Child Safety Standards

1. Age Enforcement

1. 18+ eligibility gate. Account creation requires the user to confirm they are at least 18 years old. This confirmation is recorded against the account and is a term of the Terms of Service.
2. Server-side age-of-majority check. The signup endpoint rejects registrations that fail the 18+ assertion. The check runs on the server; it cannot be bypassed by an altered mobile client.
3. Account termination on discovery. If we later discover that an account holder is under 18, we terminate the account and delete the associated personal data per our normal deletion flow. A termination for age ineligibility is audit-logged.
4. No profile features for minors. The app does not offer a "teen", "family", or "under-18" mode. There is no version of Freedive Finder in which a child can be a user.

2. Prohibited Content and Conduct

The following are prohibited on Freedive Finder and constitute immediate grounds for account suspension and, where applicable, referral to law enforcement:

• Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation material (CSAE) of any kind, including AI-generated, drawn, written, or real-world depictions.
• Attempts to contact, groom, solicit, or sexually extort any person who is or appears to be under 18.
• Distribution of content that sexualises minors, even if no explicit act is depicted.
• Offers to meet in person with a minor for any reason outside a clearly legitimate, supervised context (for example, a certified youth dive-training programme run by a recognised agency).
• Hosting, linking to, or advertising third-party services that traffic in CSAE or child-grooming material.
• Impersonating a minor in order to solicit sexual attention or exploit another user.

These rules apply to all user-facing surfaces: profiles, chat messages, photos, dive-site descriptions, session titles, and any other field a user can populate.

3. Reporting

Every user-facing surface that can carry third-party content is reachable by a user report. Users can report:

• Another profile, via the profile page.
• A chat message or conversation thread, via the chat screen.
• A dive-site photo or description, via the site detail screen.
• A dive session or buddy request, via the relevant record.

Reports are routed to the platform moderation queue and are reviewed by authorised platform administrators. Reports flagged as involving a minor are escalated to the highest-priority queue and are reviewed ahead of other reports.

Users may also email christopher@freedivefinder.com with any concern, with or without a supporting report.

4. Our Response Process

When a report involving child safety reaches moderation:

1. We acknowledge receipt to the reporter (where the reporter is identified) within two business days.
2. We review the report and, where the concern is credible, we take immediate action. Available actions include removing the offending content, suspending the offending account, preserving forensic copies of the content for legal hand-off, and banning the offender from recreating an account.
3. Where a report concerns conduct that may be criminal — in particular, possession or distribution of CSAE, or grooming or solicitation of a minor — we escalate to law enforcement and cooperate with any lawful request for information.
4. We retain the ability to preserve content pending a law-enforcement response, overriding the normal deletion flow. Preservation is audit-logged and is disclosed only to the extent required to satisfy the legal request.
5. All moderation actions in response to child-safety reports are audit-logged with the reviewing administrator's identity and the action taken.

We do not guarantee a specific resolution time for the full investigation. We do guarantee that credible reports will be acknowledged and triaged within two business days, and that active harm will be interrupted as quickly as is operationally possible.

5. Designated Contact

The designated child-safety contact for Freedive Finder is:

• Email: christopher@freedivefinder.com
• Response commitment: Acknowledgement within two business days.
• Scope: Reports of CSAE, grooming, solicitation of minors, suspected minor accounts, and regulator or law-enforcement enquiries related to child safety.

This contact is the single point of accountability for the matters listed above. Reports to the in-app reporting surfaces are handled by the same team but this email address is the appropriate channel for escalations that need to bypass the app or for correspondence from external bodies.

6. Training and Review

• Authorised platform administrators who review moderation queues are briefed on the categories of prohibited content listed in Section 2 and on the escalation path in Section 4.
• This Standards document is reviewed at least annually and whenever the moderation process, in-app reporting surfaces, or law-enforcement reporting pathway materially changes.

7. Last Updated

This Standards document was last updated on 24 April 2026.

Future revisions will be announced by updating the Last Updated date above and, where a change is material, by linking the revised document from the Freedive Finder changelog.

8. Contact

• Designated child-safety contact: christopher@freedivefinder.com
• Website: https://freedivefinder.com

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