OurWay

Community Guidelines

OurWay works because campus feels like a place you belong. These are the rules that keep it that way.

Draft pending review

This set of guidelines describes how the software currently behaves and has not yet been reviewed or approved by the operator or by legal counsel. It must be reviewed before OurWay is submitted to the App Store or Google Play.

What we expect

  • Treat people like classmates. No harassment, bullying, or targeted abuse.
  • No hate speech. Content attacking people over race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation is not allowed.
  • No threats or violence, and no content encouraging self-harm.
  • No sexual content, and nothing involving minors.
  • No spam. Do not flood chats, mass-message students, or post repetitive promotional content.
  • Be who you say you are. Do not impersonate another student, a club, or a university.
  • Represent clubs honestly. Do not submit a club you have no connection to, and do not claim official recognition a club does not have.

What happens when something goes wrong

These are the tools that actually exist in OurWay today:

  • Report a message. Open the message's actions menu — press and hold it on a phone — and choose Report. Your report goes privately to platform administrators; the person you reported is not told who reported them.
  • Block someone. Blocking stops direct messages between you and that person. You can block from their profile, and manage blocked people from Connections.
  • Club officers moderate their own chat. An officer with moderation permission can remove a message — participants then see a neutral placeholder rather than the text — restore it, pin it, or stop a member from posting in that club chat for a period.
  • Administrators review reports and can suspend accounts or clubs.

Consequences

Depending on what happened, content may be removed, a member may lose the ability to post in a club chat, or an account may be suspended or terminated. Serious safety issues are handled directly by platform administrators.

If you are in danger

OurWay is not an emergency service and is not monitored around the clock. If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services or your campus safety office.

See also the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.