Terms of Service
Last Updated: September 30, 2026 • Effective for All Citizens
Good-Faith Public Interest Requirement
CorruptionGram is dedicated to empowering citizens to report civic grievances, municipal negligence, public infrastructure failures, police misconduct, and corruption in the public interest. The platform may never be used for extortion, personal feuds, fabricated evidence, or commercial competition.
1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing, browsing, submitting reports, commenting, or utilizing any features of CorruptionGram (“the Platform”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, please do not use the Platform.
2. Permitted Civic Reporting
Users are permitted to submit factual, first-hand, or documented reports regarding:
- Civic and municipal negligence, including uncollected garbage, open drains, streetlights, and sanitation hazards.
- Road infrastructure hazards, dangerous potholes, substandard construction, and bridge defects.
- Police misconduct, unlawful detention, bribery, or refusal to register statutory complaints (FIRs).
- Unlawful bribe demands, tender fraud, kickbacks, or extortion by public servants.
- Public utility failures (water supply contamination, power grid outages, ration distribution issues).
- Negligence or corruption in government schools, public healthcare centers, and state revenue offices.
3. Strictly Prohibited Content
You agree never to submit, upload, or disseminate:
• Fabricated or Manipulated Evidence: Deepfakes, altered invoices, cut-and-paste documents, or deliberately deceptive audio/video recordings.
• Personal Slander & Blackmail: Using the platform as leverage for extortion or settling private family/business disputes unrelated to official duties.
• Private Doxxing: Revealing home addresses, personal bank account details, children's information, or non-public personal numbers of officials' families.
• Hate Speech & Incitement: Content targeting individuals based on religion, caste, gender, or ethnicity.
4. Evidence Licensing & Open Access
By submitting evidence, testimonials, or reports, you grant CorruptionGram an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, format, display, and distribute the content under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This allows journalists, researchers, anti-corruption activists, and citizen councils to cite and investigate your report.
5. Platform Neutrality & Fact-Checking
CorruptionGram operates as an open-access civic intermediary under relevant safe harbor provisions. We do not independently investigate every incident prior to publication, nor do we act as a judicial body. Reports represent the claims of the respective submitting citizens until cross-verified by the community.
6. Moderation, Takedowns, & Disputed Reports
If a named department or individual believes a report contains provably false statements or doctored media, they may submit a formal “Right to Respond” or request a review via contact@corruptiongram.in. Disputed reports will clearly display official counter-statements or may be temporarily flagged during inquiry.
7. Limitation of Liability
CorruptionGram, its maintainers, volunteers, and contributors shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages resulting from your use of the platform, the public availability of submitted reports, or subsequent actions taken by third parties or law enforcement agencies.
8. Contact Legal & Compliance
For legal inquiries, official notices, or governance requests:
contact@corruptiongram.in