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Content policy

This covers anything you submit through the builder or the drawing canvas.

What you may submit

Drawings you made yourself. Do not submit sexual content, content that sexualises minors, content that promotes hatred against or harasses a person or group, graphic violence, or anyone else's artwork or trademarks. Submitting sexual content involving minors is a crime and is reported to the relevant authorities.

How submissions are screened

Every drawing is checked automatically before it can appear publicly. The check runs on our own servers — your image is not sent to any third party. Based on the result, a drawing is either published, refused, or held for a person to look at.

Automated screening is not a guarantee. It is trained to recognise sexual imagery. It is not reliable at detecting hate symbols, graphic violence, or content targeting a specific person, and it can be wrong in both directions. Some drawings that should be refused will get through until they are reported, and some harmless ones will be held up.

What we store

  • The image itself, re-encoded on our servers. What is stored is never the exact file you sent.
  • The screening result, so a decision can be reviewed later.
  • A fingerprint of the image, so something already refused cannot simply be submitted again with small changes.
  • The IP address the submission came from, so a single source can be blocked. It is never shown publicly.

A refused drawing's image file is deleted. Its fingerprint is kept so it stays refused.

Publication and removal

A submission gets a private link straight away, which is not listed anywhere and is not indexed by search engines. Appearing in the public gallery is a separate step. Every published drawing has a report link, and reporting one flags it for review — it does not remove it automatically, because that would let any one person hide anything. We can remove any submission at any time.

Reporting something

Use the report link on the drawing. For anything urgent, or a copyright complaint, use the contact route on the licensing page.