Last updated 27 May 2026
Links is operated by LINKS SOCIAL UK LTD. These published standards apply to the Links mobile application, website, events features, messaging features, user profiles, event photos, planned social media/photo sharing features, third-party advertiser event suggestions, and related services.
Links is not intended for children. Users must meet the age requirements in our Terms & Conditions. Regardless of age restrictions, we maintain strict standards against child sexual abuse and exploitation.
1. Zero tolerance for CSAE and CSAM
Links prohibits child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Users, event organisers, and advertisers must not create, upload, share, request, promote, store, or distribute content or behaviour that exploits, abuses, sexualises, grooms, endangers, traffics, extorts, or otherwise harms a child.
This prohibition applies to messages, group chats, event titles and descriptions, event attendee interactions, profile content, usernames, photos, event photos taken by or from other users, captions, links, suggested events, advertiser content, and any future social feed or public photo features.
Examples of prohibited conduct include, but are not limited to:
- CSAM or any sexualised depiction of a minor, including real, edited, AI-generated, animated, or illustrated material.
- Grooming, sextortion, sexual solicitation, trafficking, or attempts to move a child to another service for sexual purposes.
- Requests for sexual images or sexual conversations involving a minor.
- Content that identifies, advertises, or facilitates access to a child for abuse or exploitation.
- Jokes, coded language, links, event listings, or advertiser/suggested event content that promotes or normalises CSAE.
2. User-generated events, messages, and photos
Links lets users message each other and create events that may be shown to friends and friends of friends. Users are responsible for the content they create and share, and must only post lawful content that respects the rights and safety of others.
For social photo features, including photos taken at other users' events and photos visible beyond a direct friend group, users must have the right and appropriate consent to share the image. Photos must not include sexualised minors, CSAM, non-consensual intimate imagery, harassment, doxxing, or content that creates a child safety risk.
Links may remove content, limit distribution, disable event listings, restrict messaging, suspend accounts, terminate accounts, or take other enforcement action where content or behaviour violates these standards.
3. Reporting and blocking
Users can report users from within the Links app where report controls are available, including from user-related menus such as friend, attendee, or group chat screens. Users can also block or remove other users. Blocking helps limit further interaction by removing friendship, blocking direct messages, and limiting event visibility.
Users can also contact Links support by using the contact email provided inside the app or by directly emailing linksapp.contact@gmail.com. For child safety or CSAE reports, include as much detail as safely possible, such as usernames, event names, screenshots, dates, and a description of the concern.
If a child is in immediate danger, users should contact local emergency services or law enforcement first.
4. How Links handles CSAM and CSAE reports
When Links obtains actual knowledge of suspected CSAM or CSAE, we may take steps including:
- Reviewing the report and relevant account, event, message, photo, or advertiser records.
- Removing or disabling access to violating content.
- Suspending or terminating accounts involved in CSAE or CSAM.
- Restricting event distribution, messaging, social/photo sharing, or advertiser/suggested event access.
- Preserving relevant information where appropriate for safety, investigation, or legal compliance.
- Reporting confirmed CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) or the relevant regional authority where required by applicable law.
- Cooperating with lawful requests from law enforcement or child safety authorities.
We do not notify a reported user if doing so would increase risk, interfere with an investigation, or conflict with legal or safety obligations.
5. Third-party advertiser and suggested event standards
Links may show event suggestions from third-party advertisers or organisers. Advertiser content and suggested events must comply with these Child Safety Standards, our Terms & Conditions, and applicable law.
Advertisers and organisers must not:
- Target minors with adult, sexual, exploitative, unsafe, or otherwise inappropriate events or content.
- Use sexualised child imagery, grooming language, or content that suggests access to minors for exploitation.
- Promote events, venues, links, or services that facilitate child endangerment, trafficking, or sexual exploitation.
Links may reject, remove, or restrict advertiser content and suggested events that present child safety risks or violate these standards.
6. Child safety point of contact
Google Play, users, law enforcement, and child safety organisations may contact our child safety team at:
Please include "Child Safety" or "CSAE" in the subject line for urgent routing. This contact can receive notifications about potential CSAE content and is responsible for coordinating review and enforcement action.
7. Related policies
These standards should be read alongside our Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, and Support page.
We may update these standards as Links adds new messaging, events, social, photo, advertising, or safety features.