Child safety standards

Last updated: August 17th, 2026

Matuvu is a proximity-based social app for adults, published on Google Play as Matuvu: Meet People You Saw. These standards apply to the app, to the website and to every account on them.

1. Zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation

Matuvu prohibits child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) without exception. Child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and any content, conduct or contact that sexually exploits a minor or puts a minor at risk, is forbidden in the app and on the website. This applies whether the minor is real, drawn, edited or generated.

2. What is prohibited

An account is terminated and its content removed when it is used for any of the following:

• Creating, uploading, sending, requesting or storing child sexual abuse material, or linking to it.
• Presenting a minor in a sexual way, in a photo, a message, a profile or a link.
• Grooming, meaning gaining the trust of a minor in order to obtain sexual content or sexual contact.
• Sextortion, and any threat to publish intimate content involving a minor.
• Trafficking of minors, and offering, advertising or arranging sexual contact with a minor.
• Using Matuvu while under 18, or creating an account for a minor.

3. The app is for adults

Matuvu is restricted to people aged 18 and over. A date of birth is required to sign up, and an account cannot be created below that age.

An account that turns out to belong to a minor is terminated and its data is deleted.

4. Reporting in the app

Every profile in the app carries a block and report control. A report blocks the profile immediately, closes the conversation and opens an internal review. Reports that concern a minor are reviewed first.

A report can also be sent by email. This address reaches the same people as a report made in the app:

5. How a report is handled

Every report is reviewed. Content that breaks these standards is removed, the account behind it is terminated and the person is kept out of the service.

Suspected child sexual abuse material is preserved and reported to the competent authority, including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) where United States law applies, and the police or the national reporting body of the country concerned elsewhere.

6. Child safety point of contact

Law enforcement, child protection bodies and other platforms can reach the person responsible for child safety at Matuvu at this address:

This is the child safety point of contact declared for Matuvu on Google Play.

7. Applicable law

Matuvu complies with the child safety laws of the countries where the app is distributed, including the reporting obligations they carry. These standards apply alongside our terms of service and our privacy policy, and they are updated whenever the app or the law changes.