Community Guidelines

Site: uksocials.club
Operator: CMP Technologies Ltd
Last updated: the 31st of July 2026
Version: 2.0

What UK Socials is for

UK Socials exists to get people meeting in the real world. It is not a content platform, not a hookup app, and not a place to farm followers. It is a tool for finding events, venues, organisers, and people you would actually enjoy spending time with, in person.

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

The binding rules are section 9 of our Terms of Service. This page explains them in plain English with examples, so nobody is ever caught out by small print. If you break them, our response ranges from a quiet word to permanent termination, and for the serious things, a report to the police.

The rules, with examples

1. Be a real person, presented honestly

• One account per person. Real photos of yourself. Old photos are fine; misleading ones are not.
• No pretending to be someone else: not another member, not a celebrity, not an invented person.
• No setting up a new account to dodge a suspension.
• Business accounts belong on the Organiser and Venue tiers, run by someone genuinely authorised to represent the business.

Why: everything here depends on members trusting that the person they are meeting is who they said they were. Fake profiles poison that faster than anything else.

2. Treat people with basic decency

• No harassment, bullying, or threats.
• No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, religious hatred, or any other targeted abuse.
• No “negging”, no pickup-artist routines, no pressuring people who said no.
• If someone asks you to stop messaging them, stop.

Example: disagreeing about football is fine. Following someone from thread to thread to have another go at them is not.

3. Keep it appropriate for a 13+ audience

• No sexual content anywhere: photos, profiles, messages. No “tasteful” exceptions. This applies between consenting adults too; UK Socials is simply not the venue.
• No content glorifying violence, self-harm, suicide, or eating disorders.
• No content showing or promoting illegal drug use.

Why: teenagers are on this platform alongside adults, and the whole environment has to be safe for them. This is also our legal duty under the Online Safety Act 2023.

4. Be honest about your age, and respect the age rules

The platform automatically blocks contact between:

• members aged 21 or over and members aged 17 or under, and
• members aged 18 or over and members aged 15 or under.

Members outside your permitted range simply do not appear to you, and you do not appear to them. Ages themselves are never displayed to anyone.

• Do not lie about your age, and do not help anyone else to.
• The only exception is Family Link, for genuine family (parent and child, siblings, cousins), where both sides explicitly opt in. Using Family Link with someone who is not actually your family is one of the fastest ways to lose your account permanently.
• Every event also carries an age group (Family friendly, 13-15, 16-17, 18+, 21+, 25+, or Mixed) and the platform will not let anyone book outside it. There are no exceptions, including for family.
• If you are an adult and someone who seems underage for their declared band contacts you, do not engage. Report it and we will check.

Why: these are the platform’s most important child-safety rules. Trying to get around them ends your account and, depending on what you did, involves the police.

5. Respect people’s boundaries

• Do not make members feel watched, hunted, or followed.
• Do not keep messaging someone who is not replying. One unanswered message is a message; twelve are a problem.
• No sexualised comments about anyone’s body, looks, or what you would “like to do”.
• Do not engineer being at the same events as someone who has shown no interest in you.
• Do not repeatedly browse the profiles of members far younger than you.

Why: UK Socials only works if people feel safe turning up to events. Behaviour like this is taken seriously even when no single message breaks a rule on its own, and repeated patterns are reviewed by a human.

6. Do not use members

The free-entry family:

• Repeatedly accepting invitations to events you wanted free entry to, then dropping the people who invited you.
• Building your profile or messaging style to look like an attractive plus-one so others fund your nights out.
• Accepting invitations, attending, and then ignoring the people who invited you: a pattern of that wastes real people’s time and money.

The money family:

• No soliciting money, gifts, “loans”, “investments”, or expensive favours from members.
• No pitching schemes, MLMs, crypto “opportunities”, or affiliate offers.
• No sob-story fundraising aimed at members you barely know.

Why: this is one of the most common predatory patterns on social platforms, and the person being used is usually the last to see it. We treat it as seriously as fraud whether or not money changed hands. One flat evening is life; a repeated pattern is a problem.

7. Keep it on the platform until it is real

• Do not mass-message members for phone numbers, emails, or social handles.
• Do not push people onto off-platform apps where the Report button cannot protect them.
• Sharing contact details with someone you are genuinely meeting up with is the whole point of UK Socials. Harvesting them is not.

