behaviors that skew this system and as a result degrade or distort other users’ experiences. This includes:

• Buying, selling, or trading in accounts or account interactions
• Using services, apps, or arrangements that offer you more interactions on your Law Insider account or content
• Registering accounts, posting content, or interacting with users or content automatically, systematically, or programmatically

Copyright and trademark infringement

Respect the copyrights and trademarks of others. Unless you’re authorized to use someone else’s copyrighted work or trademark (either expressly or by legal exceptions and limitations like fair use), don’t do it. We respond to notices of alleged infringement as described in our Terms of Service, which includes instructions for submitting a DMCA takedown notice.

Deceptive conduct

We do not allow deceptive conduct on Law Insider. This includes:

• Posting content or impersonating a person or organization in a way likely to deceive people.
• Using Law Insider for phishing or fraud. Don’t use tags, links, titles, or other metadata in a misleading way. Don’t link to or embed malicious or harmful code or software in your posts
• Don’t use deception to generate revenue or traffic
• If you have received compensation, free goods/services or anything of value in connection with the topic of a post, you must make this clear

Ads, Promotions, and Marketing

• Third-party advertising and sponsorships are not allowed. You may not advertise or promote third-party products, services, or brands through Law Insider posts, or other publications.
• Images functioning as third-party ads are not allowed. Inline images or embeds that link out and function as banner ads for third-party brands are not allowed.
• Multi-level marketing content is not allowed.

Embedded Content

We are restricting the behavior of certain embedded content:

• Embeds that directly collect data through form fields are not allowed. This includes embeds that facilitate the submission of email addresses and other personally identifying information through forms and the submission of credit card information. If you want to collect information from your readers, you will need to link out from your post on Law Insider to a form hosted elsewhere that makes it clear to a user that they are no longer in the Law Insider network or platform.

Cryptocurrency Posts

Posts and accounts that focus on cryptocurrencies which do not meet the following requirements may be considered spam and are subject to suspension, depending on context. Law Insider does not endorse or verify any coin, token, or similar announcement.

Graphic content

We do not allow pornographic images or videos. We do allow erotic writing and non-graphic erotic images.

We do not allow gratuitously graphic or disturbing media, even if it’s not pornographic.

Exploitation of minors

We do not allow content promoting the sexual or violent exploitation of minors, including the sexualization of fictional minors.

Promotion and glorification of self-harm

We do not allow activities that encourage, promote or glorify acts of self-harm. If you encounter users contemplating or threatening self-harm, please report it to us via the form or email address linked below.

How to report a violation

If you find a post or content on Law Insider that violates these rules, please send us an email to community@lawinsider.com.

If you break the rules

We strive to be fair, but we reserve the right to suspend accounts or remove content, without notice, for any reason, particularly to protect our services, infrastructure, users, or community. If you attempt to evade suspension by creating new accounts or posts, we will suspend your new accounts and posts.

Notice

Upon investigating or disabling content associated with your account, we will notify you, unless we believe your account is automated or operating in bad faith, or that notifying you is likely to cause, maintain or exacerbate harm to someone.

Appeals

If you believe your content or account has been restricted or disabled in error, or believe there is relevant context we were not aware of in reaching our determination, you can write to us at community@lawinsider.com. We will consider all good faith efforts to appeal.

Government Takedown Requests

If Law Insider receives a request from a government actor to restrict access to content associated with your account, we will notify you unless we are prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others.