Community Guidelines

1. Care for the person reading

• Be kind, specific and respectful, including when you disagree.
• Do not harass, shame, threaten, sexualise, exploit, impersonate or discriminate against another person.
• Keep trying-to-conceive, pregnancy and new-parent discussions in their separate spaces so members control what they encounter.

2. Peer support is not clinical care

You may share personal experience, but do not present yourself as another member's clinician, diagnose them, tell them to ignore professional advice, or promote unsafe treatment or medical misinformation.

Circle is not monitored as an emergency service. If you are worried about symptoms, contact your maternity unit or healthcare professional. In an emergency, call 999.

3. Privacy and lawful content

• Share only content you have the right and consent to share. Protect children's and other people's names, faces, records and contact details.
• Do not post illegal content, sexual content involving anyone under 18, threats, instructions for serious harm, scams, spam or another person's private information.
• Do not move a conversation off-platform to pressure, solicit or exploit another member.

4. Reports, blocks and moderation

Use Report when a post or member may break these rules, and Block when you no longer want to see someone's content. Reports go to the Bump Circle safety queue. We may hide or remove material, warn, suspend or ban an account, preserve relevant records, and notify an appropriate authority where the law requires it.

For a report you cannot make in the app, contact developer@chewybytes.com. Include the Circle name, what happened and any relevant post link. Do not email intimate medical images unless our safety team asks for them through an approved route.

5. Your agreement

By joining Circle, you confirm that you are 18 or over and agree to these guidelines and our Terms of Use. The tracker and essential safety information remain available without joining Circle.