Houfy Publishing Platform Guidelines

What these Guidelines cover

Houfy lets you publish posts — guides to your area, tips for guests, the story of your property — under your profile and, if you choose, attached to one of your listings. Posts are public: anyone can read them, search engines index them, and readers can share them. These Guidelines set the rules for what you publish. They are part of our Terms of Service, and our Community Standards, Photo Guidelines and Link & Video Guidelines apply inside a post as they do everywhere else on Houfy. Houfy's own blog and help centre are written by Houfy and are not covered here.

Your post is yours

You own what you publish. By publishing it you give Houfy the licence described in section 9 of our Terms of Service, so that we can show your post on Houfy, in our emails and on the channels we use to promote Houfy, translate it, and add a note that the views are yours rather than ours. We do not review posts before they appear and we do not endorse them. We will not use your post in advertising for anyone else's products without asking you first.

You can delete a post, or ask us to remove it, at any time. Copies that other people have already shared, and copies in our backups until they are overwritten, may remain for a while afterwards, as our Terms explain.

Publish only what is yours to publish

Use your own words and your own photos, or material you have clear permission to use. That rules out text copied from another website, a tourism board or another listing; photos taken by a guest, a photographer you did not license, or an owner whose property you manage, unless they have agreed; and anything found on the internet whose owner has not said yes. You may republish something you wrote elsewhere if you own the rights to it. Our Copyright Policy explains how we handle reports of infringement.

Writing with AI

You may use Houfy's writing tools or any other AI to help draft a post. You are responsible for the result as if you had written every word. Check facts — opening hours, prices, trail and road conditions, events — before you publish. Do not publish generated reviews, quotes, testimonials or events as though they were real, and do not publish generated text that presents someone else's work as yours.

Be accurate, and say when you were paid

Do not publish anything misleading or fraudulent. Your own listing is welcome in a post — mention it, link it, explain what makes it good. Do not use a post as an advertisement for someone else's product or service. If you were paid, given a discount, or given something free in return for a mention or a recommendation, say so in the post. Affiliate and referral links are not allowed; the Link & Video Guidelines apply to every link in a post. If you want more visibility for a listing, use Promote Listings.

Other people

Do not write about a guest, a neighbour, another host or a business in a way that identifies them without their permission, and never publish someone's messages, contact details, booking details or photograph without it. Feedback about a stay belongs in a review, not a post. Do not publish anything defamatory, obscene, threatening, hateful, discriminatory or illegal.

Posts attached to a listing

A post attached to a listing is part of that listing. What our Listing & Platform Guidelines and Fair Housing Guidelines say about listing text applies to it: describe the property truthfully, do not state or suggest a preference about who may stay, and do not use a post to move a booking or an enquiry off Houfy.

If a post breaks these Guidelines

We may ask you to change it, remove it, or act on your account. What we do depends on what happened and whether it has happened before, and it follows the process in our Community Standards — including telling you why, and your right to appeal within 30 days by replying to that notice. Where a post is fraudulent, infringes someone's rights, or puts someone at risk, we act as soon as we know. Repeated infringement is handled as our Copyright Policy describes.

Questions: info@houfy.com.

Changes

We update these Guidelines as the platform changes, and change the date at the top.