Terms of use

Who we're

BRO.com is published by BRO. Contact: vip@bro.com.

What this site is, and isn't

BRO publishes general information, education and opinion. It isn't professional advice.

Nothing here's individual medical, legal, tax, financial or investment advice, and nothing here creates a professional relationship between you and us. Your situation is specific to you. Before acting on anything with real consequences — your health, your money, a contract — speak to someone qualified who knows your circumstances.

Ask BRO is the same. It's a useful assistant. It isn't a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant or a financial adviser, and it can be wrong.

If you've a medical emergency, call your local emergency number.

News and commentary

We separate the two and label them. Pieces marked BRO Take are opinion. Pieces marked News are reported from named sources, which are listed on the piece.

If we get something wrong, tell us at vip@bro.com and we will correct it and say that we have.

Your account

You must be 13 or over to create an account, and 18 or over to use BRO Circle, BRO Singles or messaging.

Keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your account.

Community rules

These apply to the community blog, comments, nominations, Circle and every other place you can post.

Don't post:

• Links of any kind. They're stripped automatically.
• Advertising, promotion, affiliate content or anything written to drive traffic.
• Anything sexual, crude or suggestive.
• Harassment, threats, abuse, or content targeting a private individual.
• Anyone's personal information, including your own contact details.
• Anything unlawful, or anything encouraging it.
• Content you don't have the right to post.
• Automated or bulk submissions.

Anything aimed at, or posted in, BRO Teens is held to a stricter standard. Adults must not attempt to contact minors through this site. There's no messaging surface in those sections, and attempting to work around that will end your account and may be reported.

We moderate with a combination of automated checks and human review. We can remove anything and suspend or delete any account, at our discretion. We aim to be fair and to tell you why.

Talking with other members: vetting and AI monitoring

BRO uses AI to vet members and to monitor every member-to-member message for scams, predatory behaviour and requests for personal details. Anyone who does this is blocked immediately, and flagged messages are reviewed by our staff.

• Talking with other members is only for paid members whose ID has been

checked, and whose legal name, ID and payment card name all match.

• **Asking another member for their phone number, email, address, social media

or app handle, or to meet, call, video or move to another app, is not allowed.** Neither is predatory, grooming or sexual talk of any kind. Such a message is not delivered, the sender is blocked from all member-to-member features immediately, the members it was aimed at are warned, and our staff review it.

• Sharing your own contact details is not allowed either; those messages are

simply not sent.

• You must acknowledge these rules before your first message.

What you keep, and what you give us

You keep ownership of what you post. By posting you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to publish, display and distribute it on BRO and in our newsletters and social posts.

Our own content — articles, design, code, the BRO name and mark — belongs to us. Quote us with attribution and a link. Don't republish wholesale.

Commerce and affiliate links

Some links earn us a commission. It never changes what we recommend or what we say about it, and pieces carrying them say so.

House ads promoting our sister sites are labelled Partner on every unit.

BRO+

BRO+ is a paid subscription, billed monthly or annually, and renews automatically until cancelled. Cancel any time from your account page; you keep access until the end of the period you've paid for. Prices may change with notice before your next renewal.

Availability

We try to keep the site up and accurate. We don't guarantee either. Features may change or be withdrawn.

Liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for anything arising from your reliance on general information published here.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't lawfully be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you're a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.

Ending it

You can delete your account at any time from your account page. We can suspend or end your access if you break these terms.

Changes

We will post material changes on the site.