Child Safety Standards 🐾
Mentored by Mutts is a community for dog owners. Child sexual abuse and exploitation has no place on it, in any form. This page sets out what we prohibit, what we do about it, and how to reach us.
1What is prohibited
The following are forbidden on Mentored by Mutts, without exception:
- Child sexual abuse material (CSAM), in any format, including drawn, edited or computer-generated imagery.
- Sexualising a minor in text, images, video, comments, profile details or private messages.
- Grooming: building a relationship with a minor, or with someone presented as a minor, for sexual purposes.
- Sextortion, solicitation of sexual imagery, and arranging or advertising sexual contact with a minor.
- Trafficking of minors, and any promotion, glorification or facilitation of the above.
- Linking to, or directing anyone towards, material or services of this kind elsewhere.
These standards apply to every part of the service: posts, photos and video, comments, profiles, team and mutt pages, and direct messages.
An account requires the user to be at least 13 years old, or older where local law requires it, as set out in our Help and our Terms of Service. The service is not designed for or directed at children.
2How to report
Inside the app or on the website. Every post, comment and profile has a report option:
- On a post, open the ··· menu and choose Report this post. On the post’s own page there is a Report button.
- On someone’s profile, use Report beneath their name.
- Pick Child safety as the reason. Those reports are separated out and treated as urgent.
By email. Anyone, member or not, anywhere in the world, can write to geoff.creaghan@mentoredbymutts.com. Tell us where the content is (a link, a name, or a description) and what you saw. You do not need an account to report.
Please do not download, copy or forward suspected child sexual abuse material, not even to show us. Send us the link or the location and we will retrieve it.
If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.
3How we respond
- Reports are reviewed by a person. Child safety reports go to the top of the queue and are aimed to be assessed within 24 hours.
- Content that breaches these standards is removed, and the account is suspended or terminated. We do not issue warnings for this category.
- Confirmed child sexual abuse material is reported to the relevant authority, which for us in the United States is the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and to regional and national authorities where the law requires it.
- Evidence is preserved as required by law and handed to the authorities on lawful request. We do not otherwise keep such material.
- We take reasonable steps to prevent a terminated account from returning under a new name.
4How we reduce the risk
- An account and an accepted set of Terms are required before anything can be posted.
- Every member can block or mute another member, hide their posts, and choose who may send them a direct message.
- Administrators can remove any post, photo, comment or account, and can act on a report without the reporter being identified to the person reported.
- Uploads are checked for whether they show a dog, which keeps unrelated imagery off the platform.
- Our HelpTerms of Service forbid this conduct and permit immediate termination for it.
5Point of contact
Questions about these standards, about our practices for preventing child sexual abuse material, or from law enforcement, go to our designated contact:
Geoff Creaghan
Mentored by Mutts LLC
geoff.creaghan@mentoredbymutts.com
Related pages: HelpTerms of Service · Privacy Policy.