Advertising Policy

This policy applies to every ad placed on TBuddy — In-app Ads (native placements in Home, Products, Buddies, Chats and Search) and Social Promotions (open campaigns where creators post on their own social profiles).

Eligibility: only ID-verified members can create an ad. Ads promoting weapons, drugs, tobacco, alcohol without licence, prescription medicine, gambling, adult content, MLM schemes, get-rich-quick offers, political parties, or anything banned by the Community Guidelines will be rejected.

Review: every ad is manually reviewed before it appears in feeds. Ads rejected in review are refunded in full to the wallet.

Payment: ad budgets are charged upfront to your wallet. Daily budget pacing prevents your budget from being burned in the first hour. Unused budget is auto-refunded within minutes of pausing or closing an ad.

Frequency capping: no single viewer sees the same ad more than 5 times per day. Both client-side and server-side caps apply.

Attribution: impressions are counted only when an ad is visible on screen for at least 800 milliseconds. Click and impression counts, CTR and daily charts are owner-only.

Social Promotions escrow: when you approve a creator's application, the agreed payout is deducted from your wallet and held in escrow. It is released to the creator when you confirm delivery, or automatically after a 48-hour timer if you do not respond. Disputes can be raised inside the promo detail page.

Prohibited targeting: TBuddy does not permit targeting by protected categories (caste, religion, sexual orientation, medical condition). City, radius and language are permitted.

Violations of this policy may lead to ad removal, wallet debit reversal, loss of ad privileges or account suspension.