Acceptable Use and Content Rules

1. Required authority and accuracy

• Submit material only when you are authorized by the subject, client, or rights holder to do so.
• Provide accurate, supportable facts and identify material omissions, conflicts, sponsorships, and sensitive claims.
• Obtain releases, licenses, permissions, and legally sufficient consent for names, likenesses, quotations, trademarks, photographs, documents, and other supplied material.

2. Prohibited content and conduct

• Illegal content or activity; fraud; impersonation; deceptive practices; fabricated evidence, quotations, reviews, credentials, or affiliations; or instructions intended to evade platform, publication, or search policies.
• Pornographic or sexually explicit material, escort services, and links to such material or services. Non-explicit fashion, art and medical education remain permitted.
• Weapons sales, drugs and drug paraphernalia, terrorist promotion, hoaxes and counterfeit goods. Legitimate news, military and defense reporting, government programs and legitimate companies remain permitted.
• Promotional links to casino, betting or gambling operators, including licensed operators, are not accepted in the self-service publishing product. Independent reporting about gambling laws or a travel story about a resort is not prohibited merely because it mentions gambling; promotional operator links remain prohibited.
• Defamation, unlawful threats, harassment, hate or discriminatory abuse, doxxing, exploitation, non-consensual intimate material, or invasions of privacy or publicity rights.
• Copyright, trademark, trade-secret, confidentiality, or other intellectual-property infringement.
• Malware, credential theft, unlawful surveillance, attempts to bypass security, or files intended to damage or disrupt systems.
• Material that unlawfully promotes regulated goods or services, presents fabricated data or invented quotations as fact, or omits disclosures required for endorsements or sponsored content. Health, medical, and financial topics are not prohibited: articles on those topics are published with normal attribution and close with a short plain-language disclaimer (for example, that the article is general information, not medical or financial advice).
• Link schemes, cloaking, hidden sponsorship, guaranteed rankings, fake traffic, or requests to misrepresent paid placement as independent editorial coverage.

3. Editorial response

Instagram and YouTube links are exempt from content screening. Other supplied links are physically checked, including redirects, before submission and again before publication. Unavailable or uncertain checks pause submission or publication without counting as a confirmed violation. A first confirmed prohibited-link submission receives a written warning and one correction opportunity. Further confirmed violations may pause new submissions and purchases for staff review and a written decision on cancellation, any applicable refund for unperformed work and account restrictions under the accepted order terms and Refund Policy. Supplying pornography or other prohibited links does not create an automatic refund entitlement. Customers retain Support access to contest an error. Submitted URLs, check receipts, timestamps, notices and staff decisions are recorded subject to the Privacy Notice and applicable retention requirements.

VUGA may verify claims, require sources or revisions, add disclosures, change links, select or reject a publication, pause fulfillment, remove material, suspend an account, or refuse service. Purchase does not remove editorial discretion. We may preserve evidence and report apparent unlawful conduct when reasonably required.

4. Reporting

Report suspected violations to [email protected] with the relevant order code, URL, and supporting information. Do not include unnecessary sensitive information.

Publication selection and required replacement

Check each publication’s categories before payment: your article must match its subject. Under the topic agreement accepted at checkout, if you choose an off-topic publication, you must accept a suitable replacement within that order’s terms. Review the proposed eligible publications in Articles and confirm your choice. The affected placement waits for confirmation; independently deliverable placements continue. A wrong-topic selection or refusal of a suitable replacement merely because you changed your mind is not by itself a refund reason. Replacements must respect the accepted scope and recorded order terms; any changed scope or total requires customer confirmation. If VUGA cannot provide the agreed service or a suitable replacement, staff review the affected unprovided service under the Refund Policy. Mandatory rights and the original terms of earlier orders remain applicable.