Community Guidelines (Acceptable Use Policy)

Site: uksocials.club
Operator: CMP Technologies Ltd
Last updated: 30 April 2026
Version: 1.0

What UK Socials is for

UK Socials exists to help people meet up in the real world. It’s not a content-platform. It’s not a hookup app. It’s not a place to farm followers. It’s a tool for finding events, finding venues, finding organisers, and finding other members you’d actually enjoy spending time with — in person.

Everything on the platform should serve that purpose. That’s the lens we use when we write rules, and the lens we use when we apply them.

These guidelines explain what’s expected. They sit alongside our Terms of Service and apply to everyone using UK Socials, whether you’re on the Free tier or running events as an Organiser.

If you break a rule, our actions can range from a quiet word to your account being terminated. Serious breaches go straight to termination and may be reported to the police.

The basics — what we expect

1. Be a real person, presented honestly

• One account per person.
• Use real photos of yourself. Old photos are fine; misleading photos are not.
• Don’t pretend to be someone else, including a celebrity, a public figure, or another member.
• Don’t set up an account for a business unless you’re using the Organiser or Venue tier and you’re authorised to represent that business.

Why: the whole platform is built on members trusting that the people they’re meeting are who they say they are. Fake profiles destroy that trust faster than anything else.

2. Treat people with basic decency

• No harassment, no bullying, no threats.
• No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, religious hatred, or any other form of targeted abuse.
• No “negging”, no pickup-artist tactics, no pressure when someone says no.
• If someone asks you to stop messaging them, stop.
• Disagreement is fine — disagreement directed AT another person, with intent to hurt, is not.

Why: UK Socials is for everyone in the UK who wants to meet new people. No-one comes here to be made to feel small.

3. Keep it appropriate for a 13+ audience

• No sexual content. No nudity. No “tasteful” exceptions.
• No content showing or describing illegal drug use.
• No glorifying violence or self-harm.
• No content promoting eating disorders, suicide, or self-harm.

Why: people of all ages are on UK Socials, including teenagers. Even members aged 13–17 are protected from anything they shouldn’t see, and it’s our duty under the Online Safety Act 2023 and the ICO Children’s Code to make sure the whole environment is appropriate.

4. Be who you say you are about your age

• You must be 13 or older.
• Don’t lie about your age — particularly not to bypass our cross-age messaging rules (the 21+ ↔ 16– block).
• Don’t help someone else lie about theirs.

Why: age-based safety rules only work if everyone is honest. A 25-year-old lying about their age to message a 14-year-old is the kind of behaviour that gets accounts permanently terminated and reported to the police.

5. Don’t try to take members off-platform too early

• Don’t message someone whose primary purpose is to harvest their phone number, email, social-media handles, or off-site chat-app contact.
• It’s fine to share contact details with someone you’re actually meeting up with — that’s the whole point.
• It’s not fine to mass-message members asking for off-site contact.

Why: the platform’s safety mechanisms (cross-age block, reporting, moderation) only work on the platform. Pulling people off too quickly often looks like one of: a scam, a creep, or a cold marketer. None of which we want.

6. Don’t be a creep

• Don’t make members feel hunted, watched, or followed.
• Don’t repeatedly engineer being at the same events as someone who hasn’t signalled interest in you.
• Don’t message someone disproportionately compared with their reply rate (if they’ve replied once and you’ve sent twelve messages, you’re being a creep).
• Don’t make sexualised comments about anyone’s body, looks, or what you’d “like to do” with them.
• Don’t track or stalk a member’s activity history to time your messages or appearances.

Why: UK Socials is meant to feel safe to attend events on. Creep behaviour is the fastest way to make members stop turning up. We monitor for patterns and act on them.

7. Don’t fish for invites or use members for free access

The most common version of this:

• Repeatedly accepting invites to events you wanted to go to anyway, with no intention of staying connected to the people who invited you afterwards. Examples: a member who consistently angles for invites to expensive dinners, gigs, or shows from the people likely to pay for them, then drops contact the moment the event is over. A member who collects a string of “+1” event attendances from different inviters with no follow-through.
• Constructing your profile or messaging style to look like an attractive plus-one so that other members invite you to events you would otherwise have to pay for.

This is the pattern we mainly mean when we talk about “fishing for invites”. We monitor for it (see §8 — the accept-attend-ghost pattern is the same behaviour seen from another angle), and repeated cases trigger an internal flag and admin review.

The financial side of the same family of behaviour:

• Don’t message members soliciting money, gifts, expensive dates, “investment”, “loans”, or any other financial favour.
• Don’t pitch members commercial schemes, MLMs, “opportunities”, or affiliate offers.
• Don’t ask members to fund things “for the cause”, “for the cat”, “to help out a single mum”, etc. unless you actually know them well enough offline that asking is appropriate.

