Glow

Community Guidelines

1. Purpose of These Community Guidelines

GLOW is an adult community designed to help people connect for dating, friendship, intimacy, romantic exploration, sexual exploration, and kink- or fetish-related compatibility. GLOW includes profile-based discovery, matching, one-to-one chat, group chat, posts, stories, events, and community spaces that allow users to interact in a more social and participatory environment.

These Community Guidelines explain what kind of conduct and content is welcome on GLOW, what is not allowed, and how we work to protect user safety, dignity, privacy, and trust across all areas of the app.

Because GLOW is an adults-only platform and may involve intimate, identity-based, sexual, and kink-related expression, these Guidelines place particular emphasis on consent, authenticity, privacy, and the prevention of coercion, harassment, discrimination, exploitation, and abuse.

These Guidelines apply across the entire GLOW ecosystem, including profiles, public and private posts, stories, comments, reactions, direct messages, group chats, event listings, event discussions, community spaces, media sharing, voice notes, and any related safety or reporting channels.

2. The Values Behind GLOW

GLOW is built for adults who want to connect openly and safely. The platform is intended to support honest self-expression, meaningful discovery, consensual interaction, and respectful participation in both one-to-one and community settings.

We encourage behavior and content that help make GLOW useful and trustworthy, including honest self-presentation, respectful communication, clear boundaries, consent-based interaction, responsible participation in chats and community discussions, good-faith reporting of harmful conduct, and thoughtful use of the platform’s adult-oriented and privacy-sensitive features.

GLOW is not a space for manipulation, humiliation, predatory conduct, harassment, hate, coercion, fetishizing people without consent, deception, or abusive use of community features.

3. Scope of These Guidelines

These Guidelines apply to all user-generated content and user behavior on GLOW, including:

These rules apply whether content is public, semi-public, limited to a group, limited to event participants, limited to a selected story audience, or shared privately. Reduced visibility does not make harmful conduct acceptable. Private messages, group conversations, stories, and closed community spaces remain subject to these Guidelines where content is reported, safety-flagged, or otherwise reviewed under applicable law and GLOW’s moderation processes.

4. Adults-Only Community

GLOW is strictly for adults aged 18 and over.

You may not use GLOW if you are under 18. You may not create a profile for a minor, invite a minor into sexualized spaces on the platform, or post, share, request, or promote content that depicts, sexualizes, or appears to involve a minor in an intimate, erotic, exploitative, or fetishized context.

This rule applies across all features, including profiles, chats, posts, stories, events, and community spaces. Age-restricted spaces do not permit any exception for underage participation.

If there is credible reason to believe that an account belongs to a minor, or that content depicts a person under 18 or a person who reasonably appears under 18, GLOW may remove the content and take urgent safety action under its separate complaints and enforcement procedures.

5. Authenticity and Honest Participation

5.1 Be truthful about who you are

You must not impersonate another person, misrepresent your identity, or create a profile or presence that is materially misleading. This includes pretending to be another user, a public figure, a moderator, an event organizer, a safety professional, a therapist, or a representative of GLOW.

Users should present themselves honestly in profiles, chats, posts, stories, and community participation. Privacy settings and selective disclosure tools may be used for personal safety and comfort, but they may not be used to facilitate deception.

5.2 No deceptive or synthetic identity misuse

You may not use edited, manipulated, or AI-generated content to mislead users about your identity, age, appearance, or intentions. If GLOW permits certain AI-assisted content, it must not be deceptive.

5.3 No ban evasion or safety evasion

You may not create duplicate accounts to avoid blocks, account restrictions, community removals, event exclusions, or prior moderation decisions. You may not rejoin a group chat, event, or community space through a new identity after being removed for misconduct.

6. Consent and Boundaries

Consent is central to every interaction on GLOW.

A match, a message reply, a post interaction, a story reply, participation in a group chat, joining an event, or membership in a community space does not equal consent to sexual content, explicit messages, intimate media, invasive questions, roleplay, off-platform contact, or real-world activity.

Users must respect that consent is specific, informed, ongoing, and revocable. Boundaries expressed in a profile, direct message, post, story, comment thread, event discussion, or group setting must be respected.

