Child Safety Standards

Effective 2026-10-05

Johdoh (the "Application") is developed by Certo Partners (the "Service Provider"). This page sets out the Service Provider's standards against child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE), how to report it, and what happens when you do. It applies to every community on Johdoh, alongside the Terms of Service.

Zero tolerance

Child sexual abuse and exploitation, and child sexual abuse material (CSAM), are prohibited on Johdoh, with no exceptions. That includes:

• any content that sexualises a minor, whether a message, a voice clip, a sketch, an Echo or a username;
• contacting, or trying to contact, anyone under 18 for a sexual purpose, including grooming;
• sextortion, and threatening to share sexual content of a minor;
• arranging to meet a minor for a sexual purpose, or the trafficking of a minor;
• sharing, requesting or pointing others to CSAM anywhere.

The Service Provider commits to suspending any account found doing this from every community it belongs to, and to reporting it as described below.

Johdoh is for adults only

You must be 18 or older to use Johdoh. When you register, the Application asks for your month and year of birth and refuses anyone under 18, keeping nothing they entered. The answer stays on the phone and is never sent to the Service Provider, which keeps no name, email address or phone number for anyone. The Service Provider therefore does not verify age itself and relies on what people declare; a false statement of age ends the account. On phones where Apple or Google offer it, the Application also asks them for the age range they hold for the person and refuses anyone they place under 18, whatever date was given. That answer is judged on the phone and is not sent to the Service Provider either.

If you think someone on Johdoh is under 18, report them with the reason Seems under age or unsafe.

How to report

• A person. Open your conversation with them, tap the "…" menu, then Report. Choose Seems under age or unsafe, add what happened if you want to, and tap Report and block. Reporting someone also blocks them.
• Block. From the same menu, Block stops you finding each other, stops their waves, and ends your conversation. They are not told.
• An Echo or a Flare. Open it and tap Report, then choose a reason, such as Sexual content or Dangerous. Administrators see the reason, not who reported it.
• By email. Write to [email protected] with the username involved, the community, and what happened and when. Describe any abusive image or material in words: do not send, forward or screenshot it, since copying it is itself an offence in many places.

If a child is in immediate danger, contact your local police or emergency number first.

What happens to a report

A report of a person goes to the administrators of the community it was made in, with the reason and anything you wrote. The Service Provider, which runs the platform, can read every community's reports. Administrators can suspend the reported member from their community. A report of an Echo or Flare reaches the administrators as a reason, without your name; enough reports hide it from everyone, and the administrators can remove it and suspend its author from posting more.

A report that someone seems under age or unsafe also alerts the Service Provider by email as soon as it is filed, from any community; the alert names no one. The Service Provider commits to reviewing every report of child sexual abuse or exploitation that reaches it, from any community or by email, and to suspending the accounts involved from every community they belong to.

Reporting to NCMEC and law enforcement

The Service Provider commits to reporting apparent child sexual abuse material it becomes aware of on Johdoh to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) through its CyberTipline, and to law enforcement where the law requires, and to preserving the records it holds about it.

Working with law enforcement

The Service Provider commits to cooperating with law enforcement investigating child sexual abuse and exploitation, and to responding to valid legal requests. What it can provide is limited by how Johdoh is built, and it is better said plainly:

• What it holds: an account's username, public key, the communities it joined and when, and when it was created and last used; its last reported location, rounded to about 100 metres; records of waves, Sparks, blocks and reports between accounts, and of two accounts having been near each other in the last few hours; the text of reports; and, for 30 days, the IP address recorded when an account blocks someone.
• What it cannot provide: the content of messages, broadcasts or gifts, which are end-to-end encrypted and readable only on the phones involved; the text of an Echo, unless it holds that community's key; anyone's interests; a real name, email address, phone number, date of birth or payment details, none of which it collects; or a location history, which it does not keep.

The Privacy Policy says more about these records and how long they are kept. Law enforcement requests can be sent to [email protected].

Contact

The Service Provider's point of contact for child safety is [email protected]. It can speak to these standards and to how they are applied.