Child Safety Standards
Car Lounge has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE), including child sexual abuse material (CSAM). These standards apply to everything on Car Lounge: posts, reels, comments, direct messages, group chats, meets, marketplace listings, garages and profiles.
If a child is in immediate danger, call 911 or your local emergency number first.
1. Who Car Lounge is for
Car Lounge is for people 17 and older. Before anyone can post, they must confirm they are 17 or older and accept our community rules, and our Terms of Service apply to everyone. Car Lounge is not directed at children. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 17, we delete it.
2. What is not allowed
Any of the following gets the content removed and the account permanently banned, with no warning:
- Child sexual abuse material of any kind, whether real, drawn, edited or AI-generated.
- Any content that sexualizes a minor, including sexualized comments about a minor.
- Grooming: contacting or befriending a minor to exploit them sexually, including arranging to meet a minor, at a car meet or anywhere else.
- Asking a minor for sexual images or conversations, or threatening to share sexual images to get something (sextortion).
- Offering, advertising or asking for a minor for sexual purposes, including trafficking.
- Sharing, asking for, or linking to any of the above, including links to other websites or apps.
3. How we keep it off Car Lounge
- Photos and video frames are automatically screened when they're uploaded, and images that sexualize minors are blocked. Text in posts, comments and messages is screened for harmful content too.
- Every post, comment, message, listing, garage and profile has a Report option, and you can block anyone.
- Our moderators review the reports people send.
Automated screening can miss things, so reports from people matter.
4. How to report
In the app: tap the ··· menu on the post, comment, message, listing, garage or profile, tap Report, and choose Sexual content or Illegal activity. You can also block the account.
By email: write to dev.hummus@gmail.com with the subject "Child safety report". Tell us the account's handle and where you saw the content (for example, which post or chat). You don't need a Car Lounge account to report.
Do not screenshot, download, save or forward sexual images of a minor, even to report them. Doing so can itself be a crime. Tell us where the content is and we'll find it.
Directly to the authorities: in the United States, report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org or 1-800-843-5678. Elsewhere, contact your local police or a hotline listed by INHOPE.
5. What we do
- Remove the content as soon as we find it.
- Permanently ban the account and block its email address from signing up again.
- Report apparent child sexual abuse material to NCMEC's CyberTipline, as US federal law requires, and preserve the related information for as long as the law requires.
- Cooperate with law enforcement and respond to valid legal requests.
6. Compliance
Hummus Development LLC complies with the child-safety laws that apply to Car Lounge, including the US federal requirement to report child sexual abuse material to NCMEC. These standards are part of our Terms of Service, which forbid content involving minors, and our Privacy Policy explains the data we hold.
7. Child safety contact
Point of contact: Child Safety Lead, Hummus Development LLC
Email: dev.hummus@gmail.com (subject "Child safety"). Use this address for reports and for questions about these standards or how we prevent CSAM.