Community Guidelines

Security & Safeguards · Company commitment

MyFitnessPal lists eating disorder and suicide prevention resources, with crisis help said to be available 24/7

MyFitnessPal says it has a list of support resources on an Eating Disorder Resources page. It also says that if you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available 24/7, and it has a list of resources on a Suicide Prevention Resources page. The text points to help pages; it does not say that MyFitnessPal itself provides the 24/7 help.

Supporting quotations

We have a list of support resources available on our

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available 24/7.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The 24/7 statement is about help being available; the text does not say who provides it.

Not stated here

• The linked Eating Disorder Resources and Suicide Prevention Resources pages are not supplied, so the services they list are unknown.

Security & Safeguards · User right or choice

Check privacy settings, only share what you are OK making public, and use safety tools to block and report

Under Respect Privacy, MyFitnessPal asks members to check the privacy settings in their profile and to only divulge information on its forums that they are OK with being public. It asks members to use its safety tools to block members who send unwanted messages and to report suspicious or malicious activity to staff or moderators. These are requests to members to manage their own exposure, and they state the purpose as preserving the safety and anonymity of members.

Supporting quotations

Respect Privacy

To preserve the safety and anonymity of our members, please be sure to check the privacy settings in your profile and only divulge information on our forums that you are OK with being public.

to block members who send you unwanted messages and report suspicious or malicious activity to

Qualifications & exceptions

• Phrased as requests ("please").

Not stated here

• The linked help article on whether an account is private is not supplied, so the available privacy settings and safety tools are not described here.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Do not interfere with or damage the Services, or post deceptive or fraudulent links

Members must not interfere with or damage the operation of the Services, including through unauthorized use, disruption, automated attacks, exploitation, or abuse of its resources. They must not post deceptive or fraudulent links, with examples including links with misleading descriptions, putting the wrong "source" field in a post, setting misleading click-through links on images, and embedding links to interstitial or pop-up ads.

Supporting quotations

Interfere with or damage the operation of the Services, including through unauthorized use, disruption, automated attacks, exploitation, or abuse of our resources.

Post deceptive or fraudulent links, such as links with misleading descriptions, putting the wrong “source” field in a post, setting misleading click-through links on images, or embedding links to interstitial or pop-up ads.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The examples of deceptive links are introduced with "such as" and are not exhaustive.