The rules

• The spirit
• What's not allowed
• If you break them
• Reporting
• Grievance Officer

The spirit

M IN is for meeting real people over small plans. Four habits cover most of it: be real, meet in public, respect a no, and treat people the way you'd want to be treated at a stranger's table.

• Be real. Your own name, your own recent photos, one account per person. Host only plans you'll turn up to.
• Meet in public. First meetings happen in public places. No plans at private homes with people you've just met.
• Respect a no. A declined request, an ignored wave, someone leaving a chat or blocking you: none of it needs chasing.
• Keep money out of chat. Never ask for or send payments, OTPs, bank or card details in a chat. We'll never ask for them either.

What's not allowed

You must not host, post, share, send, store or otherwise put on M IN anything that:

• belongs to someone else and you don't have the right to share;
• is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, or invades someone's privacy, including their bodily privacy;
• is insulting or harassing on the basis of gender, or is racially or ethnically objectionable;
• encourages money laundering, gambling or betting, or is otherwise unlawful;
• harms a child in any way;
• infringes a patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary right;
• breaks any law currently in force in India;
• deceives or misleads people about where a message came from, or knowingly spreads false or misleading information, including misinformation dressed up as fact;
• impersonates another person, or pretends to be M IN or a member of our team;
• threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order; incites an offence; or insults another nation;
• contains software viruses, malware or code designed to interrupt, destroy or limit how any computer or app works;
• is false and untrue, and is written or published with intent to mislead or harass a person, entity or agency for financial gain or to cause injury.

On top of the law, we also don't allow these, because M IN doesn't work without trust:

• Harassment and hate. Abuse, threats, slurs, sexual content, unwanted advances, or contacting someone who has asked you to stop.
• Fake plans and fake people. Plans you won't attend, made-up locations, borrowed photos, multiple accounts, or lying about your age.
• Selling and spam. Advertising, promotion, recruiting, multi-level marketing, or posting the same plan again and again.
• Payments and scams. Asking for payment to join a plan, requesting OTPs or bank details, or moving people to another app to "confirm".
• Dangerous plans. Anything illegal, anything that puts people at risk, or plans at private homes with strangers.
• Sharing without consent. Screenshots of private chats, other people's photos or contact details, or anyone's live location.

If you break them

• We may remove the content or plan, hold your photos for review, restrict what your account can do, or suspend it.
• Serious cases (threats, sexual content, scams, anything involving a minor) mean an immediate, permanent removal.
• Repeat violators lose access. If you've been warned or suspended before and it happens again, your account is closed and you may not create another one.
• We hand over information to law enforcement when the law requires it. We can only share what we have; we cannot read encrypted messages.
• If you think we got it wrong, write to the Grievance Officer below. We'll look again.

Reporting

Report a person, a plan or a message from the three-dots menu or by long-pressing a message. Shake your phone anywhere in the app to send a general report. The person you report is not told who reported them. You can also email the Grievance Officer directly.

Grievance redressal