Child Safety Standards

Child sexual abuse and exploitation is prohibited

Young Creator prohibits child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) absolutely and without exception. This includes, and is not limited to:

• child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in any form, whether photographic, recorded, drawn, written or generated;
• the sexualisation of a minor, including in text, images, audio, video or usernames;
• grooming, or any attempt to build a relationship with a child for sexual purposes;
• sextortion, or threatening to share a child's intimate imagery;
• trafficking a minor, or advertising, soliciting or arranging sexual contact with a minor;
• seeking, sharing or linking to CSAE material anywhere on or through the service.

There is no context in which this content or behaviour is permitted on Young Creator. Accounts involved are removed, and we report to the relevant authorities.

How Young Creator is built to prevent it

Young Creator is a communication app for children in which a parent or guardian holds the controls. The safeguards below are how the product works, not aspirations:

• Children cannot open their own accounts. Every child account is created from inside a parent's account. A request made any other way is refused by our servers.
• Adults cannot appear in a child's app uninvited. A connection between two children requires four separate approvals: the child who asks, that child's parent, the child who receives, and their parent.
• A parent approves what is shared. Posts, stories, comments and connection requests are held for a parent before anyone else sees them.
• Messaging is limited to approved connections. There is no open inbox, and no way for a stranger to send a child a message.
• Children are grouped by age band, so a child is shown other children of a similar age rather than the whole platform.
• Adults connected to a family are limited to the guardians and trusted contacts a parent has explicitly added and verified.

Identity verification

Young Creator verifies that a real, identifiable adult stands behind every family account. Verification is carried out through a regulated identity verification provider: the adult photographs a government-issued identity document and their own face, and the provider checks that the document is genuine and that the two match.

This matters for child safety in three ways:

• An adult, not a stranger, opens each account. Children cannot register themselves, and the adult who does is verified rather than self-declared.
• A child's access depends on it. A child account is not usable until the verification for that child has been completed by their parent from the parent's own account.
• Extending access to another adult requires it. A parent must be verified before they can invite a trusted contact, such as a grandparent, to see a child or receive their safety alerts.

Identity documents are handled by our verification provider under their own security and retention controls. Young Creator does not publish or share identity documents, and they are never visible to other users of the service. Where an account is implicated in a child safety investigation, we cooperate with lawful requests from the relevant authorities.

Reporting: the in-app mechanism

Every post, comment, story, reel and message in Young Creator can be reported from the item itself. Reporting is available to children, parents, guardians and, where a school uses Young Creator, to school staff. Users can also block another account.

Reports reach our moderation team, who review them and can remove content, suspend or delete accounts, and notify the parents involved. Reports of suspected CSAE are prioritised above all other categories and are escalated immediately.

How we address CSAM

Where we identify or are notified of suspected child sexual abuse material, we remove it, preserve the associated records as required by law, disable the accounts involved, and report to the appropriate authority. In the United Kingdom that includes the Internet Watch Foundation and the National Crime Agency's CEOP command; in the United States, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC); and elsewhere, the equivalent national body or local law enforcement.

We cooperate with valid requests from law enforcement and child protection agencies investigating the safety of a child.

Child safety point of contact

Child safety concerns about Young Creator, including suspected CSAE, can be raised directly with our child safety point of contact:

childsafety@youngcreator.net

YOUNG CREATOR APP FZ-LLC, Compass Building, Al Shohada Road, Al Hamra Industrial Zone-FZ, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.

If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.

Compliance with child safety laws

Young Creator complies with applicable child safety and child protection laws in the markets where Young Creator is available, and with the child safety requirements of Google Play and the Apple App Store, including Google Play's Child Safety Standards policy and Families policy. We keep these standards under review and update them as our product and the law change.