Safety on Skaify

Last updated: October 7, 2026.

In short: who Skaify is for, what rules look after people and what to do if something goes wrong. The long, formal version is in the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy.

For people 18 and over only

Skaify brings adults together in the real world, so it is for people 18 and over only. If you are in the United States, the Terms and Conditions require 21.

When you sign up we ask for your date of birth, and the server rejects any date belonging to someone under 18, both when the account is created and if someone tries to change it later. Without an adult date of birth you cannot turn on “I want to socialize” or send or receive alerts.

It is a date you declare: we do not ask for ID and we do not scan your face.

Your location never goes on the map

Skaify's map shows places, events and pins. No person appears on it because of where they are: not as a dot, not blurred, not for their friends and not for strangers.

What does carry someone's name is what that person published on purpose. A community map pin shows the first name and photo of whoever dropped it, because they chose to. That pin says where the published thing is, not where the person who published it happens to be. That is why we ask you never to drop a pin inside your home.

Off the map it works the same way: nobody shows up without wanting to. If you turn on “I want to socialize” at a place, to Skaify people you are a number, and only the friends you share your plans with see it is you. That number moves in fives and, if there are fewer than five, it does not show. If you post a status for everyone, people nearby see you in the list of people looking for plans with an approximate distance, like “less than 1 km”, never your location. And in invisible mode you do not count in any number and nobody can send you an alert.

Meeting someone takes two yeses

An alert is not sent to a person: it is sent at a place, and it reaches whoever is there and said they want to meet people. You do not pick who, the alert carries no text, and whoever gets it does not see your name, your photo or your age.

The first yes. If someone accepts, you both see each other's first name, photo and age. Nothing else: no last name, no social accounts, no profile.
The second yes. If you both say yes again, your phones tell you how close you are, like “less than 100 meters”, and never where.
When you meet, each of you has a four-digit code on your screen and you tell it to each other in person. Only then can you add each other as friends and see the social accounts the other person chose to share and their full profile.

A no is forever and works both ways: that person and you will never cross an alert again. Whoever sent the alert is not told they got a no.

Accepting an alert does not open a chat. To message each other you have to be friends, and a new friendship waits 24 hours before the first message: the first conversation happens in person. The meeting ends on its own after two hours.

What people write goes through a filter

Before it is published, what someone writes for others to read goes through a filter: messages, statuses, bios, profile social accounts, photo captions, titles of plans, lists and conversations, reviews, community map pins and what a business posts about how its place is doing.

The filter lives on the server, so it cannot be dodged with a modified app, and its list cannot be read from outside. It covers hate, sexual harassment, threats, drug sales and sexual content involving minors, in the app's five languages. It doesn't catch everything: if something slips through, report it. Depending on what it finds, it does not let the text be published, or it hides it and opens a report so a person reviews it.

What does not go through the filter yet, and we say so because overpromising is worse: your name and your @, events and a business's listing. Photos do not go through an automatic filter either. All of that is reviewed when someone reports it.

How to report, and what happens next

You report from inside the app, with the Report option on whatever you want to report: a person, a message, a photo, a status, a review, an event, an alert or a community map pin.

You choose why: spam or ads, sexual content, harassment or insults, pretending to be someone else, violence or something dangerous, or something else, and in that case you tell us in your own words what happened.

What happens next:

The Skaify team gets a notice right away, and we keep a copy of the reported text in case whoever wrote it deletes it.
A person at Skaify reviews it within the next 24 hours.
With three reports from different people, a message, a status or a pin hides itself while we review it. A photo, or a pin with photos, takes two.
Reporting an alert or a meeting closes it instantly for both people, and that person cannot reach you again.
The person you report is never told who reported them.
If someone breaks the rules, we can hide or remove what they posted and suspend or close their account.

Blocking exists too

Blocking is not the same as reporting. If you block someone, you stop seeing each other on Skaify in both directions, and that person is not told.

Your data and your account

You can delete your account and your data from inside the app, whenever you want. What we keep and what for is in the Privacy Policy.

If something goes wrong, write to us

Write to hola@skaify.com. If it is serious or urgent, say so in the subject line and we look at it first. And if you are in danger, call emergency services first: in Mexico and the United States it is 911.

Skaify doesn't replace human interaction, it sparks it. This page exists so that it goes well.