Child Safety Standards

LocaVibe helps adults meet in person for group activities. Because meetups happen in real life, protecting children is a basic condition of running the Service. These standards apply to everyone who uses LocaVibe — users, hosts and partners — and to all content: profiles, photos, activities, messages, ratings, events and partner profiles.

We prohibit any content or behaviour that sexualises, exploits or endangers children, including:

• child sexual abuse material of any kind, including drawn, edited or AI-generated images;
• grooming — building contact with a minor in order to abuse or exploit them;
• sexualised comments about minors, or requests for images of minors;
• sextortion, trafficking or arranging to meet a minor;
• creating activities or events that invite minors, or bringing minors to adult meetups;
• sharing links to or promoting any of the above elsewhere.

• Adults only. Everyone enters their date of birth at sign-up; people under 18 can’t create an account. The app is rated 18+ in the App Store. Nightlife activities are limited to people aged 21 and over.
• Human moderation. Moderators review reports, verification selfies and every partner event before it’s published.
• Automated filter. Names, bios, activities, messages, events and partner profiles are checked against a list of banned words in four languages.
• Automatic hiding. Content reported by three different users is hidden until a moderator has reviewed it.
• Limited private contact. Strangers can’t message each other privately: people talk in the group chat of an activity, and direct messages open only between approved participants of the same meetup once it has started.

If a child is in immediate danger, call 999 (police).

• In the app: open the profile, activity, message or event, tap Report and choose Looks under 18 or Inappropriate content, and add details.
• By email: web.pro.farid@gmail.com with the subject “Child safety”. Please don’t attach or forward any abusive images — describe where you saw them instead.

Child-safety reports are treated as the highest priority and reviewed within 24 hours, usually much sooner.

• We remove the content and permanently ban the accounts involved.
• If we have reason to believe an account belongs to someone under 18, we suspend it and may ask the person to show they are an adult.
• We preserve the relevant information securely, for as long as the law requires, so that it can be provided to the authorities.
• We report apparent child sexual abuse material and exploitation to the competent UAE authorities, including Dubai Police, and to other competent authorities where required by law.
• We cooperate with law-enforcement requests made in line with applicable law.

We comply with the child-protection laws that apply to the Service, including UAE Federal Law No. 3 of 2016 on Child Rights (Wadeema’s Law) and the UAE laws on combating cybercrime, as well as the requirements of the App Store.

Our designated point of contact for child safety is Farid Mammadov, the developer of LocaVibe: web.pro.farid@gmail.com (subject “Child safety”). This contact is also available to authorities and organisations working to protect children.