Content Policy

1. Creative Expression

Gatariya allows a wide range of fictional and artistic expression.

Creators may generally publish works containing:

• Violence and combat
• Horror and disturbing themes
• Death and injury
• Crime and criminal activity
• Profanity and strong language
• Romance and relationships
• Sexual themes, subject to Gatariya's age and explicit-content requirements
• Drug and alcohol use as part of a story
• Political, religious, and social themes
• Satire and parody
• Dark or controversial subject matter
• Psychological and emotional themes
• Villainous, immoral, or otherwise objectionable characters

A work is not prohibited merely because its subject matter is disturbing, offensive, controversial, or uncomfortable.

Gatariya distinguishes between depicting something in a creative work and promoting, facilitating, or exploiting that thing in the real world.

2. Trauma, Abuse, and Difficult Subject Matter

Gatariya permits stories that depict or discuss serious real-world experiences, including:

• Human trafficking
• Sexual exploitation
• Sexual assault
• Domestic abuse
• Child abuse
• Torture
• War
• Crime
• Addiction
• Self-harm
• Suicide
• Trauma and recovery
• Other forms of abuse or victimization

These subjects may appear in fiction, memoir, autobiography, autobiographical fiction, dramatized accounts, educational works, commentary, or other forms of legitimate creative expression.

A creator does not need to prove that a personal experience described in their work actually occurred.

Authors may fictionalize, embellish, combine, rearrange, or change identifying details of real experiences as part of the creative process.

For example, a survivor publishing a fictionalized account of their experiences with trafficking is permitted, even when the events have been substantially dramatized or the names and circumstances have been changed.

However, content that facilitates, promotes, solicits, or exploits real-world abuse is not permitted.

3. Sexual Content

Gatariya permits appropriate adult sexual themes and content where legally permitted and properly classified.

Creators are responsible for applying appropriate age ratings and content warnings.

Prohibited sexual content

Gatariya does not permit:

• Sexual content involving minors
• Sexualized depictions of minors
• Content intended to sexually depict a person presented as a minor, regardless of whether the character is fictional
• Sexual exploitation of real people
• Non-consensual sexual imagery
• Revenge pornography
• Non-consensual intimate imagery
• Sexually explicit deepfakes or manipulated images of identifiable real people
• Bestiality
• Content created primarily to sexually exploit a real person
• Sexual content used to facilitate or solicit real-world exploitation

Fictional depictions of abuse or exploitation may be permitted when they serve a legitimate narrative, artistic, educational, or similar purpose, provided they do not otherwise violate this policy.

4. Minors and Child Safety

Gatariya takes the protection of minors particularly seriously.

Content involving minors may address difficult subjects, including abuse, exploitation, violence, trauma, or other serious topics, when presented as legitimate storytelling, education, commentary, memoir, or artistic expression.

However, Gatariya strictly prohibits sexual exploitation or sexualized depictions of minors.

This prohibition applies regardless of whether the content is:

• Written
• Illustrated
• Photographic
• AI-generated
• Animated
• Fictional
• Presented as fantasy
• Presented as a fictional character who is not a real person

Changing a character's stated age does not necessarily make content permissible when the character is otherwise clearly presented as a minor.

5. Violence and Gore

Fictional violence is generally permitted.

This includes:

• Fight scenes
• Battles
• Murder mysteries
• War stories
• Horror
• Monsters
• Fantasy violence
• Graphic fictional injuries
• Death
• Dark or disturbing fictional scenes

Extremely graphic fictional content may require a Mature or Explicit classification.

Gatariya does not permit the use of the platform to distribute real-world graphic violence, gore, or atrocity material where the purpose is to shock, glorify, exploit, or celebrate real-world suffering.

Historical, journalistic, educational, documentary, or critical discussion of violence may be permitted where appropriate.

6. Crime and Illegal Activity

Gatariya permits fictional depictions of criminal activity.

Crime novels, mysteries, thrillers, gangster stories, detective fiction, and similar works are allowed.

However, Gatariya does not permit content that meaningfully facilitates serious real-world wrongdoing.

Examples of prohibited content may include:

• Detailed instructions for committing serious crimes
• Instructions intended to facilitate human trafficking or exploitation
• Operational guidance for violent attacks
• Instructions for evading law enforcement while committing serious crimes
• Content intended to recruit people into criminal activity
• Content that solicits or coordinates real-world criminal activity

The fictional depiction of a crime is different from providing a practical guide for committing that crime.

7. Terrorism and Extremism

Gatariya does not permit content that:

• Recruits people for terrorist or extremist organizations
• Provides material support or fundraising for such organizations
• Encourages or coordinates terrorist violence
• Provides operational instructions for terrorist attacks
• Celebrates real-world violence in a manner intended to encourage additional violence

Historical, fictional, academic, journalistic, educational, or critical discussion of terrorism and extremist movements may be permitted.

A fictional villain or organization may hold extremist beliefs. Depicting an ideology is not the same as endorsing or promoting it.

8. Harassment, Threats, and Doxxing

Creators and community members may not use Gatariya to target real people with:

• Credible threats of violence
• Targeted harassment
• Stalking or intimidation
• Doxxing
• Publishing private personal information
• Calls for others to harass or harm someone
• Coordinated harassment campaigns
• Sexual harassment
• Non-consensual publication of sensitive personal information

Fictional characters and fictional conflicts are not subject to these restrictions simply because they contain arguments, insults, violence, or other unpleasant behavior.

9. Hate and Discrimination

Gatariya permits fictional, historical, educational, and critical discussion of hateful or discriminatory beliefs.

Creators may portray characters who hold offensive beliefs, including racist, sexist, homophobic, religiously intolerant, or otherwise discriminatory views.

