Community Guidelines

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Community guidelines

We're updating our Community Guidelines, effective November 12, 2026. You can preview the updated Community Guidelines [here](https://policy.pinterest.com/community-guidelines-preview).

Our mission

Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. That being said, not all content is inspiring - so we have community guidelines to outline what we do and don’t allow on Pinterest. These guidelines are our acceptable use policy, so if you find content that shouldn’t be on Pinterest, please [report it to us](https://help.pinterest.com/article/report-something-on-pinterest). We appreciate your feedback and work hard to review your report and take appropriate action in a timely fashion. We use your reports to learn and evolve our standards, and work with subject matter experts to inform and update our guidelines. You can learn more about how we enforce these guidelines in our biannual [transparency report](https://policy.pinterest.com/transparency-report).

Content safety

Pinterest isn’t a place for antagonistic, explicit, false or misleading, harmful, hateful, or violent content or behavior. We may remove, limit, or block the distribution of such content and the accounts, individuals, groups and domains that create or spread it based on how much harm it poses. Our policies apply to everyone and to all types of content, including synthetically generated content.

We do not allow accounts that belong to violent actors, hate groups or malicious misinformation actors. We may consider off-platform actions in assessing enforcement against a Pinterest account belonging to one of these groups or associated individuals.

You can read more about how we put our Community Guidelines into practice on our Enforcement page [here](https://policy.pinterest.com/enforcement).

We’re committed to presenting you with clear and transparent expectations that are easy to understand and follow. If you have questions or encounter problems on Pinterest, please [contact us](https://help.pinterest.com/contact?page=about_you_page).

Adult sexual content & nudity

Pinterest isn’t a place for sexual content or visible intimate body parts. We remove or limit the distribution of this type of content, including:

Prohibited and regulated goods, services and activities

Pinterest isn’t a place for offering, manufacturing, or promoting substances, products, activities, or exploitative practices that risk harm to humans or animals. We remove or limit the distribution of such content and accounts, including those involving instructions, offers, glorification, or promotion of:

Harmful or deceptive products and practices

Pinterest isn’t a place for practices and products that may be harmful or deceptive. We remove or limit the distribution of such content and accounts, including instructions, and offers or promotion of:

Dangerous activities

Animal exploitation

Exploitative financial or labor practices

Hateful activities

Pinterest isn’t a place for hateful content or the people and groups that promote hateful activities. We remove or limit the distribution of such content and accounts, including:

Protected and vulnerable groups include: People grouped together based on their actual or perceived race, color, caste, ethnicity, immigration status, national origin, religion or faith, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or medical condition. It also includes people who are grouped together based on lower socio-economic status, age, weight or size, pregnancy or veteran status.

Harassment and criticism

Pinterest isn’t a place to attack or antagonize individuals or groups of people. We may remove or limit the distribution of content including:

We’ve also put together [some resources](https://help.pinterest.com/article/report-harassment-and-cyberbullying) for you to protect yourself.

Child safety

Pinterest does not tolerate child sexual exploitation of any kind. That means we enforce a strict, zero-tolerance policy for any content or accounts that might exploit or endanger minors. Pinterest prohibits not just illegal child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but goes a step further to prohibit any content that contributes to the sexualization of minors, including in imagery and text. We also work closely with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to combat this type of activity, and report content violations ​​as required under the law. The types of content we remove includes:

In addition to enforcing strict policies for content or accounts that may exploit or endanger minors, Pinterest strives to provide minors with safe, age-appropriate experiences on our services. These efforts include:

Private information

We don’t allow content or behavior that reveals personally identifiable information or other sensitive information. This includes, but is not limited to:

If you come across unwanted photos of or information about you, you can [report it to us](https://help.pinterest.com/article/report-something-on-pinterest). Minors or their authorized representatives can also reach out to privacy-support@pinterest.com regarding unwanted photos or information.

Self-injury and harmful behavior

If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or is considering hurting themselves, we have [resources](https://help.pinterest.com/article/suicide-and-self-harm-prevention) in our Help Center where you can get free, confidential and immediate support.

Pinterest isn’t a place for content that displays, rationalizes or encourages self-harm including suicide, self-injury, eating disorders or substance abuse. We’ll remove or limit the distribution such content, including:

Violence and threats

Pinterest isn’t a place for graphic violence or threatening language. We remove or limit the distribution of such content, including:

In a few cases, we allow the saving of disturbing images dedicated to remembrance and advocacy, but limit distribution of such content in public parts of the platform.

Violent actors

Pinterest isn’t a place for violent content, groups or individuals. We remove or limit the distribution of content and accounts that encourage, belong to, impersonate, praise, promote, or provide aid to dangerous actors or groups and their activities. This includes:

We work with industry, government and security experts to help us identify these groups.

Misinformation

Pinterest isn’t a place for misinformation, disinformation, mal-information or the individuals or groups spreading or creating it. We remove or limit distribution of false or misleading content that may harm Pinners' or the public's well-being, safety or trust, including:

Health misinformation

Medically unsupported health claims that risk public health and safety, including:

Conspiracy theories

Civic misinformation

This policy is always applicable, meaning before, during and after major civic participation events (e.g. elections).

Climate misinformation

Impersonation

We don’t allow accounts that impersonate or misrepresent their affiliation with any person or organization. We’ll deactivate accounts that use the name, images, or other identifying information about a person or organization in a misleading or deceiving manner, as well as remove synthetically generated or manipulated content that impersonates a person or organization.

We allow fan, parody, or commentary accounts for public figures or brands in certain contexts. It should be clear through your username or other account details that you aren’t officially affiliated with them.

If you have identified an account you believe to be impersonating you or someone else, you can [report it to us](https://help.pinterest.com/article/report-something-on-pinterest).

Comments

All of our Community Guidelines apply in comments posted on Pins. In addition, comments should be relevant. We may remove comments that violate our guidelines, including those that contain:

Messages

All of our [Community Guidelines](https://policy.pinterest.com/messages-comments-tries) apply to messages sent between Pinners. Messages should also be welcomed and relevant. In addition to Pinners’ ability to [block someone from sending additional](https://help.pinterest.com/article/block-or-unblock-someone) unwelcome messages, we may warn or suspend accounts that violate our guidelines, including by sending messages that contain:

Intellectual property and other rights

To respect the rights of people on and off Pinterest, please:

Site security and access

To protect the Pinterest platform, we ask that you please:

You can’t use Pinterest if it would be prohibited by [US sanctions](https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Pages/default.aspx). Personal accounts and business accounts are currently not available in North Korea. Business accounts are currently not available in Crimea, Cuba, Donetsk People's Republic, Iran, Luhansk People's Republic, North Korea or Syria.

Spam

We want the inspiration and ideas on Pinterest to be high-quality and useful, so we remove spam when we find it. We ask that you be considerate of others' experiences on Pinterest and don't spread spam or engage in spammy behavior.

Our guidelines around spam are:

Last updated: May 2026

Table of Contents

  • Our mission
  • Content safety
  • Intellectual property and other rights
  • Site security and access
  • Spam