Community Guidelines

Do Not Misrepresent

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame profiles are intended to represent real people in a local area. YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame member profiles must be honest and authentic.

All members should be open about who they are, their intentions, and their affiliations. All group and event descriptions should be accurate, so members can make informed decisions about their participation.

Creating fake accounts, malicious accounts, or accounts meant to impersonate another person, is prohibited on YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame. We will delete your account and flag your IP address.

Be Respectful

Respecting people's time, attention, personal choices, religion, sexual affiliation and personal boundaries is essential to creating safe and trusting communities. Be respectful in interactions with people and in content posted on the platform. YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame monitors and restricts behaviors that are dishonest, undermine the integrity of the platform, violate personal boundaries, or serve to intentionally upset people.

Content sent to a member that is irrelevant, impersonal, unsolicited, promotional, or repetitive is spam. Do not spam.

Altering the content or settings of a group without permission from the main organizer, or in a way that is not aligned with the purpose of that group, is prohibited. Any use of YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame tools or features to disrupt the group or destroy content for the purpose of undermining or undercutting the established community is a violation of our policies.

Honor Requests for Distance: About Block and Ban Decisions

If you are blocked, you’re blocked. Members must accept and respect any organizer’s decision to ban a member from an event or group, or a member's decision to block a member from contacting them. Creating new accounts to circumvent block or ban decisions is prohibited.

Sexual Content and Nudity

Pornography is not allowed on YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame. Publicly shared photos must be appropriate for general audiences. Nude or sexual photos are not allowed in public spaces. 

Sex Solicitation and Prostitution

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame prohibits groups and events that, or individuals who, use YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame to proposition for sex, or to promote or engage in prostitution.

Shocking, Disturbing, and Violent Content

Gratuitously graphic, disgusting, obscene, or violent content is prohibited. We don't allow content posted to upset, shock, or disturb a YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame communities or its members. 

Child Exploitation

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame has a zero tolerance policy regarding child pornography or anything YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame believes exploits, sexualizes, or fetishizes minors. Such content will be removed from the platform and the uploader will be banned. YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame reports all child pornography to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) http://www.missingkids.com/.

Ask for Permission: Consent

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame defines consent as welcomed communications and actions to engage with a member. Engaging with anyone in a non-consensual way is strictly prohibited. If ever in doubt, ask permission.

Respect Privacy: Don't Post Other People's Private Information

Posting other people's private information without their explicit consent is prohibited.

Members and organizers should always be mindful of privacy and use discretion when sharing any private content that belongs to themselves or to other members. For example, phone numbers, social security numbers, addresses, financial information, passwords, and government identification are considered private information.

Be Kind

Bullying, harassment, exploitation, and acts of hate undermine community building in safe spaces where people can trust one another. Building real relationships requires us to be more compassionate and kinder towards one another. YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame is against behaviors that are threatening, intentionally malicious, or personally harmful--physically, emotionally, or mentally.

Harassment and bullying are not allowed on YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame. YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame will honor requests to remove content that publicly shames or degrades a private individual. 

Members should first contact the uploader or the organizer to request that content be removed.

Harassment is persistent or non-consensual contact from another member. Bullying is the intentional posting of mean content for the purpose of hurting or embarrassing another.

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame will honor requests to remove nude, lewd or shaming photos if the subject of that content reports it. Content targeting a public figure, organization, or anyone who has gained news attention, is not subject to these policies. Any attempt to use someone's insecurities or vulnerabilities for personal gain is considered manipulation or exploitation and is prohibited.

Hate and Supremacy

Hate speech, supremacy, or behavior that incites hate or violence against individuals or groups of people based on who they are or their beliefs or sexual orientation is prohibited.

Safety

All organizers and members should take ownership over their personal safety and should never put themselves or others in danger. We expect all organizers and members to be mindful of local laws when engaging with their groups. Where appropriate, organizers should also set guidelines for their events to ensure their members are participating safely.

No Threats, Violence, or Personal Endangerment

Using YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame to promote, facilitate, or organize violent, criminal, or non-consensual actions that endanger anyone, physically, mentally, or emotionally, is prohibited. 

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame reserves the right to remove credible explicit and implicit threats of violence or aggression and revoke the membership of the user who made them. Examples of prohibited implicit threats include, “The next time I see you, you’ll be sorry.” and “You better watch your back.”

Self-Injury

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame does not allow any content that encourages or glorifies self-injury or encourages others to harm themselves.

Copyright and IP

Intellectual Property

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. Posting content that violates another party's intellectual property rights is prohibited.  When provided with the requisite information, YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame will remove or disable access to material that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others or remove accounts of those who may be repeat infringers. Please note that simply hosting an event around a similar topic in a shared location is generally not considered a violation of our policies.

