Privacy Policy
Policy Rationale
Privacy and the protection of personal information are fundamentally important values for BudgetYid. We work hard to safeguard your personal identity and information and we do not allow people to post certain types of personal or confidential information about yourself or of others.
We remove content that shares, offers or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that may lead to physical or financial harm, including financial information, residential or medical information, and private information obtained from illegal sources. We also recognize that private information may become publicly available information through news coverage, court filings, press releases, or other sources. When this happens, we may allow the information to be published.
We also provide people ways to report imagery that they believe to be in violation of their privacy rights.
Do not post:
Content that shares or solicits any of the following private information, either on BudgetYid or through external links:
Personally identifiable information about yourself or others
- Personal identification numbers and identification documents: identifying people by name and government-issued numbers, including:
- National Identification Numbers (for example, Social Security Number (SSN), Passport Number, Social Security/Health Service Numbers, Personal Public Services Identifier (PPS), Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)).
- Government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel.
- Records or official documents of civil registration details (for example, marriage, birth, death, name change or gender identification documents, other than student IDs).
- Immigration and work status documents (for example, green card, work permits or immigration documents)
- Driver's license or license plates, except when the license plates are shared to locate missing vehicles, people or animals
- Credit Privacy Numbers (CPN Numbers)
- Digital identity: Passwords, PINs, or secret numbers (such as passwords for email addresses, social media accounts, and streaming service accounts) that authenticate access to an online identity
- Personal identification numbers and identification documents: identifying people by name and government-issued numbers, including:
Personal Contact Information
- Personal contact information of others, including personal phone numbers and personal email addresses (including work email addresses), except when posted by that person or when shared or solicited to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding people or owners Missing lives, or owners of lost items, or to contact a business or service providers (unless it is determined that the personal contact information was shared without the individual's consent).
Financial information.
- Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
- Non-public financial records and reports.
- Bank account numbers with security codes or PIN codes.
- Details of digital payment methods with login details, security or PIN codes.
- Credit or debit card details with expiration date, PIN or security code.
- Financial information about businesses or organizations, except when it is originally shared by the organization itself (including additional shares with the original context unchanged) or is shared in response to public reporting requirements (for example, as required by stock exchanges or regulatory agencies), including:
- Non-public financial records and reports
- Bank account numbers to which a security code or PIN code is attached.
- Details of digital payment methods to which the login details, security code or PIN code are attached.
- Personal financial information about yourself or others, including:
Residential information
- Private residential addresses of others (except where the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a senior government official):
- Full private residential addresses of others, including the name of the building, GPS locations or locations on a map that identify the address (even if the locations appear in a link outside the Platform), except when shared to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding missing people or animals, or owners of lost items, or to contact a business or service providers
- Partial private residential addresses of others:
- Partial private residential addresses of others when they are shared in the context of organizing demonstrations or tracking the resident and when the residential location is identified by any of the following:
- Street
- City or neighborhood (only in cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants)
- Postal code
- GPS locations or locations on a map that identify each of these (even if the locations appear in a link outside the platform)
- Partial private residential addresses of others when they are shared in the context of organizing demonstrations or tracking the resident and when the residential location is identified by any of the following:
- Photos showing the exterior of a private residence, if the following conditions are met:
- The residence is a private house, or the number of the housing unit or the name of its building appears in the picture/caption.
- The location of the residence is identified by one of the following:
- Street
- City or neighborhood (only in cities with less than 50,000 inhabitants)
- Postal code
- GPS locations or locations on a map that identify each of these (even if the locations appear in a link outside the platform)
- The content identifies the tenants.
- The tenant objects to the disclosure of his private home, or there is a context of protest organized against that tenant.
- Photos of the residence are not shared when the residence is the focus of a news story, unless they are shared in the context of organizing protests against the resident
- Partial private residential addresses of others:
- Full private residential addresses of others, including the name of the building, GPS locations or locations on a map that identify the address (even if the locations appear in a link outside the Platform), except when shared to promote charitable causes, facilitate finding missing people or animals, or owners of lost items, or to contact a business or service providers
- Hideout Locations: Content that discloses information about hideouts by sharing any of the following details, unless the hideout actively promotes the publication of information about it
- Actual address (note: "PO Box only" is allowed).
- Images of the safe house
- Identifiable city/neighborhood of the safe house.
- Information that reveals the identity of the residents of the shelter.
- Private residential addresses of others (except where the residence is an official residence or embassy provided to a senior government official):
Medical information
- Content that shares medical, psychological, biometric, or hereditary genetic information of others when it is clear that the information comes from medical records or other official documents, including when presented as an image or shared via audio or video.
Information obtained from hacked sources
- Except in limited cases of newsworthy news, content that is claimed or confirmed to originate from a hacked source, whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.
- The following content also may be removed:
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- A minor under the age of 13, and the content was reported by the minor or a parent or legal guardian.
- A minor between the ages of 13 and 18, and the content was reported by the minor.
- An adult, when the content was reported by an adult outside the US and the law applies to remove rights.
- Any person is limited and cannot report the content themselves.
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For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
- Photographs of a person in a medical or health facility or of a private person or minor entering or leaving a medical or health facility if they have been reported by the photographed person or an authorized representative, or by the medical or health facility.
- Source material purporting to reveal non-public election-related information shared as part of a foreign government's attempt to influence.
- We remove reports of such a leak from state-controlled media outlets that are behind the leak.
