Safety

Safety on Ominglo

Is Ominglo safe? Yes. It is for adults only, nudity is not allowed, automated checks run during chats and people on the moderation team review reports and appeals. This page explains each part, including what happens to images from your camera.

Adults only

Ominglo is for people aged 18 or older. Before your first chat you confirm your age. If you are under 18, please do not use the service.

What is checked during a chat

Blur on your screen. A check that runs in your browser looks at the other person's video. If it spots nudity, you see that picture blurred right away. The chat carries on, and the blur lifts once the picture is clean again.
Automated check of your camera. During a chat, a model in your browser scores single frames from your own camera. Usually only the score is sent to our server. If the check marks a frame, for example because its score passes a fixed threshold, the frame itself is uploaded and stored for moderators to look at. We also store a few other frames picked at random, to measure how accurate the check is.
Automatic penalties for clear cases. Clear nudity ends the chat and blocks random chats for a short time. The block gets longer with each violation, and repeated violations lead to a permanent ban.
People for everything else. Borderline frames, reports and appeals are handled by people on the moderation team.

No automated check catches everything. If you see something that breaks the rules, report it.

What happens to images from your camera

Chats are not recorded. Nothing is recorded or played back later.
Encrypted on the way. Picture and sound are encrypted while they travel. If the two browsers cannot reach each other directly, the stream goes through our relay server, still encrypted; the relay has no way to read or record it.
A small preview for moderators. While your camera is on, your browser sends a small preview picture every few seconds. Only the newest one is held, in the server's memory and not on disk, and moderators can see it.
Live view for moderators. A moderator may look at your camera live while checking a case. They see the picture only: no sound reaches our team, and nothing is recorded.
Saved frames. Frames flagged by the automated check, frames attached to a report and frames saved by a moderator as evidence stay stored while moderation, reports and appeals need them, and while we use them to evaluate and improve the automated check. A frame tied to a warning or a block stays at least until that penalty, and any appeal against it, is closed. Where the law obliges us to retain material, we retain it and report it in the way the law sets out.
Who sees them. Only the moderation team.

You can ask us to delete a saved frame of you: write to [email protected]. The Privacy Policy has the details.

How to report someone

Tap Report next to the other person's name.
Pick a reason.

The chat ends at once. The report goes to the moderation team with one frame of the reported person's video and the last text messages from that chat. A report on its own does not suspend an account: a person looks at it first.

There is no button to block one specific person. Next takes you to someone new, and a report ends the chat.

If you get a penalty

The screen tells you the reason and, for a temporary block, when it ends. If you think it was a mistake, use the appeal link on that screen. Appeals are free and a person reviews them.

Six habits that keep you safer

Don't give out your full name, home address, school, workplace or passwords.
Check what is visible behind you before you turn the camera on.
Do not move the chat to another app with someone you have just met.
Never send money or codes, whatever the reason.
If a chat feels wrong, press Next or Stop. You do not owe anyone an explanation.
Report threats, pressure and anything involving minors.

Contact

Questions about safety: [email protected]. If anyone is in danger right now, contact your local emergency services before anything else.