DipIn is for adults who want to make genuine, spontaneous, real-life social plans. These rules apply to profiles, profile photos, Meetups, Availability posts, requests and responses, chats, and other user-generated content.
The goal is simple: make it possible to meet people in real life without turning DipIn into a dating platform, harassment channel, scam surface, or unsafe place.
1. Real-life social plans, not dating posts
Every Meetup or Availability must clearly initiate a genuine real-life encounter. If a post does not clearly do that, DipIn may remove it even when the post does not fit another violation category.
Do not use DipIn primarily to:
- seek dates or romantic matches;
- solicit sexual contact;
- post vague bait with no genuine social plan;
- pretend to offer a Meetup or Availability when the actual purpose is unrelated.
A simple social plan is fine. It does not need to be elaborate, but it should be clear enough that another person understands what you are inviting them to do.
2. Respect boundaries and consent
Do not:
- harass, threaten, intimidate, or bully another person;
- stalk someone or repeatedly contact them after they have made it clear that contact is unwanted;
- pressure someone to meet, stay, drink, use substances, share personal information, or continue a conversation;
- use hateful, demeaning, or discriminatory conduct toward a person or protected group;
- evade a block or moderation restriction by using another account or route.
A person can change their mind about meeting or communicating at any time.
3. No sexual exploitation or coercive conduct
DipIn prohibits:
- sexual solicitation through posts intended to find sexual contact;
- sexual pressure or coercion;
- grooming or exploitative conduct;
- content that facilitates sexual abuse;
- any child sexual abuse or exploitation content or conduct.
DipIn is an 18+ service. Content involving child sexual exploitation is prohibited regardless of context.
4. Be honest
Do not:
- impersonate another person;
- run scams or fraudulent schemes;
- deliberately misrepresent important details in order to manipulate others;
- use automated or deceptive behavior to create fake engagement;
- organize or facilitate illegal activity through DipIn.
5. Protect privacy
Do not publish or send another person's private or sensitive information without permission.
This includes, where relevant:
- private contact details;
- precise home or private-location information;
- authentication or financial information;
- private images or personal information that the person did not agree to share.
DipIn may intentionally display approximate rather than exact location information in public contexts. Do not defeat those privacy protections by posting another person's precise location yourself.
6. No spam or repeated unwanted promotion
Do not use DipIn for:
- repeated unsolicited messages;
- mass promotion;
- automated spam;
- repetitive commercial solicitation that interferes with genuine social use.
7. Keep content reasonably appropriate for the service
Do not post content whose primary purpose is to shock, exploit, threaten, sexually solicit, or otherwise create an unsafe environment.
DipIn may remove graphic, exploitative, or otherwise seriously inappropriate content when it conflicts with the purpose and safety of the service.
8. Reporting
Use the in-app report tools when you encounter content or behavior that may violate these rules.
Useful reports explain what happened without copying unrelated private information.
Depending on what is reported, DipIn may preserve a limited immutable report-time snapshot of relevant content. This means a later edit does not overwrite what the reporter actually saw.
For chat-message reports, only the reported message and limited surrounding context needed to understand it should be available to moderation; reporting one message does not give moderators unrestricted access to the whole conversation.
9. Blocking
Blocking is a safety control, not a punishment.
Where blocking applies, DipIn should prevent the blocked person from continuing the relevant direct interaction and should preserve privacy around the block. Do not attempt to evade another person's block.
10. How moderation works
Reports are reviewed in context. A report is not automatically proof that a rule was broken.
Multiple distinct active reports on the same Meetup or Availability may temporarily hide it from discovery while it is reviewed. That temporary hold is not, by itself, a final punishment.
Moderators may, depending on the evidence:
- restore content;
- take no action;
- warn a user;
- remove content;
- restrict specific actions;
- separately restrict or close a conversation;
- suspend or terminate an account where warranted.
A removed Meetup or Availability does not automatically close every existing chat. Chats can be restricted separately when the conversation or user conduct justifies that action.
11. Editing reported content
You may be able to edit some content after it has been reported.
Editing does not erase the report-time evidence retained for moderation. Moderators may be shown both:
- the immutable content captured when the report was submitted; and
- the current version, clearly labelled as current context.
This allows moderators to see whether content was corrected or changed without replacing the evidence of what was originally reported.
12. Ongoing moderation
DipIn's safety responsibilities do not end when a report button is added to the app.
DipIn should review reports, act on violations in a reasonably timely way, maintain appropriate moderation tools and audit trails, and continue evaluating whether its safety controls work in practice.
13. Questions about moderation
Questions about these Guidelines or a moderation decision can be sent to dipinhelp@outlook.com or through the Support page.