Prohibited events and practices on YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame

Violent, dangerous, or criminal behavior

 Events and groups must not contain content or promote events that could promote or facilitate illegal or violent activity, such as:

 Events and groups must not contain content or promote events that could promote or facilitate illegal or violent activity, such as:

Events and groups must not contain content or promote events that incite hate, violence, or harassment against individuals or groups of people based on personal attributes such as race, color, religion, descent, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability, or a medical or genetic condition.

Events and groups must not advance conspiracy theories that promote hatred or violence against individuals or groups based on any of the above personal attributes. Conspiracy theories that diminish or deny the documented suffering of a group of people are not permitted.

Groups must not contain content or promote events that organize, promote, provide for, distribute services for, or recruit for terrorist organizations.

Targeted to individuals under 18

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame members and organizers must be at least 18 years old. YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame groups and events must be only targeted to people over the age of 18.

Family groups are more than welcome on YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame, but all children present at the event must be supervised and accompanied by an adult guardian.

Harmful misinformation

 Events and groups must not contain content or promote events that contain misinformation. This includes medical misinformation such as:

Events and groups must not contain content or promote events that contain financial guarantees, including:

Events and groups must not use the platform to promote multi-level marketing products and/or companies.

Misrepresentation or concealed intentions

 Events and groups must not contain content or promote events that conceal or misrepresent the primary purpose of the group or its events, including:

Pick-up artists or seduction techniques

 Events and groups must not contain content or promote events that involve pick-up or seduction techniques, or wingman tactics.

Sexual exploitation

Events and groups must not contain content or promote events that promote or facilitate sex trafficking, prostitution, or any other type of sexual exploitation.

Pornography, nudity, or sexual content

Events and groups and events must not contain pornography or publicly shared nude or sexual photos.

If nudity or sexuality is part of a group’s identity or lifestyle, organizers must keep the group private in order to limit access to this content to members of that group. YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame expects organizers to monitor this content.

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame social media community standards

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame communities thrive when you show up IRL to do what you love — play tennis, ping pong / table tennis, badminton, pickle ball, racquet ball and any racquet oriented sport. 

We believe the global YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame community deserves to feel welcomed, respected, and excited to connect with each other, whether we do that in person or on social media.

 

Here are the five key tenets of our community on social media: Be welcoming. Cultivate a space where everyone feels safe to be themselves: a community driven by kindness — not bullying, trolling, or bigotry.

Be real. Act as you would act in real life: with integrity and authenticity.

Be impactful. Contribute to the discussion, and respect everyone’s time. What would you say if you were talking in person at an event?

Be spirited. Show up with an openness to diverse perspectives and lively debate. Be thoughtful. Challenge ideas, not people.

If your posts on social media conflict with any of these tenets:

Message Respectfully: Don't Spam Members

Content sent to a member that is irrelevant, impersonal, unsolicited, promotional, or repetitive is spam, and organizers may be blocked for spamming members. 

The following are examples of inappropriate spam messages sent by organizers: Sending repetitive or unsolicited messages to members who are not in an organizer's groups.

Sending messages to an organizer's own group that do not relate to that group. Sending promotional messages, including promoting an organizer’s group to members who are not in that group.

Abusing the announcement or invite features by repeatedly inviting members or non-members for whom a group may not be relevant.

Creating groups, events, or accounts for the purpose of cross-promoting groups or events.

Use Respectful Language

Using profanity in an attacking, sexual way, or in a way intended to offend people, is prohibited in group and event titles, descriptions, or any other area that is publicly promoted or viewable on the platform.

 

Be Clear & Professional: Editorial Requirements

In order to provide a quality experience to our members, titles of groups and events are to be relevant, useful, and easy to understand. Excessive or improper use of punctuation, symbols, capitalization, spacing, URLs, or repetition, intended to grab attention for a group or event, will need to be edited.

Intellectual Property

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. Posting content that violates another party's intellectual property rights is prohibited. 

When provided with the requisite information, YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame will remove or disable access to material that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others or remove accounts of those who may be repeat infringers. Please note that simply holding a group around a similar topic in a shared location, is generally not considered a violation of our policies.

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame member restrictions

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame takes member account privacy very seriously and has strict rules regarding who can access or create a YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame account. Please know we reserve the right to suspend or remove any account, or limit access to certain features of the platform, for any reason, at our sole discretion.

Deceased Member Policy

If a member or organizer passes away, YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame cannot provide access to their account, even to family members or people acting on the behalf of the estate. YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame will work with families and honor their wishes if they choose to close accounts or groups, or transfer them to another member.

Under 18 Participation

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame members and organizers must be at least 18 years of age. Therefore, groups must be targeted at, and only offer opportunities for those who are over 18. 

While groups are welcome to provide activities for families, any children present at an event must be supervised and accompanied by an adult guardian. 

Criminal Record

YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame may remove certain members when we become aware that the member is a convicted sex offender or has been convicted of a violent, fraudulent, or dangerous crime. YourTennisGame YourPickleballGame may also remove a member based on their criminal record, for safety, or for other concerns. Members with concerns about criminal or illegal activity should always report it to local authorities.