Safety is the product, not a page.
Most dating apps put safety in a help centre. Here it is the reason the product exists, so it is built into the rules rather than into advice.
Everyone has shown a government ID.
A passport, driving licence or national ID card, checked by Stripe Identity before anyone can send a first message. We are told whether it passed. We never see or keep the document.
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The rule lives in the database
An unverified account is refused at the point the message would be written, not hidden behind a button. There is no version of this app where the check can be skipped.
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One person, one account
A document can only verify one member, which is what makes a scammer's usual approach — many accounts, many targets — expensive rather than free.
What else protects you
Your face, on your terms
Photos stay blurred until you and one other person have both said hello. Nobody browses your face.
Never your address
Profiles carry a London borough, chosen from a list. There is nowhere to put a street, a postcode or a workplace.
Report or block in two taps
From any introduction or conversation. Blocking is immediate and mutual: you disappear from each other, and the conversation closes.
A person reads every report
Not a filter, and not only when a report is popular. Reports are anonymous to the person reported.
No feed to be hunted through
Five introductions a week, chosen by rules. Nobody can trawl the membership looking for a target.
Leaving is one decision
Deleting your account removes your profile, photos and messages. No retention offers, no cooling-off period, no emails afterwards.
Meeting in person
Verification makes it far likelier that the person is who they say they are. It cannot make someone kind. The usual advice still holds, and it is not an insult to follow it.
- Meet somewhere public the first time, and get yourself there and back.
- Tell one person where you are going and when you expect to be home.
- Keep talking inside Second Act until you are comfortable moving elsewhere.
- Nobody who is real will ever need money from you. Not for a flight, not for an emergency, not for an investment. Report it here and stop replying.
- If you feel pushed, you are allowed to leave without explaining. Nobody is told you left.
If something goes wrong
Use report and block from the conversation. Tell us what happened in your own words — it goes to a person, and it is read. If you are in immediate danger, call 999 first; we will help with anything we hold afterwards.
Checked before anyone can talk to you.
That is the whole idea, and it is why there is nothing to scroll.
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