Paper Boat Child Safety Standards

Paper Boat is a small app for sending one short message a day and receiving one from a stranger. It is built and published by Pearkoder (Pvt) Ltd (pearkoder.com). We have zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE), including child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This page explains our standards and how we act on them.

Child sexual abuse and exploitation of any kind, including images, text, grooming, sexualised content about minors or attempts to contact minors, is forbidden in Paper Boat and is never acceptable. Sexual content of any kind is not allowed in the app.

Paper Boat is only for people aged 18 and over. People confirm this when they sign up, and the app is not aimed at children. If we learn that someone under 18 is using the app, we remove the account.

- Every message, profile photo and gift picture is checked automatically before anyone else sees it. Anything unsafe is not delivered.

- Each boat goes to one person and there is no chat, no replies and no way to look up or contact other people, which limits the ways anyone could approach someone.

- Phone numbers, email addresses and web addresses are taken out of messages, so people cannot move a conversation elsewhere.

- Repeated rejections pause a person's sending.

Every boat in the app has a report button. You can also block the person who sent it. Reports go straight to us, and we review the reported content. You can also write to us at hello@pearkoder.com.

- We remove the content and close the account of anyone who breaks these standards.

- We keep the information needed for the authorities.

- We report apparent CSAM and other child safety concerns to the relevant national and regional authorities, and we cooperate with their requests, as the law requires.

- We follow the child safety laws that apply to us.

Our designated contact for child safety and CSAM prevention is Shakthi Senavirathna at hello@pearkoder.com.