StayKnown
STAYKNOWN
Trust & SafetyConsent FirstAnti-Stalking

StayKnown Trust & Safety Center for real protection, approved contacts, and responsible safety sharing.

StayKnown is built for safety-aware relationships: people you know, contacts you trust, locations you choose to share, and emergency moments that must never be abused. This center explains how StayKnown protects users, prevents misuse, and sets clear boundaries for responsible use.

Version 1.0
Updated: May 01, 2026
Known people, not random tracking

StayKnown is built around trusted contacts, approved access, consent-aware safety flows, and responsible emergency context.

Location has a safety purpose

Location context is for Visits, LIVE sharing, SOS, Manual Capture, and approved-contact safety awareness — not stalking.

SOS must never be abused

False emergencies, prank alerts, coercive SOS use, or using alerts to frighten people can lead to review and restrictions.

How StayKnown protects users

Safety architecture users can understand

Consent and contact trust
Approved contacts and SOS responders help keep safety access intentional.
Declines, removals, expirations, and blocked-add settings must be respected.
Contact approval records help reduce disputes and support safety review.
StayKnown is for people with a lawful and trusted safety relationship.
Visit, LIVE, SOS, and Manual Capture
Visit sessions help users share safety context when actively moving, visiting, or meeting.
LIVE map context is tied to permitted safety flows and approved contact access.
SOS is for serious safety moments, not jokes, pressure, revenge, or false emergencies.
Manual Capture can send an extra safety update during an active Visit where supported.
Safety-aware communication
StayKnown Chat is designed around approved contacts and trusted communication.
Chat, media, voice notes, stickers, stories, and translation must follow safety rules.
Messages and media must not be used for threats, harassment, impersonation, or exploitation.
Blocked users, reports, and restrictions help reduce communication abuse.
Security and integrity controls
VPN and device-integrity checks can protect location reliability and platform safety.
Rate limits, plan gates, storage policies, and backend checks help reduce abuse.
Security reports should be submitted responsibly through the security route.
Suspicious activity may lead to restriction, preservation of records, or review.
What StayKnown does not allow

Clear prohibited safety misuse

!No stalking, harassment, threats, intimidation, or coercive control.
!No hidden tracking, covert surveillance, or unauthorized location monitoring.
!No false SOS, prank alerts, fake Visits, fake Manual Capture, or emergency hoaxes.
!No impersonation of users, contacts, guardians, responders, officials, or StayKnown staff.
!No pressure after someone declines, removes themselves, or blocks contact requests.
!No bypassing VPN checks, device checks, contact approval, plan gates, or safety restrictions.
!No using StayKnown to violate protective orders, no-contact rules, school rules, workplace rules, or family-court boundaries.
!No abusive chat, unsafe media, exploitative stickers, threats, scams, fraud, or payment abuse.
Emergency limitation

StayKnown supports awareness — it is not official emergency dispatch

StayKnown is not police, ambulance, fire service, emergency dispatch, rescue service, hospital, road safety, civil defence, disaster management, government authority, or official emergency response. If immediate danger exists, contact local emergency services or proper local authority first.

Privacy balance

Safety records must be useful without becoming careless

Location, contact, SOS, chat, media, payment, and security records can be sensitive. StayKnown’s safety posture is to use data for service operation, user protection, abuse prevention, support, legal compliance, and safety review — not covert surveillance.

Children, teens, schools, and vulnerable users

Extra care for people who need stronger protection

Minor safety matters

Underage users and teen safety flows require careful guardian involvement, lawful permission, and strong anti-exploitation rules.

No coercive monitoring

StayKnown must not be used to secretly control, pressure, exploit, groom, threaten, or monitor a child, teen, dependent, student, or vulnerable person.

Organizations need clear consent

Schools, workplaces, nonprofits, churches, families, and business users must use StayKnown with proper notice, role clarity, and lawful basis.

Abuse response

What can happen when StayKnown is misused

Review

Reports and suspicious behavior may be reviewed for safety, fraud, harassment, or legal concern.

Restriction

Features, contacts, alerts, chat, media, payments, or account access may be limited.

Preservation

Relevant records may be preserved where needed for safety, abuse review, disputes, or law.

Escalation

Where appropriate, StayKnown may cooperate with valid legal process or emergency requests.

Need action?

Report abuse, get help, or learn the rules before using safety features.

If someone is misusing StayKnown for stalking, harassment, false SOS, unwanted contact, impersonation, payment fraud, or unsafe behavior, use the correct route below. If immediate danger exists, contact local emergency services first.