Community Guidelines

Last Updated: 09/23/26

Homeschool Resource Co. is a community of families and creators who want the best for the kids they teach. These guidelines apply to everyone: customers, vendors, contributors, affiliates, and sponsors.

Treat Each Other with Kindness

  • Be respectful in reviews, comments, and messages. Disagree about products, not people.
  • No harassment, threats, bullying, or hateful language.
  • Don’t pretend to be someone else, including another vendor or an HRC team member.
  • Don’t post anyone’s personal information, or photos of children or other people, without permission.
  • No spam, unsolicited advertising, or chain messages.

Protect Creators’ Work

  • Don’t share, upload, or resell products you’ve purchased. Your license is for your household (or the group license you bought).
  • Report suspected copying through our Copyright & IP Policy.

Honest Reviews

Reviews help families choose well, so they must be real.

Customers:

  • Review only products you purchased or received, based on your own experience.
  • If you received a product for free, or you know the vendor personally, say so in your review.

Vendors:

  • Do not review your own products or your co-creator’s products.
  • Do not ask friends, family, employees, or other vendors to review your products.
  • Do not buy reviews, trade reviews with other vendors, or offer anything in exchange for a positive review. You may invite all customers to leave an honest review. Any reward offered must not depend on the review being positive, and must be disclosed.
  • Do not ask for reviews only from customers you expect to be happy (review gating).
  • Do not leave false or negative reviews on other vendors’ products, or ask anyone else to.
  • Respond to reviews politely and professionally. Never pressure a customer to change or remove a review.

How We Handle Reviews

  • We do not remove reviews because they are negative.
  • We may remove reviews that contain personal information, offensive language, spam, or content unrelated to the product, or that break these guidelines.
  • We may edit a review only to remove personal information or offensive language. We never change its meaning.
  • Reviews used in our marketing show only the reviewer’s first name and last initial unless they approve otherwise.

Reporting and Enforcement

Report concerns to [email protected] with a link and a short description. Depending on the situation, we may remove content, issue a warning, suspend a store or account, or permanently close it. Vendors may appeal under the Vendor Terms.

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