Child safety standards

What is not allowed

Anywhere on PinPint, in the app or on this website, nobody may post, share, request or link to:

Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) of any kind, real, drawn or generated
Anything that sexualises a child, including comments, captions and profile pictures
Grooming: contacting a child, or someone believed to be a child, with a sexual purpose or to build towards one
Sextortion, or any threat to share intimate images of a child
Anything that advertises, arranges or encourages the trafficking or exploitation of a child

This covers everything a person can put in front of someone else here: profiles and profile pictures, direct messages, crawl group chats, events and their pictures, ratings and notes.

Who PinPint is for

You have to confirm you are 18 or over before an account can be created, and every social feature needs an account. There is nothing on PinPint made for children and no part of it is meant to be used by them.

If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we close it.

How to report it

In the app or on the website

Press and hold the message, profile, photo or event, or use the “⋯” button beside it.
Choose Report.
Pick “Sexual or explicit content” and say what you saw.

From the same menu you can block the person. Blocking is mutual and they are not told.

By email

Email danielhowley@outlook.ie with the subject “URGENT, Safety”. You do not need an account to do this.

Say where you saw it: the person's handle, the crawl or event, and roughly when. Please do not send us the image itself.

      If a child is in danger right now, call the emergency services on 112 or 999 first. We cannot act as quickly as they can.
    

What we do

Every report is read by a person within 24 hours, and a report about a child is dealt with before anything else
The content is removed and the account responsible is closed
What is needed as evidence is preserved and handed to the authorities rather than deleted
Suspected child sexual abuse material is reported to An Garda Síochána and Hotline.ie in Ireland, or to the Internet Watch Foundation and the police in the United Kingdom
We cooperate with any law enforcement request about it

PinPint operates in Ireland and the United Kingdom and follows the child protection law of both, as well as the Google Play and Apple App Store policies on child safety.

Who to contact

The contact for PinPint's child safety practices, for anyone including regulators and law enforcement, is danielhowley@outlook.ie.

The rules that apply to everything else posted on PinPint are in section 4 of the terms.