Yanamino Community Guidelines
Last updated: 5 November 2026
Yanamino is for learning. People as young as 13 use it, often in groups run by teachers or friends. These rules keep it a good place to learn for all of them.
They're part of the Terms of Use.
Where these rules apply
Everywhere you share: every deck, lesson and quiz you share with a group or make public. That means titles, descriptions, cards, pages, questions, answers, pictures and recordings. They also apply to your publisher name, and to the names and descriptions of groups you run.
Public items reach people you don't know, so a few rules are stricter for them. Those rules say "public items".
Always fine
- Word lists, example sentences, explanations and notes you wrote yourself.
- Readings, meanings and grammar points, written in your own words.
- Your own voice, reading words and sentences.
- Pictures you made or took yourself, of things, places, food or animals (in public items, no people).
- Links to web pages that help people learn.
- Words a learner needs, even awkward ones (body parts, illnesses, common rude words), when they're there to teach the language.
Not allowed
Sexual content
Nothing sexual, and no nudity. Words a learner needs are fine as plain vocabulary, but nothing meant to arouse or shock.
A child's safety
Nothing that sexualises a child, or puts a child at risk. There are no exceptions. We remove it at once and report it to the police.
If you come across anything like this, report it with "Sexual content involving a child, or a child in danger". Don't copy it, save it, or send it to anyone, us included.
Hate, bullying or harassment
Don't attack, threaten, mock or put down anyone, as a person or because of who they are: their background, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality, disability or anything like it. Don't make an item about a real person to embarrass them.
Violence
No graphic violence, no threats, and nothing that encourages anyone to hurt themselves or others.
Illegal content
Nothing that breaks the law, and nothing that helps someone break it.
Not suitable for 13-year-olds
Everything you share must be fine for anyone 13 or older. Nothing that makes drugs, alcohol or gambling look appealing, no gore, and nothing made only to shock.
Spam or ads
No advertising, no selling, no links that exist only to send people somewhere, and no misleading titles. Don't fill Yanamino with copies of the same item.
Copyright
Only share what you made, or what you have permission to share. For language learning, that means:
| Fine | Not without permission |
|---|---|
| Your own word lists and your own example sentences | Sentences, dialogues or exercises copied from a textbook |
| Readings, meanings and notes in your own words | Scanned or photographed pages, or screenshots of a book or app |
| Your own recordings of your own voice | Audio from CDs, textbooks' recordings, other apps, videos, films, anime or songs |
| A list of common words on a topic, with your own explanations | Definitions and example sentences copied from a dictionary, website or course |
| Material whose licence allows sharing, following its rules | Other people's shared decks, lessons or quizzes, from Yanamino or anywhere else |
| Song lyrics and subtitles |
If someone reports your item for copyright and you do have permission, ask us to look again and say so.
Pictures of real people
Public items can't contain pictures of people who can be recognised: not your friends, not famous people, and not you. Use pictures of things, places and drawings instead.
In items you share only with your groups, only use a picture of someone, or a recording of their voice, if they agreed to it. For anyone under 15, a parent has to agree too.
Private details
Don't share anyone's personal details: a full name together with a school, town, age or address; a home address; a phone number; an email address; or a social media account. That includes your own, in public items. Public lessons can't link to an email address.
Playing fair
- Don't trick the checks. No hidden or invisible text, no text written to fool Yanamino's checks, and no swapping in something different after it's been checked.
- Your publisher name can't be your username, can't look like Yanamino's own names, and can't pretend to be someone else.
- One account each. Don't use a new account to get around a block, a strike or a limit.
- Report honestly. Don't report things you know are fine, and don't use reports to go after someone.
Pictures and recordings in public items
For now, public items are text only. When pictures and recordings are allowed:
- every picture is checked before anyone else sees it, and pictures of people who can be recognised aren't allowed;
- your own voice is fine; anyone else's voice needs their permission;
- a person at Yanamino listens to new publishers' recordings before they go public.
How we check
- Before an item goes public, an automatic filter and an AI check read all of its text. Until you're a trusted publisher, a person at Yanamino also looks at each item first. The same happens for every new version and every new description.
- A check never removes anything by itself. It sends the item to a person.
- When something passes, it has been checked against these guidelines. That doesn't mean Yanamino approves it, or has checked who holds the rights.
- People report what they see, and we look at every report as soon as we can, urgent ones first.
What happens if something breaks the rules
Depending on how serious it is:
- Not made public. The item, or a change to it, doesn't go public. You see why, and you can fix it and try again.
- Paused, or out of Yanamino's search, while Yanamino looks at a report.
- Removed by Yanamino. It leaves Explore and every group and library. That's a strike for a year, and for 90 days a person at Yanamino looks at everything you make public first.
- No more sharing or making things public, after 3 strikes in a year.
- A suspended account. A new account with the same sign-in can't share or make things public for 2 years.
Anything that puts a child or someone's life at risk goes to the police.
Every time, the person who made the item gets the full reasons, and can tap Ask Us to Look Again once.
Reporting
- In the app: tap Report on any item that isn't Yanamino's or yours, or Report This Card, Report This Page or Report This Question for one part of it.
- Without an account: see How to report something on Yanamino.
- We never tell the maker who reported.
Hide Items by This Maker takes a maker's items out of your own search and pickers. Nobody is told.