GivePeace Community Guidelines

Version 1.0 — Effective July 30, 2026

GivePeace's public spaces are where grief lives out loud: the memorial feed, the comments and prayers people leave for one another, the tombstone videos people record while they are alive so that their memorial carries their own voice. These spaces hold people on the worst days of their lives. These Guidelines exist to keep those spaces safe for them.

These Guidelines are part of our Terms of Service. They are written plainly, because the people reading them are often grieving, and plainness here is kindness. Most of this document says one thing in different ways: be gentle. Everyone here has lost someone, or will.

1. Where These Guidelines Apply

1.1 Public surfaces. These Guidelines govern everything you post or share on GivePeace's public surfaces: the memorial feed, comments, prayers, tombstone videos, tributes, and any other place on GivePeace where what you share is visible to people beyond yourself.

1.2 Part of the Terms. These Guidelines are part of our Terms of Service. Breaking them is breaking the Terms, and the enforcement described in Section 13 applies. Where these Guidelines and the Terms of Service cover the same ground, they are meant to agree; if they ever seem not to, these Guidelines control for their own subject — the standards for our public surfaces and how we moderate them — and the Terms of Service governs everything else.

1.3 Posting requires an account. You must have a GivePeace account to post to any public surface, and by posting you agree to follow these Guidelines. If someone left you a message and you arrived through a claim link, that door is never closed: you can always receive and view what was left for you. Claiming it happens in the app, with a free account tied to the email address or phone number the message was sent to — and nothing in these Guidelines stands in its way. Your visit is described in the Trustee & Recipient Terms.

1.4 What you record privately. These Guidelines also set the standard for what you record and seal for later delivery. We do not read sealed messages — Section 11 explains that promise — but the rules against using GivePeace to harm someone apply to every message on the Service, sealed or public.

2. What This Space Is For

2.1 Remembrance, love, and honest grief. Tell the stories. Say the true thing. Leave a prayer in whatever words your faith or your heart uses. Grief is not tidy — it carries anger, laughter, doubt, faith, regret, and gratitude, sometimes all in one sentence — and all of that is welcome here. You do not have to perform composure on GivePeace. You do not have to perform anything.

2.2 Not a stage. A memorial is not a place to build a following or chase attention. There are no ads on GivePeace and there never will be. We make money from the things we sell — never from selling your data or your attention. Nothing here is designed to reward outrage, and no one's death is raw material for someone else's following.

3. What Is Never Allowed

We have zero tolerance for objectionable material on GivePeace's public surfaces. Two lists follow. The first is material we remove immediately, without waiting for review to finish. The second is everything else that has no place here.

3.1 Removed immediately. The following comes down the moment we find it or it is brought to our attention:

(a) depictions of the moment of a death, or of its aftermath — no matter whose, no matter why; (b) graphic injury, human remains, or gore; (c) sexual material of any kind on a public surface; (d) anything that encourages, instructs in, or glorifies suicide or self-harm; (e) anything that exploits or endangers a child; (f) material posted to disgust, or to mock a person who passed away.

3.2 Never allowed. Also prohibited on every public surface:

(a) harassment of grieving people. A memorial is not a place to settle scores, relitigate a relationship, or torment a family. This includes fake "goodbye" messages crafted to distress the living; (b) hate — attacks on people for who they are: their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity; (c) mockery of the dead. The person being remembered cannot answer you. That is exactly why we will; (d) impersonation — pretending to be someone you are not, and above all impersonating a person who passed away or fabricating messages "from" them. A dead person's voice is not yours to borrow. Pretending to be a grieving family member you are not is impersonation too; (e) doxxing — posting someone's private information: a home address, a phone number, financial details, or anything shared to expose or endanger a person; (f) threats or encouragement of violence against anyone; (g) spam, scams, and commercial solicitation — and especially any scheme that preys on grieving people. Grief makes people vulnerable; exploiting that is one of the fastest ways to lose your account; (h) illegal material of any kind; (i) false death reports, or any manipulation of the death-determination process. That process is the heart of this Service; interfering with it is covered in our Terms of Service and our Death Verification & Posthumous Release Policy, and we treat it as seriously as anything on this list.

