Valarn Community Guidelines

Last Updated: [Insert Date]**

These Community Guidelines explain the rules for participating in Valarn’s community features, including comments, reviews, shared reports, public watchlists, discussions, feedback areas, user profiles, social sharing features, referral posts, and other interactive features.

These Guidelines should be read together with our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, General Disclaimer, AI & Financial Disclaimer, Refund Policy, and Advertising & Affiliate Disclosure.

By using Valarn’s community or sharing features, you agree to follow these Guidelines.

1. Community Purpose

Valarn is designed to help users research public companies, review AI-generated stock reports, compare market data, save watchlists, track catalysts, and learn about investing concepts.

Community features are intended for:

educational discussion;
product feedback;
research organization;
sharing AI-generated reports with context;
discussing market events;
asking platform questions;
suggesting improvements;
sharing learning resources;
discussing public company information responsibly.

Community features are not intended for financial advice, coordinated trading, market manipulation, pump-and-dump activity, deceptive promotion, harassment, spam, or unlawful financial activity.

2. Educational Use Only

Community content on Valarn is for educational and informational purposes only.

Users may discuss stocks, reports, market news, research ideas, and AI-generated outputs, but users may not present community content as personalized financial advice or professional investment recommendations.

Nothing posted by users, Valarn, affiliates, sponsors, advertisers, or community participants should be treated as financial advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, hold, short, or trade any security.

FINRA notes that financial communications on social media should avoid false, misleading, exaggerated, or materially incomplete claims; Valarn applies the same practical principle to community behavior even when users are not regulated professionals.

3. Be Honest and Do Not Mislead Others

You may not post, upload, share, or distribute content that is false, misleading, deceptive, manipulated, or materially incomplete.

Do not:

make unsupported claims about a stock;
present rumors as facts;
hide important risks;
exaggerate upside;
downplay downside;
misstate company data;
misrepresent AI-generated reports;
claim guaranteed returns;
claim “risk-free” investments;
imply Valarn has certified or guaranteed a result;
claim insider knowledge without lawful basis;
post fake screenshots, fake reports, fake returns, or fake positions.

If you share a Valarn report, include enough context so others understand that it is AI-generated, educational, and may be outdated.

4. No Financial Advice or Personalized Recommendations

Users may not use Valarn community features to provide personalized investment advice to others unless they are properly licensed and authorized to do so.

Do not tell another user what they should buy, sell, hold, short, or trade.

Examples of disallowed language:

“You should buy this today.”
“Everyone sell before close.”
“Put your whole portfolio into this.”
“This is guaranteed to double.”
“Short this now.”
“This is financial advice.”
“Trust me, I know what is coming.”

Safer language:

“The report shows a bullish research stance, but it may be wrong.”
“Here are the risks I noticed.”
“This is my opinion, not financial advice.”
“I would verify the data before acting.”
“The saved report may be outdated.”

5. No Market Manipulation

You may not use Valarn to manipulate, attempt to manipulate, or coordinate manipulation of any security, market, company, token, ETF, fund, or financial product.

Prohibited activity includes:

pump-and-dump schemes;
dump-and-dump schemes;
coordinated buying or selling campaigns;
false rumor campaigns;
artificial hype;
fake consensus;
misleading price targets;
coordinated short attacks;
deceptive “everyone buy now” posts;
fake analyst claims;
false claims about partnerships, earnings, mergers, approvals, or filings;
posting misleading information to influence price or volume.

The SEC warns that social media investment information can be inaccurate or misleading and that fraudsters use social media for market manipulation and other investment fraud schemes.

6. No Pump-and-Dump, Hype, or Coordinated Trading

Do not use Valarn to promote hype campaigns around thinly traded, small-cap, micro-cap, penny stocks, volatile stocks, crypto-related equities, options, or other high-risk assets.

You may not post content designed to artificially increase interest, volume, or price so you or others can benefit.

