Effective: June 18, 2026 · v3

Community Guidelines

These Community Guidelines explain the standards we expect everyone on Rouxbarb to meet — whether you're here to cook, share, follow, or build a following of your own. They work alongside our Terms of Service. The Terms of Service set out your legal rights and obligations; these Guidelines explain, in plain language, how we expect the Rouxbarb community to behave and what happens if those expectations aren't met.

These Guidelines are not part of your contract with us, and we may update them from time to time to address new situations as the community grows. The current version is always available at rouxbarb.com/legal/guidelines.

1. Our Approach

Rouxbarb is a place to discover, share, and get paid for great food content — without ads, without noise, and without the pressure of a popularity contest. Everything in these Guidelines exists to protect that experience: for the home cook looking for a trustworthy recipe, and for the Creator building something real.

We'd rather have a smaller, better community than a larger, noisier one. When we make moderation decisions, we're guided by three questions: Is this content accurate and safe? Is this person treating others the way they'd want to be treated? Does this help or harm the trust that makes Rouxbarb work?

2. Recipes and Food Content

2.1 Accuracy and Safety

Food is personal, and sometimes it's a matter of real health and safety. When you publish a recipe:

• List ingredients and quantities as accurately as you can.

• Flag common allergens (nuts, dairy, gluten, shellfish, eggs, soy, and similar) even if you're not legally required to — someone's safety may depend on it.

• Don't present jokes, dares, or “don't try this” content as if it were a genuine recipe. Satirical or shock content that could be mistaken for real cooking instructions isn't welcome here, regardless of intent.

• Be honest about substitutions, especially where a substitution changes a dish from safe to unsafe for someone with an allergy or medical condition (for example, swapping a tree nut for a seed in a recipe marketed as “nut-free”).

2.2 Health and Nutrition Claims

If you make a claim about a recipe's health benefits, nutritional content, or suitability for a particular diet (keto, vegan, gluten-free, low-FODMAP, and so on), make sure it's accurate. Misleading health claims — even if well-intentioned — erode the trust that makes Rouxbarb useful.

2.3 Originality

Share your own recipes and original content, or content you have permission to share. If you're adapting a dish from another cook, a cookbook, or another Creator, a quick credit goes a long way. Copying someone else's recipe text or photos without permission isn't allowed.

3. Experiences and Posts

Experiences are more casual than recipes — a meal out, a kitchen moment, a dish you're proud of. The same honesty principle applies: don't misrepresent where you are, what you ate, or who made something. Fake reviews, fake check-ins, or misleading place tags damage the experience for everyone trying to find genuinely good food and places.

4. Respectful Conduct

4.1 What We Don't Allow

Wherever you interact on Rouxbarb — comments, reviews, messages, or your own posts — we don't allow:

• Harassment, bullying, or targeted negativity directed at another person

• Hate speech or content that attacks people based on who they are

• Threats of any kind, even ones meant as a joke

• Sexual or explicit content

• Spam, including repetitive comments, irrelevant links, or content posted purely to get attention

• Impersonating another person, brand, or Creator

• Coordinated behavior intended to inflate likes, follows, reviews, ratings, purchases, or tips (sometimes called “engagement farming” or “brigading”)

4.2 Disagreements and Feedback

Food is opinionated, and that's part of the fun. Honest, constructive feedback on a recipe or dish, even critical feedback, is welcome. The line is between criticizing the food and attacking the person who made it.

5. Guidelines for Creators

5.1 Building Your Table

Your Table is yours — your content, your voice, your following. We want Creators to build sustainable, direct relationships with the people who support them. A few things that help keep that relationship healthy:

• Be upfront about what's included in a subscription versus what's available for free or as a one-time purchase.

• If you're running a promotion, sale, or limited-time offer, make the terms clear before someone buys.

• Deliver what you advertise. If a recipe collection is described as containing ten recipes, it should contain ten recipes.

5.2 Sponsorships and Partnerships

You're welcome to bring your own brand deals and affiliate relationships to Rouxbarb — we don't take a cut of that, and we don't run ads of our own. If content is sponsored or includes an affiliate link, say so clearly, in a way your audience would notice before they engage with it. This isn't just good practice — it's a legal requirement in most places.

5.3 Staying On-Platform

Subscriptions, recipe purchases, and tips should happen through Rouxbarb. Asking fans to pay you directly outside the platform to avoid fees, or to access content that should be paywalled on Rouxbarb, undermines the systems that let us run an ad-free platform and pay Creators fairly. This is covered in our Terms of Service as well as these Guidelines, and is treated seriously.

5.4 Engagement and Metrics

Build your audience the honest way. Buying followers, using bots, or coordinating with others to inflate your numbers isn't just against the rules — it undermines the trust that makes the whole Creator economy on Rouxbarb work, for you and for everyone else.

6. Reporting and Enforcement

6.1 How to Report Something

If you see content or behavior that doesn't belong on Rouxbarb, use the report option available on the relevant recipe, post, comment, or profile. Reports are reviewed by our team. If you believe content is illegal, you can also contact us directly at legal@rouxbarb.com.

6.2 What Happens Next

Depending on what we find, we may:

• Leave a note for the Creator or user explaining a concern, without taking further action

• Remove the specific content

• Temporarily limit a feature (for example, pausing a Creator's ability to publish new content while we look into something)

• Suspend or remove an account

For serious or repeated issues, we may take action without a prior warning. For most first-time, lower-severity issues, we'll let you know what the concern was and give you a chance to fix it.

6.3 Appeals

If you think we've made a mistake, you can ask us to take another look by contacting privacy@rouxbarb.com with your account details and a brief explanation. We'll review and respond as quickly as we can.

7. Changes to These Guidelines

As Rouxbarb grows, new situations will come up that these Guidelines don't yet cover. We'll update this document to address them, and we'll update the “Last updated” date at the top whenever we do. Significant changes will be highlighted in the app.

8. Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you're not sure whether something you're planning fits within these Guidelines, reach out to us at privacy@rouxbarb.com — we'd rather help you get it right than have to explain it after the fact.

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