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Child Safety Standards

Last updated: 2026-06-22

Larnnit has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) and for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This document is our externally published standard, in line with the Google Play Child Safety Standards Policy. It applies to every surface of the Larnnit platform — feed posts, reels, communities, chat, comments, tutoring sessions, and the marketplace.

1. Our position

  • Larnnit does not allow any content, conduct, or contact that sexually exploits, endangers, grooms, or otherwise harms a minor.
  • Larnnit does not allow child sexual abuse material (CSAM) of any kind, including computer-generated, illustrated, or modified material.
  • Accounts that engage in CSAE or share CSAM are permanently banned, and the underlying user is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to the relevant regional or national authorities where the conduct occurred or where the offender is located.

2. Age, consent, and platform defaults

Larnnit is designed for university-age students. Where younger users are permitted by local law, additional protections apply. The full rules live in our Children's Privacy Notice, but the practical safeguards relevant to CSAE prevention are:

  • Accounts for users under 13 are not permitted. If we discover one, we deactivate it and delete the data.
  • Accounts identified as belonging to minors (13–17) default to a private profile, with direct-message invitations from non-followers blocked, public discoverability off, location sharing off, and behavioural advertising disabled.
  • Marketplace selling, tutor profiles, and the audio-rooms host role are gated at 18+.

3. Prevention practices

Before content is published, while it is on the platform, and after a report is filed, we run the following safeguards:

  • Pre-publish moderation. Posts, comments, reel captions, and chat messages pass through an AI moderation gate tuned to flag CSAE-indicative content, grooming language, and requests to move minors off-platform. Flagged items are queued for human review before they are visible to others.
  • Image and video screening. Uploaded media is scored by our AI moderation classifier on upload; suspected CSAM is blocked from publishing, the uploading account is suspended pending review, and the case is escalated to law enforcement. We are integrating hash-based matching against industry-standard databases of known CSAM (e.g. NCMEC PhotoDNA equivalents) so any image previously identified by law enforcement is detected before upload completes. Until that integration is live, the AI classifier plus user reporting plus human review act as the screen.
  • Direct-messaging guardrails.Minors cannot receive direct messages from accounts they don't follow. Tutors are required to keep contact with student users on the platform — taking minors to external chat apps, calls, or payment is grounds for permanent removal (see Tutor Agreement §4).
  • Search and discovery. Larnnit blocks search, hashtag, and recommendation pathways for terms associated with CSAE, and prevents discovery of minor accounts by adult strangers.
  • Live tutoring sessions.Sessions involving minors run on the platform's in-app calling stack so that chat transcripts and recordings (where parental consent has been obtained) can be reviewed if a report is filed.

4. Reporting CSAE or CSAM

Anyone — a user, a parent, a guardian, a school, or a member of the public — can report suspected CSAE or CSAM:

  • In-app:tap the “⋯” menu on the relevant post / comment / reel / message / profile and choose “Report”. Pick the category that most closely matches (e.g. “Child safety” or “Sexual content involving a minor”). These reports are routed to our 24/7 child-safety queue.
  • By email: safety@larnnit.com. Use this address for any report you do not wish to file from inside the app, including reports from parents and guardians, schools, or external safety organisations.
  • Emergencies: if you believe a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first, then email us so we can preserve evidence.

We acknowledge every report within 24 hours and act on confirmed cases immediately. We do not require the reporter to identify themselves; reports may be anonymous.

5. Authority reporting

Where Larnnit has actual knowledge of CSAM or CSAE, we:

  • File a CyberTipline report with the U.S. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) at missingkids.org/gethelpnow/cybertipline.
  • Report to the appropriate national authority where the offender or the victim is located — for example the UK Internet Watch Foundation, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (Cybertip.ca), the Kenya Anti-Counterfeit and Cyber Crimes Unit (DCI), the Australian eSafety Commissioner, and any other competent regional authority as required by local law.
  • Preserve user account data, content, and access logs for the period required by law (minimum 90 days) so that authorities can investigate.

6. Designated point of contact

Larnnit's designated point of contact for matters relating to CSAM prevention, NCMEC liaison, and law-enforcement requests is:

The point of contact is available to respond to authority and platform inquiries within one business day for non-urgent matters and within 24 hours for urgent matters.

7. Staff training and review

  • Moderators and engineers who touch the trust & safety pipeline complete CSAE-awareness training before they receive access to the queue and refresh annually.
  • The standards in this document are reviewed at least once every 12 months, and earlier whenever a regulatory change or a reporting authority requires it.
  • Material changes to these standards are summarised at the top of this page with a new Last updated date.

8. Compliance with applicable laws

Larnnit complies with all relevant child-safety laws in the jurisdictions where it operates, including but not limited to: the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), 18 U.S.C. § 2258A (reporting of CSAM to NCMEC), the EU Digital Services Act (Article 18 — notice of suspected criminal offence), the UK Online Safety Act 2023, the Australian Online Safety Act 2021, and the Kenya Data Protection Act 2019. Where these laws differ across jurisdictions, the platform applies the stricter protection that is technically feasible.

9. Contact

Questions about this document or about Larnnit's child safety practices: safety@larnnit.com.