4. People in Your Videos

4.1 Living people: get their okay first. If a living person appears in a video you post to a public surface, get their consent before you post it. A simple test: if they would be surprised or hurt to find themselves on a public memorial, you have your answer. This is their face and their grief too.

4.2 The person being remembered. Share photos and footage of your loved one with the care their memory deserves. You may not use a deceased person's name, face, or voice to sell anything or promote anything. A memorial honors a person; it does not endorse a product.

5. Music, Photos, and Other People's Work

5.1 Post only what is yours to post. You must own, or have the right to use, any music, photos, or footage in what you upload. This matters most with music: a tribute video set to a popular song usually requires licenses that GivePeace cannot grant you, no matter how fitting the song is or how much your loved one loved it. We know that is a hard rule on a memorial. It is also the law, and we cannot tell you a particular use is permitted — that is not a judgment we can make for you.

5.2 How copyright complaints work. We do not pre-screen posts for copyright. We rely on notices from rights holders, and our Copyright & DMCA Policy describes exactly how notices, counter-notices, and removals work. People who repeatedly post work that is not theirs lose their accounts.

6. Private Facts and Health Information

6.1 Another person's health is not yours to publish. Do not post someone else's health information on a public surface. A cause of death belongs to the family to share, or not to share — it is not a stranger's story to tell, and it can wound the living in ways the poster never sees.

6.2 If a stranger posted what was not theirs to tell. If a memorial of someone you love carries a private fact, a cause of death, or a story that was not the poster's to share, report it in the app or write to support@givepeace.co with the subject "Memorial Concern." You do not need an account to write to us. Formal requests from an estate or its representatives are described in our Legal Process & Estate Requests Policy.

7. No Gifts or Bequests

7.1 Messages, memorials, comments, and tributes may not be used to give away property, direct who gets what, or make promises about an estate. GivePeace messages are not a legal will, and our Terms of Service explains this plainly. What you leave here are words of love — not instruments of transfer. Keep the two apart, for your family's sake.

8. Young People Here

8.1 Thirteen and up. You must be at least 13 to have a GivePeace account. If we learn an account belongs to a child under 13, we will close it and delete its data. If you believe someone here is under 13, report it in the app or email support@givepeace.co — we treat those reports with urgency.

8.2 What 13-to-17-year-olds can do. If you are 13 to 17, you can receive, view, and claim any message a loved one left for you — that is never age-gated, ever — and you can take part on public surfaces: leave prayers, comments, and tributes. Until you are 18 you may not record or arm death-released videos (including tombstone videos), name trustees, or serve as a trustee. Those limits come from our Terms of Service, and they exist to protect you, never to shut you out.

8.3 Around young people. Memorials are visited by young people grieving a parent, a sibling, a friend. Keep what you post on public surfaces appropriate for them — assume a grieving teenager will scroll past it, because one will. Any attempt to target, groom, exploit, or collect personal information from a minor on GivePeace ends the offender's account and, where the law is implicated, goes to the authorities.

9. Reporting, and What Happens Next

9.1 Reporting. Every public post on GivePeace can be reported in the app. Reporting is how you hand something to us; you never have to argue with anyone on a memorial. You can also always email support@givepeace.co.

9.2 Quarantine. A reported post may be quarantined — hidden from public view — while we review it. We would rather briefly hide something kind than leave something cruel standing on a memorial.

9.3 Review. Our team reviews reports and decides in good faith whether these Guidelines were broken. We review as quickly as we can, and we take special care with reports about memorials of people who passed away recently, because that is when the people reading them are most raw.

9.4 What can happen. After review we may restore the post, remove it, restrict what the poster can do, or suspend or terminate their account — Section 13 describes the ladder. When we act on a post, we remove it or hide it whole. We never edit or rewrite anyone's words — not yours, not anyone's.

