Version 1.1 | Effective May 10, 2026
This page gives general safety guidance for meeting people online and in person. It is not legal advice, medical advice, therapy, crisis counseling, or emergency response.
If you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services now. In-app reports and safety emails are reviewed by Northgiven, but they are not a substitute for police, emergency medical care, crisis support, or a trusted person who can help you right away.
Dating can be hopeful. It can also create real risk. Northgiven is built to make truth easier, but no app can guarantee another person's identity, intent, background, emotional stability, or future behavior.
Use the tools. Trust your timing. Leave when you need to leave.
Stay in the app at first. Northgiven messages give you access to blocking, reporting, and safety review tools. Be careful if someone pressures you to move quickly to text, encrypted chat, social media, email, or another app.
Go slowly. You do not need to meet, call, video chat, send photos, explain your schedule, or share personal details before you are ready.
Use a phone or video call when it helps. A call can help you notice pressure, inconsistency, anger, intoxication, or other behavior that does not fit what you want.
Look for pressure patterns. Be careful with someone who rushes intimacy, asks for secrecy, avoids basic questions, tells dramatic stories early, pushes you off-platform, or makes you feel guilty for having boundaries.
Do not share your home address, workplace, daily routine, children's school, financial information, passwords, security codes, identity documents, or exact location with someone you do not know well.
Check your photos. Some photos can reveal more than you mean to share, including your home, street, workplace, gym, vehicle, license plate, child's school, favorite routes, or neighborhood landmarks.
Be careful with location sharing. Share your live location with a trusted friend when meeting someone, not with the person you are meeting.
Use privacy settings on your device. Check notification previews, shared devices, shared cloud accounts, family plans, location services, and photo metadata if someone in your life may be monitoring you.
Do not send money, gift cards, cryptocurrency, payment app transfers, banking information, account access, or identity documents to someone you met through a dating app.
Be careful with stories involving emergencies, travel problems, military deployment, medical bills, customs fees, frozen accounts, investment opportunities, crypto trading, inheritance, payroll help, package forwarding, or “verification” links.
Do not let romance override verification. Scammers often build trust first, then create urgency.
If something feels like a scam, stop communicating. Report the account in Northgiven. If money was involved, contact your bank or payment provider quickly and consider reporting it to the FTC, FBI IC3, or local law enforcement.
Meet in public for the first few meetings. Choose a busy, well-lit place where other people are nearby. Coffee shops, restaurants, museums, public events, and populated daytime areas are better than private homes, hotel rooms, cars, remote parks, trails, beaches, or isolated places.
Tell someone you trust. Share who you are meeting, where you are going, when you expect to be back, and what you know about the person. Send the profile name or screenshots of non-intimate profile details if that helps.
Control your transportation. Drive yourself, use a rideshare, take public transportation, or arrange a ride with someone you trust. Avoid depending on your date for a ride home.
Have an exit plan. Keep your phone charged. Keep enough money or payment access to leave. Consider a code word or emoji you can send to a friend if you need help getting out.
Stay aware of food, drinks, and substances. Keep your drink and personal items with you. Do not accept pressure to drink, use drugs, or stay longer than you want.
Stay public. If someone pressures you to move to a private place, your car, their car, their home, a hotel, or an isolated area, you can end the date.
You do not owe anyone access to your body, time, attention, location, photos, home, phone number, social media, or emotional labor.
Consent must be clear, freely given, and ongoing. You can change your mind at any time.
Pressure is information. So is anger. So is sulking. So is “after everything I told you.” A person who respects you will not need to corner you into agreement.
Do not pressure someone else. Ask clearly. Accept the answer. Stop when asked. No connection is worth taking someone’s choice away.
If something feels off, leave.
You do not need to prove danger before you protect yourself.
You do not need the perfect words.
You do not need to be polite to someone who is making you feel unsafe.
You can block, report, pause, cancel, leave, or ask for help.
Use in-app reporting to flag behavior that violates Northgiven’s Community Standards or makes you feel unsafe.
Report threats, harassment, hate, coercion, stalking, sexual pressure, financial requests, scams, fake profiles, underage users, impersonation, doxxing, blackmail, non-consensual intimate images, violence, or concerning behavior during or after an in-person meeting.
Blocking and reporting are different. Blocking limits contact. Reporting helps Northgiven review behavior under our rules.
Reports are reviewed by Northgiven. We may warn a user, restrict features, remove content, suspend an account, ban an account, or take other action. For privacy and safety reasons, Northgiven may not be able to tell you every action taken.
If there is immediate danger, do not wait for Northgiven to respond. Contact emergency services or someone near you who can help.
Stop engaging if it is safe to do so. Continued replies can sometimes escalate the situation or give the person more information.
Save what you safely can. Keep dates, times, usernames, profile details, messages, call logs, threats, payment requests, and incident notes. Do not forward or redistribute intimate images.
Tell someone you trust. Stalking and coercive behavior are easier to minimize when you are facing them alone.
Consider local support. Depending on the situation, you may want help from law enforcement, a domestic violence advocate, a sexual assault advocate, a stalking resource, an attorney, or a local crisis service.
Check your digital safety. Review location sharing, cloud accounts, shared passwords, phone access, smart devices, AirTags or trackers, social media privacy, and notification previews.
Do not send intimate images because someone pressures, flatters, threatens, or bargains with you.
If someone threatens to share intimate images of you, do not pay them. Payment often does not stop the abuse.
Report the person in Northgiven. Preserve threats if you can do so safely. Consider contacting law enforcement or a victim support organization.
If you are 18 or older and intimate images may be shared without your consent, StopNCII.org may be able to help.
If the image or video was taken when you were under 18, NCMEC’s Take It Down may be able to help.
If you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline
Call: 800-656-HOPE
Text: HOPE to 64673
Online chat available through RAINN.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Call: 1-800-799-SAFE
Text: START to 88788
Online chat available through The Hotline.
Use this for romance scams, payment scams, impersonation, and fraud reports.
Use this for online scams, cybercrime, and romance scam reports.
Support for adults facing non-consensual intimate image abuse.
Support for nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images taken before someone was 18.
For Northgiven safety concerns: safety@northgiven.com
Do not use this email for emergencies. If you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services.
When contacting Northgiven, include what happened, the profile name, approximate dates and times, and any non-explicit screenshots or details that may help review the report. Do not send intimate images unless Northgiven specifically provides a safe, appropriate process for that type of report.
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