When you use YouTube, you join a community of people from all over the world. The guidelines below help keep YouTube fun and enjoyable for everyone.
If you see content that you think violates these guidelines, use the flagging feature to submit it for review by our YouTube staff.
The YouTube Community is one that's built on trust. Content that intends to scam, mislead, spam, or defraud other users isn't allowed on YouTube.
- Spam, deceptive practices, & scams policies
- Impersonation policy
- External links policy
- Fake engagement policy
- Additional policies
We hope to protect viewers, creators, and especially minors. That's why we've got rules around keeping children safe and self-harm. Learn what's allowed on YouTube and what to do if you see content that doesn't follow these policies.
- Thumbnails policy
- Child safety policy
- Suicide & self-harm policy
Hate speech, predatory behavior, graphic violence, malicious attacks, and content that promotes harmful or dangerous behavior aren't allowed on YouTube.
- Harmful or dangerous content policies
- Violent or graphic content policies
- Violent criminal organizational policy
- Hate speech policy
- Harassment & cyberbullying policies
Certain goods can't be sold on YouTube. Find out what's allowed—and what isn't.
- Sale of illegal or regulated goods or services policies
- Firearms policy
Certain types of misleading or deceptive content with serious risk of egregious harm are not allowed on YouTube. This includes certain types of misinformation that can cause real-world harm, like promoting harmful remedies or treatments, certain types of technically manipulated content, or content interfering with democratic processes.
- Misinformation policies
- Elections misinformation policies
- COVID-19 medical misinformation policies
- Vaccine misinformation policy
Please take these rules seriously. If a YouTube creator’s on- and/or off-platform behavior harms our users, community, employees, or ecosystem, we may respond based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the egregiousness of their actions and whether a pattern of harmful behavior exists. Our response will range from suspending a creator’s privileges to account termination.
What kind of content will violate YouTube's privacy policy???
The general gist of YouTube's privacy policy is that a person must be "uniquely identifiable" for content to be subject to removal. This means a video should have enough details that people can recognize the complainant and not confuse them with anyone else.
For content to be considered for removal, an individual must be uniquely identifiable by image, voice, full name, Social Security number, bank account number, or contact information (ex. home address, email address). Examples that would not violate our privacy guidelines include gamer tags, avatar names, and address information in which the individual is not named. We also take public interest, newsworthiness, and consent into account when determining if content should be removed for a privacy violation. YouTube reserves the right to make the final determination of whether a violation of its privacy guidelines has occurred.
According to YouTube, the identity or contact information of someone initiating a privacy complaint process will not be disclosed to the uploader of the video. In most cases, complaints must be first-party claims and not on behalf of someone else.
Once a complaint has been filed, the uploader is notified and has 48 hours to remove the video in question. Should they not remove the content, a team at YouTube reviews the complaint.
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