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How to get something taken down, how to report a person, and what happens after you do.

Last updated 22 August 2026

What to put in a removal request

Keep it short. We would rather have an incomplete request quickly than a perfect one late. Tell us:

1. Your name and a way to reach you. An email address is enough.
2. Where the image is. A link, a screenshot of the page or message, a username, or a description in your own words. Any of these works.
3. That you are the person in the image — or that you are acting for them as their parent, guardian or authorised representative.
4. That you did not agree to it being shared. One sentence is fine.

Do not send us the image. We do not need it and we do not want another copy of it in another inbox. A description or a link is enough.

We will not ask you for photo ID. We will not ask you to prove your identity with a document, we will not ask you to make an account, and we will not ask you to explain how the image came to exist.

What happens after you send it

• We reply with a tracking number so you have something to refer to and are not left wondering whether the message arrived.
• Within 48 hours of a valid request we remove the image and any identical copies we know about anywhere on the service.
• We delete the image. We do not currently keep a fingerprint of it. If the same file is posted again, report it again — a person reads every report. At this size that is the whole control; if we later keep a fingerprint, this page will say so.
• We tell you when it is done.
• If something in the request is unclear, we come back to you with one specific question rather than rejecting it. The 48 hours runs from the point we have what we need.
• We remove the account of whoever posted it.

If 48 hours pass and you have heard nothing, write again and say so. That is a failure on our side and we want to know about it.

Getting it off other services too

We can only remove what is on our service. These two organisations can help with the rest, they are free, and they do not require you to send anyone the image — your device creates a fingerprint of it locally and only that fingerprint is shared with participating platforms.

Reporting a person or a message

Inside the product, every profile, message and piece of content has a report control. It is not buried in a settings menu. Use it whenever something feels wrong — you do not need to be certain, and you do not need to justify it.

Without an account: if you do not use this service but something on it concerns you — a profile using your photos, someone contacting a person you are worried about, anything else — use the report form or email hello@passion.dating. You will not be asked to sign up first, and the form does not ask you to.

Report anything in the list of prohibited conduct, and anything that is not on that list but is clearly wrong. The list is not the limit of what we act on.

Blocking

Any user can block any other user, immediately, at any time. It takes effect at once: they cannot message you, see you, or find you through the service, and they are not told that you blocked them.

Blocking needs nobody’s agreement but yours. What it does, though, is symmetric: any conversation you shared closes for both of you, and you stop seeing them just as they stop seeing you. That is deliberate — a block you can still watch someone through is not really a block — but it is worth knowing before you use it.

Blocking and reporting are separate. You can do either without the other, though blocking someone is a good idea whenever you report them.

What happens when you report someone

• A person reads it. Every report. Not an automated triage system that closes it unread.
• We aim to respond within 24 hours.
• We tell you what we did. Not always in detail — we will not share another person's private information with you — but you will not be left guessing whether anything happened.
• The person reported is not told who reported them.
• Depending on what we find, we remove the content, warn, restrict, suspend or permanently remove the account, and where it is warranted we report it to law enforcement.

Reporting someone in bad faith — to win an argument, or to get at somebody — is itself a rule violation.

Anything involving a child

This service is for adults, 18 and over.

Sexual content involving a minor is removed on sight, the account is terminated permanently, and the incident is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's CyberTipline, as US law requires of us. There is no warning, no appeal on the merits, and no version of this we treat as a grey area.

The same applies to an adult attempting to contact or solicit a minor through the service.

You can also report directly to NCMEC at report.cybertip.org or on 1-800-843-5678. Please do both — tell them and tell us.

Unsolicited sexual images

Sending someone a sexual image they did not ask for is not a misstep or a joke that landed badly. It is a rule violation and it gets the account removed. Around a third of people who use services like this one have received one; over half of women under fifty have. It is the most common harm in this category and we treat it as such rather than as an inevitability.

Report it and block. You do not have to look at it twice, and you do not have to keep it as evidence — tell us the account and roughly when, and we can find it.

Scams, and what we tell you about them

Never send money to someone you met here. Not by transfer, not by gift card, not in crypto, not as an investment, not for a plane ticket or a hospital bill or a customs fee. There is no genuine situation in which someone you have not met needs your money urgently. The average payment in this kind of scam more than tripled in a single recent year, and the people running them do it full time.

Signs worth trusting: the conversation moves off the service fast; the photos are too polished; they cannot do a video call; they are unexpectedly wealthy, unexpectedly stranded, or both; the money is always the next step.

If we ban someone for fraud who had been in contact with you, we will tell you. Within 24 hours where we can, and never later than three days. The notice will say which account it was, that it was banned and why, warn you not to send money, and point you at fraud-avoidance information.

This obligation exists in New York law and applies only to New York members. We apply it to everyone, because there is no defensible reason to warn one person and not another.

Report fraud to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov and to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov. Then tell us, so we can remove them.

Our safety practices, stated plainly

Prohibited conduct

Set out in full in the terms of service, and the measures we take against illegal content are described in the section after it.

Verification — what we do and do not do

This part matters, so it is not hedged:

• We do not run criminal background checks on members. Nobody on this service has been screened against any criminal record or sex-offender registry. A background check is not a substitute for caution and we do not want you to think one has happened.
• We do not verify anybody's identity against government records. No ID checks, no document uploads.
• What we do instead is the social graph. The beta is invite-only and you see friends and friends-of-friends. Someone vouched for by a person you both know is a genuinely different proposition from an anonymous account — there is a real person who introduced them, and real social consequence if they behave badly. That is the design, and it is the main reason for the invite system.

Treat everyone you meet here as a stranger, because they are.

When we notify members who had contact with a reported member

• Fraud bans: we notify everyone who exchanged messages with the banned account, as described above.
• Removal for a threat to someone's safety: we notify people who were in contact with that account where we believe they may be at risk.
• Other removals: we do not send a general notice, because a report is an allegation and broadcasting it can do its own harm. If you reported the account, we tell you what happened to it.

Suspension practices

We can warn, restrict what an account can do, suspend it while we look into something, or remove it permanently. The serious categories — content involving a child, nonconsensual intimate images, credible threats, fraud — are immediate permanent removal, not a warning. Anyone removed can appeal by emailing hello@passion.dating, and the appeal does not require an account.

Meeting someone in person

Most of the risk in a service like this is concentrated in the first in-person meeting. The usual advice, which is usual because it works:

• Meet somewhere public, the first time and the second.
• Get yourself there and get yourself home. Do not be dependent on them for a lift.
• Tell someone where you are going, who with, and when you expect to be back. Share your location with them if you can.
• Video call before you meet. Someone who will not is telling you something.
• Do not leave a drink unattended, and do not accept one you did not watch being poured.
• Keep the conversation on the service until you are comfortable. If something goes wrong afterwards, we can only see what happened here.
• Leave whenever you want to, for any reason or none. You do not owe anyone politeness at the cost of your safety.

Where else to get help

• Emergency: 911
• Intimate images shared without consent, 18+: StopNCII.org
• Intimate images of a minor: takeitdown.ncmec.org · CyberTipline report.cybertip.org or 1-800-843-5678
• Image abuse support: Cyber Civil Rights Initiative crisis helpline, 844-878-2274
• Sexual assault: RAINN, 1-800-656-4673, rainn.org
• Domestic violence: The Hotline, 1-800-799-7233, thehotline.org
• Suicide and crisis: call or text 988
• Fraud: reportfraud.ftc.gov · ic3.gov

Contact

A person reads this address. Not a ticketing system. Anything on this page can be sent here, with or without an account.

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