Community rules

Not allowed

• Harassment, threats, bullying or hate based on who someone is
• Sexual content, nudity, or anything involving under-18s
• Illegal content, including selling drugs or weapons, and scams or fake links
• Pretending to be someone else, or using someone else's phone number
• Sharing someone's private details or photos without their permission
• Fake connections, multiple accounts or anything that games the leaderboard
• Spam, or advertising outside your own business card and Work posts

To help, posts, comments, messages, stories, reviews, names, bios and business cards are checked automatically when you write them: slurs, telling someone to harm themselves, and scam links (including links that hide where they go) can't be posted. Ordinary swearing is fine. Reports are sorted by urgency, sometimes with help from AI, but a person always makes the decision.

Reporting and blocking

You can report any profile, post, comment, message, story, business review, business card or anything in someone's Space from its menu. People without an account can report a shared business card from its page. We review every report, act on illegal content as fast as we can, and tell you what we decided.

If someone shares an intimate photo of you without your permission, report it with "Intimate photo of me, shared without my permission" (you can also report it for someone who asked you to). We hide it straight away while a person checks it and decide within 48 hours. If it's removed, the same photo can't be posted again. If we don't remove it, you can ask for a second look once, in Settings → My reports. Blocking is instant and the person isn't told. If you think we got a decision about you wrong, you can appeal in the app within 14 days. A person reviews every appeal, usually within 2 working days, and we tell you the outcome. For any other complaint about how we keep Cosmic QR safe, email support@cosmicqr.co.uk.

Go out and meeting up

Go out plans only ever show the words you type, never your live location. Only connections you've made Friends see them, and you can change or cancel them at any time. Meet new people in public places and tell a friend where you're going.

Up for it is for genuine meet-ups, like a coffee or a walk. With friends of friends you haven't met yet: meet only in a busy public place, tell a friend, make your own way there and back, and never share your address, workplace, bank details or money. It isn't for dating, selling, recruiting or asking for money, and anyone who uses it that way is removed. If you're in danger, call 999 (if you can't speak, call 999 and press 55 when asked); if you're worried but it isn't an emergency, call 101; then report them from their ask, which also blocks them.

Scanning other QR codes

We check links before they open and warn you about ones that look unsafe, but no check is perfect. Never enter card details or passwords on a page you reached from a sticker or poster.

If someone is in danger, call 999.