altr ego
Altr Ego child safety standards
Published October 1, 2026.
Child safety.
Altr Ego is an 18+ service. We have zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). No one under 18 may create an account, answer questions, or appear as the subject of a profile. We prohibit any content or conduct that sexualizes, exploits, or endangers minors. If the service ever accepts images, every uploaded image is screened before any person sees it, and apparent CSAM is removed immediately, preserved as law requires, and reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) or the appropriate authority. To report a child safety concern, contact safety@altr-ego.app. We review child safety reports before all others and act on them without delay.
Changes to these documents
October 1, 2026: Added send feedback, on the account page. If you use it, we keep your words and the app's version with your account; nobody in the app sees them. The privacy policy's list of what we collect, and its deletion section, now say so.
October 1, 2026: Changed how the privacy policy and the terms describe your friends' answers. They said the answers were anonymous. They now say what we promise: nobody who answers is ever named.
September 30, 2026: Turned on the mutual circle. The documents already described it, in the changes dated September 22 and September 27 below, and their wording did not change.
September 29, 2026: Took a line out of the privacy policy's list of what we collect: whether you have turned on letting your circle see the four longer written descriptions. That setting was never built, so nothing was stored.
September 27, 2026: Added a privacy-policy section on anthems. Songs come from Apple's music catalog, and the words you search for go to Apple from our servers. A song's preview and cover load straight from Apple, and GIFs straight from GIPHY. Anthems have worked this way since they started; the policy now says so.
September 27, 2026: Changed who reads a verdict you accept: the group that tried you, not your whole circle. The privacy policy's section on who can see your page and the content rules in the terms now say so. The circle is not live yet.
September 23, 2026: Added a sentence to the trials section of the terms, the same one the in-app notice for trials already carried.
September 22, 2026: Added the mutual circle: a new privacy-policy section saying who can see your page, a fuller description of the service in the terms, a line in the content rules saying who reads an entry you accept, and a moderation update covering hiding a single entry and blocking without an open round. The circle is not live yet.
September 19, 2026: Added where a visit comes from: since September 19, each event and each new account notes whether it came from our app, a web browser, or another app's built-in browser, and on iOS, Android or something else. A new section, Opening a link, says what we record when someone opens an invite link or a shared profile without an account, and that none of it carries a name, an email or an account. And a new section says who can see your profile, in the same words as our website.
September 17, 2026: Added trials: a new terms section describing them, and two privacy-policy lines naming the verdicts you accept or decline and the charges you pick when a friend is on trial. Also corrected the moderation process, which now says blocking exists today. Trials have not started yet.
August 28, 2026: Added GIFs to meme weeks: chosen from GIPHY's catalog at its mildest ratings, never uploaded, never shared outside the app. The privacy policy's new GIFs section says exactly what changed.
August 28, 2026: Added the paid tier: a new terms section describing the subscription, an updated liability sentence, and a privacy-policy line stating the subscription status we hold. The paid tier is not yet on sale; per our own Changes clauses, this notice precedes it.
August 26, 2026: First publication.