Online Dating Safety Awareness
LEVIATHAN DOES NOT CONDUCT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND SCREENINGS OF ITS MEMBERS.
We do not check whether the people who use LEVIATHAN have a criminal record or are listed on a sex offender registry. Our Terms of Use prohibit anyone convicted of those offenses from signing up, but we cannot guarantee that nobody lies. A verification badge does not mean that the person’s background has been checked.
When you meet someone online
- Be cautious when communicating with strangers who want to meet you.
- Do not share your last name, your home address, your workplace, your phone number or your routines until you feel confident.
- Protect your personal and financial information. Never send money, gifts, cryptocurrency or bank or card details to someone you met online, no matter what story they tell you.
- Stop communicating with anyone who pressures you for personal or financial information or tries to convince you to give them money, and report them.
- Be wary of anyone who avoids video calls, changes their story or wants to leave the app quickly. Keep the conversation on LEVIATHAN, where you can report and block.
If you decide to meet in person
- Tell a family member or a trusted friend where you are going, with whom and when you plan to be back.
- Use your own transportation to get there and back; do not depend on the other person.
- Meet in a busy public place, and stay in public places for the first few dates.
- Watch your drink and your belongings, and keep your phone charged.
- If something does not feel right, leave. You do not owe anyone anything.
How to report misconduct or a crime
- In the app: use Report on the profile, chat or call, and Block so that the person cannot contact you again.
- Without an account or from the web: use the safety form. To ask us to remove intimate images of you published without your consent, use the non-consensual intimate content form.
- If you are in danger or have been the victim of a crime: call emergency services (911 in the United States, Canada and Mexico; for other countries, see the emergency numbers) and report it to the police. Then also report it to us: we will preserve the information and cooperate with the authorities as set out in the guide for authorities.
What we do for your safety
- Adults only: LEVIATHAN is for people aged 18 and over. When we detect an account belonging to a minor, we suspend it and block it from coming back.
- Automated image review: an image analysis service reviews profile photos and chat images to detect nudity and show it blurred.
- Report and block: available on every profile, chat and call. A person you block cannot contact you again.
- Human review: a person reviews suspensions and bans, and you can appeal them.
- Your location: other people only see an approximate distance, never your coordinates.
- Clear rules: our Community Guidelines prohibit fraud, exploitation, harassment and sharing intimate content without consent; anyone who breaks them may be banned and, if it may be a crime, we report it to the authorities.
These measures reduce risks, but none of them eliminates them. More recommendations in our safety tips.
Why we publish this notice
Several U.S. laws require online dating services to give their members a safety awareness notice and to state whether they conduct criminal background screenings, including those of Texas (Business and Commerce Code, chapter 106), New York (General Business Law §394-cc), Illinois (Internet Dating Safety Act), New Jersey (Internet Dating Safety Act) and Utah (Utah Code §13-63). We apply this notice to all users, in every country. It forms part of our Terms of Use.
This page is also available in other languages, with the same content. If the versions differ, the version in the language required by the law of your place of residence prevails: in Quebec and Haiti, the French version (in Quebec, under the Charter of the French Language); in Brazil, the Portuguese version (Consumer Protection Code, Law No. 8,078/1990); in Mexico, the other Spanish-speaking countries and Puerto Rico, the Spanish version; everywhere else, this English version.