Child Safety Standards

01

Prohibited Conduct and Content

Bini explicitly prohibits child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). We have zero tolerance for it. There is no context, no private conversation, and no consent that makes it acceptable on our service. The App is a private, one-to-one service used between two people who choose and invite each other, subject to the minimum age in section 2; it is never to be used for any of the following.

It is strictly forbidden to use Bini to create, request, solicit, upload, store, send, receive, link to, distribute, promote, or attempt to obtain:

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — any sexual or sexualized image, video, audio recording, drawing, animation, computer-generated or AI-generated depiction of a person under the age of 18.
• Any sexual or intimate content involving a minor, including nudity, partial nudity, or content that sexualizes any part of a minor's body, whatever the minor's supposed consent or the sender's relationship to them.
• Content that sexualizes, exploits, endangers, or otherwise harms a minor, including material that presents minors as objects of sexual interest.
• Grooming — building a relationship or trust with a minor, or with someone who has access to a minor, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or abuse, online or offline.
• Sextortion — threatening to expose intimate imagery of a minor, or of anyone, to coerce them into producing further content, money, or any other act.
• Trafficking, advertising, or arranging any sexual contact with, or the sale or transfer of, a minor.
• Any other conduct that constitutes CSAE under applicable law, or that facilitates, normalizes, or glorifies the sexual abuse or exploitation of minors.

These standards apply to every part of the App, including private one-to-one chat, photos, videos, voice notes, files, stickers, GIFs, memories, sticky notes, daily-question answers, shared calendars, profile pictures, and any other content a user can create or transmit. They apply regardless of whether the content is encrypted, self-destructing, viewed once, or deleted after sending.

02

Minimum Age and Eligibility

Bini is not directed to children. You must be at least 16 years old to create an account, and old enough to form a binding contract where you live. Some jurisdictions require a higher minimum age; where they do, that higher age applies to you.

Every person who registers must provide their date of birth, and registration is refused where the stated date of birth is below the minimum age. Accounts we identify as belonging to a person under the minimum age are terminated and their data is deleted.

Any sexual or intimate content involving a person under 18 is prohibited without exception, even where the account holders are above our minimum registration age and even where local law sets a lower age of consent. Our rule is the age of the person depicted, not the age of the account.

03

How We Prevent Abuse

• No strangers, no discovery. Bini has no public profiles, no search, no feed, no friend suggestions, no random or anonymous matching, and no way to contact a person who has not shared a pairing code or QR code directly with you. A minor cannot be found, contacted, or messaged by a stranger through our service.
• One partner at a time. An account can be paired with exactly one other account, and only after both sides act — one shares an invitation, the other accepts it. Either person can unpair instantly and at any time, which immediately ends all shared access between the two accounts.
• Age declaration at registration, enforced against our minimum age.
• Phone-number registration with one-time-code verification, which raises the cost of creating throwaway accounts and gives us a durable identifier for enforcement and for law-enforcement requests.
• Clear, enforced rules. Our Terms of Service prohibit this conduct in plain terms and every user accepts them before registering.
• An in-app reporting mechanism available to every user at any time, described in the next section.
• Account-level enforcement that does not depend on reading private content, described in section 5.

04

How to Report — In-App and by Email

In the app

Every user of Bini has an in-app mechanism for reporting content, conduct, and child safety concerns, and for sending us feedback. Open Settings → Report a safety concern, or use Report a safety concern in the chat menu. If you are not currently paired with anyone, the same option is in the menu on the pairing screen, so reporting stays available whether or not you have left the person you are reporting. Choose a reason — Child sexual abuse or exploitation (CSAE) is the first option — add any detail you wish, and submit. You can unpair from the other person in the same step. Reports reach our safety team directly and you do not need an email client to send one.

When you report from a chat, you can also choose to attach messages from that conversation, or report a single message on its own using Report this message in the message menu. Nothing is attached unless you tick the box yourself. Before you send, the report screen lists exactly what would go with it — recent messages from that chat, the photos, stickers and voice notes you can still open, and a single still frame for any video — and the send button says whether you are sending a report or a report with evidence. Your own phone encrypts anything you attach before it leaves it, so that only our safety team can open it, and we do not tell the person you are reporting. After you report, you can follow its progress in Settings → Notices & reports, where we post each change of status and where you can add more information at any time.

By email

Anyone — whether or not they use the App — can report child safety concerns to our child safety point of contact at abuse@thekissapp.com. This mailbox is monitored, and reports that concern the safety of a minor are prioritized above all other correspondence.

Please do not attach images of a child to an email. Report in the app, where anything you attach is encrypted on your own device, or report directly to NCMEC or the Internet Watch Foundation using the links below.

To the authorities

If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first. You can also report directly to the NCMEC CyberTipline (United States), to the Internet Watch Foundation (United Kingdom), or to the child protection authority or police service where you live. Reporting to us does not replace reporting to them, and you never need our permission to do so.

