Safety

Who you'll meet

Only people who sign in with a USC email (Google, @usc.edu) and confirm they're 18 or older. Everyone you match or sit with is a USC student.

Where you'll meet

Every meal and every table is at a restaurant, cafe or other public place to eat listed on Google Maps. There's no field for a home address.

Blocking

Where

The "…" menu on a match card, a meal, a profile, a chat, a table member, or a memo.

What happens

You leave any chat you share, and a pending match is declined. A meal for just the two of you is called off, and at a table you give up your seat; neither counts against you. Follows end. They aren't told.

How it hides you

You stop seeing each other in matching, search, profiles, and chats, and a table either of you is seated at disappears from the other's list.

Undo

Only the person who blocked can undo it, in Settings. Undoing it doesn't bring back the old chat.

Reporting

Report from the same menus, and pick a reason. The person you report can't see who reported them. Report and block are separate - do either, or both.

• Made me feel unsafe
• Harassment, threats, or hate
• Sexual messages or behaviour I didn't want
• Pretending to be someone else
• Spam, scam, or selling something
• Something else

Check-in

Check-in opens shortly before the meal and records that it happened. Tap I'm here, or use a four-digit code. Your location is checked once, then thrown away.

Your privacy

When you search, your location is rounded on your phone to an area about 500 meters across before it's sent, and dropped when your search ends. Checking in by location sends your exact position once, to compare with the restaurant, then throws it away. Nobody sees where you are.

Messages aren't end-to-end encrypted: the people in the chat can read them, and our team only does to investigate a report or a safety incident, or where the law requires it.