Child Safety Standards

AriyoEvents is intended for users aged 16 and older. We do not knowingly allow children under 16 to create accounts, host events, register for events, or participate in event communities. Our sign-up flow asks for a date of birth, and we reject any account whose stated age is under 16.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has signed up to AriyoEvents without your permission, email support@ariyoevents.com with the subject “Child account removal” and we will close the account and delete the associated data within 7 days.

The following are strictly prohibited on AriyoEvents and result in immediate account termination, removal of all associated content, and (where applicable) referral to law enforcement:

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — any depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, in any medium (photo, video, drawing, AI-generated, written description), whether real or simulated.
• Grooming and solicitation — any communication intended to develop a sexual or exploitative relationship with a minor, including offering gifts, money, alcohol, transport, or event access in exchange for contact.
• Sexualisation of minors — content, hashtags, event descriptions, vendor offerings, or community posts that sexualise people under 18, even if no explicit imagery is shown.
• Trafficking and exploitation — using AriyoEvents to recruit, transport, harbour, or arrange the meeting of a minor for sexual or labour exploitation.
• Sextortion — threatening to share, or sharing, intimate imagery of a minor without consent.
• Links and redirects — sharing URLs, QR codes, or event resources that direct users to CSAM or grooming material hosted elsewhere.

If you see, suspect, or experience any of the above on AriyoEvents, please report it immediately. We accept reports through three channels:

• In the app — every event detail page, vendor profile, and community post has a Report option in its overflow menu. Select “Child safety concern” as the category. The report goes straight to our safety team and is queued ahead of all other report types.
• By email — write to support@ariyoevents.com with the subject “Child safety report”. Include the event/user/post URL, a short description, and screenshots if you can. You do not need an AriyoEvents account to email us.
• By Nigerian authorities — for an imminent threat to a child, contact the Nigeria Police Force on 112 or the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) on 0803 550 9855. You can report online to NAPTIP at naptip.gov.ng.

Reports made in good faith — including reports that turn out to be incorrect — are neverpenalised. We do not disclose the reporter's identity to the reported user.

Child safety reports are handled by a dedicated reviewer on our trust & safety team. Our published response targets:

• Acknowledgement — within 24 hours of receipt.
• Initial review and content removal (if violating) — within 72 hours.
• Account action (suspension or termination) — at the same time the content is removed, where appropriate.
• Final outcome notification to the reporter — within 7 days, unless an active law-enforcement matter prevents disclosure.

For confirmed CSAM, we preserve the evidence (account ID, content hash, upload timestamp, IP address) for law-enforcement use, remove the content from public view, terminate the uploading account, and report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org. NCMEC's reporting infrastructure is the international channel that law-enforcement bodies including the Nigeria Police Force's Cyber Crime unit work through.

We don't rely on user reports alone. Our prevention work covers:

• Age gate at sign-up — accounts whose stated date of birth puts them under 16 are blocked from the platform.
• Host verification — paid hosts go through identity verification (full name, phone, email, bank account in their name) before they can collect ticket payments. This creates accountability.
• Event-content review — events explicitly targeting minors (school, youth, religious-youth events) are flagged for manual review to confirm the host is a recognised organiser and adult supervision is in place.
• Community moderation — event communities have host-side moderation tools, post-removal, and member-removal. Hosts are obligated by our Terms to remove child-safety violations they become aware of.
• Rate limits and abuse signals — repeated reports against an account, rapid sign-up patterns, and known-bad email/phone signals trigger automatic suspension pending human review.
• No direct messaging to strangers — AriyoEvents does not currently offer person-to-person DMs between strangers. Communication is event-scoped (host ↔ attendee, attendee ↔ community thread). This removes the most common grooming vector by design.

AriyoEvents operates from Nigeria and complies with the following laws and frameworks relevant to child safety:

• Child Rights Act, 2003(Nigeria) — defines a child as a person under 18 and prohibits sexual abuse, exploitation, and trafficking of children. We follow the Act's reporting and cooperation provisions.
• Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015 (Nigeria) — Section 23 criminalises child pornography and online sexual exploitation. We preserve evidence and cooperate with the Nigeria Police Force's National Cyber Crime Centre on valid requests.
• Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015 — we cooperate with NAPTIP on suspected trafficking cases involving minors and adults.
• Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023 — special-category processing for minors is restricted; child-safety reports are processed under the lawful bases of legal obligation and substantial public interest.
• Google Play Families Policy— even though AriyoEvents is rated 16+ and is not directed at children, we maintain child-safety standards consistent with Google Play's requirements for social applications.

We respond to lawful requests from Nigerian and foreign law enforcement that are accompanied by valid legal process (court order, NCC directive, MLAT request, or equivalent). We document and push back on overbroad or improperly issued requests.

Hosting an event on AriyoEvents comes with responsibilities. If your event will be attended by minors (with parental consent), you must:

• Provide adult supervision appropriate to the activity.
• Apply your own community moderation in the event chat — removing inappropriate posts and members promptly.
• Forward any child-safety concern raised to you by an attendee to support@ariyoevents.com within 24 hours, even if you have already actioned the report yourself.
• Cooperate with our trust & safety team if we contact you about a report. Failure to cooperate may result in your host account being suspended.

Child-safety reports: support@ariyoevents.com

General support: support@ariyoevents.com

Designated point of contactfor child-safety matters: the AriyoEvents Trust & Safety lead, reachable at the child-safety reports address above. We commit to having a human review every email received at that address.

Operator: D3F Solutions, Lagos, Nigeria.

We update this page when our practices, the law, or the platform itself changes. The “Last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent revision. Substantive changes are also posted to the in-app inbox of every active user at least 14 days before they take effect.