Community Guidelines

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Content revealing identity documents, contact details, login or financial information

Pinterest does not allow content or behavior that reveals personally identifiable or other sensitive information, and says the list is not limited to its examples. The examples include identity documents and numbers (social security numbers, passport information, other government IDs), private contact information such as home addresses, email addresses and phone numbers, online login information such as usernames, passwords and security questions, and personal financial information such as credit card or bank account numbers.

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

Personal identity documents and information, such as social security (SSNs), national identity numbers, passport information, or other government-issued IDs

Private contact information such as residential addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers

Online login information or account authentication data such as usernames, passwords, security questions and answers

Personal financial information, such as credit card or bank account numbers, or any financial account details

Qualifications & exceptions

• 'Includes, but is not limited to' makes the examples non-exhaustive.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Health records, photos of private people and other private information

The same rule covers health and medical records or other health-related data, photos of private people posted on Pinterest without their permission, and other private information considered personal or confidential.

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

Health and medical records or other health-related data

Photos of private people posted on Pinterest without their permission

Other private information considered personal or confidential

Qualifications & exceptions

• The photo item applies to photos of private people posted without their permission.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Do not tamper with systems or circumvent security measures

To protect the platform, Pinterest asks people not to access, use or tamper with its systems or its technical providers' systems, and not to break or circumvent its security measures or test the vulnerability of its systems or networks. The one stated exception is testing done as part of an authorized Pinterest bug bounty program.

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

Don’t access, use or tamper with our systems or our technical providers’ systems.

Don’t break or circumvent our security measures or test the vulnerability of our systems or networks, except as part of an authorized Pinterest

Qualifications & exceptions

• Security measures may be broken or tested only as part of an authorized Pinterest bug bounty program.

Not stated here

• The bug bounty program terms are linked but not supplied here.

Cross-references

• has exception (model-proposed): Exception: security testing under an authorized bug bounty program — Authorized bug bounty testing is the stated exception to the ban on circumventing security measures and testing vulnerability.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Exception: security testing under an authorized bug bounty program

Pinterest's ban on circumventing security measures and testing the vulnerability of its systems or networks does not apply to testing done as part of an authorized Pinterest bug bounty program, which links to a responsible disclosure statement.

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except as part of an authorized Pinterest

Not stated here

• The responsible disclosure statement is linked but not supplied here.

Cross-references

• exception to (model-proposed): Do not tamper with systems or circumvent security measures — Authorized bug bounty testing is the stated exception to the ban on circumventing security measures and testing vulnerability.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No unsupported access, scraping or reverse engineering

Pinterest asks people not to use any undocumented or unsupported method to access, search, scrape, download or change any part of Pinterest, and not to try to reverse engineer its software.

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Don’t use any undocumented or unsupported method to access, search, scrape, download or change any part of Pinterest.

Don’t try to reverse engineer our software.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Do not interfere with people, hosts or networks

Pinterest asks people not to try to interfere with people on Pinterest or with its hosts or networks, for example by sending a virus, overloading, spamming or mail-bombing.

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Don’t try to interfere with people on Pinterest or our hosts or networks, like sending a virus, overloading, spamming or mail-bombing.