Community guidelines

Dreambud works because people can trust the person on the other side of an introduction. These guidelines describe how we treat each other here. They apply to profiles, messages, Opportunity cards and everything else you share.

Version 2026-11-04. Effective from this date for the beta.

In short

  • Be real: your own name, your real experience, real roles.
  • Be professional and kind. A polite no is always fine; harassment never is.
  • Never ask a job seeker for money. Real employers don't charge to hire.
  • Respect privacy: what's shared in a chat stays in the chat.
  • Report anything that feels wrong. A person reviews every report.

1. Be real

  • Use your own name and a photo of yourself, or none at all. No logos, celebrities or other people.
  • Describe your experience, skills and current company truthfully. Small exaggerations become big disappointments in an interview.
  • Hiring teams: post only roles that genuinely exist and that you're involved in filling. Say clearly if a role is paused or filled.
  • Don't claim a company you don't work for. A Verified mark means you confirmed a work email there.

2. Keep it professional

  • Dreambud is for work. Romantic or sexual messages, comments on appearance and requests to meet outside a professional context aren't allowed.
  • Say why you're reaching out. Specific, short and kind beats a copied message every time.
  • Reply when you can, and close a chat politely when you're done. Silence is allowed; rudeness isn't.
  • Respect a no. Don't keep messaging someone who has declined, closed a chat or blocked you, on Dreambud or elsewhere.

3. Respect everyone

We don't tolerate harassment, bullying, threats, hate speech or discrimination based on caste, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, ethnicity, region or any other protected characteristic. Hiring decisions must be based on skills and fit for the role.

4. No money for jobs, ever

Asking a candidate to pay for a job, an interview slot, “registration”, training, a laptop, a background check or a referral is a scam and is removed immediately. If anyone asks you for money, an OTP, bank details or ID documents in a chat, stop, report them, and if you've lost money, call the national cyber-crime helpline 1930 or report at cybercrime.gov.in. Messages that look like scams may be held for review before they reach anyone.

5. Respect privacy

  • Don't share screenshots of chats, someone's contact details or anything they told you privately without their permission.
  • Don't use Dreambud to find people for anything other than the professional reason you met them.
  • Don't try to identify people who are using stealth mode, or tell their employer they're looking.
  • Never share your own password, OTPs or bank details with anyone.

6. Play fair

  • No spam, mass messaging, automation, bots or scraping.
  • No fake referrals or confirming referral steps that didn't happen. Credits are earned, never gamed.
  • No selling, trading or renting accounts, credits or introductions.
  • No advertising or recruiting for other platforms in messages, unless it's the genuine role you're hiring for.

Don't post or share anything that is illegal in India, infringes someone's copyright or trademark, contains malware, or is otherwise prohibited under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Intermediary Guidelines, 2021.

8. How we enforce these guidelines

Every report is reviewed by a person. Depending on what happened, we may:

  1. remind you of the guidelines;
  2. hold or remove a message, a photo or part of your profile;
  3. limit features such as messaging first or Priority Intros;
  4. suspend your account for a period; or
  5. remove your account permanently. Scams, threats, sexual harassment and anything endangering someone's safety lead straight to removal and, where appropriate, to the authorities.

If you think we got it wrong, reply to the notice you received and a different person will look again.

9. Reporting

Use Report or block on any profile or in any chat. Blocking is immediate and two-way: you won't see each other again. Reports are confidential; we never tell someone who reported them. See our Terms of use and Privacy notice for more.