Child Safety Standards

Our standards against child sexual abuse and exploitation

Child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) means content or behaviour that sexually exploits, abuses or endangers children. Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) means any visual depiction, including photos, videos and computer-generated or AI-generated imagery, of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

On Vybe and Slingshot, the following are strictly prohibited:

• creating, sharing, requesting or linking to CSAM in any form;
• grooming: building a relationship with a minor in order to sexually abuse or exploit them;
• sextortion: threatening to share intimate images of a minor, or coercing a minor into sending them;
• trafficking or offering a minor for sexual purposes;
• sexualising minors, including sexual comments about or roleplay involving minors;
• arranging to meet a minor for sexual purposes.

These rules apply to profiles, photos, videos, messages, events and any other content, and to behaviour that starts on our services and continues elsewhere.

How Slingshot connects people

Slingshot is not a random or anonymous chat app:

• Every user has a profile with their name, date of birth, gender and a profile picture, verified with a selfie. Date of birth and gender cannot be changed after sign-up.
• Discover only shows people of a similar age. Users aged 15 to 17 only see and chat with other users aged 15 to 17, and adults only with adults.
• Profiles show a country and city, never an exact position or distance.
• A conversation starts as a chat request. The sender cannot send more messages until the recipient accepts, and the recipient can skip, report or block instead.
• Anyone can report or block another user at any time, from their Discover card, a chat request or a chat. If someone takes a screenshot of a chat or profile, the other person is told.

Age requirements

Vybe and Slingshot are only for people aged 15 and over. Users must give their date of birth when they sign up, and we block anyone under 15. If we find an account that belongs to someone under 15, we close it.

In Slingshot, date of birth is set once and cannot be changed. On iOS we also use Apple's age range check, every profile must pass a selfie verification matched to the profile picture, and we automatically verify each user's age with AI. Accounts that do not pass these checks are blocked. See the Slingshot Age Assurance page for details.

How to report

You can report a concern without leaving the app:

In Vybe

1. Open the profile, message or event you want to report.
2. Open the options menu and choose "Report".
3. Select the reason that best fits, such as child safety, and submit.

In Slingshot

1. Open the "..." menu on the person's Discover card or in your chat with them, or tap "Report" on their chat request.
2. Choose the reason that best fits.
3. Optionally, add a message describing what happened.
4. Submit the report. Reporting also blocks the person and ends any chat with them.

In both apps you can also block a user so they can no longer contact you. You can report by email at csam@vybe.social as well, and you do not have to give your name when reporting CSAM.

If a child is in immediate danger, call the emergency number 112 first. You can also report illegal content to Dyżurnet.pl (Poland) or the NCMEC CyberTipline. Young people in Poland can get confidential help at the 116 111 helpline.

How we respond

• Our human moderators review child safety reports with the highest priority.
• In Slingshot, profiles and conversations reported from Discover, a chat request or a chat are analysed immediately by automated moderation using Google's Gemini AI, so we can respond quickly, and are then reviewed by our moderators.
• We remove CSAM and other violating content as soon as we become aware of it.
• We permanently ban the accounts involved and work to stop them from returning.
• We preserve relevant evidence and report CSAM and child exploitation to the competent authorities, including the Polish Police, Dyżurnet.pl and, where applicable, NCMEC.
• We cooperate with lawful requests from law enforcement.

How we prevent harm

• a minimum age of 15 with a date of birth check at signup;
• in-app reporting and blocking in every app;
• moderation of reported profiles, messages and media;
• in Slingshot: selfie verification for every profile, AI age verification, Apple's age range check on iOS, Discover limited to people of a similar age with 15 to 17 year olds kept apart from adults, chat requests that must be accepted before a conversation continues, screenshot notices, and location shown only as a city so nobody can pinpoint where a user is;
• clear rules in our terms (Vybe Terms, Slingshot Terms) that we enforce with account bans.

Safety tips for Slingshot users

• Never share personal details such as your address, phone number or school.
• Never send intimate photos, and never agree to move the chat to another app.
• If anything feels wrong, stop replying and report the person.

Compliance with child safety laws

We comply with the child safety laws that apply to us, including the Polish Criminal Code (among others, the offences of grooming and of producing or distributing CSAM), the EU Digital Services Act and EU rules on combating child sexual abuse, and the laws of other countries where our apps are available. These standards are reviewed regularly and updated when the law or our services change.

Child safety point of contact

Our designated child safety point of contact can speak to our prevention practices and compliance with these standards. Users, parents, organisations and authorities can reach them at csam@vybe.social or by post:

Vybe sp. z o.o.
Fasolowa 45/12
02-483 Warszawa
Poland