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Child safety standards
Spousora is an adults-only service and has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation. This page is our published standard against it, and how to reach us.
Last updated 10 September 2026
Zero tolerance for CSAE
Spousora strictly prohibits child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) anywhere on the service. This includes, without limitation:
- Any sexual content, contact or conduct involving a person under 18, real or simulated.
- Creating, uploading, sharing, requesting or linking to child sexual abuse material in a profile, a photograph, a message, a voice note or a call.
- Grooming, sexualisation of a minor, or any attempt to arrange offline contact with a minor.
- Child trafficking, or the advertisement, solicitation or facilitation of it.
- Sextortion, or sharing or threatening to share intimate imagery of a minor.
There are no warnings and no second chances for this. An account involved in any of the above is removed immediately and permanently, the content is preserved, and it is reported to the relevant authorities.
Nobody under 18
You must be 18 or older to create a Spousora account and to use any part of the app. Every member passes an identity check — a government-issued document held up beside their photographs on a live video call with a Spousora reviewer — before their profile is shown to anyone. An application from a minor, or one where the document does not support an adult age, is declined at that step. If we later learn that an account holder is under 18, the account is closed and its data removed.
How we prevent and detect abuse
- Human verification at the door. Age and identity are confirmed by a person, not an algorithm, before entry.
- No unsolicited contact. A conversation only opens when both members have agreed to connect, which removes the main channel used for grooming on open platforms.
- Reporting on every surface. Every profile, conversation and photograph can be reported from inside the app in a couple of taps. Reports naming a child-safety concern are triaged first.
- Review and removal. Our team reviews reports daily. Content or accounts that violate this standard are removed on sight, and related accounts are checked.
- Preservation and reporting. Where we find apparent CSAM or a credible child-safety threat, we preserve the evidence and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to Nigerian law enforcement, including NAPTIP, and we cooperate with lawful requests from authorities in members’ own countries.
How to report a concern
If you see anything on Spousora that puts a child at risk:
- In the app — open the profile or conversation, choose Report, and pick the child-safety reason. This reaches our team straight away.
- By email — write to spousora@gmail.com with the member’s name or profile link and what you saw.
If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first. In Nigeria you can also reach the NAPTIP helpline on 0703 000 0203. In the United States, reports can be made to the NCMEC CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org.
Child safety point of contact
Spousora’s designated contact for child-safety matters, including questions from regulators, app stores and law enforcement, is:
Spousora Child Safety Team
spousora@gmail.com
Operated by Adewebs Technologies, Lagos, Nigeria
Legal framework
Spousora operates in line with the Child’s Rights Act of Nigeria, the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, and the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc.) Act, and with the child-safety laws of the countries our members join from. This standard also reflects Google Play’s and Apple’s Child Safety Standards requirements for apps.
Keeping this current
We review this standard at least once a year and whenever our practices or the law change. Questions about it go to spousora@gmail.com.