The following are not allowed:

This rule applies equally in one-to-one chat, group chat, posts, stories, event spaces, and community discussions.

7. Respectful Communication

GLOW allows direct, candid, and adult conversation, but all communication must remain respectful.
You may flirt, discuss intimacy, discuss compatibility, and talk about adult topics where context permits, but you may not degrade, humiliate, intimidate, or dehumanize other users. This includes conduct in private messages, stories, comments under posts, group chat threads, event conversations, and community spaces.

Unacceptable conduct includes insulting or shaming someone for their body, identity, preferences, limits, or relationship goals; mocking someone for declining interest; publicly ridiculing another user in comments or group discussions; or using hostile language to provoke humiliation or fear.
Users should also avoid reducing others to categories, fetishes, stereotypes, or profile traits. GLOW’s matching and community features are meant to support connection, not objectification.

8. Harassment, Bullying, and Stalking

We do not allow targeted conduct that causes another person distress, fear, humiliation, or ongoing unwanted attention.

This includes repeated unwanted messages, coordinated targeting, dogpiling in comments, harassment within community spaces, following a user across multiple chats or groups after being unwelcome, creating posts or discussions intended to mock or shame a user, or repeatedly attempting contact after being blocked, removed, or rejected.

It also includes stalking-related conduct, such as tracking a person’s location, attempting to identify their workplace or legal identity, monitoring which events they attend, or using community or event participation to follow them into offline spaces.

Users who are blocked, removed from group chats, excluded from events, or removed from community spaces must respect that boundary immediately. Attempts to re-enter, re-contact, or retaliate are serious violations.

9. Hate Speech and Discriminatory Conduct

GLOW serves a diverse adult community, including LGBTQIA+ users, users with different gender identities, sexual orientations, body types, disabilities, ethnicities, religions, relationship styles, and sexual interests. We do not allow hate speech or discriminatory conduct.

Prohibited content and conduct include slurs, degrading labels, expressions of inferiority, exclusionary abuse, dehumanizing stereotypes, threats, or targeted hostility based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or similar protected characteristics.

This rule applies across all features. A hateful bio, a discriminatory post or story, a degrading event title, a hostile comment thread, a bigoted group chat message, or a community discussion built around exclusion or mockery may all violate these Guidelines.

GLOW also does not permit fetishized discrimination. That includes eroticized racial stereotyping, disability-based fetishization, or degrading treatment of identity traits under the guise of preference, kink, or humor.

Users may express personal compatibility preferences in a respectful manner but may not do so in a way that humiliates, excludes, or degrades protected groups.

Users may not use GLOW's features to target, exclude, rank, or fetishize people in a discriminatory way based on protected characteristics, including race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.

10. Sexual and Explicit Content

10.1 Context matters on GLOW

GLOW is an adult platform, but explicit nudity, graphic sexual acts, and sexually explicit media are not generally allowed across the app. Such content may appear only, if at all, in clearly designated, user-controlled contexts expressly permitted by GLOW.

Different surfaces involve different expectations. Discovery-facing spaces, broadly visible community areas, stories, event listings, profile previews, public-facing post previews, and other recommendation-driven surfaces require the strictest standards and must not contain explicit nudity, graphic sexual acts, or sexually explicit media.

10.2 What is prohibited everywhere

The following sexual content is prohibited anywhere on GLOW:

10.3 What is restricted by context

Users may not post explicit nudity, graphic sexual content, or sexually explicit media in broadly visible spaces where users have not affirmatively chosen to receive it. This includes public profile photos, profile previews, public-facing post previews, stories, event covers, open community feeds, and similar discovery-facing surfaces.

Users must not use posts, group chats, community spaces, or messages to flood others with explicit content, pressure users into sexual discussions, or normalize sexually aggressive conduct.
Even in adult-oriented spaces, users must follow GLOW’s rules on consent, visibility, labeling, audience expectations, and community-specific moderation rules.

