Child Safety Standards

Cosmingle · last updated 19 August 2026

Cosmingle is an astrology and social discovery app for adults. This page sets out how we keep children off the service and how we handle child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) if it ever reaches us.

Zero tolerance. Child sexual abuse and exploitation material, the sexualisation of minors, grooming, and any attempt to solicit or arrange contact with a child are forbidden without exception. Accounts involved are removed, and material of this kind is reported to the appropriate authorities.

The service is for adults

Cosmingle is rated 18+ and its store listing declares an adult audience.
Registration asks for a date of birth before anything else and refuses any account below 18. The refusal is not a warning that can be dismissed: the account is not created.
The date of birth is not decorative — it is the same value the app uses to calculate a birth chart, so an account cannot function with a fabricated one that puts the person under 18 and still show a chart they recognise.
If we learn that an account belongs to a minor, we remove it.

Prohibited conduct

Any sexual content involving a minor, real or generated, in a profile, a photo, a message, or a link.
Grooming: befriending or contacting a person under 18 for sexual purposes, or asking a member to arrange such contact.
Sharing, requesting, or linking to child sexual abuse material.
Impersonating a minor, or presenting an account as belonging to one.

Automatic screening

Messages, photographs and voice notes sent in a conversation are screened automatically before anyone complains. The check runs on our servers, called by the database after every message is stored, so an altered copy of the app cannot skip it, and the same model reads pictures as well as words.

A recording is transcribed before it is screened, and what was said is read the same way as anything typed — a threat spoken into a microphone is not treated more gently than the same sentence written out. Where a recording is removed, its transcript is preserved with it so that a reviewer, and any authority a report is referred to, can read what was said rather than depend on a recording that expires within a day.

Where the screening finds sexual content involving a minor, a threat, or violence, the message is taken out of the conversation — its content is moved into evidence only an administrator can read — and a report is filed against the sender automatically, entering the same review queue described below. A sexual photograph between adults is treated differently: it stays in the conversation behind a notice, and the person receiving it decides whether to look. There is no such option for anything involving a child.

Screening is a first pass, not a verdict. It reads some languages more surely than others, a report it files is a queue for a person rather than a decision, and reports from members remain the most reliable signal we have. Nothing here replaces the reporting routes below.

Reporting

Every member can report another member from inside a conversation. The report form offers explicit reasons, including inappropriate messages, harassment, hate or threats, and a fake profile, and it carries the conversation with it so the exchange can be read in context.

Anyone can also write to us directly, whether or not they use the app:

Child safety contact: ivan.trump88@gmail.com

Reports about a child's safety are treated ahead of everything else in the queue.

What happens to a report

The report reaches an administrator's review queue, which shows the reason, both members, and the conversation it refers to.
An administrator reads the reported conversation. Access is limited to the conversation a report names; there is no facility for browsing members' messages.
The outcome is recorded against the report: reviewed, acted upon, or dismissed.
Where the report concerns a minor or CSAE, the account is removed and the material is preserved and referred to the appropriate authority, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) where the law requires it.

Blocking

Blocking is available in every conversation and takes effect immediately: a blocked member cannot send further messages. Blocking does not depend on a report being reviewed first.

Standards we follow

Google Play's Child Safety Standards policy and its CSAE requirements.
Applicable law in the jurisdictions where the app is available, including reporting obligations for CSAE.

These standards are reviewed when the app's safety features change, and this page is updated with them.