Community Guidelines

Effective October 7, 2026

BizMeet helps adults find co-founders, collaborators and professional contacts. These Community Guidelines explain what that looks like in practice: who can join, what you can post, how to treat other members, and what we do when someone breaks the rules.

These guidelines are part of our Terms of Service. You accept them when you create an account. If the Terms and these guidelines ever conflict, the Terms control.

We may update these guidelines. When we do, we will change the effective date below, and we will tell you about important changes in the app or by email.

1. Why these rules exist and where they apply

BizMeet is a professional networking service for adults aged 18 and over. It is not a dating service. These rules keep it a place where people can meet for work with trust and without fear.

For lawful work and business. BizMeet is meant for lawful professional networking, such as meeting co-founders, collaborators, mentors, clients, investors and people to hire or work with on real projects. Any work, hire, contract, investment or partnership you discuss or arrange through BizMeet must be legal, and it must follow the employment, tax, licensing and securities laws that apply to it. Using BizMeet for dating, personal fundraising, unsolicited selling or anything illegal is misuse of BizMeet and breaks these rules.

The rules cover everything you put on BizMeet and everything you do toward other members:

If you break these rules, we may remove your content or your account. The Terms of Service explain the full terms of your use of BizMeet, and our Safety Policy and Safety Tips has tips for staying safe.

2. Be real

Other members decide whether to work with you based on your profile. Make it honest.

Your identity. Use your own account, the first name you actually go by, and recent photos of yourself. At least one of your photos must clearly show your face. Nicknames and short forms of your name are fine. Business names, job titles, emoji, symbols, social media handles and the name of a famous person who isn't you are not. A first name must start with a letter and use only letters, spaces, apostrophes and hyphens, with a period only before a space or at the end (such as "J. R."). It can be up to 50 characters and can never contain "BizMeet". Enter your real birth date.

Your background. Describe your professional status, sector, education, job titles, employers, credentials and affiliations accurately. Do not claim a degree, license, role, investment, client or partnership you do not have, and do not inflate your company's funding, revenue, customers, exits or awards. Do not make, buy, sell or use fake diplomas, certificates, licenses, IDs or references, and do not offer to take a test or exam for someone else.

No impersonation. Do not pretend to be another person, company, brand or organization, or suggest you speak for one when you do not. This includes posing as a recruiter or hiring manager for a real company, and posing as BizMeet or its staff. If someone is using your name or photos, see section 13.

No false links to BizMeet. Do not suggest that BizMeet employs, sponsors or endorses you, your business or your offer, or that BizMeet has checked your identity, credentials or offer. A verified badge means only what we describe under "What BizMeet does not check" below. Do not use the BizMeet name or logo in your business name, email address, website or links.

No fake accounts. Do not create accounts for made-up people, and do not run accounts for someone else.

One personal account. Each person may have one account. BizMeet accounts are for individuals only. You can describe your company in your statements, but company or brand accounts and shared logins are not allowed. Do not let anyone else use your account, and do not sell, rent, lend, buy or transfer an account or use someone else's.

Keep it current. Update your profile when your status, work or goals change, and replace photos that no longer look like you. Do not falsify your location.

Adults only. You must be 18 or older to use BizMeet. If you think a member is under 18, report them with the reason "Underage user". Parents and guardians can email contact@bizmeetapp.org. If we find that an account belongs to someone under 18, we delete it. If we deleted your account because we believed you were under 18 and you are not, you can appeal as described in section 14.

Who can join. You must also meet the other eligibility requirements in section 3 of our Terms of Service. For example, you must live in the United States, you must not be required to register as a sex offender, and you must never have been convicted of, or pleaded guilty or no contest to, a violent felony or any sexual offense. If we have removed you from BizMeet, you may not rejoin unless we give you written permission.

What BizMeet does not check. We do not check members' identity, employers, job titles, credentials or criminal background, and we do not review profiles or messages before they appear. A verified badge, when a member has one, means only that the member confirmed control of a phone number and connected a LinkedIn account with the same first name. It is not an identity, employment or background check. Use your own judgment and verify important claims yourself before you rely on them.

3. Keep it professional

BizMeet exists for professional networking. Keep your profile, requests and messages focused on work, business, careers and collaboration.