Why: this is one of the most common predatory patterns on social platforms — and the version most likely to be invisible to the person being used. The inviter often only realises afterwards what’s been happening, by which time several events and several payments have gone by. We treat the pattern as fraud-adjacent and will suspend accounts that show it, even where no money has changed hands and the only “cost” was an event ticket and someone’s time.

8. Show up, then engage

UK Socials is for meeting up in person. If you accept invites, attend events, but never speak to or engage with the people who invited you — that’s a problem.

• Don’t keep accepting invites with no intention of being part of the group.
• Don’t attend events purely to meet new people while ignoring the friends-of-friends who introduced you.
• Don’t ghost an inviter directly after the event has ended.

Why: this kind of behaviour wastes other members’ time and undermines the trust that makes the platform work. We monitor for patterns of “accept-attend-ghost” — repeated cases trigger an internal flag against your account. The flag isn’t shown publicly, but it does affect your reputation score (see §10) and can trigger admin review.

This is not about forcing friendships. Sometimes you go to an event, the chemistry isn’t there, and you move on. That’s fine. The pattern we’re watching for is systematic — using invites as free entry to events without participating in the social fabric they exist for.

9. Respect the age-pairing rules

• If you are 21 or older, you cannot send messages to members aged 16 or younger. The platform enforces this automatically.
• The only exception is Family Link — siblings, cousins, or parent/child pairs who have both explicitly opted in, where both sides confirm the family relationship.
• Don’t lie about your age to bypass this rule.
• Don’t use Family Link with someone who isn’t actually family.
• If a member who looks under 16 contacts you and you’re an adult, do not engage. Report it via info@uksocials.club so we can verify their declared age.

Why: this rule is the platform’s most important child-safety feature. Bypassing it gets you terminated and, depending on what you said, reported to the police.

10. Treat the peer-review system honestly

After a group event (members who mutually invited each other and attended together — see §11 below), each attendee may be asked to leave a private review of the others in the group.

• Be honest. If someone was great, say so. If someone was rude, dismissive, predatory, or inappropriate, say so.
• Don’t review-bomb. Don’t coordinate with friends to leave fake good or fake bad reviews of someone.
• Don’t trade reviews. Don’t agree to review each other positively in exchange.
• Don’t retaliate. If someone leaves you an honest negative review, the right response is to reflect on it — not to retaliate with a fake review of them.

Reviews are private — they go to UK Socials administrators and feed into the reviewed member’s reputation score. The reviewed member can see the score change but does not see who said what. Reviewer identity is stored alongside the review (so we can investigate review-bombing or retaliation) but is not surfaced to other admins or to the reviewed member during normal operation. An admin only looks at reviewer identity when (a) a complaint has been filed about that specific review, or (b) statistical patterns suggest review-bombing. Either trigger generates an audit-log entry — see Privacy Policy §5.1 for the full admin-access policy.

Why: the reputation system is one of the few things on UK Socials that members rely on to decide who to invite. We need it to be honest. We treat fake reviews, retaliation, and review trading as serious breaches.

11. The peer-review trigger — what counts as a “group event”

We only ask for peer reviews when there’s a clear group:
– Two or more members mutually invited each other to an event in advance, and
– All those members RSVP’d “Going” to the same event, and
– The event date has passed (we trigger the review request roughly 24 hours after the event end time).

If you went solo to an open public event, no peer-review is requested — there isn’t a group context.

What’s not allowed — the specific list

You agree that you will not, while using UK Socials, do any of the following. Some of these are illegal under UK law; some are against our policy. Both will result in moderation action.

Illegal content

• Child sexual abuse material of any kind — uploaded, linked, requested, or described. We scan all uploaded images against the Internet Watch Foundation’s hash list of known CSAM. Any match is removed and the account reported to the National Crime Agency. Zero tolerance, zero appeal, account terminated immediately.
• Terrorism content — content that promotes, supports, or glorifies terrorism, including recruitment material.
• Threats of violence to a specific person or group.
• Incitement to hatred based on race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or disability (Public Order Act 1986 / Equality Act 2010 protected characteristics).
• Stalking, harassment, or controlling behaviour as defined in the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 / Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
• Image-based sexual abuse (“revenge porn” — sharing intimate images without consent), including deepfakes.
• Fraud — including romance scams, fake event listings, fake organiser profiles, advance-fee scams, and impersonation of charities or causes.
• Drugs offences — offering to supply, or attempting to obtain, controlled substances.
• Weapons offences — selling, advertising, or describing how to obtain illegal weapons.
• Selling counterfeit goods through the platform.

