Safety, Blocking, and Reporting

Bonded is for adults who want to feel closer. The rules, the report flow, and the safety contact are all inside the app at Settings > Safety > Community rules.

The Rules

Rule	What it means
Everyone here is an adult	You must be 18 or over. Reports about under-18 accounts are reviewed within 24 hours.
No harassment	No repeated, targeted, or intimidating contact. If someone asks you to stop, stop.
No threats	No threats of harm to anyone, including yourself. Credible threats are escalated immediately and may be reported to the authorities.
No hate	No attacks on people for who they are — race, religion, disability, gender, or sexuality.
No unwanted sexual content	Not in a name, not in a profile answer, not anywhere.
Be yourself	No impersonation, and no sharing other people's private information.
No spam or scams	No advertising, phishing, or asking people for money. Links are not allowed in profile answers.

Report Someone

You can report a person, a ping, or a specific profile answer. Reporting is available from a friend's ⋯ menu, from a ping card, and from a profile answer's menu.

Choose a reason.
Add an optional note (up to 500 characters).
Submit.
Bonded asks whether you also want to block them.

Reason	Use it for
Underage user or child safety	You believe this person is under 18, or a child is at risk.
Threats or safety concern	Threats of harm to anyone, including themselves.
Harassment or bullying	Repeated, targeted, or intimidating contact.
Unwanted sexual content	Sexual messages or advances you did not want.
Hate or discrimination	Attacks based on who someone is.
Impersonation	Pretending to be someone they are not.
Shared private information	Posting private or confidential details about someone.
Spam, scam or payment request	Advertising, phishing, or asking you for money.
Something else	Anything the categories above do not cover.

What Happens Next

Reporting is private. The other person is never told, and nothing changes between you unless you also block them.
Blocking takes effect immediately — you do not have to wait for a review.
Child-safety concerns and credible threats are reviewed within 24 hours. Everything else within 72.
Depending on what is found, we may do nothing, warn the account, reset a username, remove a single answer, limit or pause pings, suspend the account for a set time, or remove it permanently. We reach for the smallest thing that answers the report — one bad sentence is not a reason to end someone's account.
If we act on something you wrote, we tell you: what we did, which rule, whether a person reported it or our automated check found it, when it ends if it does, and how to appeal.
If you think a decision was wrong, write to the safety address and a different person reviews it.

Blocking

Blocking someone means they cannot ping you, find you in search, or connect with you. They are never told.

Manage the list at Settings > Safety > Blocked people, where you can unblock anyone.

Talk to a Person

For anything urgent, or anything a report form cannot carry, the safety contact address is on the Community rules screen. It is monitored separately from general support so an urgent report is not queued behind billing questions.

Safety Troubleshooting

Problem	Meaning	What to try
`REPORT_REASON_INVALID`	No reason was chosen, or it is not recognised.	Pick a reason from the list.
"Nothing to report"	The screen was opened without a target.	Report from the person's row, their profile, a ping, or an answer.
You blocked someone by accident	Blocking is reversible.	Unblock them in Settings > Safety > Blocked people.
A blocked person still appears somewhere	Cached data.	Reopen the screen or the app.
`SELF_ACTION`	You tried to report or block your own account.	Not applicable to your own account.