- What this page is
- An index. The rules themselves live in the documents below, and this exists so you do not have to guess which one covers your situation.
- How to behave here
- The Community Guidelines cover harassment, hate speech, illegal and adult content, privacy, spam and misinformation, and what happens to accounts that ignore them.
- Reporting a video
- The report control is on the video itself, under the player. You pick a reason from a fixed list and may add detail.
- What happens after you report
- A person reads it. Nothing is hidden automatically — a video is a creator's livelihood, and an automatic takedown on an unreviewed report would make the report button a weapon. So filing one is not a verdict, and the video stays up while it is looked at.
You can see the state of everything you have filed in Report history: waiting for review, action taken, or no action taken. You will not be told who reviewed it, what they wrote, or how many other people reported the same video — the first would make a decision personal, and the second would tell an organised group whether their campaign was working. - Someone used your work without permission
- That is a copyright matter rather than a guidelines one, and it has its own process, including what a takedown notice must contain. See the Copyright Policy.
- Your data
- What is collected, why, how long it is kept, and how to get it out or have it deleted are all in the Privacy Policy.
- You found a security hole
- Please report it under the Vulnerability Disclosure Policy, which sets out scope and safe harbour. Do not use the ordinary report control for it.
- Something else went wrong
- For an order, a dispute or your account, start at Customer Service.
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