Keep your commitments. If you agree to a call or meeting and can't make it, tell the other person as early as you can. Repeatedly not showing up without notice, when members report it, can lead to a warning or limits on your account.

Respect a no. If someone passes on you, does not accept your request, disconnects from you or stops replying, accept it and move on. BizMeet does not tell you when someone declines, so treat silence as a no. Do not keep sending requests or messages to the same person, and do not try to reach them another way.

4. Respect others

Treat every member the way you would treat a colleague. BizMeet welcomes professionals of every background.

No harassment. Do not harass, bully, intimidate, threaten, stalk or blackmail anyone. This includes repeated unwanted contact, insults, public shaming and pressure tactics, on or off BizMeet, and showing up uninvited at someone's home or workplace.

No hate or discrimination. Do not attack, demean, exclude or threaten anyone because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, serious illness or veteran status. Do not post slurs, hateful symbols or content that promotes hate groups. Deliberately using the wrong name or pronouns for someone in order to demean them is also not allowed.

No exclusion. Do not say in your profile, request notes or messages that people with any of the characteristics above are not welcome to contact you, work with you or apply. When you describe a role or opportunity, describe the work, the skills it needs and the terms, and leave out the kind of person you want, such as their age, sex, religion or national origin. This doesn't apply to a requirement the law sets or allows for the role, such as a legal minimum age for a licensed job or proof that someone may work in the United States. If a role has one, state the requirement itself.

No false claims about others. Do not post or send statements about a person or company that you know are false and that could harm their reputation, and do not spread rumors about anyone's private life.

Respect our team. The same standards apply to how you treat the people at BizMeet who answer your emails and review reports.

No block evasion. If someone blocks you, do not contact them through another account, another person or a paid feature such as a Priority message. If someone passes on you, don't try to reach them another way. If someone disconnects from you, don't use repeated requests or Priority messages to pressure them. If you want to stop all contact with someone, block them.

No pressure to leave the app. Do not push anyone to move the conversation to another app, email or phone before they are ready. Pressure to switch platforms early is a common sign of a scam.

5. Safety and illegal activity

We do not allow anything on BizMeet that puts people in danger or breaks the law.

Child sexual abuse and exploitation. We have zero tolerance for child sexual abuse material, the sexual exploitation of children, grooming, or any content that sexualizes a minor. We remove it, delete the account, report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and preserve the material and related account information for one year after we report it, as federal law requires. See our Child Safety Standards.

Intimate images shared without consent. Do not share, or threaten to share, intimate or sexual images of anyone without their consent. This includes real, edited and AI-generated images. If an intimate image of you appears on BizMeet without your consent, you can ask us to remove it, even if you do not have an account. In the app, report the member with the reason "Inappropriate content", and email contact@bizmeetapp.org with the subject "Intimate image removal". Please do not attach the image. We remove the image, and any identical copies we know of, within 48 hours of receiving a valid request. Section 9 of our Safety Policy and Safety Tips lists what to include in your request.

Sextortion. Do not threaten to expose someone, or their images or secrets, to get money, images, sex or anything else.

Sexual assault and non-consensual contact. Any sexual contact without clear consent, on or off BizMeet, including at a meeting you arranged here, breaks these rules. It is also a crime and can lead to criminal charges and civil liability. If it happens to you, it is not your fault. You can report it to the police, to us, and to the RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.

Violence. Do not threaten, promote or glorify violence. Do not post graphic violence, gore or animal cruelty, or images of weapons meant to intimidate.

Terrorism, violent extremism and organized crime. Do not support, promote or recruit for terrorist, violent extremist or organized criminal groups or their activities.

Self-harm. Do not encourage suicide, self-harm or eating disorders, or promote dangerous challenges or stunts. If you are struggling, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the US, any time. If we learn that a member may be in immediate danger, we may contact emergency services where the law allows.

Illegal goods and services. Do not offer, buy, sell or trade drugs, prescription medicines without a valid prescription, weapons, stolen goods, counterfeit or pirated goods, fake documents, or other illegal goods and services. Do not offer regulated goods or services, such as gambling, without every license the law requires.

Human trafficking and commercial sex. Do not engage in or promote human trafficking, forced labor, sex work, escorting, or "sugar" arrangements that trade money or gifts for companionship or sex. Do not use job, modeling, travel or study offers to recruit, move or control anyone by force, fraud or coercion, and do not hold on to someone's ID documents or pay to keep them working.