Gatariya does not permit content that uses the platform to seriously threaten, encourage violence against, or directly target real people or protected groups for abuse or harm.

Context matters. A villain expressing hateful beliefs within a story is not automatically an endorsement of those beliefs by the author.

10. Self-Harm and Suicide

Stories may discuss or depict self-harm, suicide, suicidal thoughts, and related experiences.

These subjects may be important elements of fiction, memoir, autobiography, or personal expression.

However, Gatariya does not permit content that encourages or glorifies real-world self-harm or suicide, or provides instructions intended to facilitate self-harm.

Creators should use appropriate content warnings when these subjects are significant elements of a work.

11. Copyright and Intellectual Property

Creators may only upload or publish material that they have the legal right to distribute.

This includes EPUB, CBZ, PDF, image, text, and other uploaded files.

Generally permitted sources include:

• Original works created by the uploader
• Public-domain works
• Works released under a license permitting redistribution
• Works for which the creator has obtained appropriate permission
• Works for which the uploader otherwise has the necessary legal rights

Purchasing a physical or digital copy of a work does not, by itself, give someone the right to redistribute that work on Gatariya.

For example, owning a manga volume does not automatically authorize someone to scan and upload it as a CBZ.

Gatariya will maintain a separate Copyright and DMCA Policy describing how copyright complaints and takedown requests are handled.

12. Impersonation and Misrepresentation

Users may not impersonate another real person, creator, publisher, company, or organization in a manner intended to deceive others.

Creators may write fictional characters inspired by real people, parody public figures, or create fictional versions of real-world organizations where permitted by law.

A fictional work should not be presented as an authentic work by another creator when it is not.

13. AI-Assisted and AI-Generated Content

Gatariya permits responsible use of artificial intelligence in the creative process.

AI may be used for purposes such as:

• Brainstorming
• Outlining
• Editing
• Grammar assistance
• Translation assistance
• Research assistance
• Image assistance
• Other creative support

Gatariya may also permit substantially AI-generated works, subject to applicable labeling and platform requirements.

AI-generated content may not be used to:

• Impersonate real people
• Create non-consensual sexual imagery
• Produce prohibited sexual content involving minors
• Circumvent moderation systems
• Generate fraudulent or deceptive material
• Mass-produce content for the purpose of abusing or manipulating Gatariya's systems

Gatariya may establish additional disclosure or labeling requirements as its AI-content policies develop.

14. Spam and Platform Abuse

Gatariya is intended for people to create and share meaningful works.

Users may not abuse the platform through:

• Mass automated uploads
• Spam publications
• Repeatedly uploading prohibited material
• Artificial manipulation of views, ratings, or engagement
• Malicious use of automated systems
• Creating large numbers of accounts to evade restrictions
• Deliberately overwhelming or disrupting the service
• Uploading content solely to manipulate search or recommendation systems

Commercial publishing is permitted where it follows Gatariya's applicable terms and policies.

15. Age Ratings and Content Warnings

Creators are responsible for accurately classifying their works.

Gatariya may provide ratings and content-warning categories such as:

• General
• Teen
• Mature
• Explicit

Additional warnings may include:

• Violence
• Gore
• Sexual content
• Nudity
• Strong language
• Abuse
• Sexual assault
• Human trafficking
• Self-harm
• Suicide
• Drug use
• Horror
• Disturbing themes
• Other significant content

Content warnings are intended to help readers make informed choices. They are not intended to shame or prohibit creators from exploring difficult subjects.

Gatariya may adjust a rating or warning when a work is substantially misclassified.

16. Enforcement

When content violates this policy, Gatariya may take action appropriate to the severity and circumstances of the violation.

Possible actions include:

• Requesting that the creator correct or modify the content
• Adding or changing an age rating or content warning
• Limiting the visibility of a work
• Removing a specific piece of content
• Removing a publication
• Temporarily restricting an account
• Suspending an account
• Permanently terminating an account
• Reporting content to appropriate authorities where legally required or appropriate

Not every violation will result in the same action.

We consider factors such as:

• Severity
• Intent
• Context
• Whether the violation was accidental
• Previous violations
• Whether the user attempted to correct the problem
• Whether the content poses an immediate risk to others

Severe violations may result in immediate account termination.

17. Appeals

Creators may appeal moderation decisions.

An appeal should provide relevant context or explain why the creator believes the decision was incorrect.

Gatariya will review appeals in good faith and may restore content that was incorrectly removed or restricted.

Users should not create additional accounts or repeatedly repost removed content while an appeal is pending.

18. Moderation Philosophy

Gatariya is a creative platform.

We do not want to remove a story simply because it is dark, uncomfortable, controversial, violent, sad, offensive, or unusual.

Our central distinction is:

Depiction is not endorsement, and discussion is not facilitation.

A story about trafficking is not trafficking.

A story about murder is not a murder manual.

A villain expressing hateful beliefs is not automatically an endorsement of those beliefs.

A survivor writing about abuse is not exploiting abuse merely because the subject matter is difficult.

At the same time, Gatariya will act firmly when the platform itself is being used to exploit people, facilitate serious harm, distribute material without authorization, or abuse other members of the community.

Our goal is to preserve as much creative freedom as possible while maintaining a platform that creators and readers can safely call home.

19. Changes to This Policy

Gatariya may update this Content Policy as the platform develops, laws change, and new forms of content or technology emerge.

When significant changes are made, Gatariya will provide appropriate notice and identify the date on which the updated policy takes effect.

If you are unsure whether something is permitted, creators are encouraged to contact Gatariya before publishing it rather than attempting to evade the rules.