Child Safety Standards

Fubby is a social app for adults, published by FUBBY LLC (Missouri, United States), where people share stories, follow each other, chat, and make voice and video calls. These standards explain how we prevent, detect and respond to child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the Fubby app, available on Google Play and the App Store, and on the fubby.social website. They apply to every user and to all content shared on Fubby.

In these standards, a “child” or “minor” means anyone under the age of 18.

1. Zero tolerance

Fubby has a zero-tolerance policy toward CSAE and CSAM. The following are strictly prohibited on Fubby:

• creating, sharing, requesting, storing or linking to material that sexually depicts or exploits a child;
• grooming, that is, trying to build closeness and trust with a child in order to abuse them;
• threatening or blackmailing a child, including sextortion;
• approaching a child for the purpose of abuse, trying to arrange a meeting with a child for that purpose, or helping others do so;
• taking part in or promoting the trafficking of children;
• sexualizing children in any way, including in text, drawings or edited images.

These rules apply equally to messages, photos, voice messages, stories, profile content and calls.

2. Adults only (18+)

You must be at least 18 years old to use Fubby. Users must enter their age when setting up a profile, and the app does not accept an age under 18. Minors are not permitted to create an account or use the service.

If we learn, or have reason to believe, that an account belongs to someone under 18, we close it. The account's data is then handled as described in our Privacy Policy, and we take steps to preserve material relevant to a child safety report in line with our legal obligations. If you think someone on Fubby is under 18, please report them using the steps in section 4.

3. How we prevent abuse

• Community rules: Users must accept our community rules in the app, which prohibit any content that abuses, exploits or endangers minors. Anyone who declines is signed out and cannot continue using the app.
• Chat filters: Chat messages pass through filters that mask contact details such as phone numbers, email addresses and social media usernames. This makes it harder to move a conversation away from Fubby. Our filters can also screen photos sent in chat for explicit nudity and blur such images.
• Story review: Stories are reviewed by our team before other users can see them.
• Reporting and blocking: Profiles, chats and stories all have a report option, and any user can be blocked (see section 4).
• Human review: Decisions on reports are made by people on our moderation team, not by automated filters alone.

4. How to report in the app

You can report a user directly in the Fubby app:

• On a profile: tap the ··· button in the top right corner, then tap Report Profile.
• In a chat: tap the menu icon (three lines) in the top right corner, then tap Report User.
• While viewing a story: tap the ··· button, then tap Report.

Briefly describe what happened in the report form. If your report concerns a child's safety, or you think the user is under 18, please say so clearly. Your report is confidential; the person you report is not notified.

You can also block the user from the profile or chat menu. Once you block someone, your chat with that person is removed from your message list. You can reach our team at any time in the app under Profile > Settings > Support System.

5. How we respond

We aim to review reports as quickly as possible, where possible within 24 hours, and reports concerning a child's safety are handled first. When we identify CSAE or CSAM, we:

• remove the content;
• permanently close the account involved, without warning and with no right of appeal;
• take steps to preserve the content and related account information as evidence, in line with our legal obligations;
• report the case to NCMEC as required by law and, where appropriate, to the competent authorities (see section 6).

Accounts that we find belong to someone under 18 are closed, even if no other rule has been broken.

6. Reporting to authorities and compliance with the law

FUBBY LLC is a company based in the United States. In line with our obligations under U.S. federal law (18 U.S.C. § 2258A), we report apparent CSAM that we become aware of to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) through its CyberTipline. Where appropriate, we also notify law enforcement in the country concerned.

We comply with the child safety laws that apply to us, both in the United States and in the countries where Fubby is available. We cooperate with valid legal requests from law enforcement, including requests to preserve evidence.

7. Reporting to us by email

Anyone, including people who don't use Fubby, can report a child safety concern to us at info@fubby.social. Please include the name shown on the profile, what you saw and roughly when it happened.

Please do not send, forward or attach images or videos that show the abuse of a child, not even to report them. Describe what you saw instead; we will locate the content in our own systems.

If a child is in immediate danger, contact the police or your local emergency services first. You can also report child sexual abuse material found online directly to NCMEC's CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org, or to the national hotline in your country, listed at inhope.org.

8. Child safety point of contact

FUBBY LLC has designated a child safety point of contact to answer questions about our CSAE prevention practices and our compliance with child safety laws. App stores, authorities and child protection organizations can also reach this contact. Email: info@fubby.social.

9. Related policies and updates

These standards are part of our Terms of Use and community rules, and apply together with our Privacy Policy. We review them regularly and update them when our practices or the law change. The latest version is always published on this page.