6. Sexual content and nudity

BizMeet is not a place for sexual content. Do not post or send:

Unwanted sexual comments, questions or jokes are harassment and are treated that way, even if they are not explicit.

7. Scams, fraud, money and work

People on BizMeet often talk about business, and business involves money. That is fine. Deceiving people for money is not.

Do not ask for money under false pretenses. This includes asking for money, gifts, loans, cryptocurrency, gift cards or payment-app transfers based on a false story, a fake emergency, a fake charity or disaster appeal, or a fake business. Do not pretend to be in danger or distress to get money, help or information.

No personal fundraising. Do not ask members for personal gifts, donations, tips, loans or crowdfunding, or for help paying bills, even if your need is real. Money should come up on BizMeet only as part of a real business deal, such as fees, pay, equity or an investment. Put the terms in writing before anyone pays or invests.

Do not run schemes. The following are not allowed:

Legitimate business is fine. You can discuss real deals, such as equity splits, co-founder terms, salaries, and fees for real services you offer. Be honest about the terms.

Describe opportunities honestly. If you discuss a role, project, contract or partnership with a member, describe it truthfully: what the work is, whether it is salaried, hourly, commission-only, equity-only or unpaid, and where it is based or whether it is remote. Do not hide or misstate which business or client it is for. If a confidentiality duty stops you from naming the business or client yet, say so. Only discuss opportunities that really exist.

No earnings promises. Do not promise or suggest income, returns or results that you cannot back up.

BizMeet does not offer jobs. BizMeet never offers, posts or fills jobs, and it doesn't pay members. If someone says they are offering you work on behalf of BizMeet, it's a scam. Report it.

No off-the-books work. Do not offer, ask for or arrange work "under the table": cash or other pay arranged to avoid taxes, payroll, minimum wage or overtime laws, workers' compensation, work-authorization checks or licensing rules. Do not ask anyone to work unpaid where the law requires pay, including unpaid "trial" work. Co-founders working for equity is fine when the terms are lawful and in writing.

Don't lend or borrow identities. Do not ask anyone to let you use their name, ID, Social Security number, address, bank account or computer to apply for or do work, and do not offer yours. This includes receiving a work laptop for someone else, or letting someone connect to your computer remotely so they can work under your name.

Not a job board. Don't advertise job openings in request notes or Priority messages, recruit in bulk, or recruit for staffing agencies or other companies. You can talk about a role on your own project or business with someone who has chosen to talk with you. The Hiring / recruiting goal is for finding people to work with you on your own project or business. It doesn't allow recruiting for an agency, a client or another company.

Investments. Don't advertise investments, promise returns, or promote tokens or trading programs, and don't ask members to invest in ways securities laws don't allow. Real fundraising conversations are allowed, but you are responsible for following securities laws, and BizMeet takes no part.

No financial crime. Do not use BizMeet for money laundering, tax evasion, bribes or kickbacks, or to get around sanctions.

Licensed services. Don't offer services that need a license you don't have, such as legal, accounting, tax, investment, insurance, real estate, lending or money transmission services.

Not for screening people. Don't use what you see on BizMeet to decide whether someone gets a job, credit, insurance or housing, or to discriminate against anyone in hiring or business.

BizMeet does not handle money between members. We are not a payment, escrow or investment service, and we do not check any deal. Before you pay anyone, verify who they are and what you are paying for, put the terms in writing, and never send money to cover a claimed emergency or to someone who pressures you to pay quickly.

Report money requests. If a member asks you for money or financial details in a way that feels wrong, or offers work or a deal that breaks these rules, report them with the reason "Spam or scam". Our Safety Policy and Safety Tips lists common warning signs.

8. Spam and selling

BizMeet is for building relationships, not for advertising. Do not send:

A request note or Priority message may say briefly who you are and why you want to connect. It may not be an advertisement, a price list or a sales offer. Use requests and Priority messages for personal outreach to someone whose profile fits what you are looking for. Do not use them for marketing campaigns, mass outreach or blanket event invitations.

It is fine to mention what your business does when it is relevant to a conversation someone has chosen to have with you.

