Privacy Guidelines

Account & Service Control · Procedure

If your concern is not a privacy violation, harassment and Community Guidelines reports are other routes

YouTube says it still wants to hear from you when a concern is not a privacy violation. It points to reporting harassment, which it describes as someone maliciously posting a video of you or directing insults at you, and to reporting inappropriate videos, channels and other content under the Community Guidelines.

Supporting quotations

If your concern is not a privacy violation, we still want to hear from you.

Are you experiencing harassment?

If someone maliciously posts a video of you or directs insults at you, these actions may be considered

Does the content violate our Community Guidelines?

Learn how to report inappropriate videos, channels, and other content.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Malicious videos or insults 'may be considered' harassment; the text does not say they always are.

Not stated here

• The harassment policy and the reporting steps are on linked pages that were not supplied.

Account & Service Control · Company practice

YouTube says it suspends accounts that violate people's privacy

YouTube says it is serious about protecting its users and suspends accounts that violate people's privacy.

Supporting quotations

We're serious about protecting our users and suspend accounts that violate people's privacy.

Not stated here

• The page does not say how many or which violations lead to suspension, or whether warnings come first.