# Pinterest (بينترست)

> Pinterest is available in Syria with limited functionality, as of 2026-08-10.

- Status: limited
- Outreach: Contacted
- Company: [Pinterest](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/pinterest.md)
- Categories: Social Media, Marketing & Advertising, Photo & Visual Sharing
- Official site: https://www.pinterest.com/
- Community votes: 43
- Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/pinterest

## About

Visual discovery and bookmarking platform for finding ideas, inspiration, and creative content

## Activity summary

Partially blocked in Syria. Pinterest's own policy, noted in February 2026, states that business accounts are unavailable in Syria, while personal use may still work. The team and a community volunteer contacted the company between February and March 2026 citing the lifting of sanctions, and the company replied only with automated acknowledgments. No resolution yet.

## Official timeline

- 2026-03-31 — Contacted Company. Official outreach to privacy-support@pinterest.com. Pinterest policy explicitly blocks business accounts in Syria. Snapchat, Reddit, Imgur accessible social media peers. Canva, Sketch, Dribbble accessible design peers.
- 2026-03-30 — Company Responded. Pinterest's support team responded to the outreach via privacy-support@pinterest2.zendesk.com with an automated acknowledgment. The response confirmed receipt and stated the team would reach out as soon as they can. No substantive information about the Syria access review was provided. The response appears to be an automated acknowledgment rather than a human review.

## Community reports

- 2026-02-17 — Contacted Company. Outreach email sent to Pinterest's Compliance and Global Operations teams at privacy-support@pinterest.com requesting a review of service availability in Syria. The email referenced the US Treasury's December 2025 announcement lifting the trade embargo and the concurrent EU sanctions removal. It highlighted that Pinterest access is vital for small business owners, designers, and educators in Syria, and included links to OFAC documentation, EU Commission FAQs, Canada's Syria measures, and unblocksyria.com/resources.
- 2026-02-10 — Investigated. Pinterest's policy explicitly states: "Business accounts are currently not available in Crimea, Cuba, Donetsk People's Republic, Iran, Luhansk People's Republic, North Korea or Syria." Personal accounts may still work but business functionality is restricted due to US sanctions.

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/pinterest?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/pinterest/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/pinterest
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/pinterest.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/pinterest.md