Safety & Child Protection

Zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation.

SocialSession is an adults-only service for people age 18 and older. Meetups centered on alcohol are limited to eligible members age 21 and older. Child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) has no place on it, in any form, and we act on it immediately. This page is our published child-safety standard, and it explains exactly how to report a concern and what happens next.

Operator: J&A APPworks LLC
Child safety contact: [CHILD SAFETY CONTACT] — interim: info@socialsessionapp.com
Effective date: [EFFECTIVE DATE]

1. Our standard against CSAE

We prohibit, without exception and regardless of intent or claimed context:

• child sexual abuse material (CSAM) of any kind, real, drawn, animated, or computer-generated;
• sexualising a minor in text, images, usernames, profile fields, meetup listings, chat, or reports;
• grooming, solicitation, sextortion, or any attempt to make contact with a minor through the service;
• trafficking, exploitation, or the advertising, trading, or requesting of such material or contact;
• using SocialSession to arrange a meeting with anyone under 18, and in particular with a minor;
• creating an account for a minor, or letting a minor use an adult's account.

The consequence is the same in every case: immediate removal of the content, immediate termination of the account, and no appeal on the merits of the CSAE finding. We do not warn, downgrade, or restrict and wait. We preserve the minimum record needed to stop the account from being recreated and to meet our legal obligations.

2. Reporting to authorities

Apparent child sexual abuse material and apparent CSAE conduct are reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) through its CyberTipline, and to law enforcement, as required by applicable law, including 18 U.S.C. § 2258A. We cooperate with lawful requests from NCMEC and from law enforcement, and we preserve relevant records when we are asked to or when we reasonably believe we must.

We do not tell the reported account that it has been reported to authorities, and we never disclose the identity of the member who reported it.

3. How to report — in the app

Every profile, roster row, message and meetup carries Report and Block. The report form's category list leads with the urgent ones, so nobody has to scroll past ten options while something is happening:

• Immediate danger or credible threat
• Suspected underage or child safety
• Stalking or unwanted contact
• Sexual misconduct or exploitation
• Harassment, hate, or threats · Privacy, doxxing, or impersonation · Illegal sale or solicitation · Unsafe meetup behavior · Spam, scam, or fraud · Other safety concern

You can also open the Safety Center and file a report from there, review the receipt for anything you have already filed, and manage who you have blocked:

Nearby → Safety → Safety Center

Blocking takes effect immediately and works both ways: you disappear from each other's discovery, meetups, chat and notifications.

4. How to report — by email

If you cannot use the app — you do not have an account, you have been signed out, or the content is no longer visible to you — email info@socialsessionapp.com with the subject "Child safety report".

Tell us what you saw and where (a display name, a meetup, an approximate time). Do not attach, forward, or re-share suspected child sexual abuse material — describe it instead. Sending it on can itself be a crime, and we do not need it to act. Report the material itself to NCMEC at report.cybertip.org.

5. What happens after a report

1. The report enters a private safety queue with a category and a severity. Child-safety and immediate-danger reports are the highest severity and are handled ahead of everything else.
2. A reviewer with a role granted in our database — never claimed from a device or a token — claims the case. Reviewers cannot act on their own account.
3. Discovery can be restricted while the case is open, so a subject cannot keep meeting people during a review.
4. The reviewer can remove or reject content, cancel a meetup, block hosting or discovery, suspend the account, or permanently remove it. Suspending an account also clears its Nearby presence and cancels every meetup it was hosting.
5. Every assignment, severity change, note, and decision is written to an append-only audit record.
6. You get a private receipt in the Safety Center showing the category, status, any action taken, and the reason.

Members who are actioned get one appeal per decision, reviewed by a lead rather than the original reviewer — except for CSAE removals, which are final.

Review is not real-time and we publish no response-time promise, because promising one we cannot reliably meet would be worse than promising nothing. Reports never reach emergency services: for immediate danger, call 911 first.

6. Adults only: how 18+ is enforced

SocialSession is limited to people age 18 and older. This is an eligibility rule for the whole platform, not an "adult content" label. Meetups centered on alcohol are separately limited to eligible members age 21 and older, subject to venue rules and local law.

• At sign-up we require a date of birth and compute the age. A date of birth under 18 cannot create an account; the server rejects it.
• We require a verified email address — the link must be opened before the account is usable.
• We record an 18+ self-attestation with the version of the policies accepted and the time.
• We act on member reports through the "Suspected underage or child safety" category.

We are precise about the limits of this, because overstating it would be its own kind of harm: SocialSession does not verify identity. There is no government-ID check, no biometric or facial age estimation, no third-party age-assurance vendor, and no background check. An account proves that someone controls an email address and declared an adult date of birth — it does not prove who they are. We will not describe any member as verified, ID-checked, or background-checked unless and until a real, contracted and independently tested provider is live. See Age Eligibility.

If someone under 18 is identified

1. The account is suspended immediately, which removes its Nearby presence and cancels every meetup it was hosting.
2. The account and its data are deleted — profile, photos, listings, chat, feedback, blocks, notification registrations.
3. We keep only the minimum record needed to prevent recreation and to meet legal obligations.
4. If the report involves a minor being sexualised, solicited, or endangered, it is escalated as a CSAE case under sections 1 and 2 above, including reporting to NCMEC and law enforcement.

Support cannot bypass the age requirement, change a recorded date of birth to create eligibility, or reinstate an account removed for being underage.

7. Safety built into the product

These are the protections that exist in the app today.

SocialSession is a social-planning product, not a health, therapy, counselling, treatment, or crisis service, and nothing here is a clinical or medical claim.

8. Compliance

• We comply with applicable child-safety law, including U.S. reporting obligations to NCMEC under 18 U.S.C. § 2258A.
• We meet Google Play's Child Safety Standards policy for social and dating apps: a published CSAE standard (this page), an in-app reporting mechanism (section 3), a way to reach us in writing (section 4), a designated child-safety point of contact (top of this page), and adherence to applicable child-safety laws.
• We meet the Apple App Store Review Guidelines for user-generated content: published standards, a method for reporting offensive content and for blocking abusive members, and the ability to act on reports and remove members who breach the rules.
• Our age rating declarations answer truthfully that the app contains user-generated content and member-to-member messaging, with a developer age-rating override applied so the store rating cannot fall below the audience the product is built for.

9. Reporting a concern about this page

If you believe this standard is not being followed, or you are a researcher, regulator, platform reviewer, or law-enforcement officer who needs to reach us, email info@socialsessionapp.com. Legal process is addressed in the Terms of Service.

Related

• Community Standards — the full conduct rules
• Age Eligibility
• Support
• Privacy Policy
• Terms of Service