Barhop Social is dedicated to helping you discover and explore the world around you. User-generated content (UGC) on our services is intended to enhance your experience and to help you preview and explore places nearby or across the globe. We work hard to make sure content published by our users is helpful and reflects the real locations they are representing.

Barhop Social’s content policies for Barhop Social UGC are designed to help ensure that everyone viewing UGC has a positive experience and to keep Barhop Social fair and honest. While most of the contributions we receive each day are authentic and accurate, we sometimes receive policy-violating content. We use a combination of people and software to detect such content and to help prevent others from finding it. This policy outlines the criteria for how to publish UGC on Barhop Social and how we address inappropriate or policy-violating content.

For example, posts or edits must be based on real experiences and information. Deliberately fake content, copied or stolen photos, off-topic reviews, defamatory language, personal attacks, and unnecessary or incorrect content are all in violation of our policy. Further, we generally remove full posts (for example, a photo post with a text review attached) even if one part of it is in violation. For more on what is and isn’t allowed, go to Prohibited & Restricted Content. If you find subjective content, such as reviews, media, or profiles that you believe violate our policies or the law, email 23branches@gmail.com immediately to take action. 

If suggested edits are inaccurately placed on Barhop Social or are incorrectly associated with a place, the contribution may be rejected. Because we have other sources that may overwrite approved edits and appeals, edits may not show. If you are the owner of a place, you can learn how to add or claim your Business Profile on Barhop Social here. If you come across misleading information or fraudulent activity on Barhop Social related to publicly available factual information, you may edit it. If the place is found to violate the previously mentioned policies, the place and its information may be removed from Barhop Social and deemed ineligible to be re-published.

To detect policy-violating content, our team scans contributions for signals of suspicious user activity. The policy-violating content is flagged for further review by trained operators and analysts who conduct content evaluations that might be difficult for software to perform alone. We remove content because it violates our policies or Terms of Service, or to comply with legal obligations.

To protect users from finding inappropriate content, we deploy many other tools, such as suspending UGC for specific places, geographic areas, and categories of places. These measures may be deployed reactively or proactively to counteract a spike in content that violates our policies. We may remove UGC, restrict feature access or suspend Barhop Social accounts that violate our policies globally and indefinitely. Removing content, rejecting edits, or restricting feature access will prevent uploaded content from being displayed to other users. When your Barhop Social Account is restricted from accessing or contributing to Barhop Social features, you will not be able to use those features anywhere in the world.

Check back occasionally, as we may update our policies.