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Safety
Safety and privacy
Planning for a child involves a great deal of yourself. Here, in concrete terms, is what we put in place to protect you, and what remains in your hands.
Nothing is visible before approval
Every photo and every piece of public text is held in a pending state, out of sight, then reviewed before it appears on your profile.
- An automated check detects prohibited content: nudity, violence, identity documents, contact details, advertising, requests for money, sale of gametes, harassment.
- Ambiguous or uncertain cases are passed to a member of our team.
- Location data and other metadata are removed from your photos.
- If you change a photo or text that has already been approved, the previous version stays on display until the new one is approved.
- A rejection always comes with an understandable reason, and you can ask for a review by a person.
- If the automated check is unavailable, your content stays private and pending: nothing is published by default.
- An automated decision never imposes a permanent exclusion on its own.
Three levels of verification, not to be confused
Each badge says one precise thing, and nothing more. None of them is an absolute guarantee.
Selfie match
A selfie taken live was compared with the profile's main photo: the same person appears in both images. This badge proves neither age nor legal identity.
This verification is not offered at the moment.
Identity and age verified (18+)
The person's age (18 or over) and, where applicable, their identity have been verified by a specialist provider or, failing that, through a human review. The identity document is never published or shown to other members.
When only age has been verified, the badge reads “Age verified (18+)”.
- Age verification is required before you can contact other members.
- A badge cannot be bought: Premium gives no advantage when it comes to verification.
- Declining an optional verification never results in a false badge. An alternative with human review exists for people who do not want a biometric comparison.
- Even when verified, a person is still someone you do not yet know: take the same precautions.
Messaging only opens by mutual agreement
- To write to someone, you send a contact request with a short message. The person accepts or declines.
- Until the request is accepted, no conversation exists.
- Technical limits hold back spam: number of requests per week, a delay between two requests, a first message with no links or contact details.
- Your messages are encrypted in our database, and notifications never display their content.
- AI translation is optional: it is only switched on with your consent, it is labelled as such and the original always remains available.
Block and report, at any time
- Block: the person can no longer see your profile or your messages and can no longer write to you. The effect is immediate.
- Report a profile, a photo or a message: our team reviews every report. Where there is a serious risk, the content is removed provisionally while it is reviewed.
- Leave a conversation, without having to explain yourself.
Reasons you can choose when reporting
When a message is reported, only that message and the few messages before it are passed to the person responsible for reviewing it, never the whole conversation. These items are kept for a limited time.
Spotting scams and pressure
Most conversations go well. Some signs should nevertheless put you on your guard:
- You are asked for money, a loan, gift cards or a bank transfer, whatever reason is given.
- You are pressed to leave the platform and carry on elsewhere, from the very first messages.
- Someone offers to buy, sell or ship gametes, or asks you for compensation.
- The story is too good to be true or changes from one message to the next, or the person refuses any call.
- A quick decision is demanded, you are made to feel guilty, your questions are brushed aside.
- You are asked for identity documents, bank details or health information.
If in doubt, pay nothing, send no documents and report the profile: you are protecting other members too.
Before you meet
- Take the time to exchange messages, then to speak on a call, before a first meeting.
- Choose a public place, tell someone you trust and stay in control of how you get there and back.
- Only give your exact address once trust has been established.
- Plans for a child are discussed over time: be wary of anyone rushing things.
- For questions of health or law, speak to professionals. BabyYouWay gives neither medical nor legal advice.
What our team can see, and what it cannot
What is possible
- Review the photos and public text submitted for approval.
- View the specific items of a report, in order to deal with it.
- In exceptional cases, access a conversation following a reasoned request, approved by a second person and limited in time.
What is ruled out
- Freely reading members' conversations.
- Seeing an identity document or biometric data during ordinary moderation.
- Exporting sensitive data in bulk without justification.
Team accounts are protected by two-factor authentication, their rights are limited to their role, and every sensitive access is justified and recorded in an audit log.
Your privacy
- Profiles and messages are never indexed by search engines or visible without an account.
- Your date of birth stays private: only your age can appear. Your exact location is never public.
- Sensitive information, such as gender identity or orientation, is optional, subject to a separate consent, and you set its visibility field by field.
- No advertising, no third-party trackers: only the cookies needed for the site to work are used.
- You can export your data or delete your account from your settings.
In an emergency
If you are in immediate danger, first contact the emergency services in your country (112 in the European Union). BabyYouWay is not an emergency service: we deal with reports, but we cannot intervene on the spot.
If you think that a minor is using the service, or that someone is being threatened or coerced, report it without delay: these reports are dealt with as a priority.