10.4 Sexual solicitation and sexually explicit propositions

Users may not use profiles, stories, messages, posts, group chats, events, or community spaces to solicit sexual activity, sexual services, explicit sexual roleplay, or fetish participation in a way that is coercive, commercially exploitative, repeated after refusal, targeted at strangers without prior opt-in, or otherwise inconsistent with consent-based interaction.

Consensual adult discussion of intimacy, compatibility, boundaries, or kink does not excuse objectifying, invasive, or sexually explicit propositions that disregard user settings, context, stated preferences, or a lack of affirmative interest.

11. Child Safety

Child safety is a zero-tolerance area.

Users may not create accounts for minors, invite minors into adult conversation or communities, roleplay with minors or as minors in sexual contexts, sexualize underage status, or post, request, share, or describe child sexual abuse material.

This also includes age-play or age-coded content that involves or appears to involve minors, underage framing, school-age sexualization, or imagery that creates reasonable doubt about adulthood.

Any such content or conduct may be removed immediately and escalated in accordance with applicable law and GLOW’s safety procedures.

12. Violent, Graphic, and Coercive Content

We do not allow credible threats of violence, celebration of physical harm, or graphic content intended to terrorize, coerce, or shock.

This includes threats in direct messages, intimidation in event or group settings, violent fantasies directed at a user, and content that promotes real-world abuse.

Because GLOW may include kink- and BDSM-related discussion, we distinguish between consensual adult self-expression and content that normalizes coercion, abuse, captivity, or non-consensual harm. Kink language does not excuse threats, assault, coercion, or glorification of abuse.

Users may not use group spaces, posts, or events to promote dangerous or exploitative conduct as acceptable community behavior.

12.1 Suicide, Self-Harm, and Eating-Disorder Content

Content that promotes, encourages, glorifies, instructs, or meaningfully normalizes suicide, self-harm, or eating-disorder behavior is not allowed on GLOW.

GLOW may remove such content and take urgent safety action where there is a credible risk of imminent harm, including where a user appears to be using the platform to encourage self-injury, threaten suicide, or pressure another person into dangerous body-related behavior.

13. Illegal Activities and Exploitation

You may not use GLOW to engage in, facilitate, advertise, organize, or promote illegal activity.

This includes trafficking, coercion, extortion, blackmail, fraud, non-consensual recording, unlawful surveillance, illegal drug sales, weapons trafficking, identity theft, and commercial exploitation.

You may not use chats, posts, community spaces, or events to coordinate illegal conduct, to recruit others into criminal behavior, or to solicit unlawful sexual arrangements.

Events and community spaces may not be used as organizing channels for exploitative activity, predatory targeting, or unlawful transactions.

13.1 Dangerous organizations, extremism, and coordinated harm

Users may not praise, support, represent, recruit for, or organize activity connected to terrorist organizations, organized hate groups, mass-violence perpetrators, or other dangerous organizations or individuals.

GLOW may remove content that glorifies extremist violence, celebrates attacks, or uses the platform to coordinate violent, hateful, or otherwise dangerous real-world conduct.

13.2 Regulated goods and services

Users may not buy, sell, trade, advertise, or facilitate regulated or unlawful goods and services on GLOW, including illegal drugs, weapons, forged documents, prescription medicines without authorization, or unlawful sexual services.

14. Fraud, Deception, and Impersonation

You may not deceive users for financial gain, emotional manipulation, sexual extraction, account abuse, or social engineering.

This includes romance scams, catfishing, phishing, fake payment requests, fake safety checks, fake event organizer identities, false claims of verification, false moderation notices, or misleading users into sending intimate content or money.

A user may not pretend to host an event, moderate a community space, or represent GLOW in order to obtain personal data, access private content, or create pressure.

Deception is especially serious on GLOW because trust is central to matching, private communication, in-person events, and adult-oriented interaction.

15. Privacy and Personal Data

GLOW users may share highly sensitive personal information, including sexual orientation, gender identity, relationship preferences, kink interests, intimate media, private communications, and location-connected activity. Users must treat that information with particular care.

You may not share another person’s private information without permission. This includes legal name, phone number, address, workplace, social handles, location patterns, hidden profile information, private messages, private photos, voice notes, story content shared with a limited audience, private event attendance, or membership in a specific community space.

