AVENIQUE CHILD SAFETY & CSAM ENFORCEMENT POLICY

Last Updated: July 16, 2026

Applies to: the Avenique mobile application, website, and related services (the "Service")

Avenique is an adults-only platform. You must be 18 or older to create an account or use the Service. Protecting children from exploitation, exposure, and contact on our Service is a non-negotiable priority.

This Policy explains (1) what is prohibited, (2) how users should report child-safety concerns, (3) how we detect and respond, and (4) when we preserve evidence and refer matters to authorities. It works together with our Safety Rules (Section 4: Child Safety) and Community Guidelines.

1. SCOPE AND ZERO-TOLERANCE RULE

The following are banned without exception:

Minors on the platform: Accounts for anyone under 18; assisting a minor to access the Service (sharing an account, verifying on their behalf, or vouching for their age).

Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM): Uploading, sharing, requesting, describing, or linking to any content that sexualizes, exploits, or endangers a minor. This includes AI-generated, drawn, animated, or otherwise synthetic depictions.

Grooming and solicitation of minors: Any attempt to contact, meet, sexualize, or build a romantic or sexual relationship with a minor, on or off the platform, when connected to Avenique use.

Sextortion and exploitation: Threatening to share, or sharing, intimate imagery of any person who is or appears to be a minor, or coercing, blackmailing, or extorting any person in connection with such imagery, including financially motivated sextortion.

Photos containing minors: Profile photos that include children, even family members. Crop them out or choose a different photo.

Violations may result in immediate account restriction or permanent ban, evidence preservation, and referral to law enforcement or mandated reporting organizations where required by law.

2. HOW TO REPORT

In the App (preferred): Use the in-App report flow and select the child-safety / underage category. If you cannot find that category, select the closest available category and describe the child-safety concern in the report text; all reports referencing minors are routed to the priority queue regardless of the category selected. In-App reporting helps us preserve the evidence trail we need.

By web form: Use the contact form at the bottom of this page (choose Safety or child-safety report).

Do not:

Message the suspected account about your report.
Forward, re-upload, or circulate suspected CSAM.
Download or screenshot suspected CSAM for sharing outside the official report path.

If you are a parent, guardian, or educator and believe a minor is attempting to use Avenique, use the contact form at the bottom of this page (choose Safety or child-safety report). We will act to identify, suspend, and remove the account.

3. DETECTION AND PREVENTION CONTROLS

We use a combination of technical controls, vendor tools, and human review. Specific models and vendors may change; the obligations described in this Policy do not.

3.1 Age and access controls

Self-declared date of birth must indicate age 18 or older at profile creation.
During identity / liveness verification, we evaluate an age-related signal from our verification vendor. Estimated underage outcomes do not grant verification and place the account under review. Missing required age signals fail closed (verification does not complete).
We do not return raw age estimates to the client UI.

3.2 Profile photo screening

Profile photos are screened with automated image moderation for prohibited categories that include content involving minors and child sexual abuse material, among other Trust & Safety categories.
Severe category flags result in photo rejection and open a high-priority Trust & Safety case for human review.
If image moderation is unavailable, uploads are held for review rather than auto-approved.

3.3 Messaging and other signals

Messages are subject to automated Trust & Safety classification and rate / risk controls described in our internal Safety Framework, under the consent described in Section 7.4 of the Terms of Use.
Text moderation requests child-safety categories (including CSAM and underage). Flags open a high-priority human-review case and hold the message from delivery. Client responses stay generic and do not name the category.
If the text moderation vendor is unavailable, we open a high-priority child-safety vendor-hold case rather than silently dropping the signal.
Grooming-adjacent signals used for romance-scam trajectory scoring do not by themselves equal a CSAM classification.

Discretionary review controls: While BafaTech utilizes automated screening, machine-learning filters, and human moderation teams to identify potential safety risks, BafaTech reserves the right to suspend, restrict, or permanently terminate any account immediately based on automated flags, machine scores, human review, or any combination thereof, in order to protect the platform and its members.

3.4 Operational discretion

BafaTech operates a multi-layered moderation system. Internal guidelines, human-review targets, and operational benchmarks are administrative tools that help us run that system well; they do not create contractual obligations or warranties requiring BafaTech to complete human review before taking swift enforcement action to protect the platform. This Section does not limit the appeal rights described in Section 6 of the Community Guidelines or any right you have under mandatory applicable law.

3.5 What this Policy does not claim

Automated screening reduces risk; it does not guarantee that every prohibited item is detected before a human sees a report. Users remain responsible for reporting suspected violations immediately.

4. TRIAGE, SLA, AND PRIORITY

User reports and system-generated cases involving suspected minors or CSAM are triaged ahead of all other moderation queues and are routed to dedicated, trained reviewers.
Severe child-safety cases (CSAM, suspected underage users, credible threats) receive the fastest human review our systems and staffing allow, and we maintain internal operational standards for these queues that we review and audit regularly.
Account discovery may be hidden, Contact Window unlock frozen, and messaging restricted immediately and automatically while a case is under review, without waiting for human review to complete.

5. ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

Depending on severity and confirmation, we may take one or more of the following:

Reject or remove content.
Hide the account from discovery.
Suspend or permanently ban the account.
Retain identity-linked fraud and ban signals (including hashed phone number, device identifier, and, for permanent bans involving serious violations, a face-derived ban signal as described in and governed by our Biometric Information Policy) to prevent circumvention.
Place a legal hold on relevant records.
Refer the matter to NCMEC (CyberTipline), NAPTIP, or other appropriate law-enforcement or child-protection authorities where required or appropriate.

Appeals for ordinary moderation decisions are described in our Community Guidelines. Enforcement actions taken under an active legal hold are not eligible for standard appeal while the hold remains active.

6. EVIDENCE PRESERVATION AND LEGAL HOLDS

Where an account is subject to a child-safety investigation or legal hold:

Relevant evidence is preserved for at least one (1) year, or longer if required by law or an open legal process, independent of an ordinary deletion request.
We do not store raw government ID images app-side. When government ID verification is enabled, verification vendors host ID imagery; we retain results, confidence, and related integrity signals as described in our Privacy Policy and Biometric Information Policy.
We avoid writing message bodies or raw suspected CSAM into ordinary application logs.
Account deletion / "right to be forgotten" requests do not override these preservation obligations. See our Privacy Policy for related exceptions.

7. MANDATORY REPORTING AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

Where required by applicable law, we preserve evidence and report apparent child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) CyberTipline and/or to local authorities, including NAPTIP for Nigeria-based matters, or other competent agencies.

We respond to lawful process (subpoenas, court orders, emergency disclosures) as described in our Privacy Policy. We do not tip off subjects of an active child-safety investigation when doing so would interfere with law enforcement or endanger a child.

8. FALSE REPORTS AND ABUSE OF PROCESS

Good-faith child-safety reports are encouraged and treated confidentially. Knowingly false reports intended to harass another user may themselves violate the Community Guidelines and can result in enforcement action.

9. CONTACT

Use the contact form at the bottom of this page:

Child safety reports: choose Safety or child-safety report
Appeals (non-legal-hold): choose Appeals
Privacy / data rights: choose Privacy inquiry or Data rights or deletion request

Website legal pages are published at avenique.app.

10. CHANGES

We may update this Policy to reflect legal requirements, product changes, or improved controls. Material updates will be versioned and announced before taking effect. Continued use of the Service after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy where permitted by law.

If this Policy conflicts with applicable law, the law controls to the extent of the conflict.