Vibz Child Safety Standards

Version: 1.0.0 Effective date: 2026-08-27 Last updated: 2026-09-03

Vibz is operated by Midwest Technical Training and Consulting INC, a Missouri corporation based in the United States.

This page is our published statement of the standards we hold against child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). It sets out what we prohibit, how anyone can report CSAE to us from inside the app, what we do when we learn of it, the safety defaults that apply to accounts under 18, and how platform partners, regulators, and law enforcement can reach us.

It supplements, and does not replace, the Community Guidelines, the Age & Teen Safety Policy, the Privacy Policy, and the Law Enforcement Guidelines.

1. Our standards: zero tolerance for CSAE and CSAM

Vibz prohibits the sexual exploitation, abuse, or endangerment of minors. These rules apply on every surface of the Service — the public feed, channels, public and private groups, direct messages, comments, profiles, stickers, and voice and video calls — and they apply to every account regardless of the account holder's own age.

The following are prohibited without exception:

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) of any kind, including material that is drawn, animated, computer-generated, or synthesised.
• Sexualizing a minor in a post, profile, display name, caption, comment, sticker, message, or call, including sexualized commentary about a real minor.
• Grooming — building a relationship with a minor, or with someone presented as a minor, in order to sexually exploit or abuse them.
• Solicitation — asking a minor for sexual content, sexual contact, or a sexual conversation, or offering money, gifts, or status in exchange for any of those.
• Sextortion — threatening to publish or share a minor's intimate images or information in order to coerce them.
• Minor sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, including advertising, arranging, or recruiting for it.
• Arranging offline sexual contact with a minor.
• Trading, linking to, advertising, or requesting CSAM hosted anywhere, on Vibz or off it, including coded or coded-slang solicitations.
• Publishing a minor's identifying or locating information — address, school, routine, or schedule — in a context that endangers them.
• Using Vibz to identify, target, or recruit minors for any of the above.

We also prohibit adult sexual content and sexual solicitation between adults, as set out in the Community Guidelines. Users under 18 may not post, request, buy, sell, or receive sexual or adult content, and are never shown adult-oriented recommendations.

There is no strike ladder for child-safety violations. Everywhere else on Vibz an account may accumulate warnings and restrictions before a ban. An account found to have created, solicited, distributed, or advertised CSAM, or to have attempted to sexually exploit a minor, is permanently banned on the first instance, and we act on the account whether the conduct occurred in public content or in a reported private conversation.

2. Reporting CSAE in the app

Every user can report suspected child sexual abuse or exploitation from inside the Vibz app, and child safety is the first option in the list.

Use the Report option on the post, comment, message, profile, or channel. On a post or channel it is the flag button. On a comment or message, press and hold. On a profile, open it and choose Report. The first reason offered is Child safety / sexualizing minors — it sits at the top of the list so nobody has to scroll to find it. You may add up to 500 characters of free text describing what you saw. You do not need to be the person targeted, and you do not need to have any relationship to the account you are reporting.

Reporting is available on:

• Posts in the public feed
• Comments
• Direct messages, including messages in end-to-end encrypted conversations
• Profiles — reporting the account itself rather than one piece of content
• Channels

When you report from a profile, the app offers Also block this user in the same flow, which stops that account from messaging, calling, or seeing you. You can review the status of everything you have filed under Profile → Account → Privacy → Safety → My reports, and manage blocks under Profile → Account → Privacy → Safety → Blocked accounts.

We review reports promptly, prioritize reports filed under the child-safety reason, and comply with applicable statutory deadlines.

Reporting is not the only route:

• By email, for anything outside the app or if the in-app flow is not accessible to you: safety@marketvibz.com.
• Directly to NCMEC, for suspected child sexual exploitation seen anywhere on the internet including Vibz: report.cybertip.org. You can do this at any time, and you do not need to report to us first.
• To law enforcement. If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.

3. What we do when we learn of CSAE

A report filed under the child-safety reason is handled differently from every other report class:

• It is flagged for priority human review under a dedicated child-safety escalation marker, separate from the general report stream, so it cannot sit behind ordinary reports.
• A report selection is an allegation, not a substantiated federal report. After an authenticated moderator records a reportable child-safety determination, the backend automatically queues the CyberTipline submission to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).
• On confirmation we take the reported material down and permanently ban the account. A child-safety strike pins the account to a permanent ban regardless of its prior record.
• Taking it down means preserving it first, and then blocking it from the Service. Before anything stops being served we place the one-year preservation hold described below on the file. Only then does the material come off the Service: a removed post or comment is no longer returned in the feed, on the channel page, in saved or reposted lists, or by a direct link to it, no new media-download link is issued, and it is gone for the account that posted it as well. A time-limited media link issued before removal may remain usable only until that link expires. Removal is not deletion — we keep the bytes, because destroying them would defeat the preservation obligation.
• What removal reaches, and what it does not. A reported post, comment, channel, or profile photo is removed as described above; for a channel, that is every post it has published. A reported direct message is different: its text is end-to-end encrypted, so we cannot read it, edit it, or take it off a device that already holds it. What we do remove there is any media attached to it, and the sender is banned. Where a report names something we have no automated way to take down, the report cannot be closed as actioned until a reviewer has removed the material by hand and recorded that they did.
• We preserve associated evidence in accordance with 18 U.S.C. § 2258A(h), and make it available to NCMEC or law enforcement on request or appropriate legal process. A preservation hold is applied when confirmed content is actioned and extended to at least one year from the completed CyberTipline submission. A file under hold is excluded from automated retention and clean-up sweeps, and the account that uploaded it can no longer delete it.
• We cooperate with law enforcement as described in our Law Enforcement Guidelines, including emergency disclosure where there is a risk to a child.

