Guidelines for permissible content and prohibited activities on Notion
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Risk by Category
Notion's Content Use Policy establishes rules for what content users can upload, share, and use on the platform. It prohibits illegal, harmful, or infringing content including child exploitation, harassment, intellectual property violations, malware, spam, and impersonation. Notion reserves the right to review, remove content, and suspend accounts without notice. The policy emphasizes user responsibility for compliance and supports lawful, respectful use while protecting the community.
Notion can remove any content at its discretion without prior notice.
Violations may lead to immediate account suspension or termination.
Limited details on disputing enforcement actions.
Explicit list of disallowed activities helps users understand boundaries.
Strong measures against abuse promote a safe environment.
Encourages broad lawful content creation and sharing.
Spotify collects the following categories of personal data. High Risk categories are used for advertising profiling or involve sensitive personal information.
Text, files, images uploaded by users.
Pages, databases, and collaborative edits.
Your data serves the following purposes. Mandatory purposes cannot be disabled without canceling the service. Opt-out available purposes allow some user control.
Notion may review user content for compliance.
Use of automated tools to detect violations.
Spotify shares data with several categories of third parties. Sharing with advertising partners is extensive and represents the primary commercial use of your behavioral data.
Integration with third-party embeds if compliant.
No mention of selling user content.
The following rights may be available to you depending on your region. EU/EEA users have the broadest protections under GDPR. Non-EU users have more limited guarantees.
Users retain ownership of their content but grant Notion broad licenses.
Users can delete content, but Notion may retain copies.
Data is retained for different periods depending on category, and security disclosures vary in depth. The policy highlights the following retention and transparency points.
Retention Periods
Notion may retain copies for legal/compliance reasons.
Backups retained for recovery purposes.
Security & Transparency
Relies on general platform security.
Mechanisms for reporting violations.
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Strict zero-tolerance for CSAM and exploitation.
Interpretation
High enforcement priority with legal reporting.
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Prohibits targeted harassment.
Interpretation
Protects users but subjective enforcement.
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Users must not upload infringing content.
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Users bear full liability.
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Notion can act without notice.
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Limited user recourse.
Source Text
Broad license to Notion for hosting and display.
Interpretation
Necessary for platform function.
Illegal content, CSAM, harassment, IP violations, malware, spam, etc.