Last updated: November 4, 2026
BeFriend is a friendship app for people to meet new friends. The safety of young people on BeFriend is our highest priority. These standards explain how we prevent, detect, and respond to child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE), including child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Our standards
BeFriend prohibits any content or behavior that sexually exploits, abuses, or endangers children. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Creating, sharing, requesting, or threatening to share sexual images or videos of anyone under 18, including images that teens take of themselves
- Sexual messages, comments, or requests directed at anyone under 18 by an adult
- Grooming: building a relationship with a minor in order to sexually exploit them, including attempts to move a minor to another app or to meet in person for sexual purposes
- Sextortion: threatening to share intimate images to get money, more images, or anything else
- Offering or asking for money, gifts, or anything of value in exchange for sexual content or contact with a minor
- Content that sexualizes minors in any way, including drawings, AI-generated images, and text
How we protect young users
- Age requirements and age groups. You must be at least 15 years old to use BeFriend. In some places the minimum age is higher — for example 17 for our iOS app in most countries, and 18 in the United Kingdom and Ireland — and the age shown when you sign up applies to you. Users under 17 are placed in a separate age group and can only discover, match and chat with others in that group.
- Age accuracy. Anyone can report a user they believe has misstated their age. When our team finds that a user’s age is wrong, we correct it, restrict the account, or remove it.
- Detection. We use a combination of automated tools and trained human moderators to detect and remove content and accounts that violate these standards, including photo moderation and analysis to detect child-safety risks.
- Image protections. Images sent in chat are blurred by default and nude or sexual images are not allowed on BeFriend.
Reporting
Anyone can report a user, profile, photo, post, or message from inside the app by tapping the report or “…” icon and choosing a reason. Reports related to child safety are prioritized for review by our moderation team.
Parents, guardians, educators, and others without a BeFriend account can contact our child-safety team at support@befriend.cc.
How we respond
- Content that violates these standards is removed, and the accounts involved are permanently banned, including on the devices they used.
- Our moderators report child sexual abuse material and child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) through its CyberTipline, and to other relevant authorities as required by law.
- We respond to valid requests from law enforcement in accordance with applicable law.
Compliance with the law
BeFriend complies with applicable child-safety laws and regulations in the countries where we operate, including obligations to report child sexual abuse material to the appropriate authorities.
Contact
Our designated child-safety point of contact can be reached at support@befriend.cc. ORBITECH PTE. LTD., 120 Lower Delta Road, #07-14 Cendex Centre, Singapore 169208.