Vibz is responsible for its CyberTipline submissions. After the moderator determination described above, our backend queues the report for delivery. A storage, hosting, or support provider does not make that legal determination for us.

Once a CyberTipline report is finished it is permanent and cannot be withdrawn.

4. Detection and review limits

We would rather understate this than overstate it, so the following describes exactly what is in place today.

Vibz does not claim proactive image or video scanning at upload. Child-safety reports receive priority human review. The moderator must record a reportable determination before the backend queues a federal submission.

End-to-end encrypted content cannot be inspected by Vibz. Safety enforcement there depends on reports from recipients. A report can identify a message or attachment for targeted account and server-side action, but Vibz cannot recover plaintext, search for plaintext copies, or remove a copy already saved on another person's device.

The only automated screening Vibz itself performs before publication is on text, not media: a keyword filter runs when you change your display name or profile status, when you upload a post with a caption, and when you write or edit a comment. The list is tiered. A small set of child-sexual-abuse solicitation phrases is refused outright, and the post, comment, or profile change is not saved. A separate list of severe slurs and explicit violent threats is not refused: that content is published, and an automatic report is filed at the same time so a person reviews it. Anyone who sees it can also report it. It is a keyword filter, not a general-purpose classifier, and it does not read your end-to-end encrypted messages.

We do not claim, and do not currently perform, proactive scanning of uploads, age estimation from photographs, behavioural grooming detection, or automated classification of message content.

5. Age assurance and safety defaults for minors

You must be at least 13 years old to use Vibz. Some countries impose a higher floor, and we apply the stricter of 13 and the local digital consent age determined from the international dialing code of your phone number — for example 16 in Germany and the Netherlands, 15 in France, 14 in Spain and Italy.

Date of birth is required to create an account and is checked on the server, not only in the app; an account below the applicable floor is not created, and no profile is stored for the attempt. Date of birth is self-declared: we do not verify it against identity documents or biometric age estimation. An account whose age we cannot establish is treated as a minor account rather than an adult one.

Accounts under 18 are marked restricted and carry safety defaults that the user cannot switch off. Verified in the Service today, a restricted account:

• is excluded from discovery: it does not appear in user search or in People You May Know for anyone who is not already a mutual contact, and a stranger who types its user id directly gets the same "not found" response as for an account that does not exist;
• cannot be followed into contact by a stranger — an inbound follow on a minor's account creates a dormant request rather than a follow, and only becomes real if the minor independently follows that account back;
• cannot receive direct messages from an account that is not a mutual contact;
• cannot be rung — voice and video calls from a non-mutual contact are refused, on 1:1 calls, on group calls, and on mid-call invites;
• cannot be added to a group by anyone who is not a mutual contact;
• cannot create, join, or be added to private groups;
• cannot access content marked 18+, on any read path, and is never sent an 18+ post through a mention notification;
• cannot use view-once or time-expiring secure media, in either direction, when a minor is on either end of the conversation — the disappearing-media patterns most associated with grooming and sextortion are simply unavailable;
• cannot browse 18+ sticker packs.

The full table of teen defaults, and what parents and guardians can ask us to do, is in the Age & Teen Safety Policy.

If we learn that an account belongs to a child under our minimum age we close it and delete the personal information associated with it. To report an underage account, email safety@marketvibz.com.

6. Compliance with applicable child safety laws

Vibz complies with the child safety laws that apply to it as a US-based provider, including:

• 18 U.S.C. § 2258A — mandatory reporting of apparent child pornography to the NCMEC CyberTipline when the statutory reporting standard is met.
• 18 U.S.C. § 2258A(h) — preservation of the contents of a report, and any images or data associated with it, for one year after submission.
• The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) — we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, we do not offer the Service to them, and a parent or guardian may request deletion of a child's information at privacy@marketvibz.com.
• GDPR Article 8 and equivalent digital-consent-age rules, applied as the per-country minimum age floor described in Section 5.
• Google Play's Child Safety Standards policy and Apple App Review Guideline 1.2, whose requirements this page and our reporting, blocking, and age-gating surfaces are built to meet.

We respond to valid legal process from law enforcement as set out in the Law Enforcement Guidelines, and we may disclose information without legal process where we believe in good faith that doing so is necessary to prevent imminent harm to a child.

7. Point of contact

Published point of contact for Google, regulators, platform partners, and authorities regarding child safety:

lamar.myles@marketvibz.com

Other routes:

We monitor the child-safety contact address for reports and questions.

8. Changes to these standards

We will update this page when our child-safety practices change. The version and last-updated date at the top of this page reflect the current text.