18+ statement, checked against the chat's user agreement

The chat's own agreement states that a user must be over 18 and legally adult in their own country as well. Its child-safety standards describe the platform as adults-only, meant solely for people aged 18 and above. The widget itself opens on a choice of gender instead of an age question, and consent lines state that carrying on means confirming an age of at least 18.

For visitors in the United Kingdom, the chat's page on the Online Safety Act names facial age estimation as its main method, with a selfie video and a passport as the alternative.

The site's buttons open a door page ahead of the chat. It sets out three rules: the chat is for adults only, the chat's own rules and prices hold inside it, and documents, addresses and surnames stay out of view. A button then confirms that the reader is 18 or over.

That step is a confirmation. No identity is checked: the site asks for no document and stores no trace of the click. The door therefore returns whenever the chat is started anew. Declining leads back to the main guide.

1. End the call at once, and do not carry the contact over to another app or platform.
2. Flag that user with the Report button, which the service's child-safety standards say every user can reach inside the app.
3. Where sexual images of a child or an attempt to groom a child are involved, alert a national hotline as well.

The chat's user agreement states that faces in broadcasts are identified automatically and that accounts used by under-18s are blocked. In the United Kingdom, the Internet Watch Foundation accepts anonymous reports of child sexual abuse images and videos. In the United States, the CyberTipline run by NCMEC takes reports of online child exploitation. For other countries, the INHOPE directory lists national hotlines.

Neither the site nor the chat is meant for anyone under 18. Help exists for young people whose sexual images have been shared, or who are being pressured over such images. NCMEC's Take It Down service works worldwide for images taken before the age of 18. In the United Kingdom, Report Remove from Childline and the Internet Watch Foundation helps under-18s get such images taken off the internet.