Child Safety Standards

Kindred is a marriage-intent app for adults. Children are not allowed on Kindred, and we do not tolerate any form of child sexual abuse or exploitation (CSAE), including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming, or attempts to arrange the marriage of a child.

1. Minimum age

Members must be at least 18, at least the age of majority where they live, and at least the legal age to marry without a court dispensation:

We do not allow any exception, including court-approved exceptions.

2. How we keep children off Kindred

• Everyone gives their date of birth when they sign up, and no one under 18 can create an account.
• Every member takes a selfie when they sign up, and can add a photo of their ID. Our staff review them.
• Profile photos are checked automatically for explicit content and reviewed by our staff before others see them.
• Members can report anyone who may be under 18, and moderators review any account where age looks doubtful.
• Any account we believe belongs to someone under the minimum age is closed immediately.

3. What is banned

• Any content that sexualises a child, including drawings and AI-generated images.
• Sharing, asking for or linking to child sexual abuse material.
• Contacting, grooming or arranging marriage with a child, or asking a member to introduce a child.
• Using Kindred to find, recruit or traffic a child.

4. How to report

• In the app: tap ⋯ and then Report on a person's Today card or on a match, and choose May be under 18.
• By email, for anyone, including parents and people who don't use Kindred: mail@findkindred.app

5. What we do when we receive a report

• We treat every report of child sexual abuse or exploitation as critical and aim to act within 1 hour.
• We suspend the account, keep the evidence securely, and remove the content from view. Content ordered down by Indonesian authorities as urgent is removed within 4 hours.
• We report child sexual abuse material and child exploitation to the authorities: in Canada under the mandatory reporting law, and in Indonesia and Bangladesh to the national authorities responsible.
• We permanently ban the people involved and take steps to stop them returning.

6. Following the law

We comply with child safety laws in the countries where we operate, including Indonesia's Electronic Information and Transactions Law and its child-protection rules (PP Tunas), Indonesia's Marriage Law, Bangladesh's Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017, and Canada's Criminal Code and mandatory reporting law for child sexual abuse material.

7. Child safety contact

Our child safety team answers questions from authorities and app stores about our child safety practices:

Kindred Trust and Safety mail@findkindred.app Cookspace Technologies Ltd., 1833 Misthollow Drive, Pickering, Ontario L1X 0A7, Canada