StayKnown Verification
StayKnown verification helps people recognize verified individuals and verified organizations across the parts of the app where identity matters: profile, stories, chat, contact approval, Visit, SOS, alerts, notifications, and safety emails.
Verification is a trust signal, not a permission to bypass safety rules. A verified badge does not mean the person or organization is safe, endorsed by StayKnown, approved by a government, professionally licensed, or allowed to track people without consent.
The verified individual badge means StayKnown has reviewed enough account identity or trust information to display a verification marker beside that person’s account. It is designed to help users recognize the account across profile, chat, stories, contacts, Visit, SOS, safety alerts, and emails.
- •Used for a person, not a company or public office.
- •Appears only when the account has active approved verification.
- •Can be removed if the account changes identity, misleads people, or violates safety rules.
- •Does not mean StayKnown guarantees the person is safe or truthful in every interaction.
StayKnown verification is a trust marker inside a safety-first product. It helps people recognize verified individuals and verified organizations, but it is not a guarantee of safety, honesty, emergency authority, legal authority, professional licensing, or official endorsement.
Verified users must still follow the same safety, consent, anti-stalking, contact approval, chat, Visit, SOS, and acceptable use rules as every other StayKnown account.
Verification may appear beside names or profile surfaces in profile screens, stories, story viewers, story likers, chat headers, contact approvals, approved contact surfaces, Visit alerts, SOS alerts, Daily I’M SAFE emails, missed I’M SAFE alerts, notifications, and safety timeline contexts.
For manually entered responders or contacts, StayKnown should show a badge only when the row is clearly linked to a real StayKnown user account with active verification. A manually typed name should not receive a verified badge by name alone.
StayKnown reviews identity, account, organization, or trust signals depending on the verification type.
If approved, the account receives an active verification marker that can appear across supported surfaces.
The verified marker appears beside names where identity context helps users recognize the account.
Verified users must still follow consent, anti-stalking, contact approval, SOS, Visit, chat, and safety rules.
StayKnown may re-check, pause, remove, or restrict verification if risk, misuse, or identity change appears.
Used for a real-person account that has passed StayKnown’s individual verification review. It helps people recognize the person, but it does not guarantee safety.
Used for an organization-style account such as a company, office, nonprofit, school, support body, or safety-related group that passes organization review.
A softer tick should mean pending, limited, or review status only. It must not be presented as full verification unless active verification is approved.
A badge is a recognition signal, not proof that every action, request, alert, message, or emergency claim is safe or official.
A verified badge should never be used to pressure someone into approving contact requests, accepting SOS responder duties, trusting a location link blindly, sending money, revealing private information, ignoring abuse, or believing false emergency claims.
The full verification policy will define eligibility, review, badge removal, appeals, misuse, evidence handling, organization rules, and the relationship between verification and other StayKnown policies.
Visitors should understand the value quickly: StayKnown verification helps identity recognition inside a safety app, but it also has strict limits, maintenance rules, abuse consequences, and reporting pathways.