Say when you're paid to recommend. If you recommend a person, product, service or opportunity and you are paid or get something in return, or you have a family or business tie to it, say so clearly.

No political campaigning. Do not use BizMeet to campaign or raise money for political candidates, parties, campaigns or ballot measures.

BizMeet limits how many messages, requests and other actions you can send. Do not try to get around these limits, for example by using several accounts or automation.

9. Privacy and confidentiality

Respect other members' privacy as you would want yours respected.

Ask first. Ask for someone's consent before you ask for personal details, and accept a no.

No doxxing. Do not post or share anyone's private information, including contact details, home address, government ID numbers or financial information, without their permission.

Keep conversations private. Do not publish screenshots of another member's messages, or share business information they gave you in confidence, without their permission. You may share messages with us, the police or your lawyer when you report a problem.

Use information only for its purpose. Use contact details, resumes, pitch decks and other information a member gives you only for the conversation or opportunity they shared it for. Do not add members to mailing lists, pass their details to others, sell them, or contact members about unrelated offers.

Respect confidences you owe others. Do not share confidential information that belongs to someone else, such as a current or former employer's trade secrets or a client's data, without permission. If you sign a nondisclosure agreement with a member, it is between the two of you, and BizMeet is not a party to it.

No secret recordings. Do not record calls or meetings with other members without their permission, and do not share a recording of a member without their consent. One exception: if someone threatens or abuses you, you may record it where the law allows and share that recording with us, the police or your lawyer when you report a problem.

Photos of others. Do not post photos of other people without their consent.

Contact details in profiles. Your profile may name your company and describe your work. It may not contain phone numbers, email addresses (personal or work), home addresses, web links, social media handles, payment handles (such as payment-app usernames) or other financial details. You can share contact details or links with a member in a chat if you choose, at your own risk.

10. Intellectual property

Only post content you own or have permission to use. This includes logos, photos, and written material such as statements and pitch text. Do not copy another person's or company's work and present it as yours.

If you believe someone has posted your copyrighted work or trademark without permission, follow the steps in our Copyright and Trademark Policy (DMCA). We remove content when we receive a valid notice, and in appropriate circumstances we delete the accounts of members who infringe repeatedly. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, the same policy explains how to send a counter-notice.

11. Authenticity and automation

No bots or scraping. Do not use bots, scripts, automation tools or modified apps to create accounts, send requests or messages, or collect data from BizMeet. Do not scrape, copy or harvest profiles, photos or messages. Do not copy members' profiles, photos or messages into outside tools, including AI tools, to build lists or databases, train models or contact people in bulk.

No selling access or data. Do not sell, rent or trade access to BizMeet or information about members.

AI-written text. You may use AI tools to help write your statements and messages, but you are responsible for everything you post. It must be accurate, it must reflect you, and you must stand behind it. Automated or bulk messaging, including AI-generated messages sent at scale, is not allowed.

No deepfakes. Do not post or send images, audio or video, made or changed with AI or editing tools, that show a real person saying or doing something they did not.

No harmful falsehoods. Do not post or send information you know is false and that could cause serious harm, such as fake health cures, false instructions about how or when to vote, or made-up news about a company meant to move the price of its shares or tokens.

No false reports. Do not file reports or appeals you know are untrue, or use reports to harass someone, to get back at them, or to target them because of a characteristic listed in section 4. We may act against accounts that do this.

12. Photo guidance

Good photos help people trust you.

When you upload a photo, the app crops it to a 3:4 portrait shape and removes the photo's hidden location data and camera details before it leaves your phone.

13. How to report and block

If a member breaks these rules or makes you uncomfortable, tell us. Reports are confidential: we don't tell the reported member who reported them, and we share a reporter's identity only in the cases section 7 of our Safety Policy and Safety Tips describes, such as with your permission or when the law requires it. The member may still notice changes, for example if you also block them, because your chat disappears for both of you.

Report in the app. Open the member's profile or your chat with them, tap More (⋮), and choose Report. Pick the reason that fits best: Spam or scam, Fake job, money or investment offer, Harassment, Inappropriate content, Fake profile, Underage user, or Other. After you report, the app offers to block the member too.

The in-app report sends the reason only. To add details or screenshots, also email us. You can report a request once you have revealed it and can open the member's profile. If you can't open the member's profile, for example a blurred request, report it by email.

