Child safety standards

Y is for adults only, and has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE).

If a child is in immediate danger, call 911 (or your local emergency number) first.

Our standards

Adults only. You must be 18 or older to use Y. Sign-up refuses anyone who gives a birthday under 18. We remove any account we believe belongs to someone under 18.
Zero tolerance. Our Terms of Use ban child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and any sexual exploitation of children: images, videos, drawings, text, links, grooming, sexual talk with anyone under 18, and trying to meet a minor. One breach means a permanent ban.
We report it. We report child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), as US law requires, and we work with law enforcement.
We follow the law. We comply with child-safety laws that apply to us, including US federal law on reporting CSAM (18 U.S.C. § 2258A).

How we prevent it

Image checks. Profile photos, photos in public spaces and business pages, and shorts are checked against lists of known child sexual abuse material before anyone can see them. A match is blocked, the account is frozen and the match is reported to NCMEC.
Reported photos are checked too, including a photo reported from an end-to-end encrypted chat.
Bans stick. A banned phone number can't sign up again.
Reports first. We review every report within 24 hours, and reports about child safety are handled first.

Private chats and private spaces are end-to-end encrypted, so we can't scan them. There we rely on reports from the people in them. More detail: Privacy Policy, sections 8 and 9.

How to report in the app

A person: open their profile or your chat with them, tap ⋮ (top right), then Report.
A message: press and hold the message, then tap Report.
A post, comment or space: tap ⋮ on it, then Report.
Pick Child safety, or Under 18 if you think the person is a minor, and tap Send report. You can block them at the same time. They are never told who reported them.

Report without the app

Our safety team: safety@y.waalyx.com. Tell us what happened and the person's name as shown in Y.
NCMEC CyberTipline (US): report.cybertip.org or 1-800-843-5678.
Outside the US: your local police, or a hotline listed by INHOPE.

Never send us sexual images of anyone under 18, even as evidence. Describe them instead, and report the images to NCMEC.

Child safety contact

Questions about these standards, or requests from law enforcement: safety@y.waalyx.com. Y is run by WAALYX LLC, Texas, USA.