Last Updated: July 30, 2026
Welcome to Everyday Life Tales, a community where people can share real-life experiences, personal reflections, challenges, lessons, and meaningful stories.
Our goal is to create a respectful, compassionate, and safe environment for contributors and readers. These Community Guidelines apply to stories, comments, messages, images, profile information, and all other content submitted to https://everydaylifetales.com.
By participating in our community, you agree to follow these guidelines.
1. Treat Everyone with Respect
Every story represents a person’s experiences, emotions, and perspective.
You may disagree with a contributor, but you must communicate respectfully.
Do not post:
- Personal attacks or insults
- Humiliating or degrading remarks
- Threats or intimidation
- Aggressive name-calling
- Comments intended to provoke or emotionally harm others
- Mockery of another person’s trauma, hardship, appearance, family, or life circumstances
Criticize ideas respectfully, not the person sharing them.
2. Show Empathy
Many stories published on Everyday Life Tales may involve sensitive experiences such as grief, illness, family conflict, poverty, abuse, discrimination, relationship difficulties, or emotional distress.
Before commenting, consider how your words may affect the contributor and other readers.
Helpful responses may include:
- Respectful encouragement
- Constructive observations
- Relevant personal experiences
- Thoughtful questions
- Supportive and compassionate language
Avoid blaming, shaming, or judging someone based only on a short version of their story.
3. No Hate Speech or Discrimination
We do not allow content that attacks, dehumanizes, threatens, excludes, or promotes hatred against individuals or groups based on characteristics such as:
- Race or ethnicity
- Nationality
- Religion or belief
- Disability
- Sex or gender
- Sexual orientation
- Age
- Social or economic status
- Medical condition
- Other protected or personal characteristics
Respectful discussion of social issues may be allowed, but hatred or targeted hostility is not.
4. No Harassment or Bullying
Do not repeatedly target, follow, shame, threaten, or pressure another person.
Prohibited behavior includes:
- Coordinated harassment
- Encouraging others to attack someone
- Repeated unwanted messages
- Publishing content to embarrass or punish someone
- Threatening to reveal private information
- Contacting contributors outside the website against their wishes
Content may be removed even if it is presented as a joke.
5. Protect Personal Privacy
Do not publish another person’s private or identifying information without appropriate permission.
This includes:
- Exact home addresses
- Private phone numbers
- Personal email addresses
- Government identification numbers
- Bank or payment details
- Passwords
- Private medical documents
- School schedules
- Precise real-time locations
- Private photographs, messages, recordings, or documents
When discussing another person, use only the details necessary to tell the story.
We may remove or change names, locations, occupations, dates, and other identifying details to protect privacy.
6. Be Careful When Naming Other People
Stories about family members, former partners, coworkers, employers, neighbors, or other individuals can create privacy and legal risks.
Do not use the website to:
- Publicly shame someone
- Spread rumors
- Make knowingly false accusations
- Seek revenge
- Damage another person’s reputation
- Encourage readers to identify or contact someone
- Publish serious allegations without adequate context or evidence
We may anonymize, reject, suspend, or remove content involving identifiable people.
7. Share Truthful Experiences
Stories should be truthful to the best of the contributor’s knowledge.
Personal memories and perspectives may differ, but contributors must not intentionally submit:
- Fabricated real-life stories
- False evidence
- Invented quotations
- Misleading screenshots
- Edited media presented deceptively
- False accusations against real individuals
- AI-generated fiction presented as a genuine personal experience
Fictional or dramatized content must be clearly identified as such.
8. No Defamatory Content
Do not knowingly publish false statements that could seriously harm another person’s or organization’s reputation.
When describing a dispute or conflict:
- Present personal experience as your perspective
- Avoid stating unverified allegations as proven facts
- Remove unnecessary identifying details
- Distinguish between what you personally witnessed and what you heard from others
- Avoid exaggeration intended to damage someone
Everyday Life Tales may request clarification or supporting information before publishing sensitive claims.
9. No Threats or Promotion of Violence
We do not allow content that:
- Threatens physical harm
- Encourages violence
- Celebrates serious violence
- Instructs people to attack another person
- Promotes criminal retaliation
- Expresses a credible desire to harm someone
- Encourages suicide or self-harm
Content involving an immediate or credible safety risk may be removed and, where necessary, reported to appropriate authorities.
10. Self-Harm and Crisis-Related Content
People may share stories about emotional pain, recovery, self-harm, or suicidal experiences when handled responsibly.
However, users must not post content that:
- Encourages or praises self-harm
- Provides detailed instructions for self-harm
- Pressures another person to harm themselves
- Shares graphic material intended to shock
- Treats self-harm as a competition or challenge
Everyday Life Tales is not an emergency or crisis-response service. Anyone in immediate danger should contact local emergency services or a qualified professional.
11. Protect Children and Young People
Content involving children requires additional care.
Do not post:
- Sexual or exploitative content involving minors
- Images of children without proper permission
- School names, schedules, addresses, or locations that create safety risks
- Private medical, family, or disciplinary information that could harm a child
- Content that humiliates or exposes a child unnecessarily
- Requests for inappropriate contact with minors
We may remove identifying details or reject submissions involving minors when privacy, consent, or safety cannot be adequately protected.