You may not dox users, publish screenshots to shame them, circulate private media, or expose someone’s identity, orientation, health-related information, or kink interests.

You may not share login credentials, financial account information, government-issued identification documents, intimate-image metadata, or other sensitive personal data belonging to another person.

This rule also applies inside GLOW itself. Users may not repost private chat content into community spaces, group chats, posts, stories, or event discussions in order to embarrass or target someone.

16. Posts, Comments, and Community Discussions

Posts, stories, comments, and replies should contribute to GLOW in a way that is consistent with the platform’s purpose and safety standards.

Users may not use posts or comments to harass, demean, expose, bait, or dogpile others. Users may not create posts whose purpose is to identify, shame, mock, or incite hostility toward a named or identifiable user.

Community discussion is allowed, including discussion of relationships, identity, intimacy, dating, boundaries, lifestyle, and adult-oriented topics where relevant. However, discussions must remain respectful, consensual, and lawful.

Posts, stories, comments, and replies may be removed where they contain hate, targeted hostility, dangerous misinformation, explicit content outside allowed contexts, harassment, or privacy violations.

Community spaces may also adopt more specific thematic rules, provided those rules do not conflict with these Community Guidelines or GLOW’s broader legal and safety requirements.

17. Group Chat Rules

Group chat is intended to support community interaction, shared interests, event coordination, and respectful adult conversation.

Users may not use group chat to target individuals, pressure new members, demand sexual disclosures, flood others with unwanted explicit content, organize harassment, promote discrimination, or create an atmosphere of intimidation or exclusion.

Group chats must not become vehicles for mob behavior, coercive initiation, humiliation rituals, or coordinated attacks on users inside or outside the chat.

Admins, moderators, or hosts of group chats may set additional rules for relevance, tone, and participation, but they may not enforce rules in discriminatory, abusive, retaliatory, or exploitative ways.

Participation in a group chat does not imply consent to explicit messaging, private contact, or off-platform engagement.

18. Events and Offline Safety

GLOW events are currently published and announced by GLOW administrators and are intended to support safe, respectful, adult community interaction.
Users may not misuse event pages, announcements, discussions, or attendance features to scam, exploit, sexually pressure, isolate, or endanger participants. Event pages may not be used to target vulnerable users, harvest personal information, or lure users into coercive or unlawful situations.

Event descriptions, titles, banners, announcements, and discussion threads must comply with these Guidelines. GLOW may remove or revise event-related content or functionality that misrepresents the nature of the event, the expected conduct, the cost, the location, or the safety conditions.

Attendees must not use event participation to stalk, pressure, out, expose, or retaliate against others. A user’s attendance or interest in an event does not imply sexual availability, community membership beyond that event, or consent to further contact.

Where events relate to kink, fetish, or adult-themed gatherings, users must still comply with all rules on consent, privacy, non-discrimination, legality, and non-coercion.

19. Community Spaces

Community spaces are intended for shared-interest discussion, support, event coordination, and interaction among users with common themes, identities, relationship styles, or interests.

Community spaces may not be used to promote hate, harassment, exclusionary abuse, predatory recruitment, unlawful activity, or coordinated manipulation. Users may not build communities around stalking, humiliation, exposure, or the targeting of protected groups or identifiable individuals.

Space owners, moderators, and admins have a responsibility to help maintain lawful and respectful participation. They may not use their role to coerce members, solicit sexual attention, threaten removal in exchange for favors, silence reports of abuse, or apply rules in a discriminatory manner.

GLOW may moderate community spaces directly where needed to enforce these Guidelines, even if a space is themed around adult or niche interests.

20. Kink, Fetish, and Power-Dynamic Expression

20.1 What GLOW allows

GLOW may allow adults to describe consensual kink, fetish, and power-dynamic interests in profiles, chats, stories, events, and community spaces where appropriate.

Users may discuss preferences, roles, boundaries, compatibility, education, and event participation related to kink, provided they do so lawfully, respectfully, and consensually.

20.2 What GLOW does not allow

Kink or fetish framing does not override consent, legality, or safety.

