Community Guidelines

Welcome to HandBook! Our mission is to be your go-to pocket guide for searching, planning, and tracking your manicures. To keep our community creative, inspiring, and safe for everyone, we ask all users to follow these guidelines:

1. Content Standards

Your profile and feed should reflect a love for nail care and color.

  • Keep it Relevant: Manicure photo uploads must clearly show hands or nails with polish applied. We’re for hands, not feet!

  • AI Moderation: Please note that HandBook utilizes automated AI moderation to ensure all uploaded images meet our relevancy and safety standards.

  • No Inappropriate Content: We have a zero-tolerance policy for nudity, graphic imagery, hate symbols, or violent content—even if such content is captured incidentally in the background of a photo.  HandBook reserves the right to determine, regardless of content shared, what is and is not appropriate.

2. Accuracy & Honesty

HandBook relies on a database of real-world inspiration.

  • Genuine Entries: Color entries must represent real products. Please ensure brand names, hex codes, and finish types (cream, holographic, matte, etc.) are accurate.

  • Authentic Credit: Do not misrepresent the work of others as your own. If you are showcasing a manicure performed by a professional or another artist, do not claim you performed the service yourself.

3. Respectful Behavior

  • No Impersonation: Authentic representation is key to our community's trust.

  • Anti-Spam: Help us keep the feed high-quality. Avoid mass uploading low-quality entries, bulk-following strangers, or flooding the community feed with repetitive content.

4. Privacy & Safety

  • Consent Matters: Do not upload photos of other people’s hands or property without their explicit knowledge and consent.

  • Respect Settings: If a user has set their profile to "Private," their content is intended for their approved followers only. Do not reshare private content externally.

  • Age Requirement: You must be at least 13 years old to create an account and use HandBook.

  • Health and Safety: Do not share any content that promotes the use of unsafe manicure or other practices. No shared content should be considered by users as medical or health advice.

5. Copyright & Intellectual Property

  • Ownership: Do not claim ownership of professional swatches or marketing images copied from brand websites. Users must not upload, post, or otherwise transmit any content that infringes on the patent, trademark, trade secret, or copyright of any third party.

  • User Generated Content: Users retain all ownership rights in their User Generated Content (UGC).

  • HandBook IP: All rights to the App, trademarks, and logos belong to HandBook LLC and are protected by law.

6. Enforcement & Reporting

We want HandBook to remain a positive space. Violations of these guidelines may result in:

  • Removal of the offending content.

  • A formal account warning.

  • Temporary account suspension.

  • A permanent ban for repeat or severe violations.

If you see content or an account that violates these rules, please use the "Report" feature within the app or contact us directly at info@handbooknails.com.