1. Core standard
Use OWNTHEDAY for lawful, honest public sponsorships. Content must be suitable for a general audience, accurately identify the sponsor, respect other people’s rights, and lead to a safe destination. You are responsible for anyone using your workspace and for keeping campaigns compliant throughout their display period.
2. Illegal and dangerous activity
Do not promote, facilitate, solicit, or link to illegal goods or services; controlled substances sold unlawfully; weapons trafficking; human exploitation; terrorism or violent extremism; instructions intended to cause harm; sanctions evasion; money laundering; fraud; stolen goods; or credible threats. Regulated products may be restricted or prohibited based on applicable law, audience, location, licensing, and targeting requirements.
3. Hate, harassment, and sexual content
We prohibit hateful or dehumanizing content targeting protected characteristics; harassment, bullying, stalking, doxxing, or encouragement of abuse; celebration of violence; non-consensual intimate imagery; sexual exploitation; content sexualizing minors; and explicit pornography. We may also restrict shocking or graphic material even where lawful because the calendar is public and general-audience.
4. Deception, impersonation, and manipulation
Do not impersonate a person, brand, authority, or OWNTHEDAY; create a false endorsement; hide material sponsorship facts; make unsupported health, financial, environmental, or performance claims; run phishing, pyramid, counterfeit, or get-rich-quick schemes; use deceptive interfaces; manipulate reviews or campaign metrics; coordinate fraudulent takeovers; or use payment instruments without authorization.
5. Intellectual property and publicity rights
Only link a website whose names, logos, images, copy, trademarks, and likenesses you own or are authorized to use. This includes public metadata and images OWNTHEDAY retrieves from that website for the sponsor placement. Comparative or nominative references must be lawful and not confusing. Rights holders can report suspected infringement to [email protected] with the affected URL, proof of rights, basis for the complaint, and contact details. Knowingly false reports are prohibited.
6. Privacy and personal data
Do not publish sensitive personal data, passwords, payment data, government identifiers, private addresses, health records, or information obtained unlawfully. Do not target, identify, or profile children. Get valid consent for testimonials, likenesses, mailing lists, pixels, and any personal data sent to your destination. Sponsor messages cannot be used to expose or shame individuals.
7. Links, files, and technical safety
Destination links must use HTTPS, resolve to the disclosed sponsor, and remain safe. No malware, spyware, credential theft, drive-by downloads, unauthorized cryptomining, forced redirects, cloaking, pop-under behavior, or circumvention of risk checks. OWNTHEDAY fetches public website metadata and eligible raster images through controlled server-side requests, validates them, and stores re-encoded WebP copies. Active code, raw SVG, embedded tracking code, and remote image hotlinks are never published as sponsor visuals.
8. Reservation and platform abuse
Do not create repeated reservations to block inventory; automate bidding; evade per-account, device, or network limits; use bots to distort traffic or clicks; probe or exploit the service; access another workspace; scrape non-public data; overload endpoints; interfere with payment or midnight finalization; reverse engineer security controls; or reuse leaked credentials. Coordinated accounts may be treated as one actor.
9. Restricted categories
Alcohol, gambling, political advertising, financial products, credit, investments, crypto assets, health products, pharmaceuticals, adult-oriented services, dating, contests, and other regulated categories require explicit written approval and may be prohibited by country. Approval can impose age gates, licenses, substantiation, disclosures, or destination controls. Automated bidding and speculative resale of dates are prohibited.
10. Website visual quality and accessibility
Sponsor names, descriptions, and website content used in a placement must be readable and accurate. Do not simulate system warnings or calendar controls, use rapid flashing, rely on color alone, or include unreadable disclosure text. We may resize or re-encode retrieved images, adapt colors for contrast, or create a simple branded fallback when the website does not expose a usable logo or sharing image.
11. Review and enforcement
We may scan sponsor profiles, retrieved website content, and links automatically and review them manually. Depending on risk and history, we may warn, require edits, substitute a safe fallback, remove a website visual, disable a link, freeze a date, limit reservations, suspend an account, preserve evidence, refund or reverse a transaction, or notify payment partners, rights holders, or authorities when lawful.
Financial and takeover records may remain even when public sponsor content is hidden. Enforcement considers severity, context, recurrence, intent, risk of harm, and legal duties. Emergency action can occur without advance notice; otherwise we aim to explain the policy basis.
12. Reporting and appeals
Use “Report content” on a date page or contact [email protected]. Include the URL, reason, relevant evidence, and a safe contact method; never send unnecessary sensitive data. Good-faith reports are confidential where practicable. Sponsors may appeal a decision through [email protected]. A different reviewer should handle eligible appeals. Abuse of reporting tools can itself result in restriction.
13. Geographic rules and changes
We may publish stricter category or country rules based on local advertising, consumer, sanctions, or platform requirements. The stricter rule applies. Material policy changes receive reasonable notice where possible; urgent safety or legal changes may apply immediately.