Safety Center and Guidelines

Use your own account, protect credentials, review active sessions, and report unexpected access. Never send passwords, verification codes, payment-card details, or financial access to another member or someone claiming to be support.

Review each Side's profile, discovery, map, distance, and photo settings. Avoid posting a home address, routine, financial information, workplace details, or other information that could create risk. Private content can still be copied by a recipient.

Use conversation and, where comfortable, a video call to assess consistency. Meet in a public place, arrange independent transportation, tell someone you trust, keep control of food and drinks, and leave if the situation stops feeling right.

Do not send money, cryptocurrency, gift cards, financial credentials, or investments to someone you met through a connection service. Treat urgent stories, guaranteed returns, requests to move immediately off-platform, and credential requests as warning signs.

Use Report for unsafe, deceptive, abusive, underage, nonconsensual intimate, or prohibited conduct. Use Block to stop contact. These controls are separate, clearly labeled, and free. Preserve relevant evidence without redistributing harmful content.

A person depicted in an intimate image or video shared without consent - including a digitally altered or synthetic depiction - may request removal through the form at https://sideof.app/intimate-image-removal, or by emailing support@sideof.app with the subject 'Intimate Image Removal Request.' You do not need a SideOf account to use either route. Include the location of the material, a statement that you are the person depicted or an authorized representative, a good-faith statement that publication was not consented to, contact information, and a physical or electronic signature. The form gives you a request ID and an access code so you can check the status yourself without waiting for a reply.

Use the no-account intimate-image removal form, or continue to use the support email process described above.

After receiving a valid request, SideOf will remove the identified depiction and known identical copies within 48 hours as required by federal law. The 48 hours run from when the request reaches SideOf, not from when someone opens it. SideOf may request information reasonably necessary to validate the request and will protect request information from unnecessary disclosure. Knowingly false requests may carry legal consequences.

Trusted contacts, scheduled check-ins, check-in history, and Safety Share can communicate a plan you choose. A missed check-in alerts a linked trusted contact inside the SideOf app at no charge; text-message alerts to a phone number are a SideOf+ feature and require the contact's prior consent. The product records delivery status and tells you when nobody could be alerted. These tools may be delayed by device, network, or provider failures and do not dispatch emergency responders.

Nobody at SideOf watches a Safety Share session, a check-in, or a shared location. These are ways for you to keep the people you chose informed; they are not a monitoring service, an escort service, or a substitute for calling 911. SideOf does not promise that an alert will arrive, arrive on time, or reach anyone, and it does not act on one. If you are in danger, contact emergency services.

SideOf displays broad-area information and supports controls to hide distance or map visibility. Opening an external map sends your selected location to that provider. Do not treat a map marker as proof of identity, presence, safety, or an exact location.

SideOf prioritizes reports according to urgency, safety risk, legal obligations, and the information available. Every report reaches a person. A person at SideOf reviews every report made through SideOf's report tools within 24 hours of receiving it. How quickly a report is resolved depends on its category, the volume of reports, and the information available. Reports involving a possible minor, an intimate image shared without consent, commercial sexual solicitation, or a threat page an on-call moderator immediately, ahead of everything else. Resolution time depends on severity and complexity. Statutory deadlines such as the valid intimate-image removal period apply in full.

SideOf support is not a medical, legal, crisis, or emergency service. Contact local emergency services for immediate danger and appropriate qualified organizations for domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, self-harm, medical, or legal support.

Engaging in sexual conduct with another person without that person's consent violates SideOf's Community Standards and Safety Center guidelines, is against the law, and may result in criminal or civil liability.

If you have experienced sexual assault or domestic violence, you can get free, confidential help at any time: the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 (RAINN), and the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (or text START to 88788). If you are in Colorado, you can also reach the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault (ccasa.org) and Violence Free Colorado (violencefreecolorado.org). If you are in immediate danger, call 911.

When SideOf acts on a report, it does not tell other members, to protect the privacy of everyone involved, except where the law requires notice. Please report honestly: a knowingly false report breaks the Community Standards and can lead to action against the account that made it.

For members in Colorado, this Safety Center, together with the Community Standards, the Terms of Service (Sections 2, 9, 10, and 14), and Privacy Policy Section 13, is SideOf's online dating safety policy.