This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) applies to everyone who uses the Minbar platform. It is part of our Terms of Service. We built Minbar to help masjids and their communities, and that only works when everyone acts in good faith.
Violating this AUP can result in content being removed, your account being suspended or terminated, and in serious cases reports to law enforcement.
1. Do not do any of this
- Harass, bully, or threaten anyone, including through targeted insults, slurs, doxxing, or coordinated attacks.
- Discriminate against people on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, or any other protected characteristic.
- Impersonate another person, masjid, organization, or Minbar itself, or misrepresent your affiliation with any of them.
- Spam: repeatedly post the same content, promote unrelated products or services, send unsolicited bulk messages, or abuse any contact channel.
- Deceive: phishing, fraud, false claims about masjid events or fundraising, or misleading contact-form submissions.
- Post illegal content: content that infringes copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property rights; defamatory statements; content that violates export controls or sanctions laws.
- Post harmful content: child sexual abuse material (CSAM), content that sexualizes minors, graphic violence, non-consensual intimate imagery, content encouraging self-harm, or anything inciting real-world violence or terrorism. We report CSAM to NCMEC and cooperate with law enforcement.
- Violate privacy: post other people’s personal data (phone, address, financial information, government IDs) without their consent.
- Distribute malware, viruses, or links to malicious sites.
- Disrupt the Service: probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities without our written authorization; exceed rate limits; scrape content; bypass access controls; or interfere with other users’ use of the Service.
- Misuse the anonymous Dua Board: don’t use it to harass, target individuals, or post content prohibited elsewhere in this AUP. “Anonymous” does not mean “safe from moderation” — admins can still remove posts, and we can remove content across the Service.
- Misuse admin power: do not access content outside your authority, do not ban members for reasons prohibited by law, and do not use Minbar to punish members outside your masjid’s lawful governance.
2. Content standards
Content you post on Minbar should be relevant to the masjid community you’re sharing it with. Masjid admins may set additional rules for their own communities and groups, as long as those rules are consistent with this AUP and applicable law.
3. Reporting violations
- Inside group chats and boards: long-press a message and choose Report. Reports go to the group admin and, for serious issues, can be escalated to the masjid admin and to Minbar.
- Anywhere else: email support@minbar.one with a description and a link or screenshot if possible.
When you report a problem, include enough context for us to investigate. Bad-faith reports (for example, mass-reporting content you simply disagree with) are themselves a violation of this AUP.
4. Enforcement
We enforce this AUP at our discretion. We may:
- Remove content.
- Warn, suspend, or terminate accounts.
- Restrict specific features for a group or for an entire masjid.
- Cooperate with law enforcement and preserve or disclose records where legally required.
We do not guarantee that every violation will be caught, or that similar violations will always be handled identically. If you think we missed something important or got something wrong, let us know.
5. Copyright complaints (DMCA)
Minbar respects the intellectual-property rights of others and responds to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512).
How to submit a notice. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent at dmca@minbar.one that includes:
- A physical or electronic signature of the owner or a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf;
- Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed;
- Identification of the material you claim is infringing and information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it (for example, a direct link);
- Your contact information: name, address, telephone number, and email;
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
Counter-notices. If we remove your content in response to a DMCA notice, you may submit a counter-notice meeting the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(g) to the same address.
Repeat infringers. We will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.
Knowingly submitting false claims may result in liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).
6. Questions
Email support@minbar.one.