About Bitly

Never use the Bitly Services to distribute abusive, dangerous, or illegal content

You are prohibited from using the Bitly Services to distribute or promote the following types of content (including but not limited to text, images, video and audio):

Content that attacks individuals or groups on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, religion, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or medical condition, as well as any content promoting organizations with such views
Content that exploits children
Misinformation, including but not limited to, medical or civic misinformation
Content that threatens, encourages, or promotes violence or graphic imagery
Sexually explicit or intimate content shared without the subject’s consent
Any content that glamorizes or promotes self-harm or endangers your safety or the safety of others
Any content that promotes terrorism
Any other content that is illegal

Never engage in abusive, dangerous, or illegal behavior

You are prohibited from using the Bitly Services to engage in the following types of behavior:

Distributing malware, viruses, badware, or other types of disruptive software
Engaging in phishing, spoofing, hacking, or other attempts to fraudulently gain access to someone’s information
Sending bulk commercial emails or SMA (i
e
spam)
Circumventing Bitly’s systems to evade detection of abuse outlined in the Bitly Terms
Sharing someone’s private information without their consent (i
e
doxxing)
Threatening violence or harm to others
Bullying, harassing, or coordinated online attacks targeting individuals or groups (i
e
brigading)
Impersonating others or misrepresenting your affiliation with any people, organizations or other entities
Facilitating illegal activity such as the sale of prohibited goods and/or services
Infringing another person or entity’s intellectual property

Reporting abuse and violations

We encourage anyone who suspects that someone is manipulating the Bitly Services or violating our Acceptable Use Policy in any way to notify us We investigate concerns thoroughly and take appropriate actions, up to and including terminating user accounts

Bitly is committed to protecting the user experience and in doing so, our actions will reflect the spirit, not merely the letter, of this Acceptable Use Policy Bitly reserves the right to suspend or terminate any account or pause or remove any content we deem to be negatively affecting the user experience or safety of our community, whether or not the behavior is explicitly prohibited by this Acceptable Use Policy This Acceptable Use Policy does not comprehensively list every type of content that Bitly could restrict or block, nor every basis on which Bitly may restrict or block content