Community Standards & Safety

antonopic.com is a place to make good things and sell them honestly. We do not tolerate bullying, harassment of any kind, hate, threats, or sexual content, and we protect children and teenagers first. Every creator page is reviewed before it appears. Reports are read by a person and acted on. If we have missed something, tell us and we will fix it.

• Bullying and harassment — insulting, demeaning, intimidating or repeatedly targeting a person, in a review, a post, a creator page, a message, or anywhere else. This includes harassment that starts on other social media and is carried here, and organised pile-ons.
• Sexual harassment — unwanted sexual remarks, advances, images or pressure, directed at anyone. Directed at a minor it is also reported to the authorities (section 5).
• Hate — attacks or slurs based on race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any similar characteristic.
• Threats and incitement — threatening violence or harm, or encouraging others to.
• Exposing people — publishing someone's address, phone number, school, workplace, private pictures or other personal details, or encouraging others to find them.
• Nudity and sexual content — none, in any form, on any page.
• Profanity and vulgar content on creator pages, projects, posts and reviews. Many of our creators and readers are young; keep it clean.
• Malicious software — viruses, spyware, anything that harms a computer or a person, or anything that pretends to be something it is not.
• Dishonesty — fake reviews, reviews written for pay, impersonating a person or a company, selling work that is not yours, or claiming a program does what it does not.
• Anything illegal under the laws of the United States or the State of Illinois.

Under 13: no accounts, no creator pages, nothing stored about the child. A parent or guardian may join the creators waiting list on the child's behalf, and only the parent's name and email are kept.

13 to 17: a creator page is possible only with a parent or guardian who signs the Creator Agreement as the responsible party, holds the account and receives the money. A young creator's page shows a display name chosen with the parent — never a surname, school, address or other detail that identifies the child.

Nobody contacts a young creator through this site. There is no messaging between visitors and creators. Questions about a creator's product go to AOProTec Support, which passes them on to the parent.

Reviews of a young creator's work are held to these standards exactly like any other, and a review that attacks the person rather than the product is removed.

Everything antonopic.com says about its software, its prices, its refunds and what it collects about you is written to be true, and is checked against what the code actually does. Creators are held to the same standard: a description must describe the real product, a review must be a real opinion from a real person, and a name must be your own. When we get something wrong, we say so and correct it.

• Creator accounts are opened only by antonopic.com, never by a form on the internet.
• A new creator's projects, posts and “About me” text are reviewed by a person before they appear. A creator with a good record may later be allowed to publish directly; anything published can be taken down at any time, with a note to the creator saying why.
• Reviews are published whether they are good or bad. They are held back only for spam, abusive language, personal information, or not being about the product.
• Before a creator's program is offered for sale, antonopic.com checks that it is the file the creator uploaded and scans it for malicious code. A file that fails is not sold.

To report anything — bullying, harassment, a review, a creator page, a program, or something that simply looks wrong — email antonopic@gmail.com with the subject Report, the page address, and what you saw. You do not need an account. If you are under 18, you can ask a parent or teacher to send it for you, or send it yourself; either is fine.

What we do: a person reads every report. Content that breaks these standards is removed as soon as we see it, and the account responsible is warned or closed. We tell you what we did if you give us a way to reply. We do not share who reported.

Threats, sexual content involving a minor, and other crimes are reported to law enforcement and, where the law requires, to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children — and we keep what is needed for that report even after the content is removed.

If you are the person affected and you are in danger, please contact your local police first. In the United States, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available by call or text, 24 hours a day.

Depending on what happened: the content is removed; the person is warned; the account is closed; a creator's page is taken down and the Creator Agreement ended; money owed may be withheld where the sale itself broke these standards; and serious matters are passed to the authorities. A purchase is never taken away from an innocent buyer.

Appeals: if you believe a decision about your content or account was wrong, email antonopic@gmail.com with the subject Appeal. A person reads it and answers with the reasons, whichever way the decision goes.

If you believe something sold or shown on antonopic.com copies your work, email antonopic@gmail.com with the subject Copyright and include: what work of yours is copied and where it can be seen; the address of the page on antonopic.com; your name, address and email; a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised; a statement that your notice is accurate and that you are, or are authorised to act for, the copyright owner; and your signature (typed is fine). The content is taken down while we look into it, and the creator may send a counter-statement with the same details. Knowingly false claims in either direction are a serious matter under US law.

No set of rules covers everything, and social media has shown how fast harm spreads. If you see a gap in these standards — something harmful that they do not name, or a protection that should exist and does not — tell us at antonopic@gmail.com. We will read it, we will answer, and if you are right we will change these standards and the site. That is a promise from Anton Opic Company, with Anton Opic's name on it.