05

How We Respond to CSAE Reports

Reports that involve a minor are treated as the highest priority we have. Our standard process is:

1. Triage within 24 hours. A human reviews every child safety report. Reports involving a minor are moved ahead of all other reports in the queue.
2. Restricted handling of imagery. Photos, stickers and voice notes that a reporter chooses to attach are encrypted to a different key from the text of the conversation, so they can be opened only by the members of our safety team who hold that key. Each time such an item is retrieved for viewing, that retrieval is recorded. Images stay blurred until a reviewer deliberately reveals them, and re-blur shortly afterwards. We do not forward this material to anyone except the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the Internet Watch Foundation, the National Crime Agency, or another competent authority.
3. Immediate account action. Where a report is credible, we suspend or permanently terminate the reported account and terminate the pairing, and we take the steps available to us to stop the same person registering again. We act on the account even in cases where we cannot ourselves view the content (see section 6) — we do not require proof we are technically able to obtain before protecting a child.
4. Removal. Any content that we are able to remove is removed, and the account's stored data is deleted, except for material we are required to preserve for a report or a legal request.
5. Reporting to NCMEC and law enforcement. Apparent child sexual abuse material and apparent CSAE offences are reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and to the police or child protection authority in the relevant jurisdiction, in accordance with applicable law.
6. Preservation. On receipt of a credible report we preserve the account records, the associated non-content data, and any material the reporter chose to attach, and we do the same on a valid preservation request from law enforcement. Material we report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is preserved for at least one year from that report and is then destroyed, unless a legal hold or a law-enforcement request requires us to keep it longer.
7. Cooperation. We respond to valid legal process from law enforcement and child protection agencies.
8. Feedback to the reporter. Every in-app report shows its status in Settings → Notices & reports, and we send a discreet notice when there is an update. We tell the reporter that the report was received, when it is under review, when we need more information, and when it is closed and whether we took action. We do not share the details of the action taken against another person's account, or of any referral to the authorities, because doing so could put the reporter or an investigation at risk and would disclose another person's personal data.

Enforcement decisions can be appealed by writing to abuse@thekissapp.com. An appeal about child safety enforcement is reviewed afresh against these standards, and the outcome is given in writing.

06

Encryption and Its Limits

We are direct about what our design does and does not allow, because a child safety policy that overstates its own capability is worth nothing.

Messages, photos, videos, voice notes, and files shared between two paired users of Bini are end-to-end encrypted. The encryption keys are held on the users' own devices. We cannot read that content, and neither can anyone who obtains it from our servers. It follows that we cannot proactively scan private message content for CSAM, in the same way that other end-to-end encrypted messaging services cannot.

There is one deliberate exception, and it belongs to the user, not to us: a person in a conversation can choose to attach messages and media from it to a report. Their own device encrypts what they attach so that only our safety team can open it — our servers and our storage provider still cannot. Attaching gives us no key to the rest of that conversation: we can read only what a reporter chose to attach, and nothing else.

This does not leave us without means, and it does not reduce our obligations:

• User reports are our primary signal, which is why in-app reporting is available to every user on every screen where a concern can arise.
• Material that reporters choose to share is reviewed, together with profile pictures, account information, whatever a reporter writes in their report, any messages and media a reporter chooses to attach to an in-app report — encrypted by the reporter's own device so that only our safety team can open them — and anything sent to our safety address.
• Account-level signals (registration data, phone numbers, device and abuse patterns) are used for enforcement, and are available to law enforcement through valid legal process.
• We act on credible reports at the account level regardless of whether we can independently view the content.

Nothing in our encryption design is intended to shield offenders, and we will not design or market features whose purpose is to help anyone evade child safety enforcement.

07

Compliance With Child Safety Laws

RevuFlex LTD complies with all applicable child safety laws and regulations in the jurisdictions where Bini is available, including reporting obligations relating to apparent child sexual abuse material. Where the law of a jurisdiction imposes a stricter obligation than these standards, that obligation applies.

These standards are aligned with the child safety requirements of the platforms that distribute our app, including the Google Play Child Safety Standards policy and the App Store Review Guidelines on user-generated content. We review them at least annually, and whenever our product or the applicable law changes materially.

08

Child Safety Point of Contact

Our designated child safety point of contact for Bini is:

RevuFlex LTD — Child Safety
Child safety reports: abuse@thekissapp.com
Legal and law enforcement requests: legal@thekissapp.com
General support: support@thekissapp.com

Law enforcement and child protection agencies may write to legal@thekissapp.com for preservation requests and legal process, and should mark the subject line Child Safety — Urgent where a child may be at risk.

09

Help and Resources

If you or a child you know has been harmed, these organizations can help:

• NCMEC CyberTipline — report child sexual exploitation (United States, accepts international reports).
• Take It Down — free service to help remove intimate images taken of a minor.
• Internet Watch Foundation — report child sexual abuse imagery (United Kingdom and international).
• INHOPE — find the reporting hotline for your country.
• Thorn — resources for young people and families facing sextortion.

Related documents: Terms of Service · Privacy Policy · Delete Your Account.