We removed one of your Pins from Pinterest

Today I’m going to talk real quick about what happens when Pinterest removes one of your pins.

This is the email you would receive:

We recently removed a Pin from your board “###” because it goes against our Community Guidelines on false and misleading content.

Pinterest is a safe and positive space to find inspiration. For this reason, we don’t allow misinformation, disinformation or mal-information on our platform because it may have a significant impact on public well-being, safety and trust.

Prohibited content includes:
• False or misleading content about individuals or protected groups that promotes fear, hate and prejudice

• False or misleading content that turns or encourages turning individuals, groups of people, places or organizations into targets of harassment or physical violence

• Conspiracy theories

• False or misleading content that impedes an election’s integrity or an individual’s or group’s civic participation, including registering to vote, voting, and being counted in a census

• Content that originates from disinformation campaigns and erodes Pinners’ trust in the information they find on Pinterest

• Factual information that is published or deliberately modified to erode trust or inflict harm, such as the changing or omitting of context, date or time

• Fabricated or meaningfully manipulated visual or audio content intended to erode trust or cause harm

Please take some time to go through your Pins and remove any others that may conflict with our policies, or we may take further action against your account.

 

What can I do about this?

Well, you can’t do anything. When Pinterest suspends your account, you have a way to appeal the suspension and perhaps get your account restored, as I’ve written about here – Your Pinterest account has been suspended and reactivated

But when Pinterest removes one of your pins, there is no way to appeal their decision. As you can see in the screenshot above, they don’t give a link where you can appeal the suspension, nor do they mention anything about a way of trying to get your pin restored.

 

Contact Pinterest?

The only way I can think of to try and get your pin restored, is to actually contact Pinterest. I don’t know how to do that, but it must be possible, and you should be able to find a way to do that by doing a google search.

Having said that, I think that it’s a waste of time. Even if you contact them, I highly doubt they would ever restore your pin. Frankly, they may not even be able to. There is a chance that when they remove a pin, they completely delete it from their servers, never to be restored.

 

My personal experience

Personally, I have a number of Pinterest accounts, and I often repin things that I don’t care about. So every once in a while when Pinterest removes any of my pins, I really don’t care to do anything about it. And in most cases they’re probably right to remove some of my pins, because some of them probably violate Pinterest rules.

But there was this one time when they removed one of my pins, and the photo of the pin was mine, and it was linked to an article on my website. It was a completely legit pin which didn’t violate any of their rules. And that’s when I realized that there’s simply no way to appeal their decision and get my pin restored.

I wasn’t happy about this, but I just let it go and moved on with my life…

 

Here is a video I made talking about this:

 

Conclusion

Pinterest is very well aware that their bots and algorithms sometimes make mistakes. That is clearly shown in the fact that they allow you to appeal their decision when they suspend your account. So not allowing an appeal when they remove one of your pins… that’s just unfair and lazy.

 

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UPDATE

Here are some more screenshots of emails you may receive when Pinterest removes any of your pins or boards from their platform.

Sorry. We had to delete one of your Pins on Pinterest (indirect complaint):

We had to delete a Pin

We’re getting in touch to let you know we received a copyright complaint and have removed one (or more) of your Pins. The complaint wasn’t directed against you or your Pin; it was directed against another user’s Pin of the same content that was uploaded by a user.

Details of the Pin removed:
Pin ID: ######
Board: ###

While many copyright owners are happy to have their content on Pinterest, we recognize that some do not want their content to appear on Pinterest, or did not receive attribution for the content. When a copyright owner sends us a complete notice per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it’s our policy to remove the Pin(s).

Pinterest expresses no judgment on the truth of any allegations in these notices. We honor complete notifications and take action on them as required by the DMCA.

Thanks again for using Pinterest.

The Pinterest Team
Pinterest DMCA #ID###

 

Sorry. We had to delete one of your Pins on Pinterest (direct complaint):

We’re getting in touch to let you know we received a copyright complaint and have removed one (or more) of your Pins.In their request, the complaining party did not ask to assess a strike against your account under our repeat infringer policy. The content came from:

While many copyright owners are happy to have their content on Pinterest, we recognize that some do not want their content to appear on Pinterest, or did not receive attribution for the content. When a copyright owner sends us a complete notice per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it’s our policy to remove the Pin(s).

Pinterest expresses no judgment on the truth of any allegations in these notices.We honor complete notifications and take action on them as required by the DMCA.

Happy Pinning and thanks again for using Pinterest.

The Pinterest Team
Pinterest DMCA ####

 

I will say something about the one above. I actually complained about this one, but I never received a reply from Pinterest. The reason I complained is because the photo I used in this pin was a screenshot I took from my own Paypal account (with all personally identifiable information hidden), and had posted on my blog here on Onmoneyline.com.

So it made no sense that somebody would report it, and it made even less sense that Pinterest would just take action like this without asking me about it first and letting me state my case. This was my photo, posted on my own blog, and shared on my own Pinterest account. Totally unfair behavior by Pinterest if you ask me.

 

We removed one of your Pins from Pinterest (harassment and criticism):

Hi [NAME],

We recently removed a Pin from your board “###” because it goes against our Community Guidelines on harassment and criticism.

In order to keep Pinterest a positive place to find inspiration, we don’t allow content that insults, hurts, or antagonizes individuals or groups of people. There are good reasons to express criticism, but we may remove or limit the distribution of insulting content.

