Community Guidelines

GLOBAL COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

Last Updated: 24/11/2025

1. Purpose

These guidelines ensure Vicipe remains a safe, global, creative, and respectful cooking community.
They apply worldwide to all content and interactions.

2. Core Behaviour Standards

Users must:
• Treat others respectfully
• Share truthful, safe cooking information
• Follow applicable local laws
• Avoid harmful conduct
• Use AI tools responsibly

3. Prohibited Content

3.1 Harmful, Illegal, or Dangerous
• Violence, threats, extremism
• Illegal activities
• Dangerous cooking instructions (unsafe temperatures, food poisoning risks)
• Harmful misinformation
• Promotion of self-harm

3.2 Hate & Harassment
• Harassment, bullying, targeted attacks
• Hate speech or discrimination
• Doxxing, stalking

3.3 Explicit or Adult Content
• Pornography
• Sexualized minors
• Inappropriate nudity

Food-related nudity (e.g., butchery) must be clearly informational and non-sexual.

3.4 Deception & Fraud
• Fake identities
• Impersonation
• Phishing or scams
• AI deepfakes intended to mislead
• Mislabelled AI food that doesn’t physically exist (must be disclosed)

3.5 Intellectual Property Violations
• Copyright infringement
• Uploading content you do not own or have rights to
• Unlicensed music or images

3.6 Spam & Manipulation
• Mass posting
• Automated bots
• Engagement manipulation
• Promotion unrelated to cooking or Vicipe

4. AI Content Rules
• Clearly label conceptual dishes or AI-generated food that is not real
• No AI deepfakes of real people without consent
• No harmful or deceptive uses of AI

5. Safety Around Cooking

Because cooking involves risk, users must not post:
• Unsafe temperatures
• Instructions likely to cause foodborne illness
• Encouragement to misuse equipment
• Dangerous challenges

6. Enforcement

Depending on severity:
• Content removal
• Temporary restrictions
• Shadow limits
• Account suspension
• Permanent ban
• Reporting to authorities if legally required

7. Reporting & Appeals

Users can report violations.
Appeals may be submitted to: support@vicipe.com