Examples of prohibited posts:

“Everyone buy this at 9:30 so it spikes.”
“Let’s all push this stock above $10.”
“I’ll dump after the group pumps it.”
“Don’t tell anyone, but this is the next guaranteed 100x.”
“Spam this ticker everywhere.”
“We need to make this trend.”

7. Disclose Conflicts of Interest

If you discuss a stock, company, product, broker, newsletter, tool, or service and you have a relevant conflict, you should disclose it.

Conflicts may include:

owning shares;
being short;
holding options;
being paid to promote something;
receiving affiliate compensation;
working for the company;
consulting for the company;
being sponsored;
receiving free access, credits, discounts, or other benefits.

If you promote Valarn or another product and receive compensation, free access, discounts, credits, commissions, or other benefits, you must clearly disclose that relationship. The FTC says social media endorsements should disclose material connections to brands in a clear way.

8. No Undisclosed Sponsored or Affiliate Promotion

You may not post undisclosed sponsored content, affiliate links, referral links, paid reviews, fake testimonials, or promotional content.

If you post a referral link, affiliate link, sponsored message, or paid promotion, you must clearly label it.

Examples of acceptable disclosures:

“Affiliate link”
“Sponsored”
“Paid partnership”
“I may earn a commission”
“I received free access”
“Referral link”

Do not hide disclosures in hard-to-see places, vague hashtags, or misleading wording.

9. AI-Generated Content Must Be Labeled Honestly

Valarn uses AI-generated research. Users may also use AI tools to summarize, edit, or generate posts.

You may not present AI-generated content as human-certified, guaranteed, official, or independently verified if it is not.

When sharing AI-generated reports, summaries, screenshots, or conclusions, do not remove or obscure important disclaimers.

You may not use AI-generated content to deceive others, impersonate analysts, fabricate sources, or create fake market narratives.

10. No Insider Information or Confidential Information

Do not upload, post, request, or share material non-public information, insider information, leaked earnings, confidential company information, non-public merger information, private financing information, unreleased trial results, non-public government contract information, or other restricted information.

If you work for a public company, contractor, bank, law firm, accounting firm, government agency, or vendor, do not share confidential or restricted information.

11. No Impersonation

You may not impersonate:

Valarn;
Valarn employees;
public companies;
company executives;
analysts;
brokers;
regulators;
financial advisers;
journalists;
other users;
advertisers;
data providers;
government officials.

You may not create fake accounts, fake identities, fake credentials, or misleading profile information.

12. No Harassment, Abuse, or Hate

You may not post content that is harassing, threatening, abusive, hateful, discriminatory, defamatory, sexually explicit, exploitative, or intended to intimidate others.

Do not target people based on protected or sensitive characteristics, including race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or veteran status.

Do not encourage self-harm, violence, doxxing, stalking, or threats.

13. No Doxxing or Personal Data Abuse

Do not post private or sensitive personal information about another person without permission.

This includes:

home addresses;
personal phone numbers;
private emails;
government IDs;
financial account information;
passwords;
login credentials;
private messages;
precise location;
health information;
family information;
workplace details used for harassment.

14. No Spam or Platform Abuse

Do not use Valarn to spam, scam, phish, scrape, flood, manipulate, or disrupt the platform.

Prohibited behavior includes:

repetitive promotional posts;
bot activity;
fake accounts;
referral spam;
affiliate spam;
mass messaging;
fake engagement;
vote manipulation;
scraping;
credential attacks;
malware;
phishing links;
suspicious shortened links;
attempts to bypass limits;
attempts to overload the platform.

15. Respect Intellectual Property

Only post content you have the right to share.

Do not upload or distribute copyrighted material, paywalled research, proprietary datasets, leaked reports, private newsletters, licensed financial data, images, charts, articles, logos, or files unless you have permission.

You may discuss ideas and link to sources, but do not copy entire articles, reports, or paid research into Valarn.

16. Source Your Claims

When making factual claims about a company, filing, financial result, regulatory action, lawsuit, partnership, product launch, earnings event, or market-moving development, include a credible source where possible.