Work and money scams. For a job offer that asks you to pay or to move money or goods, off-the-books work, an investment pitch or a request for money, choose Fake job, money or investment offer. For a profile that uses someone else's name or photos, or that pretends to be a recruiter, a company or BizMeet, choose Fake profile.

Reporting later or from outside the app. You can report by email at any time, including about something that happened a while ago or outside BizMeet, or about a member you have already blocked or disconnected from. If someone has made a profile with your name or photos, you can report it by email even if you are not a member.

Block. Blocking hides you and the member from each other in Discover, requests, visitors and chats. It ends any connection between you and deletes your chat for both of you. We don't send the member a notice that you blocked them, and only you can see whom you have blocked. You can unblock someone later in Settings under Blocked profiles, but not within 24 hours of blocking them.

Disconnect. Disconnecting ends a connection and deletes the chat for both of you, but it does not block. You may both see each other in Discover again later. If you do not want further contact, block instead.

Evidence we keep. When you report a member you have chatted with, BizMeet keeps a private copy of the 100 most recent messages in your chat so we can review what happened. Your chat stays open unless you also block. When you block or disconnect, we keep a copy of up to 500 messages before the chat is deleted, for 30 days unless a report follows. We copy only the text of messages, not photos or profiles. If there is no chat, we review the member's current profile, so a screenshot sent by email helps. We normally delete report copies 180 days after we save them, and deleting either account does not delete them sooner. We keep them longer when the law requires it, for example after a report to NCMEC or when law enforcement asks us to preserve them. The Privacy Policy explains this in more detail.

Report by email. You can also email contact@bizmeetapp.org. To help us find the right account, include the member's first name, their city, the date of the problem, and a screenshot if you have one. Do not send us sexual images of a child or intimate images. Describe where they appear instead. To have an intimate image of you removed, follow the steps in our Safety Policy and Safety Tips. Report child sexual abuse material directly to NCMEC at https://report.cybertip.org.

Emergencies. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911 first. Then contact us.

14. What happens when rules are broken

We review reports. A person at BizMeet reviews each report and the evidence kept with it. We don't use automated tools to scan content. We aim to act promptly and give priority to reports about child safety, intimate images, threats or violence, sexual misconduct and scams.

Actions we may take. Depending on what happened, we may:

How we decide. We look at what happened, how serious it was, whether it seemed deliberate, the harm or risk to others, and the member's past violations. Repeated violations lead to deletion of the account, even when each one alone would lead only to a warning.

Acting on fraud risk. We may delete an account before anyone loses money if its activity strongly suggests it is using lies or a fake identity to try to obtain money, personal details or other valuables.

Telling members about our decisions. When it is safe and lawful, we tell the member by email what we removed or did and which rule it broke. We may leave out details that could identify a reporter or put someone at risk.

Fixing a removed item. If we remove a photo or statement and your account stays open, you can replace it with one that follows these rules.

Serious violations. Child sexual abuse or exploitation, sharing intimate images without consent, sextortion and other extortion, human trafficking and forced labor, fraud (including job scams, recruiting people to move money or goods, and lending or borrowing identities to get work), terrorism, threats of violence and other serious or illegal conduct lead to deletion of the account. People we remove are not allowed to come back. If we find a new account that belongs to them, we delete it too.

Your report stays confidential. We do not tell the reported member who reported them. We may not be able to tell you what action we took.

Appeals. If we removed your content or account and you think we made a mistake, email contact@bizmeetapp.org within 6 months of our decision. Explain why, and we will review it again. A deleted account can't be restored, but if we agree we made a mistake, you may create a new account.

Subscriptions after removal. If we remove your account, we cancel your BizMeet subscription through Google Play so it does not renew, and we tell you by email. You can check this in the Google Play Store under Payments and subscriptions. The Terms of Service explain what happens to subscriptions and how refunds work. Any unused extras you bought, such as unblurs, boosts or Priority messages, are lost when we delete an account for breaking these rules. If we delete an account for another reason, or agree on appeal that we made a mistake, sections 11, 16 and 18 of our Terms of Service explain the refund.

15. Contact

Questions about these guidelines, reports and appeals: contact@bizmeetapp.org

BizMeet LLC, a Wisconsin limited liability company

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