Users may not use kink language to pressure or control strangers, demand sexual compliance, normalize abuse, justify harassment, or excuse coercive conduct. They may not create posts, chats, or communities that celebrate non-consensual harm, underage sexualization, racial degradation, captivity, or exploitative dynamics as acceptable behavior.

A user may state they are dominant, submissive, or interested in a specific dynamic. A user may not treat that as a license to command, demand, degrade, or expose others without consent.

21. Misinformation and Harmful Misleading Content

Users may not post, message, or circulate false or misleading content that creates a meaningful risk of harm.

This includes deceptive health or STI-related claims used to pressure intimate contact, false safety claims about events, fake moderation notices, fake reports, fabricated allegations against users, false emergency information, or misinformation intended to cause panic, shame, or coercion.

Users may discuss personal experiences and opinions, but may not present themselves as authorized medical, therapeutic, legal, or safety professionals unless they are properly qualified and clearly acting in a legitimate capacity recognized by the platform.

22. Spam, Manipulation, and Abusive Platform Use

GLOW is for genuine participation, not system abuse.

Users may not send spam messages, mass-post repetitive content, manipulate visibility systems, artificially inflate engagement, use bots to interact with users, scrape profile or community data, or exploit posts, stories, group chats, events, or community spaces for lead generation, unrelated advertising, affiliate traffic, or unauthorized commercial promotion.

Users may not organize false reporting campaigns, create engagement bait designed to mislead, or use multiple accounts to influence discussions, event participation, or community outcomes.

Commercial promotion may be restricted or prohibited except where expressly authorized by GLOW.

22.1 Cybersecurity and malicious activity

Users may not share malware, spyware, phishing content, credential-harvesting links, malicious code, or other content intended to compromise accounts, devices, systems, or personal data.

Users may not attempt to bypass security protections, test vulnerabilities without authorization, or use GLOW to distribute tools or instructions for account takeover, unlawful surveillance, or similar abuse.

22.2 Intellectual property and rights

Users may not upload, share, or use content that infringes another person's copyright, trademark, publicity rights, privacy rights, or other intellectual property or personality rights.

23. Reporting, Moderation, and Enforcement

Users can help protect the community by reporting profiles, messages, posts, stories, comments, chats, events, community spaces, or other conduct that may violate these Guidelines.

GLOW may review content and behavior through user reports, automated detection, proactive safety screening, and human moderation. Moderation may apply across the platform, including private and semi-private spaces, where permitted by law and platform procedure.

These Community Guidelines do not define the full complaint-handling and sanctions framework. The detailed process for notice, review, prioritization, escalation, user communication, appeals, and enforcement outcomes will be set out in the separate Content Moderation Rules section of the Terms of Use of the GLOW.

For clarity, however, GLOW may remove content, restrict visibility, close chats, remove posts or stories, suspend event participation, limit community activity, remove users from spaces, or otherwise act under the separate enforcement framework where content or behavior appears to violate these Guidelines.

Urgent reports involving minors, threats, non-consensual intimate content, serious harassment, impersonation, or credible offline danger may be prioritized.

Bad-faith or retaliatory reporting may itself violate these Guidelines.

24. Cooperation with Safety Processes

Users are expected to cooperate honestly with GLOW’s legitimate safety and moderation procedures.

You may not submit knowingly false reports, falsify screenshots, manipulate evidence, impersonate complainants, or interfere with a safety review. Hosts, admins, and moderators of groups, events, or community spaces must not suppress reports of serious abuse or retaliate against users for making them.

25. Evolving Standards

GLOW operates in an area involving heightened safety, privacy, and legal sensitivity. As features evolve, these Guidelines may be updated to reflect new community risks, legal obligations, product changes, moderation lessons, and trust and safety needs.

The core principles will remain the same across all product surfaces: consent, safety, authenticity, privacy, dignity, and respect.

26. Final Principle

Use GLOW in a way that makes the platform safer, more honest, and more respectful for others.

If your conduct pressures, deceives, humiliates, threatens, exploits, exposes, or endangers another user, it is likely inconsistent with these Guidelines, even if the exact scenario is not listed here.