9.5 Appeals. If we removed something of yours and you believe we got it wrong, email support@givepeace.co with the subject "Moderation Appeal." A person will take a second look with fresh eyes. If we got it wrong, we will put it back and say so.

10. Blocking and Keeping Someone Away

10.1 We block abusive people from the Service. Someone who harasses grieving people, mocks the dead, or preys on mourners does not get to keep doing it here. Restriction, suspension, and removal from the Service are all on the table, and for abusive behavior we use them.

10.2 If someone will not leave you alone. You can block another member in the app, and their posts and comments will no longer reach you. If a particular person keeps directing their words at you, or keeps appearing on the memorial of someone you love in a way that harms you, report them in the app or write to support@givepeace.co with the subject "Memorial Concern" and tell us who and where. We will review it, and where these Guidelines have been broken we will act — including keeping that person off the Service entirely.

11. Sealed Private Messages

11.1 We do not read sealed messages. Sealed private messages are not reviewed or accessed by moderation. We access them only where the law requires. Not when you record them, not while they wait, not on the eve of release — what you sealed for the people you love is not part of any review queue. This is one of the oldest promises of the Service, and our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service carry it too.

11.2 The rules still apply to what you record. The promise above is about privacy, not permission. You may not use a sealed message to harass, threaten, defame, or torment anyone. If a released message breaks these Guidelines or the law, we can act after release, the same way we act on a public post.

11.3 If a released message harmed you. If you were named or shown in a message that has been released and it harms you — whether or not you have ever used GivePeace — write to support@givepeace.co with the subject "Memorial Concern." You do not need an account. A person will read it and respond.

12. If You Are Struggling

Grief is heavy. Some days it is heavier than a person should carry alone, and some of the people reading this page are in one of those days right now.

If you are thinking about ending your life, please reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988, any hour, any day. If you or someone near you is in immediate danger, call 911.

GivePeace is not an emergency service, a medical service, or a mental-health service, and we cannot see who is in crisis. But we can say this plainly: this Service exists so that the people you love can hear from you after a long life. We are in no hurry for any message to be delivered. Please stay.

13. Enforcement

13.1 The ladder. When these Guidelines are broken, we may — as our Terms of Service provides — remove the post, restrict what the account can do, suspend the account, or terminate it. Which rung we use depends on what was done, whether it endangered anyone, and whether it has happened before. The zero-tolerance categories in Section 3.1 skip the bottom rungs.

13.2 Safety first, conversation second. For anything touching the safety of a person or the integrity of the death-determination process, we act first and discuss second. Everywhere else, where a violation is not dangerous, we prefer to warn and explain before we escalate.

13.3 Reserved rights. We may filter, quarantine, remove, restrict, suspend, or terminate as these Guidelines and the Terms of Service describe. Enforcement is at our good-faith discretion: we are not obligated to pre-screen posts, and if we do not act on one violation we have not given up the right to act on another — or on the next report of the same one.

13.4 How this fits with the Terms. These Guidelines control for their own subject — the standards for our public surfaces and how we moderate them. The Terms of Service governs everything else. Nothing in these Guidelines narrows any right we hold, or any protection you hold, under the Terms of Service.

14. Changes to These Guidelines

We may update these Guidelines as the community and the law evolve. The version and effective date appear at the top. Because these Guidelines are part of our Terms of Service, material changes follow the notice process described there.

15. Questions

Give Peace Inc. support@givepeace.co givepeace.co

Use the subject "Moderation Appeal" to appeal a removal, or "Memorial Concern" to tell us about something on a memorial — including if you have never had an account. For anything else, just write. If a rule in this document confused you, or a moment on GivePeace hurt you, we want to know. These spaces belong to the people grieving in them, and we intend to keep them worthy of that.

Community Guidelines v1.0 — Effective July 30, 2026