12. No Sexual Exploitation or Non-Consensual Content
We prohibit:
- Sexual exploitation
- Non-consensual intimate images
- Sexual content involving minors
- Threats to release intimate material
- Sexual harassment
- Content that exposes or humiliates victims
- Graphic sexual content intended primarily to shock or arouse
Stories about sexual abuse or exploitation may be shared for awareness, support, or personal storytelling, but they must avoid unnecessary graphic detail and protect victims’ identities.
13. No Illegal or Dangerous Activity
Do not use Everyday Life Tales to promote, organize, instruct, or assist:
- Criminal activity
- Fraud or scams
- Human trafficking
- Theft
- Hacking or malware
- Dangerous challenges
- Illegal drug distribution
- Violence or weapon misuse
- Deliberate evasion of law enforcement
Stories may discuss past wrongdoing when the purpose is reflection, education, accountability, or recovery, rather than encouragement.
14. No Spam or Manipulation
Do not post:
- Repetitive comments
- Irrelevant promotional links
- Fake engagement requests
- Misleading advertisements
- Phishing links
- Malware
- Automated or bulk submissions
- Comments intended only to redirect visitors elsewhere
- Repeated promotional messages for a product, service, channel, or website
We may block accounts, devices, email addresses, or IP addresses associated with abuse or spam.
15. Advertising and Promotional Content
Do not disguise advertising as a personal story.
You must disclose if:
- You were paid to submit the content
- You received a product, gift, discount, or benefit
- You represent a company or organization
- Your story promotes your own business
- A link may generate commission or compensation
Undisclosed promotional submissions may be rejected or removed.
16. Copyright and Original Content
Only submit content that you created or have permission to use.
Do not copy:
- Articles from another website
- Social-media posts belonging to another person
- Photographs without permission
- Books, poems, or song lyrics
- News reports
- Videos or audio recordings
- Private messages or documents
Short quotations may be reviewed individually, but the source should be identified where appropriate.
17. Images, Audio and Video
Submitted media must comply with the same standards as written content.
By submitting media, you confirm that:
- You own it or have permission to use it
- People shown have given appropriate permission
- It does not expose private information
- It has not been deceptively edited
- It does not violate another person’s rights
We may crop, resize, blur, replace, or remove media for privacy, safety, formatting, or legal reasons.
18. Artificial Intelligence Content
AI may be used to assist with:
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Translation
- Organization
- Readability
However, users must not use AI to:
- Fabricate a supposedly true experience
- Impersonate a real person
- Create false evidence
- Generate defamatory accusations
- Produce misleading images of real events
- Copy another creator’s work
- Submit large amounts of low-quality automated content
Substantially AI-generated or fictional content must be clearly disclosed.
19. Medical, Legal and Financial Discussions
Community members may discuss personal experiences involving health, law, money, or mental well-being.
However, users must not:
- Pretend to be a qualified professional
- Guarantee a diagnosis, cure, legal result, or financial return
- Encourage someone to ignore professional treatment
- Promote dangerous or fraudulent services
- Pressure vulnerable users into financial decisions
- Request private medical or financial information
Personal experience should be presented as personal experience—not professional advice.
20. Comments and Constructive Discussion
Comments should contribute meaningfully to the discussion.
Good comments may:
- Respond directly to the story
- Ask respectful questions
- Offer supportive perspectives
- Share a relevant experience
- Correct information politely and with evidence
Comments may be removed when they are abusive, misleading, repetitive, irrelevant, invasive, or disruptive.
21. Moderation
Everyday Life Tales reserves the right to:
- Review submissions before publication
- Edit or anonymize content
- Add content warnings or editorial notes
- Disable comments
- Remove stories or comments
- Reject submissions
- Restrict access
- Block users or technical identifiers
- Preserve information when reasonably necessary for safety or legal purposes
Moderation decisions may be made without prior notice.
We are not required to publish, retain, or explain the removal of every submission or comment.
22. Reporting Content
Please contact us if you believe content:
- Violates your privacy
- Infringes your copyright
- Contains false or defamatory claims
- Exposes a child or vulnerable person
- Includes threats or harassment
- Contains dangerous or illegal material
- Violates these Community Guidelines
Include:
- The relevant page URL
- A clear description of the problem
- Your relationship to the content
- Any supporting information
- The change or action you are requesting
Reports submitted in bad faith or for the purpose of silencing legitimate personal experiences may be rejected.
23. Corrections and Appeals
Contributors or affected individuals may request review of a moderation decision, correction, anonymization, or removal.
We will consider reasonable requests, but we do not guarantee that every decision will be reversed.
When reviewing a request, we may consider:
- Privacy
- Accuracy
- Safety
- Rights of the contributor
- Rights of affected individuals
- Public interest
- Legal obligations
- Availability of supporting information
24. Repeated Violations
Users who repeatedly violate these guidelines may lose the ability to:
- Submit stories
- Comment
- Contact contributors
- Use community features
- Access parts of the website
Serious violations may result in immediate restriction without warning.
25. Changes to These Guidelines
We may update these Community Guidelines as the website and community develop.
Changes will be published on this page with a revised Last Updated date.
Continued participation after an update means you agree to follow the revised guidelines.
26. Contact Us
To report content, request a review, or ask a question about these guidelines, contact:
Everyday Life Tales
Website: https://everydaylifetales.com
Email: contact@everydaylifetales.com