Child safety standards
beates has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). These standards apply to everything on beates: posts, Status, Collab Studio duets, comments, profiles and chats.
What is not allowed on beates
- Sexual content involving anyone under 18, in any form: photos, videos, drawings, animation or AI-made images.
- Grooming: an adult building contact or trust with a child in order to sexually abuse or exploit them.
- Sextortion: threatening to share intimate images, or pressuring someone to send images, money or anything else.
- Sexualizing children in words, captions, comments or messages.
- Trafficking: offering, seeking or arranging a child for sexual purposes.
- Links or directions to any of the above.
How to report it
In the app: tap ••• on the post, Status or comment, or open the person's contact page from a chat, then tap Report and choose A child may be in danger.
By email: write to childsafety@beates.app. Tell us where it is: the account's name, and roughly when and where you saw it.
Never send the image itself, or a screenshot of it, to anyone, including us. Describe where it is instead.
If a child is in immediate danger, call your local emergency services now, before you report to us.
What beates does
- We remove it as soon as we know about it, and ban the account permanently. There is no warning.
- We will report it to the CyberTipline of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and to other authorities where the law requires. Our registration with the CyberTipline is in progress.
- We keep the evidence privately, with access limited, for as long as the law requires, and share it only with NCMEC and law enforcement.
- We never tell an account holder who reported them.
Who can use beates
You must be at least 13 to use beates, at least 14 in Canada, and at least 18 in the United States.
Help outside beates
- NCMEC's CyberTipline: report child sexual exploitation anywhere online.
- Take It Down: help removing nude images taken before you were 18.
- Cybertip.ca: Canada's tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children.
Contact
Our child safety contact: childsafety@beates.app.
Last updated 28 September 2026.