Weddings
Wedding ceremonies, essential celebration costs, and related support for couples and families.
Safety, honesty & respect
Community Guidelines
These guidelines explain the standards expected from campaign creators, donors, and everyone who uses GiverImpact. Together, we can keep fundraising safe, truthful, and respectful.
Be truthful
Be respectful
Protect the community
Our shared responsibility
GiverImpact brings people together to raise and give money for meaningful needs. Every user is responsible for acting lawfully, honestly, and respectfully. These guidelines apply to campaigns, updates, images, videos, comments, messages, donations, reports, and other activity on the platform. They should be read together with our Terms of Service and other applicable policies.
Allowed fundraising
Acceptable Campaigns
GiverImpact supports lawful, honest fundraising for genuine needs and causes. Acceptable campaigns may include the following.
Volunteer
Legitimate volunteer initiatives, outreach activities, supplies, travel, and public-benefit service projects.
Sports
Team costs, equipment, training, competitions, travel, and other legitimate sporting needs.
Special Events
Lawful community, cultural, charitable, or personal events with a clear fundraising purpose.
Religious
Lawful faith-based assistance, facilities, missions, community service, and religious activities.
Personal
Genuine personal needs, essential living costs, recovery from hardship, and important life circumstances.
Family
Genuine family needs, childcare, housing, emergencies, reunification, and support during difficult circumstances.
Medical & Healing
Treatment, surgery, medication, rehabilitation, medical equipment, travel for care, and related health expenses.
Legal
Legitimate legal fees, representation, documentation, and other lawful justice-related expenses.
Funerals
Funeral and memorial expenses, remembrance arrangements, and practical support for a deceased person's family.
Education
Tuition, school supplies, training, scholarships, learning resources, and other legitimate educational needs.
Creative
Lawful art, music, film, publishing, design, performance, and other original creative projects.
Community
Local initiatives, public-benefit projects, community facilities, outreach, and neighbourhood support.
Charities
Lawful charitable activities and support for eligible organisations, beneficiaries, and public-interest causes.
Business
Legitimate startup, small-business, equipment, recovery, and clearly explained business funding needs.
Animals & Pets
Veterinary treatment, rescue, shelter, rehabilitation, and responsible care for animals in need.
Other Funding
Other lawful and genuine fundraising needs that do not fit another category and are explained transparently.
Community standards
All campaigns must be accurate, donations must be authorised, and creators and donors must treat others with respect.
Campaign creators
Creators must present their campaign honestly and remain accountable for the information and funds connected to it.
- Provide truthful, accurate, and complete information about the purpose, beneficiary, goal, and intended use of funds.
- Use only images, videos, documents, and stories that you own, are authorised to share, or may lawfully use.
- Obtain permission before publishing another person's private information, medical details, or likeness.
- Clearly explain your relationship to the beneficiary and how funds will reach or support them.
- Use funds for the stated purpose and keep reasonable records showing how money was used.
- Post honest updates when important circumstances, plans, costs, or the beneficiary's situation change.
- Respond promptly and truthfully to reasonable requests from GiverImpact for identity, campaign, beneficiary, or supporting information.
If the original purpose becomes impossible, contact
GiverImpact before using the funds for a materially
different purpose.
Donors and supporters
Donors should give responsibly, use the platform in good faith, and respect campaign creators, beneficiaries, and other community members.
- Use only a payment method you are authorised to use and provide accurate payment information.
- Review the campaign information and ask respectful questions before donating when more information is needed.
- Understand that a donation supports the stated campaign and is not an investment, purchase, or guarantee of a particular outcome.
- Communicate respectfully and do not harass, threaten, shame, or expose private information about another person.
- Submit reports and refund concerns honestly, with relevant information, and without using them to intimidate a creator.
- Respect platform decisions and use official support channels if you disagree with a payment or safety outcome.
- Do not manipulate donations, comments, reactions, follower counts, or other platform activity.
Donors are encouraged to consider the information
available and make their own informed decision before
contributing.
Not allowed
Prohibited Campaigns
Campaigns that promote, fund, facilitate, or conceal any of the following are not allowed on GiverImpact.
Fraudulent fundraising
False or misleading claims, fabricated needs, fake beneficiaries, impersonation, forged evidence, concealed material facts, or misuse of donated funds.
Illegal activities
Fundraising for unlawful goods, services, organisations, conduct, or criminal acts of any kind.
Weapons
The purchase, manufacture, distribution, trafficking, or unlawful use of firearms, explosives, or other weapons.
Drugs
Illegal drugs, controlled substances, drug trafficking, or related unlawful products and services.
Adult services
Pornography, sexual services, escort services, sexual exploitation, or other adult-oriented commercial activity.
Terrorism or extremist content
Support, praise, recruitment, propaganda, or financing for terrorism, violent extremism, or extremist organisations.
Hate speech
Content that attacks, dehumanises, threatens, or promotes hatred or violence against people based on protected characteristics.
Money laundering
Concealing the source, destination, ownership, or purpose of funds, or using donations to move or clean illicit money.
Financial scams
Investment schemes, pyramid or Ponzi schemes, phishing, advance-fee fraud, deceptive financial promises, or other scams.
Copyright infringement
Unauthorised use of copyrighted stories, images, videos, trademarks, or other protected intellectual property.
Other unlawful activity
Any campaign, content, transaction, or activity that violates applicable local, national, or international laws or regulations.
This list is not exhaustive. GiverImpact may restrict or remove
any campaign that creates a serious safety, legal, payment, or
fraud risk, or violates our
Terms of Service.
How we respond
Review and enforcement
We consider the available information, the seriousness of the concern, the surrounding context, and any pattern of behaviour.
Review the concern
We may review the campaign, account, transactions, reports, supporting documents, and other relevant activity.
Request information
We may ask a user to clarify campaign claims, verify identity, confirm the beneficiary, or provide evidence about funds.
Take proportionate action
Depending on the issue, we may warn a user, limit features, remove content, pause a campaign, restrict withdrawals, suspend an account, or permanently remove access.
Payments, refunds, and authorities
Where appropriate, we may work with payment providers, review refund options under the applicable policy, preserve relevant records, or report suspected illegal activity to competent authorities.
No guaranteed outcome
Submitting a report does not guarantee removal, a refund, or a particular decision. To protect privacy and the review, we may be unable to share every action or detail with the reporter.
Report a concern
Use the Report Campaign option on the campaign page when a specific fundraiser may violate these guidelines. For account, payment, privacy, or other safety concerns, contact GiverImpact and include clear details and relevant evidence. Do not publish sensitive information publicly.