Recipe Room is a photography app for sharing photos, film simulation recipes, camera settings, collections, and community activity. Because Recipe Room lets people share content and interact with one another, safety matters across the whole service.
These standards explain what is not allowed, how to use reporting and personal safety controls, how we respond to abuse, and how to reach us. Child safety remains a core part of this page. We have zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Our commitment to safety
Recipe Room is designed for creative photography sharing, not for harassment, exploitation, scams, unwanted contact, privacy abuse, or dangerous activity. We combine community rules, reporting, personal controls, and moderation review so people can share work and take part without avoidable abuse.
Child safety is treated with the highest level of care. We maintain a zero-tolerance approach to any content, conduct, or activity that sexualises, endangers, exploits, or abuses children, whether real, simulated, illustrated, or computer-generated.
These safety standards apply to every user, every piece of content, and every interaction on Recipe Room, including photos, posts, recipes, profiles, comments, collections, and any private or direct messaging features. They form part of, and are enforced alongside, our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
Child safety definitions
We use these terms in line with their accepted meaning under child safety laws and industry standards:
- CSAE (Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation). Any abuse or exploitation of a child for sexual purposes. This includes grooming, sextortion, trafficking, solicitation, the sexualisation of children, and any attempt to make contact with a child for a sexual purpose.
- CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material). Any image, video, illustration, or other depiction that shows or represents a child engaged in or subjected to sexually explicit conduct, including realistic, simulated, animated, or computer- or AI-generated material.
- Child. Any person under the age of 18, regardless of the age of majority or consent in any particular location.
Prohibited conduct
The following are prohibited on Recipe Room and may result in immediate enforcement action:
- Harassment, bullying, threats, hate speech, sexual harassment, stalking, or targeted abuse.
- Sharing private information, private images, secretly recorded content, or another person's location without permission.
- Spam, scams, fraud, impersonation, fake engagement, suspicious links, or attempts to manipulate the service.
- Graphic violence, encouragement of self-harm, dangerous activities, or prohibited sales and transactions.
- Creating, uploading, sharing, requesting, linking to, soliciting, or storing CSAM in any form.
- Sexualising children, or sharing content that depicts children in a sexualised manner.
- Grooming, sextortion, or any attempt to develop a relationship with a child for a sexual purpose.
- Using Recipe Room to identify, contact, lure, or arrange to meet a child for a sexual purpose.
- Trafficking, advertising, or facilitating the sexual exploitation of children.
- Sharing links, contact details, or off-platform locations where CSAE or CSAM can be found.
- Any other conduct that endangers, exploits, or sexualises a child.
Age requirements and younger users
Recipe Room is not intended for children under 13, or under the minimum age required in your country. Users must meet the minimum age requirement to create an account. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under the required age, we will take reasonable steps to disable the account and remove associated personal information, as described in our Privacy Policy.
We treat reports involving younger users carefully, especially where there is unwanted contact, sexualised content, grooming, sextortion, privacy abuse, bullying, self-harm, or a risk of offline harm.
Reporting and safety tools
Recipe Room has built-in reporting and safety tools so that any user can flag content or behaviour that may violate these safety standards, including suspected CSAE or CSAM. You can report directly from any post, recipe, collection, or profile inside the app.
How to report in the app
Open the report option on the content or profile you are concerned about and choose the reason that best describes the problem. The reporting flow guides you through clear categories and follow-up options, and lets you add an explanation and supporting detail. Reasons that are most relevant to safety include:
- Inappropriate or sensitive content, including nudity, sexual content, self-harm, graphic violence, dangerous activities, or sexual content involving a child.
- Harassment, hate or threats, including bullying, sexual harassment, threats, and unwanted contact.
- Account, profile or content concern, including an underage user, impersonation, compromised account, or inappropriate profile.
- Privacy violation, including a private image shared without permission or content that was secretly recorded or photographed.
- Something else, for any other safety or child safety concern, with space to explain in your own words.
When you submit a report, Recipe Room creates a moderation case and gives you a case reference. You can follow the status of the reports you have submitted in the app. Child safety reports and credible risk of immediate harm are prioritised and routed for urgent review.
Personal safety controls
You can also control who can reach you and what you see, at any time:
- Block a user to prevent future interaction and stop both accounts from following each other.
- Mute an account to hide their content without notifying them.
- Hide a post, recipe, or collection to remove it from your view.
For more detail on each of these controls, see Personal Controls in our help centre.
Reporting outside the app
If you cannot report a safety concern in the app, or you want to reach us directly, email support@reciperoom.io. For child safety concerns, including suspected CSAE or CSAM, email our child safety point of contact at safety@reciperoom.io. You do not need a Recipe Room account to report a child safety concern by email. Reports relating to child safety are treated as the highest priority.
How we respond
Every report becomes a moderation case that our team reviews. We consider the content, behaviour, context, severity, account history, risk to users, and legal obligations. When we identify a violation of these standards, we may:
- Remove or disable access to the offending content.
- Ask for a correction where a mistake can be fixed safely.
- Issue a warning.
- Restrict an account temporarily or indefinitely while a concern is reviewed.
- Permanently ban the accounts involved.
- Preserve relevant content and account records as evidence where required by law.
- Prevent banned users from returning through new accounts, devices, or identities where possible.
- Report the matter to the relevant authorities and child safety organisations.
Many concerns are handled with a warning or correction before stronger action. Severe abuse, legal risk, repeated violations, fraud, attempts to evade enforcement, credible threats, CSAE, CSAM, and other serious risks to a child can result in immediate removal, restriction, or a permanent ban without prior warning.
An account that receives an eligible permanent ban may submit a one-time appeal in the app. Bans applied for CSAE or CSAM are not eligible for reinstatement where the violation is confirmed.
We may review account, profile, content, report, and moderation records where needed to investigate and respond to child safety concerns, consistent with our Privacy Policy. For more detail on reporting, enforcement, and appeals, see Reporting and Appeals.
Compliance with safety laws
Recipe Room is committed to complying with applicable safety, child safety, privacy, and platform requirements in the jurisdictions where we operate, as well as the requirements of the app stores and platforms that distribute Recipe Room. We review and update our standards, processes, and tooling to keep them aligned with these obligations.
Safety contacts
For general safety, abuse, copyright, or account concerns that cannot be reported in the app, contact support@reciperoom.io.
We maintain a dedicated point of contact for child safety matters. To report CSAE or CSAM, ask a child safety question, or raise a concern, contact us at safety@reciperoom.io.
If you believe a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.
Changes to these standards
We may update these safety standards from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the date above and may provide notice in the app, by email, or by another reasonable method.