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Acceptable Use Policy

Last Updated: August 21, 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy describes the types of conduct that are not permitted when using Overthink It. It supplements, and is incorporated into, the Overthink It Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.

Overthink It is intended to help adults discuss relationships, dating, friendships, communication, and difficult social situations. Users are expected to use the Service responsibly and in a manner that respects other people, their privacy, safety, and rights.

Prohibited Uses

You may not use Overthink It to:

  • Harass, bully, threaten, stalk, intimidate, or repeatedly contact another person after they have asked you to stop.
  • Encourage, organize, or participate in targeted harassment, doxxing, humiliation, or retaliation.
  • Threaten or encourage violence or other physical harm.
  • Encourage, instruct, facilitate, or glorify suicide or self-harm.
  • Engage in sexual exploitation, sexual solicitation, or other prohibited sexual conduct.
  • Sexualize, exploit, groom, or solicit minors, or use the Service to facilitate contact with minors for sexual purposes.
  • Create or maintain an account on behalf of someone under 18.
  • Impersonate another person, company, organization, or public figure in a deceptive or fraudulent manner.
  • Defraud, scam, phish, manipulate, or otherwise deceive other users.
  • Request passwords, authentication codes, financial credentials, or other sensitive account-security information from another user.
  • Publish, distribute, or expose another person's private information without appropriate authorization.
  • Attempt to identify, locate, track, or expose a private individual for harassment or other harmful purposes.
  • Publish private conversations, photographs, or other personal material in a manner that violates applicable law or the Community Guidelines.
  • Use Overthink It to organize others against a person, including encouraging others to contact someone's employer, family, friends, or other third parties for harassment or retaliation.
  • Upload, distribute, or otherwise use content that infringes another person's intellectual-property rights or violates applicable law.
  • Use AI features to facilitate harassment, deception, exploitation, privacy violations, fraud, or other prohibited conduct.
  • Use AI-generated analysis as a pretext to falsely accuse, expose, threaten, or target another person.
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, networks, or data.
  • Circumvent authentication, access controls, feature restrictions, or other security measures.
  • Upload malware or other malicious code, or distribute links intended to compromise accounts or systems.
  • Exploit security vulnerabilities in a manner that accesses, modifies, destroys, or exposes information that does not belong to you.
  • Interfere with the normal operation, availability, security, or integrity of the Service.
  • Scrape, harvest, collect, or systematically extract information from the Service in violation of applicable restrictions or law.
  • Create accounts or use technical methods to evade an enforcement action, suspension, or other platform restriction.
  • Submit knowingly false, fraudulent, or intentionally misleading reports or appeals.
  • Organize mass reporting or brigading for the purpose of harassing another user or manipulating moderation.
  • Use the Service for unlawful activity or to facilitate unlawful activity.
  • Attempt to circumvent restrictions imposed by Overthink It or otherwise abuse platform functionality.

Respect for Privacy and Personal Information

You are responsible for considering whether you have the right or appropriate authorization to upload information concerning another person.

Before using screenshots, conversation images, dating profiles, photographs, or other user-provided material with Overthink It's AI features, remove unnecessary sensitive information where appropriate.

Do not upload passwords, authentication codes, financial credentials, government identification, private addresses, or other sensitive information unless the particular feature legitimately requires it and you have an appropriate basis for providing it.

AI Features

Overthink It's AI features are intended to assist users with permitted activities such as analyzing conversations, discussing interpersonal situations, and providing perspective.

AI output may be inaccurate and should not be treated as proof that another person is lying, dangerous, criminal, mentally ill, or acting with a particular motive.

Users remain responsible for how they use AI-generated or AI-assisted content.

You may not use Overthink It's AI features to facilitate conduct that would otherwise violate this Acceptable Use Policy, the Community Guidelines, the Safety & Reporting Policy, the Age & Child Safety Policy, or applicable law.

No Circumvention

You may not attempt to bypass platform restrictions by:

  • Creating replacement accounts.
  • Using another person's account.
  • Manipulating URLs, identifiers, or requests.
  • Circumventing access controls.
  • Re-uploading prohibited material after removal.
  • Altering prohibited content solely to evade moderation.
  • Using another feature or service to accomplish something prohibited on Overthink It.

Security and Responsible Disclosure

If you discover a potential security vulnerability, do not exploit it against other users or use it to access private information.

Do not intentionally access, modify, copy, destroy, or disclose information that does not belong to you.

Potential vulnerabilities should be reported privately through Overthink It's designated security or contact channel. Users should provide the company a reasonable opportunity to investigate and address a vulnerability before publicly disclosing sensitive technical details.

Additional information is provided in the Overthink It Security & Responsible Disclosure Policy.

Enforcement

Violations of this Acceptable Use Policy may result in action including:

  • Content removal.
  • Feature restrictions.
  • Interaction restrictions.
  • Account restrictions.
  • Temporary suspension.
  • Permanent account termination.
  • Blocking associated accounts.
  • Preservation of relevant information where appropriate.
  • Referral to law enforcement or other appropriate authorities where required or permitted by law.

The action taken may depend on the severity of the conduct, the risk presented, the user's history, the available evidence, applicable law, and other relevant circumstances.

Overthink It does not guarantee that every violation will be detected or that every report will result in a particular enforcement outcome.

Relationship to Other Policies

Core Rule

Use Overthink It to seek perspective and participate responsibly — not to harm, exploit, deceive, expose, threaten, or target other people.

If you are unsure whether a particular use is permitted, choose the safer course and do not proceed until you have confirmed that the activity is allowed.