Community Guidelines
Version: 2026-09-07
Effective date: 7 September 2026
Last updated: 7 September 2026
1. What These Guidelines Are
Caliance is a training log. The social feed is the part of it where what you did can be seen by people you chose. These Community Guidelines say what may be published there, what happens when a rule is broken, and how to contest a decision.
They add to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy, which both still apply. You accept them when you create a handle and join the feed, and we record which version you accepted.
When these guidelines change, we tell you and ask you to accept the new version. Nothing about the rest of the app changes.
These guidelines apply to everything you publish on the feed: posts, captions, photos, comments, your handle and your profile picture. They do not apply to your private training history, which nobody else can see.
2. Who Can Be Here
You must be at least 16 to join the feed. This is separate from using Caliance to track your training, which has its own minimum age in the Terms of Service.
We ask for your date of birth when you create your handle. We do not publish it, and it is not on your profile.
3. What Is Not Allowed
The rules below are also the grounds you can report something under, and the grounds we name when we act. Each has its own section so that a decision about your content can point at the exact rule it was taken under.
Child sexual abuse material
Sexual content involving anyone under 18 is forbidden without exception, in any form, including drawings, generated images and text. There is no threshold, no context that makes it acceptable, and no warning step.
An account that publishes it is banned immediately and permanently. The content and the account data are preserved for a period rather than deleted, because deleting evidence of this is itself a problem, and we report it to the authorities the law requires us to report it to.
Nobody at Caliance reviews this category by looking at it. The tools an operator uses have no way to display it, and the only action available is to escalate it to the person accountable for safety. That is why this is the one decision you cannot contest by clicking a button (see section 5).
Nudity and sexual content
Do not post nudity, sexual acts, or content whose purpose is sexual arousal.
Training photographs are welcome, and ordinary gym clothing is fine. We check photographs automatically before they are published. That check can make mistakes in both directions and will occasionally refuse a photograph it should have allowed. If that happens to you, you can contest it as described in section 5.
Eating disorders and self-harm
Do not post content that promotes, encourages or gives instructions for disordered eating, restriction, purging, or self-harm. This includes goal-weight and current-weight posts used as a target to beat, "thinspiration" of any kind, and content that presents starvation or injury as discipline.
Content in this category is not silently deleted. Where it is borderline rather than clearly harmful, we cover it with a screen you have to tap through before you can see it, and the person who posted it is told what happened.
What the product does about this, and what it does not. This is the risk we designed the hardest against, mostly by leaving things out:
- Your body measurements can never be published. No setting publishes them, and they never appear on your profile, in a post, or anywhere else the feed can read.
- There are no magnitude statistics. That means no total weight lifted, no personal-record list and no streaks. A profile can show only how often you train and what kind of training you do.
- There are no hashtags, so there is no tag-based way for this kind of content to find an audience or for an audience to find it.
- There are no leaderboards, rankings, percentiles or comparisons against other people, and this is a permanent decision: we will never add them.
- Photographs and text are checked automatically before publication (in a direct message, before delivery), and a set of terms specific to this kind of content is refused in handles, captions and comments.
None of that eliminates the risk. Automatic checks miss things, term lists go out of date the week they are written, and a photograph can carry a meaning no classifier can see. If you see something here that worries you, report it. A report from a person is better than any of the above.
We do not offer medical advice, crisis support or referrals. Caliance is a training log, not a health service, and these rules are about what may be published here.
Illegal content
Do not use the feed to publish content that is illegal where you are or where we are, to sell prohibited goods, or to arrange anything unlawful. Performance-enhancing drugs are the case that comes up in a fitness app: do not offer, source, sell or give dosing instructions for them here.
Violence and gore
Do not post graphic violence, injury or gore. A training injury discussed in words is fine; a photograph of it usually is not, and the test is whether it is there to inform or to shock.
Threats of violence against a person are treated as harassment and are actioned with the heaviest measures on the scale in section 4.
Harassment and hate
Do not target another person with abuse, sustained unwanted contact, sexual harassment, or content designed to humiliate them. Do not attack people for who they are: race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation.
Criticism of an idea, a training method or a coach's programme is not harassment. Following someone across the app to keep at them is, whatever the words say.
You do not have to report harassment to make it stop: you can block the account, which removes both of you from each other's feed, profile and comments in both directions. Blocking and reporting are separate decisions and you can do either, both or neither.
Impersonation
Do not claim to be someone you are not, or to represent a gym, brand, federation or organisation without their agreement. A handle chosen to be mistaken for someone else's is impersonation even if nothing you post says so.
Parody and commentary are fine when they are obvious. If a reasonable person would be misled, it is not obvious enough.
Spam and scams
Do not post repetitive or automated content, engagement bait, unsolicited promotion, affiliate spam, fake supplement or coaching offers, or anything designed to get money or credentials out of someone.
Coaches and gyms are welcome here and may talk about what they do. The line is whether the account exists to train and be part of this, or exists to advertise at people.
Abusive language
Swearing is not against the rules. Slurs are. Language chosen to degrade a person or a group is not covered by "that is just how I talk", and it is refused in handles outright, because a handle is displayed beside everything you write, so everyone who sees you sees it too.
Everything else in these guidelines
Some things are wrong without belonging to one of the categories above. When we act on something under this heading, the decision message names it as a breach of these guidelines generally, and the appeal route is the same as for any other decision. We use it only when no specific rule fits; if a rule fits, we name that rule.
