Community Guidelines

Treat everyone the way you'd want to be treated at a celebration you're excited about — with warmth, with respect, and assuming good intent. The specific rules below spell out what that looks like in practice. When in doubt, err on the kinder side.

• Use your real name, or the real name of the brand or organisation you represent.
• Don't impersonate other people, hosts, vendors, brands, government bodies, or AriyoEvents itself.
• Don't create multiple accounts to get around a suspension or to inflate review counts.
• Reviews must come from a host who actually engaged the vendor; we may remove fake or paid reviews without notice.

• Hosts: the date, time, venue, ticket inclusions, age restrictions, and any disclaimers must be accurate at the time you publish, and updated promptly if anything changes.
• Vendors:portfolio photos must be your own work, or clearly credited if you collaborated. Quoted prices should reflect what you'd actually invoice.
• No clickbait titles, fake countdowns, or fake “sold out” banners.

We remove content and may suspend accounts for any of the following. Repeat or severe offences mean a permanent ban, and in some cases we report to Nigerian law enforcement.

• Hate speech targeting people based on tribe, ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
• Harassment, bullying, or targeted abuse of another user — including doxxing, slurs, repeated unwanted contact.
• Sexually explicit content, nudity, or sexualised content involving minors (the latter is reported to authorities, no warning).
• Threats or incitement to violence, including political violence, terrorism, or self-harm.
• Scams, fraud, or deceptive practices— fake events, ponzi schemes, “double your money” promises, bait-and-switch ticketing.
• Illegal goods or services — narcotics (other than prescribed), firearms, stolen goods, counterfeit currency, human trafficking, organ sale.
• Regulated activities without a licence — gambling, alcohol sales without permit, lotteries.
• Spam — unsolicited bulk DMs, repetitive promotional posts in event communities, off-topic comments engineered for visibility.
• Content that infringes someone else's copyright— using a photographer's photos without permission, ripping a logo, etc. Original creators can submit a takedown to trust@ariyoevents.com.
• Personal data of others shared without their consent — phone numbers, ID cards, home addresses.
• Malware, phishing links, or anything designed to harm other users' devices.

Each event community has the host as its de facto owner. Beyond the rules above:

• Stay on topic — communities exist to coordinate around a specific event, not as a general feed.
• Photos posted in a communitycan be saved and shared by other community members. If you wouldn't want a photo screenshot and shared elsewhere, don't post it.
• Hosts can remove posts and members from their own event community. Their judgement governs unless the post violates these guidelines (in which case we step in).
• Once the event ends, the community remains read-only for 12 months for memories and tagging, then is archived.

• Only hosts who actually engaged a vendor can leave a review — we verify against the booking record.
• Reviews should describe the experience honestly: what worked, what didn't, would you book them again. No personal attacks, no unverified accusations of crime.
• Vendors may reply publicly to a review. Don't use the reply to retaliate or share private booking details.
• We don't edit or remove reviews based on the vendor's preference. We will remove reviews that break these guidelines.

Hosts and vendors can message each other to coordinate quotes and bookings. The same rules apply in DMs as in public communities. We don't routinely read DMs, but we audit them when investigating a report.

If you see something that breaks these guidelines:

1. Use the in-app “Report” control on the post, comment, profile, or message (where available).
2. Email trust@ariyoevents.com with a link or screenshot, and a one-line description of what you're reporting and why.

We acknowledge reports within 48 hours and act on the obvious ones (illegal content, child safety, threats) the same day. For ambiguous reports we may ask both sides for context before deciding.

Possible outcomes: warning, temporary suspension, content removal, permanent ban, referral to law enforcement.

If we removed your content or suspended your account and you think we got it wrong, reply to the email we sent you with new information. A different reviewer takes a fresh look — you generally hear back within 7 days. Final decisions are ours, but we try to explain the reasoning.

These guidelines exist on top of Nigerian law, not in place of it. If something would be illegal under Nigerian law, it isn't welcome here either. See the Terms of Service for the full legal framing.