Beautiful Things Hotline

Submission Rules: Read before you submit an image

You and I both agree that we’ll select and send images with care and kindness in mind. There’s plenty of ugliness and cruelty elsewhere. Let’s keep this good, yeah?

By submitting an image to Beautiful Things Hotline, you confirm that:

• You are 13 years old or older.
• You have the right to submit the image. You either own the copyright to the image or have obtained all permissions necessary to submit it and allow Beautiful Things Hotline to use it as described below.
• You give Beautiful Things Hotline permission to use your image. You grant Beautiful Things Hotline a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, reproduce, display, and distribute the submitted image as part of the Beautiful Things Hotline service, including in text messages to and/or in online galleries accessible to paying subscribers.
• You understand that your image may be seen by other subscribers. Submitted images may be included in galleries that are accessible to people who have paid for the service. Do not submit anything you would not want other subscribers to see.
• The image is not generated or created, in whole or in part, by AI. Ordinary editing using traditional photo-editing tools is permitted, including cropping, resizing, exposure adjustments, color correction, and similar edits.
• Everyone depicted in the image is at least 18 years old. Do not submit images depicting anyone under 18, regardless of whether you have permission from that person or their parent or guardian.
• You have permission from every identifiable person depicted in the image to submit and share the image in this service.
• The image contains no nudity or sexual content. This includes visible breasts, genitals, or buttocks. The service is intended to remain clearly non-sexual and non-explicit.
• The image contains no violence, cruelty, graphic injury, gore, or death.
• The image does not contain harassment, humiliation, threats, or hateful or discriminatory content targeting a person or group.
• The image does not reveal private or sensitive personal information. Do not submit images containing things such as home addresses, phone numbers, financial information, medical information, passwords, or other sensitive information belonging to someone.
• The image does not depict or promote illegal activity.
• The image is not intended to deceive, defraud, impersonate, or falsely represent a person, event, or circumstance.
• You have not materially manipulated the image to misrepresent what it depicts. Ordinary photographic editing is permitted, but do not digitally alter an image in a way that materially changes its meaning or creates a false depiction.
• The image is not an advertisement, solicitation, fundraising request, political campaign message, or other promotional material.
• You will not submit an image specifically intended to evade these rules, including by cropping, obscuring, editing, or otherwise disguising prohibited content.

Beautiful Things Hotline agrees to abide by the same rules in publishing and sending you images curated from all subscribers.

Some of the information you provide through this service is necessarily shared in order to transmit your mobile messages and respond to you. This includes, but isn’t limited to, sharing information with platform providers, phone companies, and other vendors who assist us in the delivery of mobile messages.

Beyond that, Beautiful Things Hotline guarantees we will never deliberately give or sell your information to anyone else, for marketing or other purposes.

By sending Beautiful Things Hotline an image, you give permission for us to republish that image and for other people to see it, as described in the Terms and Conditions of Use. Texts and galleries are accessible to paid subscribers, but we can’t control what subscribers do with the galleries once they see them.

All your personally identifying data (exif data) except for the phone number will be scrubbed from your images when we receive them to protect you. Your phone number will remain linked to your images within our internal systems, but will not be visibly published alongside your image if your image is shared in a text message or daily gallery.

In addition, we will do our best as individual people within our knowledge and the evolving digital environment to keep your information safe from being stolen, but we can’t make guarantees about how protected it will be from bad actors.

More formally:

We only use information you provide through this service to transmit your mobile messages and respond to you. This includes, but isn’t limited to, sharing information with platform providers, phone companies, and other vendors who assist us in the delivery of mobile messages.

We do not sell or share your SMS opt-in data or personal information with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.

Nonetheless, we reserve the right always to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, to avoid liability, or to protect our rights or property.