CHILD SAFETY.
Tintee has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE), including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming, sextortion and any sexualization of minors. These are the standards of the Tintee app (Android and iPhone), published by its developer, Tintee. Effective September 29, 2026.
What is forbidden
- Any content that sexually exploits or endangers children, or depicts, promotes or links to it.
- Any attempt to contact, groom, solicit or sexually exploit a minor, including asking for images or for contact outside the app.
- Any sexual content at all: “no sexual content” is one of the rules every member agrees to.
Breaking these standards leads to the removal of the content and of the account, and to a report to the competent authorities.
How the app is built to prevent it
- 13 and older only. The app asks for an age before creating an account and refuses anyone under 13, everywhere. On iPhone and Android, it can also ask the App Store or Google Play for the age range they know; if the store says the person is under 13, or that a parent has not approved, no account is created.
- Parent approval for younger teens. Below the age of digital consent of their country (15 in France), a young person needs a parent’s approval in the app before using it.
- No strangers. Groups are private, 8 people at most, and can only be joined with an invite link from someone already in them. There is no public profile, no search, no feed, no discovery, no suggested people.
- No photos, no videos, no messages. Nobody can send an image, a video, a voice note, a link or a private message. Members share a mood from a fixed list, gestures from a fixed list, drawings and phrases from fixed collections, and one word a day in the ÉCHO game (20 characters at most).
- Filtered text. The only free text — a first name or nickname, a group name and ÉCHO words — is checked against a list of forbidden words before it is shown.
How to report
- In the app: on a member’s card, tap “…” then report; in ÉCHO, long-press a word. Wall items can be reported too. The reported member is not told who reported them.
- Block: on a member’s card, tap “…” then block. The blocked person disappears from your screens at once, without waiting for any review.
- Without the app — a parent, a teacher, anyone: write to hello@tintee.app. You do not have to give your name to report child sexual abuse material.
- If a child is in immediate danger, call the emergency services first (911 in the United States, 112 in Europe). You can also report directly to the NCMEC CyberTipline in the United States or to PHAROS in France.
How we act
- Every report is sent to us and read by a person; no automatic system decides.
- The reported content is kept as evidence, out of view of other members, for as long as needed to handle the report and as the law requires.
- When we learn of child sexual abuse material or exploitation, we remove the content, remove the account from its groups and delete it, and report it to the competent authorities as the law requires: the NCMEC CyberTipline in the United States, and PHAROS and the police or the public prosecutor in France. We preserve what the authorities need and cooperate with their requests.
Laws we follow
Tintee complies with the child safety laws that apply where it is available, including the reporting obligations of United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 2258A) and French and European Union law, and with the Google Play and App Store policies on child safety.
Child safety contact
Our designated point of contact for child safety and CSAM prevention is the developer of Tintee, at hello@tintee.app. A human answers. See also the parents page and the privacy policy.