Amanina — Community Guidelines

01The spirit of Amanina

Amanina is a matrimony space — a place to find a life partner with sincere intention, not a dating or hook-up app. We welcome Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Druze, and secular members across the Arab diaspora and those woven into it, and we welcome devout and non-practising members equally. Every member's feed is shaped around their own values and preferences, and every member has a right to be treated with the same dignity. These guidelines exist to keep the space warm, honest, and safe.

02Come with marriage in mind

Conversations here are meant to lead somewhere — toward knowing someone with marriage in mind, not passing time. You must be 18 or older to be here, and you must join with a genuine intention toward marriage. Treat every introduction as a real person and a real possibility.

03Be the real you

Honesty is the single thing this whole community rests on.

• Use your real first name (or a clearly chosen variant of it).
• Profile photos must be of you and recent — taken within the last two years.
• Your age, city, faith path, and core profile information must be accurate.
• Do not impersonate celebrities, public figures, or other members.

04Respect, always

• Speak to others the way you'd want your own family spoken to. Disagreement is fine; contempt, pressure, and crude talk are not.
• Different faith paths, sects, and observance levels are equally welcome here. Do not demean anyone for being more or less religious than you.
• No slurs, no stereotypes, no harassment.
• If someone says they are not interested, take "no" gracefully and move on.

05Guard each other's privacy

What someone shares here stays here.

• Don't screenshot, repost, or share another member's photos, words, or details outside Amanina.
• Don't share your own home address, financial account numbers, or government ID over chat — and don't pressure anyone else to.
• Photos stay blurred until interest is mutual. Respect that boundary; it protects everyone.

06Be safe — and help others stay safe

• Tell us about anything that feels off. Long-press a message to report it, or report a profile from the match card.
• Be patient about moving to private channels. It is normal to chat on Amanina for a couple of weeks before exchanging WhatsApp or phone numbers. Pushing to move off-platform in the first conversation is a serious red flag.
• Romance scams almost always start with a money request within the first two weeks. If money comes up, stop and report it.
• If you are ever in immediate danger, call your local emergency number first.

07What is never allowed

The following will end an account and, where the law requires it, be reported to the authorities:

• No minors. Members must be 18 or older. Suspected minors are removed immediately and reported to the appropriate authorities.
• No nudity or sexually explicit content. Amanina is for marriage-minded introductions, not casual or sexual exchange.
• No money requests. Do not ask for or offer money, gift cards, cryptocurrency, or anything of value.
• No off-platform pressure. Pushing someone to WhatsApp, Telegram, or phone in the first conversation may result in suspension.
• No marriage-of-convenience or immigration fraud. Amanina is not a shortcut to a visa. Such conduct is illegal in Canada and elsewhere.
• No impersonation of celebrities, public figures, or other members.
• No hate, harassment, threats, or doxing, including on the basis of gender, faith, sect, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability.
• No solicitation for businesses, sex work, multi-level-marketing schemes, or causes.
• No spam, phishing, scraping, or crawling, and no attempts to circumvent our security.
• Zero tolerance for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Such content is removed, the account is permanently banned, the content is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to Cybertip.ca / Canadian law enforcement, and account data is preserved as required by law.

08How we keep this space safe

We protect the community with a mix of automated screening and human review:

• Photos are screened automatically for nudity and sexually explicit content before they are stored. Explicit images are rejected; this automated screen detects nudity, not CSAM. This screening uses an automated processing service provided by a third party, Anthropic, in the United States.
• Chat messages are scanned automatically for scam, harassment, and hate patterns. Suspicious messages are flagged and, when warranted, escalated to a real person on our team for review. This scanning also uses Anthropic's processing service in the United States.
• Reports you send are read by a real person. We aim to review reports within 24 hours, and we escalate CSAM and immediate-safety reports within 1 hour.

We are honest about this because the law requires it (Quebec's Law 25): some safety checks rely on automated processing, including a third-party AI provider. You can ask us to explain a safety decision that affects you and to have a person review it. How matching works — and the limited, private way your profile and reflections are used to introduce you — is explained in our Privacy Policy.

09If a line is crossed

Depending on the severity and history of a violation, we may take any of the following steps:

• Warning — for a first-time, low-severity issue (for example, overly forward language).
• Feature suspension — temporary limits on messaging or new introductions, typically 24–72 hours.
• Account suspension — for repeated or moderate-severity violations.
• Permanent ban — for fraud, CSAM, threats, hate speech, or repeat offences.

We may freeze or remove an account, immediately and without notice or refund, where we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect the community or comply with the law.

Appeals. If you believe an action against your account was wrong, email admin@mamahala.ca with the subject line "Appeal" and the relevant context. We review appeals within 5 business days.

10Reporting

Long-press any message to report it, or report a profile from the match card. Reports go into a queue that a real person reviews, with a 24-hour target. CSAM is reported to NCMEC and to Cybertip.ca / Canadian law enforcement as required by law. You can also block and unmatch someone at any time from the conversation. If you are in immediate danger, call your local emergency number first.

11Talk to a real human

To report something, ask a question, or appeal a decision, reach us at admin@mamahala.ca.

Amanina is operated by Mama Hala Consulting Group (mamahala.ca), registered in Ontario, Canada.

These Community Guidelines form part of, and should be read together with, the Amanina Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.