This policy lists what may not be posted, sent or arranged on Parda. It sits alongside the Community Guidelines and forms part of the Terms of Service. It exists so that "we removed your account for prohibited content" is never a vague statement.
1. Absolutely prohibited
These result in immediate permanent removal and, where the law requires, a report to the authorities. There is no warning, no appeal on the merits, and no refund.
- Any content involving a person under 18, sexual or otherwise, and any attempt by or towards a minor to use this service. Reported under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and Section 67B of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
- Commercial sexual services — offering, requesting, advertising, arranging or facilitating, in any wording, including coded or indirect wording.
- Trafficking, coercion or exploitation of any kind, including a profile operated on behalf of another person.
- Non-consensual intimate imagery, including images of a former partner. An offence under Sections 66E and 67A of the IT Act.
- Threats, extortion or blackmail, including threats to disclose somebody’s presence here to a spouse, employer or family.
- Doxxing — publishing or threatening to publish another person’s identity, address, workplace or contact details.
2. Not allowed on profiles
- Nudity, genitalia, or sexually explicit imagery.
- Photographs of anybody other than you, including children, and including group photos where others are identifiable and have not agreed.
- Stock photographs, celebrities, AI-generated likenesses or images taken from elsewhere.
- Contact details of any kind — phone number, email, social handle, WhatsApp — in your bio, your display name or your photographs. These are stripped automatically; repeated attempts are treated as solicitation.
- Links to external sites, cam sites, subscription platforms or other services.
- Prices, rates, "gifts expected", allowance arrangements or any other indication that money is part of what you are offering.
3. Not allowed in messages
- Sexual content in a first message to somebody who has not replied.
- Unsolicited explicit images, in any conversation, at any stage.
- Requests for money, loans, gift cards, cryptocurrency, UPI transfers or payment of any kind.
- Pressure to move to another app within the first few messages. Off-platform, there is no reporting, no record and no protection.
- Repeated messaging after no reply, and any contact after a block.
- Recruitment, advertising, spam, chain messages or bulk-identical openers.
4. Not allowed anywhere
- Hate speech or harassment based on religion, caste, region, language, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation. Caste-based abuse is separately an offence under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
- Content that is unlawful under Indian law, or that we are required to remove under Rule 3(1)(b) of the IT Rules, 2021.
- Malware, phishing, scraping, automated access, or any attempt to interfere with the platform.
- Impersonation of another person or of Parda staff. We will never message you asking for your password or a payment.
5. How this is enforced
By a combination of automated screening at upload and message-send, and human review of every report. Automated systems flag; people decide. No account is permanently removed by an algorithm alone.
We act on content we are notified of, as an intermediary under the IT Rules, 2021 (as amended in 2026). We remove unlawful content within 3 hours of a valid court or government order, and non-consensual intimate imagery within 2 hours of a complaint, as Rule 3(2)(b) now requires.
6. If you think we were wrong
Write to the Grievance Officer through the grievance process. A person who was not involved in the original decision will review it and reply within the statutory timeline. We do reverse decisions, and we would rather do that than defend a mistake.
7. Reporting to us
Use the report control on any profile or chat, or write to the Grievance Officer. Reports are confidential. For anything involving a minor, or an immediate threat to somebody’s safety, also report to cybercrime.gov.in or call 1930, and 112 in an emergency.