Content Moderation Policy

Version: 1.2 Effective Date: September 20, 2026 Status: Active

This document is part of the VesEvi Version 1.0 legal documentation package, effective August 1, 2026, using docs/platform/VesEvi-Version-1-Product-Book.md (§15) as the source of truth for product capability. It uses conservative, industry-standard language appropriate for an early-stage software company; as with any company's policies, periodic legal review is expected as VesEvi grows, and future revisions will be published as Version 1.1, Version 2.0, and so on.

1. Moderation Goals

Content moderation on VesEvi exists to protect the privacy of people who are not party to an inspection, to keep community-facing and public content factual and focused on asset condition, and to maintain the integrity of the Worldwide History public record. Moderation is not intended to suppress legitimate, factual reporting of an asset's condition.

2. Publication Review

When you submit an inspection to be shared through Worldwide History, it passes through automated screening of its free-text notes and evidence before anything becomes public. In the ordinary case, screening finds nothing that requires further review, and the record proceeds to your confirmation before publishing (see the Worldwide History Policy). Where screening flags content — such as apparent personal information, credentials, threats, or accusations against a person, or an evidence file that fails automated processing — the record is instead routed to human moderator review before it can proceed to your confirmation.

Two kinds of free text are screened, and they are treated differently. Your private inspection notes are screened as an input to that decision only; they are never published. The optional Contributor Note you may write when sharing is different: it is written for publication, and if the record is published the note is published with it. A Contributor Note is accepted as written, published with sensitive parts removed, withheld while a moderator reviews it, or declined — and whichever applies, the version that would become public is shown to the contributor before they confirm. A withheld or declined note is simply not published; it does not block the rest of the contribution from being shared without it.

3. Community Reports

Any person, including someone who is not a contributor or account holder, may report a published Worldwide History record they believe violates the Acceptable Use Policy, Community Guidelines, or applicable law, using the Service's reporting mechanism where available. Reports may be submitted anonymously where supported.

4. Correction Workflow

Where the platform provides a structured correction workflow for a given record type (such as a property or asset detail), corrections should be submitted through that workflow rather than through inspection notes, community content, or public disputes. Corrections are reviewed before being applied, consistent with the platform's design principle of never silently altering a previously reviewed or published record.

5. Escalation

Content flagged by automated screening, or reported by a user, is escalated to a human moderator — an individual holding a platform moderation role, granted through a deliberate, documented process rather than automatically. Moderators review the flagged content, the context around it, and applicable policy before making a decision.

6. Removal

A moderator may decline to publish a submission, or remove an already-published Worldwide History record, where it violates this Policy, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Community Guidelines, or applicable law. Removal takes the record out of public visibility; consistent with the Data Retention Policy, the underlying data is retained internally rather than deleted.

7. Appeals

As of this Policy's effective date, VesEvi does not yet provide a formal, structured appeal mechanism for a rejected or removed Worldwide History submission. If you believe a moderation decision affecting your content was made in error, contact Info@vespaan.com and we will review the matter on a best-effort basis. This Policy will be updated if and when a formal appeal process is implemented.

8. Transparency

VesEvi aims to be honest about the current state of its moderation system rather than overstating its capabilities: automated screening today uses deterministic rules and a keyword-based classifier, not a general-purpose AI content moderator; human review capacity is limited and reviewed on a regular, but not guaranteed real-time or around-the-clock, basis; and automatic visual redaction covers human faces only — it can miss a face, and it does not detect or cover documents, screens, mail, handwriting, house numbers, QR codes or other people's licence plates.

Text screening has its own limits, and one matters especially for the Contributor Note: it does not reliably recognise a person's name. It matches recognisable patterns — email addresses, phone numbers, payment cards, government identifiers, addresses, apparent access codes — and phrases suggesting threats, accusations, or medical or minor-related content. A name written in ordinary prose generally is not detected, and is not removed. Contributors should not rely on screening to take private information out of what they write. See the Worldwide History Policy (Section 8) for the full disclosure of these limitations.

This document must remain consistent with the Acceptable Use Policy, Community Guidelines, Worldwide History Policy, and Copyright and DMCA Policy, all part of the same VesEvi Version 1.0 legal package.