Good sources include:

company filings;
company investor relations pages;
official press releases;
reputable financial news;
regulator notices;
exchange notices;
audited reports.

Do not present speculation, rumors, social posts, or unverified screenshots as confirmed facts.

17. No Harmful Trading Claims

Do not post content that encourages reckless or harmful financial behavior.

Examples:

“Use all your margin.”
“Borrow money to buy this.”
“Put your rent money in this.”
“Ignore your adviser.”
“Guaranteed no downside.”
“No risk.”
“This cannot fail.”
“Insiders told me this will moon.”

18. Options, Margin, Crypto, and High-Risk Assets

If discussing options, margin, leveraged ETFs, inverse ETFs, penny stocks, SPACs, IPOs, crypto-related equities, short squeezes, or other high-risk assets, avoid hype and include appropriate risk context.

Do not encourage inexperienced users to take high-risk trades without understanding the risks.

19. Reviews and Testimonials

Reviews, testimonials, and product feedback must be truthful and based on real experience.

You may not post fake reviews, paid reviews without disclosure, competitor attacks, misleading testimonials, or fabricated results.

Do not claim that Valarn caused investment profits or prevented losses unless the statement is accurate, not misleading, and properly contextualized.

20. Shared Reports and Screenshots

If you share a Valarn report, screenshot, summary, chart, watchlist, or AI stance:

do not remove disclaimers in a misleading way;
include the report date or freshness context where relevant;
do not imply the report is current if it is old;
do not present the report as financial advice;
do not claim Valarn guarantees the output;
do not alter the output to misrepresent what Valarn generated.

Suggested sharing language:

AI-generated Valarn research for educational purposes only. Not financial advice. Report may be outdated. Verify independently.

21. Public Watchlists

Public watchlists are for organization and discussion only.

A stock appearing on a public watchlist does not mean the user or Valarn recommends buying, selling, holding, shorting, or trading that stock.

Do not name watchlists in a misleading way, such as:

“Guaranteed Winners”
“Risk-Free Buys”
“Buy These Now”
“Insider Picks”
“Pump List”

22. Moderation Rights

Valarn may review, remove, hide, restrict, label, downrank, or preserve content at its discretion.

Valarn may take action when content appears to violate these Guidelines, our Terms, law, platform integrity, user safety, market integrity, or community trust.

Actions may include:

content removal;
warning;
comment restriction;
sharing restriction;
account suspension;
account termination;
referral or affiliate removal;
reporting to platforms, regulators, or law enforcement where appropriate.

Valarn is not required to publish, preserve, explain, or restore any community content.

23. Reporting Violations

Users can report content or behavior that appears to violate these Guidelines.

Report concerns to:

[Insert Support Email]

Include:

link or screenshot;
username, if available;
description of the issue;
why it may violate the Guidelines;
any urgent safety concern.

24. Appeals

If your content or account is restricted, you may contact us at:

[Insert Support Email]

Valarn may review appeals at its discretion. Submitting an appeal does not guarantee reversal.

25. Repeat Violations

Repeated violations may result in permanent restrictions or account termination.

Severe violations may result in immediate termination without prior warning.

Examples of severe violations include market manipulation, fraud, threats, doxxing, impersonation, phishing, malware, insider information, or illegal activity.

26. Valarn Is Not Responsible for User Content

User content reflects the views of the person who posted it, not Valarn.

Valarn does not endorse user posts, public watchlists, comments, shared reports, social posts, reviews, ratings, or community opinions.

Community content may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, biased, misleading, or unlawful.

Users are responsible for independently verifying information.

27. Changes to These Guidelines

Valarn may update these Community Guidelines from time to time.

If we make material changes, we may notify users through the website, account notice, email, or other reasonable method.

Your continued use of Valarn community features after changes become effective means you accept the updated Guidelines.

28. Contact

For questions about these Community Guidelines, contact:

Valarn
[Insert Legal Company Name]
[Insert Business Address]
Email: [Insert Support Email]
Website: https://valarn.com