The Microsoft Bing Local Image upload program is dedicated to helping you discover the world around you. Our goal in featuring user-contributed content on our platforms and services is to enhance our users' experience, helping them preview and explore places nearby or across the globe. We go to great lengths to make sure published user-contributed content is useful and reflects the world our users explore. Microsoft supports diverse, authentic conversations and content about local businesses. This is a safe, inclusive, and respectful forum where participants are responsible for their posts and how they treat one another. Civil discussion requires respect, even in disagreement. Our Microsoft Bing Local Expert guidelines are designed to uphold these values, and we strive to provide transparency and clear guidance on how to comply with them. While the Code of Conduct section of the Microsoft Services Agreement applies to all Microsoft products, Microsoft Bing Local Expert community offers so many ways to interact with others that it benefits from an additional level of explanation.
Who is qualified to contribute content?
In order to participate in the Bing Local Image upload program, you must:
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Sign in with a valid Microsoft account
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Be at least 18 years of age
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Participate as an individual person. Organizations, brands, and businesses are not eligible for the Bing Local Image upload program. Local businesses can already claim, manage, and enhance their listings on Bing via Bing Places.
Guidelines
This is a place for considerate, inclusive discussion. Everyone here has the right to participate free of:
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Harassment
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Bullying
Building a trusted community means respecting others and showing up authentically.
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Don't impersonate someone else, whether a person or organization
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Respect other people's privacy—don't contribute images or videos of others where you don't have permission, or that are taken in potentially sensitive locations such as hospitals or schools
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Don't trespass or try to gain access to any property or location where you don't have permission to be
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Contributions must be based on real experiences and information, and uniquely created by you
Abusive or illegal conduct is not acceptable here. Please report:
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Violent content
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Illegal activity
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Risk to self or others
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Profane language
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Hate speech
Finally, respect the community, and do not post:
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Material that infringes another's copyright or trademark
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Defamatory, deliberately fake, or off-topic content
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Personal or confidential information about yourself or others
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Spam, viruses, malware, or phishing
Enforcement
If a contribution you make is flagged, it will be reviewed. If it does not meet community guidelines, it will be removed and you will receive a notification with guidance on how to meet community standards. When necessary, we will suspend your ability to submit content. Continued refusal to meet community standards may result in a permanent ban, which you may appeal through our feedback channel. You can report images, comments, and user profiles that you believe to violate the guidelines.
Photo-specific tips and guidelines
Sometimes a photo is worth more than a thousand words. It can help people visualize and explore a place better than words alone can. There are many ways to improve a photo's quality. For example, it's helpful to leverage natural light, focus on the core subject you want to capture, and try multiple angles before submitting the final shot. Low quality photos (blurry, dark, or duplicated from other source) will negatively impact our users' experience and therefore will be removed.
Permission to use your content
Our Bing Local Image upload program is designed to let you upload, submit, or share your content. You have no obligation to provide any content to us and you choose the content that you want to provide. If you choose to provide your content, your content remains yours and you are responsible for it. Any submission, including photos, information about a local business, your profile image, and your username, is considered "Content" as defined in the Microsoft Services Agreement. In addition, you grant Microsoft and its affiliates a worldwide, royalty-free intellectual property license to use, reproduce, save, modify, aggregate, promote, transmit, display, or distribute your Content as part of a service, and sublicense those rights to third parties.
