These are the child safety standards for ReWave, the ReWave mobile application. They apply to every user and to all content and behavior in the app — in private groups and in public groups alike, including answers, questions, chat messages, profile information and uploaded photos.
ReWave is a place for people to answer a shared question each day. It is not, and will never be, a place where minors are sexualized, exploited or endangered.
Zero tolerance
ReWave has zero tolerance for any content or behavior that sexualizes, exploits or endangers a minor. The following are strictly prohibited:
- Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — and any sexualized depiction of a minor, whether photographic, drawn, animated or AI-generated.
- Grooming — building trust with a minor in order to sexually abuse, exploit or coerce them.
- Sextortion — threatening to share intimate imagery of a person in order to coerce them.
- Soliciting, describing, requesting or offering sexual content involving a minor.
- Any other content or conduct that sexualizes, exploits or endangers a minor.
This applies regardless of intent, and regardless of whether the content is framed as fictional, humorous, artistic or hypothetical.
How we enforce these standards
Automated screening before publication
Answers submitted in public groups are automatically screened before they are published. Content that our systems classify as sexual content involving minors is rejected and deleted — it never becomes visible to other users. We deliberately apply a stricter threshold to this category than to any other.
Automated review of reports
Any answer that is reported in the app — in a public or private group — is additionally classified by an automated AI moderation system. High-confidence violations are hidden immediately, and every report is recorded for human review.
In-app reporting and blocking
Every answer and every chat message in the app can be reported by any user, directly from the app, including a dedicated category for sexual or inappropriate content. In public groups, users can also blockanother user, which hides that user's content from them.
Photos and GIFs in private group chats
Members of a private group can share photos from their camera or photo library, and GIFs from a third-party GIF library, in that group's chat. This is limited to private groups — photos cannot be posted to public groups or to any public feed, and are visible only to the members of that group.
- GIFs come from a third-party library and are restricted, on our servers, to that library's strictest content rating. This restriction cannot be changed from the app.
- Every photo and GIF can be reported by any member of the group, using the same categories as answers — including the dedicated child safety category.
- The sender can delete their own message, and a group admin can delete any message in their group. When a photo is deleted it is also removed from our storage, not merely hidden.
- Reported chat messages enter the same moderation queue as reported answers, where child safety reports are reviewed first, and can be removed by our moderators.
Human review, with priority
Reported content enters a moderation queue for human review. Reports concerning child safety are treated as the highest priority and are reviewed ahead of all other reports.
Removal and account termination
Where we find a violation of these standards, we remove the violating content, ban the responsible user, and permanently terminate their ReWave account. Users removed for violating our child safety standards are not permitted to return.
How to raise a child safety concern
If you encounter content or behavior in ReWave that endangers a minor, please report it immediately. Child safety reports are reviewed with priority.
- In the app — use the report function on the answer in question and select the reason that fits.
- By email — support@rewave.social. Use this for anything you cannot report from within the app — for example a chat message, a profile photo, or the behavior of a user. Please include enough detail for us to find the content (group, approximate time, and what you saw).
If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.
Age requirement
ReWave is not directed to children. Users must be at least 13 years old to use ReWave. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13, and where we become aware that an account belongs to a user below the minimum age, we remove it. See our Privacy Policy for details.