8. Use invitations fairly

Invitations are for genuinely inviting people. The platform enforces limits so they cannot be used to pester:

• Your tier’s monthly allowance applies (Standard members get 3 per month; Premium and above are unlimited).
• You can have at most 10 unanswered invitations open at once. Answered and expired invitations free the slot.
• You can invite the same member at most twice in any 30 days.
• Invitations expire if not answered, and every refusal the system gives you states which limit you hit.

Trying to engineer around these limits is itself a breach.

9. Show up, and be there

• If you accept an invitation or RSVP, turn up. Life happens, and cancelling ahead of time is completely fine; a pattern of no-shows is not.
• Attendance on UK Socials is self-reported: only you can say whether you attended, and nobody else can claim it about you.
• Some events carry a no screens agreement. By accepting, you agree to keep your phone away and be present with the group.
• Curated events have two named hosts whose job is to welcome everyone and make sure nobody stands alone. Help them: a warm hello costs nothing.

10. Treat the review system honestly

After an event where you and another member were paired by an accepted invitation and both attended, you may each be asked to review the other:

• You see each other’s reviews. Reviews between the pair are open and signed: you read what they wrote about you, they read what you wrote about them, and either of you can reply. You met in person; the review is part of that same honesty.
• Nobody else reads them. Other members never see review text, only each member’s aggregate reputation score, and only once enough reviews exist that no single review can be picked out.
• A small set of safety answers goes only to us. Those feed our safety systems, are reviewed by humans, and are never shown to the reviewed member or anyone else.
• Be honest, including when it is awkward. Honest, civil reviews are protected; we do not punish truthful negative feedback.
• No fake reviews, no traded reviews (“five stars for five stars”), no coordinated reviews, and no retaliation. We can see the patterns these produce, and fake-review activity is also against the law.

11. Nothing illegal, ever

Some things are beyond guidelines. All of the following are removed on sight, end accounts immediately, and are reported to the authorities where the law requires or allows:

• Child sexual abuse or exploitation material of any kind, or sexual communication with a child. Zero tolerance. Removed immediately, account terminated, reported to the National Crime Agency and the Internet Watch Foundation.
• Terrorism content and content inciting violence or hatred against people for who they are.
• Threats, stalking, and harassment within the meaning of UK criminal law.
• Intimate images shared without consent, including deepfakes, and sextortion.
• Fraud: romance scams, fake events sold for money, fake profiles run for gain, advance-fee scams.
• Drugs and weapons offences: supplying, offering, or sourcing.
• Attacks on the platform: malware, phishing, scraping member data, probing security, bots.

Extra responsibilities for Organisers and Venues

If you are on a business tier, members rely on what you publish, so more is expected (the binding version is Terms of Service §8):

• Listings must be accurate: date, time, location, price, capacity, age group, cancellation terms.
• Honour your own cancellation terms. A refund requested inside your stated window is the buyer’s entitlement, not a favour.
• Cancelled events refund everyone in full, through the platform, automatically.
• Safety, licences and door checks are yours: premises licence, alcohol, insurance, checking IDs on 18+ events.
• No fake reviews of your own events, no bought reviews, no coordinated ratings. This is banned by law as well as by us.
• Represent only businesses you are genuinely authorised to represent.

How we enforce these rules

• Report anything with the Report control next to it, or email info@uksocials.club. Reporting is confidential: the person reported is not told who reported them. Knowingly false reports are themselves a breach.
• Reports are reviewed by a human administrator, safety-critical ones within 24 hours and child-safety ones as same-day priority.
• Our responses scale with the harm: a quiet word and content removal for a first minor slip; formal warnings; feature restrictions; suspension; termination. The illegal list at rule 11 skips the ladder entirely.
• Behaviour flags raised by our pattern monitoring never punish anyone automatically: a human reviews first, always.
• We tell you when we act against you and why, unless telling you would put someone at risk. If you think we got it wrong, the Complaints Procedure gets a different administrator to look again, and if we were wrong we put it right. Nobody is penalised for appealing in good faith.

How to report, at a glance

Changes to these guidelines

When the rules change materially we give at least 14 days’ notice by internal message and, where possible, email. Clarifications and new examples take effect when published. The date at the top tells you the current version.

Contact

• Reporting: the Report control, or info@uksocials.club
• Appeals: the Complaints Procedure
• Questions about the rules: info@uksocials.club