Teams Community Guidelines
Version 1.0 · Effective date: to be set on launch
Teams on Zensus are self-selected communities where members choose to share their nutrition data, physical measurements, and fitness metrics with each other. Membership requires explicit consent at the point of joining. Teams are designed to be self-regulating: members choose who joins (via a shared team name and password), and the community can remove members by vote. These Guidelines form part of the Zensus Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
2. Who Can Use Teams
Teams are available to all registered Zensus users aged 16 and over.
4. Prohibited Content
Because Teams use a short-form message board, the following content is prohibited:
- Illegal content — anything unlawful in the United Kingdom or your jurisdiction, including content that incites violence, depicts child sexual abuse (CSAM), or constitutes harassment or stalking under UK law
- Threats and targeted harassment — direct threats of violence or harm toward any individual, or sustained targeted harassment of a specific person
- Impersonation — posing as another person or as Zensus staff
- Spam — repeated unsolicited commercial messages or coordinated inauthentic behaviour
There is no automated profanity or language filter. Teams are chosen communities and members are responsible for setting the tone within their team.
5. Reporting Content
If you see a message that violates these guidelines, use the in-app report button on the message. Reports are reviewed by Zensus. Reported message content is retained for compliance purposes even after the message's normal 24-hour expiry.
6. How Teams Self-Moderate
- Team vote to remove a member — any member can vote to remove another member. Removal requires votes from at least 40% of active members (minimum 2 votes). A member removed by team vote may not rejoin that team.
- Password reset — the current team leader (the creator role, which transfers to the longest-streaked member if the original creator leaves) can reset the team password at any time, controlling who can join going forward.
- Leave at any time — any member can leave a team at any time with no penalty and may rejoin later if they choose.
7. Consequences of Violating These Guidelines
Messages that violate these guidelines may be removed following a report review. Members who post prohibited content may be removed from the team.
8. Platform-Level Enforcement
Zensus reserves the right to remove content or take action on accounts where required by law — for example, in response to a court order, lawful request from a UK authority, or where content constitutes a criminal offence under UK law.
9. Changes to These Guidelines
We may update these guidelines from time to time. Where changes affect how your data is shared within a Team, existing members will be shown the updated consent terms before they can continue accessing team data (re-consent is required).