Sexual content

• Nudity, pornography, sexually explicit text, sexually-suggestive captions or hashtags.
• “Nearly nude” or sexualised photos that wouldn’t be acceptable on a children’s mainstream platform.
• Soliciting or offering sexual services.
• Sexually-explicit private messages, even between consenting adults — UK Socials is not the right venue for that.

Harm to other members

• Harassment, including repeated unwanted messages after someone has told you to stop.
• Bullying, including organised pile-ons.
• Public shaming (naming a member in a public post or review with intent to attack them).
• Outing someone’s identity, sexuality, or other private characteristic without consent.
• Doxxing (revealing someone’s home address, workplace, or other identifying information without consent).
• Encouraging self-harm or suicide.

Identity and impersonation

• Impersonating another member.
• Impersonating a public figure or celebrity.
• Setting up multiple accounts to evade a suspension.
• Setting up accounts that don’t represent a real person (catfishing).
• Falsifying your age, location, or other significant profile data.

Fraud and exploitation

• Romance scams.
• Investment scams (“crypto opportunity” messages, etc.).
• Fake organiser accounts running fake events to take ticket money.
• Sending tickets that don’t work / running events that don’t happen.
• Catfishing followed by extortion (sextortion).

Spam and unwanted commercial activity

• Mass-messaging members with unsolicited offers, promotions, or sales pitches.
• Posting the same content repeatedly across profiles, comments, and reviews.
• Affiliate-link spamming.
• “Pyramid scheme” recruitment.
• Unauthorised event listings — where you don’t have permission from the venue or rights-holder to list the event.

Misuse of the platform

• Scraping, harvesting, or systematically downloading data about other members.
• Using bots or automated tools (other than authorised search-engine indexing of public pages).
• Trying to access parts of the system you’re not authorised to access.
• Reverse-engineering, decompiling, or attempting to derive source code.
• Attempting to interfere with the platform’s security or stability.

Off-platform abuse using platform-derived contacts

• Using contact details a member shared on UK Socials to harass them, contact them after they’ve blocked you, or pass their information to third parties without permission.
• Recording or photographing other members at events without their consent and posting the result publicly.

Special rules for Organisers and Venues

If you’re on the Organiser or Venue tier you have additional responsibilities because other members rely on what you publish.

• Accuracy of listings. Date, time, location, ticket price, age restrictions, and capacity must all be accurate at the time of listing.
• Refunds for cancelled events. If you cancel an event, you must refund ticket holders in line with their consumer rights — see Refund Policy Part B.
• Health and safety. You’re responsible for the safety of attendees at events you run. UK Socials does not perform safety audits and we don’t accept liability for events.
• Licensing. Get the licences your event needs (alcohol, music, public performance, etc.). It’s your job, not ours.
• Age-appropriate events. If your event is 18+ only, mark it as such, and check IDs on entry. UK Socials displays these flags but does not enforce them at the door.
• No fake reviews. Don’t write fake positive reviews of your own events, or pay anyone else to.
• Don’t impersonate venues. If you’re listing as a Venue, you must own or be authorised to represent that venue.

Breaches of these rules are taken seriously because they directly affect other paying members’ safety and trust.

How we enforce these rules

Reports

• Every photo, message, profile, review, and comment has a Report button visible to viewers.
• Reports go to UK Socials administrators. We aim to respond to safety-critical reports within 24 hours, and other reports within 72 hours.
• Reporting is anonymous to the user being reported — they don’t see who reported them, only that something was reported.
• Filing a malicious or knowingly false report is itself a breach of these guidelines.

What we do when a rule is broken

We try to be proportionate. The action depends on what was done, whether you’ve broken rules before, and whether there was harm to another member.

We will tell you when we take action, and we will explain why, except where doing so would prejudice an active criminal investigation.

Your right to challenge a moderation decision

If we’ve taken action against your account or your content and you think we got it wrong, our Complaints Procedure explains the steps. We will look again, and we will lift the action if we got it wrong. We don’t ban people then leave them with no way to ask why.

How to report

How we update these guidelines

The platform changes and so do the things people try. When we update these guidelines:
– Minor changes (new examples, wording clarifications) take effect immediately
– Substantial changes (new categories of prohibited conduct, new enforcement actions) are notified at least 14 days in advance via in-platform message and where possible by email

The current version date is at the top of this page.

Contact

• Reporting issues: info@uksocials.club, or use the Report button next to any content
• Appealing a moderation decision: see the Complaints Procedure
• General questions about the rules: info@uksocials.club