Child Safety Standards

These standards apply to all apps developed by Gencay Tosun (ProxApp), and in particular to Sossial, where users can share content and communicate with each other. We have zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE).

1. Prohibited content and behavior

Child sexual abuse material (CSAM): any image, video, drawing, text or AI-generated content depicting a child in a sexual way.
Grooming a child for sexual purposes, sending sexual content to a child or requesting it from them, and sexual conversations with children.
Any content that sexualizes children, or that promotes, praises or facilitates child trafficking or abuse.
Threatening or blackmailing children (sextortion) or exposing their personal information.

2. Preventive measures

Users must be at least 18 years old to use Sossial; an age declaration is collected at sign-up. Store age ratings are set accordingly.
Users control whether they appear in search; email addresses are kept private and a person can only be found by their exact email address.
Users can block anyone they do not want to interact with; the personal chat with a blocked person is hidden and the blocked person cannot send them notifications.
Chat messages are checked by an automatic filter that blocks known abusive and CSAM-related terms before they are sent.

3. In-app reporting

Any message, profile or group can be reported with the Report option. Reports in the "Child safety" category are reviewed with the highest priority, within 24 hours at the latest. You can also report without using the app by writing to gencaytosun@hotmail.com.

4. What happens when a violation is found

The violating content is removed and blocked immediately.
The offending account is permanently closed.
When CSAM is detected, the content and related records are preserved in accordance with the law solely for the authorities, and the incident is reported without delay: in Türkiye to the cybercrime units of the General Directorate of Security and via ihbarweb.org.tr; for international cases to the U.S. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC CyberTipline) and the competent authorities of the relevant country.
We fully cooperate with lawful requests and investigations by the authorities.

5. Legal compliance

We comply with the child safety laws of the Republic of Türkiye (Turkish Penal Code No. 5237, Law No. 5651), the relevant laws of the countries where the apps are offered, and the policies of Google Play and the Apple App Store.

6. Child safety point of contact

The designated contact for our child safety practices and CSAM reports is Gencay Tosun – gencaytosun@hotmail.com. Child safety reports sent to this address are handled within 24 hours at the latest.