In private messages
Every rule above applies inside a direct message. This section adds no eleventh ground and names nothing new. The rules apply to a message even though only two people can see it. Harassment, threats, slurs, sexual content sent to somebody, scams, impersonation and everything else in this section are breaches whether they are published to a feed or sent to one person.
Three points about messages:
- You choose who can reach you. Only somebody who follows you and whom you follow can open a conversation with you, and blocking them is what ends it; unfollowing does not. Unfollowing stops their posts reaching your feed, but the thread survives it in both directions. A block hides the conversation from both of you and neither of you can write in it.
- A machine checks every message before it is sent. The text you type and any photograph you attach are checked automatically against these guidelines before the message is delivered, in the same way as a post. A message the check refuses is not sent, and the composer tells you so. It does not say what triggered the refusal, because that would be a guide to getting past the check. The check is fully automated. A person gets involved afterwards only if a message is reported, or if the check's result was neither a clear pass nor a refusal.
- What a person can act on is what you report. No person at Caliance reads conversations. Apart from the automatic check above, nothing scans message text for rule-breaking after the fact and nobody browses threads, so no person sees a message that nobody reports.
4. What Happens When a Rule Is Broken
Reports rank the queue and never enforce by themselves. Ten reports on a post do not remove it; a person decides, and the decision is recorded.
What we may do, from lightest to heaviest:
- Nothing: the report is reviewed and dismissed. The person who reported it is told.
- A warning: you are told what was wrong and nothing else changes.
- Your content is removed: the post, photo or comment goes, with or without a warning alongside it.
- A restriction, for a stated period: you cannot post, comment, react or send a message. You can still read the feed, still read your conversations, and your own training history is completely untouched. A restriction that locked you out of your training log would punish the wrong thing.
- A suspension, for a stated period: your account is inaccessible. Your data is kept.
- A ban: permanent. Your content is removed and your account closed.
Every one of these is enforced by our servers, not by hiding a button. Where an automated system made the decision without a person, we say so.
Child sexual abuse material goes straight to a ban, skipping every rung above. Nothing else does.
When we act, you get a message that names what was actioned, which of the rules above it broke, whether a person or an automated system decided it, what it does to your account, when it lapses if it lapses, and how to contest it.
5. How to Contest a Decision
For anything that took something away (content removed, a restriction, a suspension or a ban), there is an appeal form on the decision message itself. Write what you want us to consider, and a person re-reviews it. If we got it wrong we put it back, and every step is recorded. A warning and a dismissal have nothing to restore, so there is nothing to appeal.
Child sexual abuse decisions are the one exception, and cannot work that way. A self-service appeal would need a reviewer to look at the content to judge it, which is the one thing they must never do. So that appeal goes to safety@caliance.app, is handled by the person accountable for safety in coordination with the authorities. There is deliberately no button for it in the app, because it would lead nowhere.
6. How to Report Something
You can report a post, a comment, an account, or a single photograph. You can report a photograph separately from the post it sits in, because a caption can be fine and an image not.
You choose one reason from a fixed list matching the rules in section 3, and you can add up to 300 characters of your own. We confirm we received it immediately. When we have acted or decided not to, we tell you.
If several people report the same thing, it becomes one item in one queue with a count against it rather than several. The count affects how soon somebody looks; it never decides the outcome.
How quickly. We aim to look within 24 hours for child sexual abuse material, nudity and sexual content, eating-disorder and self-harm content, and illegal content; within 72 hours for everything else. That target is set against the capacity we actually have, which is one person (see the next section).
Reporting a message. You can report a message, a photograph inside one, or the account that sent it. Reporting a message freezes a copy of it together with the 10 messages before it and the 10 after at the moment you report. A reviewer reads that copy and nothing else. They cannot open the conversation, scroll it, or come back later for more of it. If the window is not enough to judge the case, they escalate it instead of widening the window. Every one of those reads is logged.
You can block without waiting for us. It is immediate, it needs no report and no decision from anybody: the conversation disappears for both of you, neither of you can write in it, and the follow edges in both directions are destroyed. If a rule was broken, report it as well. Blocking and reporting do different jobs, and a block tells us nothing.
7. Contact
This address is monitored by a person. Use it to report something you cannot report in the app, to contest a child-safety decision, to ask for the text of your comments to be erased, or to raise anything else about safety on the feed.
The person behind it is the owner of Caliance. That is a single point of failure, and there is no team behind it: illness, holiday or a spike in volume all put the targets above at risk. Delegating this is the first thing that has to happen as Caliance grows.
8. Your Content
You keep ownership of everything you post.
By posting, you grant Caliance a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence solely to host, store, reproduce and display the content for the purpose of operating the service. The licence ends when you delete the content, except for backups and for records we are required to keep for moderation. It is not sublicensable. It is not a marketing licence. We do not use what you post to advertise Caliance, and we do not pass it to anyone else to use.
Images are delivered from a public content network under unguessable addresses. Nobody can find one by guessing, and nothing outside the app links to them. However, an address that somebody already has keeps working until the image is deleted, and for as long afterwards as a network cache holds it. Deleting a post removes the image; it does not reach back to anyone who saved the address.
9. Changes to These Guidelines
We may update these guidelines. When we do, the version at the top changes, and we tell you and ask you to accept the new one.