Community Guideline

1. Be respectful

Treat other people the way you would want to be treated. Most of what follows is already obvious to you.

• No harassment, bullying, threats, intimidation or stalking.
• No hate speech and no discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or any comparable ground.
• No insults or abuse directed at another person, in a chat, in an invitation, on an event or anywhere else.
• Disagreement is fine. Contempt is not.

2. Be real, and be yourself

• Use your own photos and your own information. No impersonation, no invented identity, no pretending to be someone you are not.
• You must be 18 or older to use KIBAKI.
• One person, one account.
• A verified profile is required in order to appear in the list of people nearby, to join an event, to send an invitation, to propose a plan or to create an event. Verification is how we keep invented accounts out of the places where real people meet.

3. Invitations and plans

Nothing on KIBAKI opens by itself. There is no messaging before an invitation is accepted. That is deliberate, and these rules protect it.

• A decline is an answer. If someone declines your invitation, or does not respond to it, do not send another one. One invitation is an invitation. A second is pressure.
• An invitation is not a message channel. The note you add to an invitation reaches someone who has not yet agreed to hear from you. Keep it to what it is for: which event, or which plan, and why you thought of them. Nothing sexual, nothing insistent, nothing you would not say in front of other people.
• Invite people to things you are actually going to. An invitation to an event you do not intend to attend is not a plan.
• Be honest about what you are proposing. A coffee is a coffee. Do not describe a plan as one thing in order to arrange something else.
• You can report an invitation, not only a chat. If an invitation is abusive or inappropriate, report it. We review invitations like any other content.

4. Events

An event is something people do together, in a real place, at a real time. Everything in this section follows from that.

If you create an event:

• It must be real. A real place, a real time, and you must intend to be there.
• Describe it accurately: what it is, where the area is, when it starts, what it costs, and roughly how many people you expect.
• You are the host. Your name is shown on your event. That is not optional, and it is the reason people feel able to come.
• If you have to cancel, say so as early as you can, in the app, to the people who are coming.
• Do not create an event in order to reach one specific person. That is what an invitation or a plan is for.

What an event must not be:

• Not built around romance, around finding a partner, or around anyone’s relationship status. KIBAKI is for things people do together. Events framed around who is single, or around pairing people up, are removed.
• Not a sales pitch, a recruitment event, a pyramid or referral scheme, or a promotion for another service or app.
• Not sexual, and not an event at which sexual activity is the purpose.
• Not an event involving illegal activity, drugs, weapons, or anything likely to put the people who come at risk.
• Not restricted on the basis of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or any comparable ground. You can host an event for Persian speakers, for beginners at something, for parents, for runners. You cannot exclude people on a protected ground.

If you are going to an event:

• If you say you are going, go. If you cannot, change your answer so the host knows.
• Respect the host, the venue and the other people there.
• The host sets the tone of their event. If you are asked to leave, leave.
• If an event is not what it was described as, leave and report it.

Money at events. Some events cost something — a ticket, a table, a share of a bill. A price must be stated honestly on the event, and it is paid directly to the host or the venue, in person. KIBAKI does not take payments for events and does not hold anyone’s money. Anyone asking for payment through the app, by transfer, or in advance of an event is breaking these guidelines, and you should report them.

5. Keep it appropriate

• No nudity, pornography, or sexually explicit or suggestive content — in a profile, a photo, an event, an invitation or a message.
• No violent, graphic or shocking content.
• Nothing that promotes self-harm, dangerous behaviour or illegal activity.
• No content that promotes or glorifies terrorism, extremism or organised violence.

This applies to everything you upload, including the photo on an event.

6. Photos, and other people in them

• Upload your own photos. Do not use photos of someone else as your own.
• If another person is identifiable in a photo you upload, you need their consent. This applies to profile photos, to event photos, and to anything you send in a chat.
• Do not photograph people at an event and publish the photos without asking them. An event is not a public stage.
• No photos of children, including your own, in your profile.
• Do not alter a photo of another person, and do not use tools to generate images of a real person.

7. No commercial or harmful use

• No prostitution, no escort services, and no exchanging companionship or any form of intimacy for money or goods.
• No soliciting money, gifts, donations, bank details or financial information from other users. The stated price of a real event, paid in person to the host, is not covered by this rule. Anything else is.
• No spam, scams, phishing or fraud of any kind.
• No advertising, no promotion of other services or apps, and no using KIBAKI to build a customer list.
• No automated access, scraping, bulk messaging or bulk invitations.
• No collecting other users’ data or photos for use anywhere else.

If someone you have met here asks you for money, do not send it. Report them.

8. Protect privacy

• Do not share another person’s private information — their photos, their messages, their contact details, their address or their location — without their consent.
• Do not screenshot or republish a private conversation in order to embarrass or harm someone.
• Only the area of an event is shown publicly, not an exact address. Do not publish someone’s exact address, and do not pass on an address you were given in confidence.
• Respect the boundaries other people set, the first time they set them.

9. Protecting minors

KIBAKI is strictly for adults, and there is no version of this rule that bends.

Any content that sexualises, endangers or involves a minor is forbidden and is removed immediately. Accounts found to belong to a person under 18 are removed and permanently blocked. We report child sexual abuse material and related conduct to the competent authorities, including the Bundeskriminalamt in Germany and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children where appropriate. We do not wait to be asked.

Zero tolerance, without exception.

If you believe a minor is using KIBAKI, or you see content of this kind, report it in the app or write to childsafety@kibaki.com. Reports of this kind are our highest priority. Our full approach is set out in our Child Safety Standards.

10. Reporting and blocking

If something breaks these guidelines, or someone makes you uncomfortable, you do not have to explain yourself to anyone before acting.

• Block any user. They can no longer contact you or see your profile.
• Report a profile, a photo, an event, an invitation, a chat or a single message, directly in the app.
• Reporting and blocking never require a verified profile.
• You can also write to support@kibaki.com, with or without an account.

Reports are reviewed by our team, supported by automated tools. We aim to act on reports of objectionable content and conduct promptly, and typically within 24 hours. Child safety reports are treated as the highest priority.

We may remove content, cancel an event, restrict an account or remove it entirely. We also act on what we find ourselves — a report is not a precondition.

11. Staying safe in person

Everything here happens face to face in the end. The app does part of the work; the rest is yours.

• Take your time. There is no reason to share personal details, your address or your workplace before you have met.
• Meet in a public place the first time, and tell a friend where you are going and when you expect to be back.
• A group event is not the same as meeting one person. For a plan with one person, choose somewhere public and keep your own way of getting home.
• Never send money to someone you have met here, for any reason, however convincing it sounds.
• Keep it on KIBAKI until you are ready. Someone pushing you to move to another app immediately is a pattern worth noticing.
• Trust your instinct. If something feels wrong, leave. You do not owe anyone an explanation, and you can report them afterwards.
• If you are in immediate danger, contact the local emergency services first. In Germany and across the EU, call 112.

12. What happens if you break these guidelines

What we do depends on what happened. We may remove a piece of content, cancel an event, limit a feature, suspend an account or remove it permanently.

Some things lead to immediate and permanent removal: anything involving a minor, sexual content, threats of violence, fraud, and soliciting money.

If we remove your content or restrict your account, we tell you what we decided and why. If you think we got it wrong, write to support@kibaki.com and say so. Your objection is reviewed by a person, not by an automated system. If we were wrong, we reverse it.

13. Contact

Questions about these guidelines, and all reports: support@kibaki.com
Child safety and law enforcement: childsafety@kibaki.com
Data protection: privacy@kibaki.com

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