Community Guidelines

Why these exist

Opinyze pays real people real money to answer real questions. That only works if respondents trust what they are being asked. Every survey you publish here is a small contract with the people who take it. These guidelines are the terms of that contract. If your survey breaks them, it will be rejected at review or taken down after launch.

What we allow

You can ask about almost anything that helps you understand a market, test an idea, gather opinion on a topic, or measure how people feel. That includes commercial research, academic work, product testing, political opinion, social attitudes, health and wellbeing, and lifestyle topics.

The overarching rule

Any use of Opinyze that is illegal under Nigerian law, or under the law of any country where your survey is shown, is a violation of these guidelines. The specific categories below are examples, not an exhaustive list. If something is unlawful where it lands, it is not allowed here, even if it is not spelled out below.

What we do not allow

1. Hateful, harassing, or discriminatory content

No survey may target, demean, or incite hostility toward any individual or group based on ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, age, or any other protected characteristic. This includes questions phrased in a way that implies the answer.

2. Sexually explicit or violent content

No sexually explicit material, graphic violence, or content that sexualizes minors. Sensitive topics (for example, experiences of abuse) can be researched in a respectful, safety-conscious way; gratuitous or sensational content cannot.

3. Illegal activity or incitement

Do not use Opinyze to solicit, coordinate, or promote anything that is illegal in Nigeria or any country where your survey will be shown. This includes drug trafficking, weapons sales, fraud, and recruitment for violence.

3a. Financial crime, money laundering, and terrorism financing

Opinyze is not a money-movement tool. Every payment on the platform is the creator funding a survey, and the platform paying respondents a small reward for answering it. You may not use the platform to disguise, layer, or transfer funds for any other purpose. In particular:

• You may not fund a survey with the intent of funnelling money to a specific individual or group of individuals you control.
• You may not coordinate with respondents off-platform to share or redirect their rewards.
• You may not structure multiple surveys, accounts, or withdrawals to avoid detection thresholds.
• You may not use the platform to finance, or to gather funds for, any activity prohibited by Nigerian anti-money-laundering, counter-terrorism-financing, or sanctions law.

Opinyze monitors for these patterns, and we cooperate with payment partners and regulators where reporting is required.

4. Misinformation framed as fact

Questions may not assert false or misleading factual claims as if they were true. A question like "How bad is false claim?" is not allowed. A question like "Do you believe claim?" is fine because it asks about opinion, not truth.

5. Personal data harvesting

Do not ask for information you do not need. Never ask for:

• Bank account numbers, card details, or login credentials.
• National Identification Numbers (NIN), BVNs, or other government IDs.
• Home addresses (region, state, and LGA through targeting is enough).
• Phone numbers or email addresses, unless you have a lawful basis and disclose why.

If your research genuinely needs personal identifiers, contact support first.

6. Deceptive practices

Surveys must be honest about what they are. Do not disguise a sales funnel or phishing attempt as a survey. Do not promise rewards you will not pay. Do not misrepresent who is running the survey.

7. Low-effort or nonsense content

Surveys made of placeholder text, test questions, repeated copy-paste, or single-question filler will be rejected. Respect the time of the people answering.

Reward and budget rules

• If you mark a survey as paid, you must actually fund it. Running out of credits mid-survey is your responsibility.
• Screener-failed respondents are entitled to the consolation reward you configured. You cannot disable payment after the fact.
• You may not pay rewards in a way that pressures respondents to answer one way or another.

Targeting rules

• You may target by country, region, state, LGA, age, gender, and similar demographic criteria. You may not construct targeting designed to exclude a single individual or a very small identifiable group.
• If your targeting is so narrow that fewer than 50 people qualify, the wizard will warn you. Very narrow targeting is allowed, but do not use it as a workaround for the rules above.

What happens when a survey violates these rules

1. At review. An admin will reject the survey with a reason. If the violation is clearly accidental (for example, an unclear question), you will be asked to revise and resubmit. If it is a deliberate breach, the survey is rejected and may not be resubmitted.
2. After launch. If a violation is discovered after the survey is live, the survey is paused, responses collected up to that point are retained for investigation, and creator rewards for the affected responses may be reversed. Repeat violations result in account suspension.
3. Appeals. If you disagree with a rejection, reply through the support channel inside the app. A second admin will review within two business days.

One last thing

Opinyze is small. Every survey you publish shapes what respondents expect from the platform. A thoughtful survey earns trust and gets answered. A careless one makes it harder for everyone. Please take the time.