Child safety

Keeping children off tdar.

tdar is a dating app for adults in Ethiopia. Nobody under 18 may use it. This page says what tdar does to keep children off it, and what tdar does if we find child sexual abuse or exploitation here. We shorten that to CSAE below, because that is the term the law and the app stores use.

This page is written in plain words. It is about tdar and nothing else.

Last updated October 2026 · English

We read this page again every year, and after anything that teaches us something.not built · NB-39 That date is launch day; whoever actually deploys this page sets it to the day it publishes.

tdar is made and run by NiForge Works. For anything on this page, write to childsafety@tdar.app.

1 · Our standard, in one line

tdar has no place for children and no tolerance for anybody who seeks them. We keep under-18s off tdar at the door, we remove anybody who breaks this, and we report confirmed abuse material to the authorities.

2 · What we mean, and what is never allowed

A child means anybody under 18.

These things are never allowed on tdar. Not once, not as a joke, not in private. An account that does any of them is removed, and there is no warning first.

• Sexual pictures or video of a child. Making them, holding them, sending them, asking for them, or pointing somebody to them. This includes drawings and anything a computer generated.
• Grooming. Building trust with a child, or with somebody close to a child, in order to abuse them.
• Sextortion. Threatening to share somebody's pictures to make them send more, or to make them do anything.
• Selling or trafficking a child, for sex or for anything else.
• Sexualising a child in words. Talking about a child as a sexual object, whether or not a picture is involved.
• Being under 18 and using tdar, or making an account for somebody who is.

These rules are also in our terms §4, and breaking them ends an account there too.

3 · Keeping children off tdar

You must be 18 or older to use tdar. There is no younger version and no under-18 mode.

We ask for your date of birth when you sign up. The app will not let you pick a date under 18, and our servers refuse to create or change an account with a date of birth under 18. So it is not only the app on the phone that checks. If somebody gets past the app, the server still says no.checked · firestore.rules:414-423, applied at :442,:449

We do not pretend this proves an age. A date of birth is something a person types. We do not check identity documents and we do not estimate age from a face. What we do is refuse the account at two layers instead of one, and remove any account we believe belongs to somebody under 18.not built · NB-24, no age assurance beyond a typed date exists today

tdar has no public feed. Nobody can browse tdar without an account, and an account needs a phone number and a date of birth over 18.checked · firestore.rules:213-214, no anonymous read anywhere

tdar does not scan pictures or messages. We have no tool that recognises a known abuse image, no tool that judges whether somebody in a photo is a child, and no tool that reads your messages looking for anything. We rely on people telling us.checked · google_mlkit absent, no content-scanning code path in firebase/functions/src

4 · Telling us about a child, or about somebody seeking one

Anybody on tdar can remove anybody, at any time. Open their card or your chat and remove them. They vanish from your sky, your deck and your chats, and you vanish from theirs. It works at once and needs nobody's permission.

Write to childsafety@tdar.app to tell us about a child on tdar, or about somebody seeking one. You do not need an account to write to us.

If you believe a child is in danger right now, tell the police first. We are not an emergency service and we cannot reach anybody faster than they can.

5 · Who we tell

If we become aware of child sexual abuse material on tdar, we do not treat it as an ordinary account problem. We remove the account, and we intend to report confirmed material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children through its CyberTipline, and to the relevant Ethiopian authority.not built · NB-22, no report has been filed and nobody is registered with NCMEC yet

We answer a lawful request from a police force or a court.

6 · How to reach us

For anything about a child on tdar, write to childsafety@tdar.app.

For anything else, write to support@tdar.app.

If a child is in danger right now, tell the police first.

tdar is made and run by NiForge Works.