Community guidelines

What we expect

Come here for marriage

Amana exists for people seeking a spouse. Using it for friendship, networking, business, recruitment or anything else is not what anybody here signed up for, and wastes the time of people who are being serious.

Be honest

About your age, your marital status, your circumstances, your intentions and your photographs. Discovering later that something was untrue does not just end one conversation — it makes the platform harder to trust for everyone.

Be respectful, including when you are not interested

Not every conversation goes anywhere. Passing, unmatching or simply saying it is not right for you are all perfectly acceptable, and you owe nobody an explanation. What is not acceptable is being cutting on the way out.

Accept a no

If someone unmatches you, does not reply, or says they are not interested, that is the answer. Do not create another account to reach them, do not approach them elsewhere, and do not ask a mutual contact to intervene. Persisting after a no is one of the clearest routes to a restriction on this platform.

Keep it modest

Conversations here should be ones you would be content for a wali, a parent or an imam to read. That is not a figure of speech — a chaperone may genuinely be reading, and a guardian-managed profile always has someone else present.

Respect the guardian and chaperone roles

You may be corresponding with a family member on someone's behalf, or with a chaperone reading alongside. Profiles created by a guardian are labelled everywhere they appear. Treat that involvement as normal and welcome, because it is.

Respect people's privacy

What someone shares with you is for you. Do not forward it, screenshot it, describe it to others, or share their photographs. Screenshots are blocked on the screens where it matters most, but the expectation extends well past what we can technically enforce.

What is not allowed

The following will lead to enforcement action, and the serious ones to immediate permanent suspension without a warning first.

• Harassment and abuse. Threats, intimidation, insults, or repeated unwanted contact after someone has disengaged.
• Discrimination. Abuse or contempt directed at anyone's sect, ethnicity, nationality, disability or background.
• Sexual content or solicitation. Explicit messages, images or requests. Amana is a matrimonial platform and this is a suspension-level breach, not a matter of taste.
• Fraud and financial exploitation. Requesting money, gifts, bank details, investment participation or financial help of any kind from another member. There is never a legitimate reason for this here — see the practical safety guidance on how these approaches typically look.
• Impersonation and misrepresentation. Presenting yourself as someone else, using another person's photographs, or lying about material facts.
• Fraudulent verification documents. Submitting a document that is not genuinely yours, or not genuine at all. This is the most serious thing anyone can do on Amana, because it attacks the one thing the whole platform rests on.
• Contacting minors, or being one. Amana is strictly for adults aged 18 and over.
• Coercion. Pressuring anyone into a marriage, a meeting, or a decision they have not freely made. If you are being pressured — by a member or by anyone in your own life — please see our support resources; there are organisations who deal with exactly this, confidentially, and they are not connected to us.
• Sharing others' private material. Publishing or forwarding another person's photographs, messages or personal details.
• Commercial use. Advertising, promotion, recruitment or soliciting for any service.
• Evading enforcement. Creating a new account to get around a restriction or suspension.

How these are enforced

Reports go to a human moderator, who reviews the content and the account's history and may issue a warning, a seven-day restriction, or a permanent suspension. Automated content checks can raise a report but can never take action on their own. The full policy, including what each level blocks, is here.

Reporting

Use the report action next to the person in the app. You can report abuse, or report poor communication where the issue is conduct rather than safety. Adding a note helps.

You do not need to be certain, and you do not need to have been the one affected. We would far rather review something that turns out to be nothing.