Safety & trust
A real room. Verified, moderated, and yours to control.
This is how Freeborn is built to keep the room real: not a promise, but the working system behind it. Where a control depends on a third-party service that can fail, we say so here rather than presenting it as unconditional, and the Privacy Policy carries the full detail.
Identity verification, without the surveillance
A quick pose-mimic selfie: you mimic a pose, and two independent engines confirm it's a live person matching your photos. No ID, no documents, and no biometric template is built from your face. An approved selfie is kept, because it has to be: it is re-read when you change your photos, so the seal can be re-checked against the person who earned it. A rejected selfie is never stored at all. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is retained and for how long. Uploading a new face photo revokes the seal until you re-verify whenever a running check cannot confirm it, so the teal badge always matches the face; if the check is unavailable, your verification is left untouched. One thing stated plainly: the engines are unavailable at the moment, so verification holds requests as pending and no new seals are being issued.
Reports never decide anything on their own
Reports are cross-checked by two independent models from different providers, judging observable evidence only, and never private chats. A report alone never bans anyone and never removes content. Where the models disagree, nothing happens to your account. Suspension has one automatic ground: a sign-in address that resolves to a hosting or datacenter range, which the acceptable-use terms do not permit. Both models are third-party services and neither is infallible, so when they cannot run a report is recorded without a verdict instead of being settled by whichever engine answered. There is no review queue inside the product yet; an unresolved case is read by the operator when a member writes in.
The door stays closed to server farms
Sign-in attempts from datacenter and hosting networks are blocked, and the check reads the connection IP our own infrastructure observes rather than a forwarded header a client can rewrite. VPN and proxy traffic is allowed and only recorded: privacy-minded members are Freeborn's own people, and a VPN is not proof of abuse. The lookup fails open, so a slow third party never locks a real person out.
Private by default
Email, full birth date, last names, and exact coordinates are never shown to another member. Profile data is returned only to signed-in sessions that pass your own discovery settings, so the membership is not a public directory and cannot be crawled. Chat media belongs to the conversation it was sent in and is reachable only by its participants. Nothing is sold, there are no advertisers, and there are no third-party analytics on this site.
Controls in your hands
Block, report, hide, or deactivate in one tap, with no dark patterns and no 'are you sure?' maze. Hiding removes you from Discover instantly; matches and history stay saved.
Rate limits on reports
Report tools are rate-limited per account, so one person cannot weaponise them with mass reports. A report is recorded and assessed, and it never punishes anyone on its own.
The Freeborn safety promise
- · Identity checks use pose-mimic selfies, and anything doubtful is held rather than decided. Never a link sent in DMs.
- · Report tools are rate-limited per account, so one person cannot weaponise them with volume.
- · Chat media is served only to the two people in the conversation it was sent in, and nothing is ever sold or handed to advertisers.
- · New profile photos require re-verification, so the seal always matches the face.
- · You can hide or deactivate your account at any time, in one tap, with no dark patterns.
- · No paywall hides who liked you. Every like is visible, exactly as it happened.