Hood Guide

Rules

Reviews policy

Keeping reviews honest and useful for everyone.

✅ What's welcome

  • Your honest experience of a place you actually visited: food, service, prices, cleanliness, waiting times.
  • Good and bad reviews alike. Businesses can't pay to remove a fair negative review.
  • Polite criticism, even when it's strong.
  • A nickname, or no name at all. You don't need an account.

🚫 What we remove

  • Rude, hateful, threatening or sexual language, or insults about someone's tribe, religion, gender or appearance.
  • Phone numbers, addresses, links, emails or other personal details, including staff names used to shame someone.
  • Spam, adverts or reviews written to promote another business.
  • Fake reviews: written by the owner, staff, friends or competitors, or for a place the writer didn't visit.
  • Reviews written in exchange for money, discounts or free items.
  • Accusations of crimes. Please report those to the police instead.
  • Several reviews of the same place by the same person.

How it works

  • Reviews go live straight away. Our system blocks links, phone numbers and rude words before posting.
  • Anyone can tap Report under a review. If several different people report it, it's hidden until we check it.
  • We check reported reviews and either restore them or remove them for good.
  • You can review each place once every 30 days.
  • We don't collect your name, phone number or IP address with reviews. To stop spam we keep only a scrambled code for your browser.

Business owners

We don't remove honest reviews because they're negative. If a review about your business breaks these rules, tap Report under it. To update your listing, use List your business.