• This website is for those who have eating disorders such as: Anorexia (type 1 & 2), Bulimia (Type 1& 2), and EDNOS, who do not want to recover. If you are in recovery please leave. If you are a member of PAO and want to recover please head over to My Eating Disorder. That is an affiliate to PAO that focuses on eating disorder recovery.
• Some sections of this website is available only to registered members. Please make sure you are logged in. If you have not registered then please register. If you have registered before to any part of the previous version of PAO (forum, thinspo, chat room) please click PASSWORD RESET/RECOVERY.
• You may not redistribute any part of this website. You may not stalk, harass, abuse, spam, flood, or hack anything on this website or any member. We will take legal action if needed. Most of the time it does not escalate to that.
• Being honest is important. Managers will often times ask for you age, eating disorder, and your Body Mass Index when entering the chat room. Failure to provide that information, or lying about yourself will result in a permanent ban. No excuses.This also applies to the rest of Pro Ana Online.
• You may not utilize any part of this site for monetary gain. No loitering, squatting, or lurking allowed. This site is for active users and not for gathering information for illegal or, malicious purposes.
• Link sharing is allowed for NON pro anorexic website, diets, work outs, blogs, information, and fun. when in the chat room please shorten your link using our link shortening service. Long links tend to not show up very well. You may suggest a link for the site any time you want. All links will be held for approval. Please check our link section often to see if your link has been approved.
• For any emergency for Pro Ana Online please contact us by calling the toll free 800 number. You may also our forum to post questions. We will not accept emails for Pro Ana Online support questions. That is why we have a forum and phone number. The toll free number is also our fax number.
• Do not promote, or glorify eating disorders as lifestyle choices. This is not what our website is about. If you are doing such things we will ban you. Eating disorders are mental illnesses, and cannot be "caught" or "obtained" by a website or reading about the behaviors of others.
• Do not post personally identifiable information about yourself or other members.
• Abusive and pornographic material is not allowed anywhere on this site.
• Refrain from posting triggering material such as: rape, abuse, incest, self injury and neglect issues. If you abusive problems are current, this is NOT the place to talk about them. Please go to R.A.I.N.N. website for such things. We are not doctors or counselors. We cannot legally diagnose you, or write you prescriptions.
• You may post about anything you want as long as you keep to current topics, and conversations. If you think something might be triggering please ask a manager.
• We will not call emergency services for anyone. We do however provide emergency contact numbers, and resources on this website. we feel if you can chat, post, and tweet that you need 911 or an ambulance, then you can pick up a telephone and call yourself. If you need help finding the appropriate number to call for help, please ask a manager. If you do NOT have a telephone, or cell phone to call and need someone to call for you, please contact a manager. If you are under the age of 18 and need assistance with abuse in your home please contact a manager, we may be able to help on the at particular issue.
• Members are responsible for reporting offensive/rule breaking members and posts. We try to monitor this site 24/7 and we have many managers. However we cannot be here all the time.
• If you have suggestions for the website, please call or post in our forum.
• No member under the age of 16 is allowed on this site (except previous members that were added in from the old version ages 14 and 15). This is a mature site and mature matters are discussed. If you are offended, please leave.

Thank you for reading the rules.