This includes:

• Manipulated images intended to degrade or shame
• Shaming people for their bodies or assumed sexual or romantic history
• Sexual remarks about people’s bodies and solicitations or offers of sexual acts
• Criticisms involving name-calling, profanity and other insulting language or imagery
• Mocking someone for experiencing sadness, grief, loss or outrage

Please take some time to go through your Pins and remove any others that may conflict with our policies, or we may take further action against your account.

Thanks,
The Pinterest Team

 

[Pinterest] Trademark Request

Hi [NAME],

We’re emailing you because we had to remove one of your Pins.

trademark request pin

For your own reference, the content of the Pin came from: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HB-rWLEm7kE/hqdefault.jpg

When someone lets us know of content that they believe misleads others or violates their trademark, it’s our policy to remove the content as appropriate and let you know about the claim.

Feel free to contact us at [email protected] with any questions. Thanks for your understanding, and thanks for using Pinterest!

Pinterest Trademark #ID ###

Thanks,
The Pinterest Team

 

Pin Deleted from Pinterest – Copyright Complaint:

Hi [NAME],

We’re getting in touch to let you know that we received a copyright complaint and have removed one (or more) of your Pins. The content was reported by Denise Michels and was Pinned from:

http://digesale.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/buy-instagram-followers-now.jpg

While many copyright owners are happy to have their content on Pinterest, we recognize that some do not want their content to appear on Pinterest, or did not receive attribution for the content. When a copyright owner sends us a complete notice per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it’s our policy to remove these Pin(s).

If you believe this pin was removed in error, or that the copyright owner was mistaken in some respect (e.g. you contend your Pin is not an infringement, or the complaining party does not own the copyrights), you may file a counter notification by following the instructions found on our Copyright page here.

If you don’t submit a counter notice with all the parts listed on our Copyright page, we’ll assume you don’t dispute this DMCA notice. Please note that if your account receives too many copyright complaints, you may lose the ability to Pin new content on Pinterest, and your account may be disabled completely. Please see Pinterest’s Copyright Policy for more information.

Pinterest expresses no judgment on the truth of any allegations in these notices. We honor complete notifications and counter-notifications alike, and take action on them as required by the DMCA.

Thanks for your attention,

The Pinterest Team
Pinterest DMCA ID ####

 

We removed one of your Pins from Pinterest (adult content):

Hi [NAME],

We recently removed a Pin from your “###” for violation of our Community Guidelines on adult content.

We may limit the distribution of or remove explicit content. This includes:

• Fetish imagery
• Vivid sexual descriptions
• Graphic depictions of sexual activity
• Images of nudity where the poses, camera angles, or props suggest pornographic intent

These rules apply to all Pins, including ones on your secret boards. Please take some time to go through your Pins and remove any that may be in violation of our Community Guidelines, or we may take additional action on your account.

If you think we’ve made a mistake, you can submit an appeal within 7 days.

Thanks,
The Pinterest Team

 

We removed one of your Pins from Pinterest (sexually explicit or pornographic content):

Hi [NAME],

We recently removed one of your Pins because it went against our policies on sexually explicit or pornographic content.

The Pin was from your “###” board and it originally came from https://i.pinimg.com/previews/iW8cq4Gl.jpeg. We also took it down from everyone else’s boards.

We don’t allow images that are inappropriate for the general public, like sexually explicit Pins, anywhere on Pinterest. This includes Pins on secret boards because they can be made public with the click of a button.

We recommend taking some time to go through your Pins and remove any others that may conflict with our policies.

Thanks for your help,
The Pinterest Team

 

We removed one of your Pinterest boards (adult content):

Hi [NAME],

We recently removed your “###” board for violation of our Community Guidelines on adult content.

We may limit the distribution of or remove explicit content. This includes:

• Fetish imagery
• Vivid sexual descriptions
• Graphic depictions of sexual activity
• Images of nudity where the poses, camera angles, or props suggest pornographic intent

These rules apply to all Pins, including ones on your secret boards. Please take some time to go through your Pins and remove any that may be in violation of our Community Guidelines. If we notice more Pins that conflict with our guidelines, we may suspend your account.

If you think we’ve made a mistake, you can submit an appeal within 7 days.

Thanks,
The Pinterest Team

 

We may remove one of your Pinterest boards (sexually explicit or pornographic content):

Hi [NAME],

We recently removed another one of your Pins because it went against our policies on sexually explicit or pornographic content. The Pin was from your “###” board and it originally came from https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.pinterest.com/previews/H0PZFMsI.jpeg. We also took it down from everyone else’s boards.

We don’t allow images that are inappropriate for the general public anywhere on Pinterest, including secret boards. While we do allow some forms of nudity, we don’t allow sexually explicit images. These typically include depictions of sex acts (including masturbation), sexual fluids and sexualized genitalia.

Please delete any other Pins that go against our policies and keep these policies in mind as you Pin in the future. Otherwise, we may remove the boards where the Pins came from.

Thanks for your help,
The Pinterest Team

 

A note about one of your Pins (after review, pin reinstated):

Recently, we removed one of your Pins for violation of our guidelines on false and misleading content. After a review of our decision, we’ve decided to reinstate your Pin, but please take some time to go through your Pins and remove any that may be in violation of our Community Guidelines .

These rules apply to all Pins, including ones on your secret boards. If we notice more Pins that conflict with our Community Guidelines, we may take additional action on your account.

 

By the way, I wasn’t posting mature, adult, sexually explicit or pornographic content on Pinterest.. or anywhere haha. That was a throwaway account that would sometimes do automated repins (shares). It must have repinned some adult content which ultimately got removed.