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Community Guidelines

Last updated · January 2026

WYA only works if showing up and tapping in actually feels good. These are the rules that keep it that way — read them, especially the parts about meeting people in person.

Account Privacy Meeting In Person Zero-Tolerance Discrimination Harassment WYA Voice Fair Use Venues Reporting Enforcement Appeals

01Setting Up Your Account

WYA is for real people meeting real people, so we ask for the basics up front:

  • You must be 18 or older to use WYA.
  • Both your phone number and your email need to be verified — that's not optional, it's how we keep bots and repeat-offenders out.
  • Use a name and photo that are actually you. Catfishing someone you might meet in person isn't a prank, it's a safety problem.
  • One account per person. Creating a second account to get around a restriction is itself a violation.

02Respecting Each Other's Privacy

People Nearby, your location, and your presence are all opt-in — that's a promise we make to you, and we need you to extend the same respect to everyone else.

  • Don't screenshot, repost, or share someone's profile, location, or a chat without their okay.
  • Don't use anything shared on WYA — a neighbourhood, a workplace, a photo's background — to track someone down offline.
  • If someone stops replying, that's an answer. Don't switch to another way of reaching them.
  • Contact info and precise details stay gated behind an explicit request the other person approves. Don't ask people to bypass that gate for you.

03Meeting In Person & WYA Tap

WYA Tap exists to make the moment you meet someone easier — it doesn't make meeting a stranger risk-free, and no app can. A few habits that actually help:

  • For a first meetup, pick a public place — the event, the café, the venue you're both already at.
  • Tell a friend where you're headed and who you're meeting, especially if you're leaving with someone you just tapped.
  • Trust your gut. Leaving a meetup that feels off is never rude — it's the right call.
  • WYA Tap only exchanges a connection over Bluetooth between two phones physically near each other. It doesn't vet the person on the other end — that's still on both of you.
If something goes wrong

Report it in the app immediately, and if you're ever in danger, contact local emergency services first — WYA support comes after your safety, not instead of it.

04The Lines We Don't Adjust

These result in an immediate, permanent ban — no warning, no second account:

  • Physical or sexual violence, or threats of it, toward anyone met through WYA.
  • Tampering with someone's food or drink at a meetup.
  • Theft, robbery, or blackmail.
  • Sharing intimate images of someone without their consent.
  • Scams, fraud, or asking another member for money.
  • Any exploitation or endangerment of a minor.
  • Creating a new account after being banned.

05Discrimination Has No Place Here

Slurs, dehumanizing language, and deliberately excluding or demeaning someone because of who they are — their caste, religion, language, gender, sexuality, disability, or anything else — aren't tolerated. Depending on severity this ranges from an educational warning to a permanent ban.

06Harassment & Unwanted Attention

Unsolicited sexual messages or images, and continuing to pursue someone romantically or sexually after they've said no or gone quiet, are both violations — we look at the pattern, not just whether you "meant it as a joke."

07WYA Voice, Used Right

WYA Voice auto-translates what you say so the person on the other end reads it in their own language. That convenience doesn't create a loophole: if you wouldn't say something to someone's face in your own language, translating it doesn't make it okay to send.

08Using WYA Fairly

  • No spam, bots, or automated activity on your account.
  • No using WYA to sell, recruit for MLMs, or generate leads.
  • No impersonating another person, brand, or WYA staff.
  • No trying to scrape, farm, or reverse-engineer other members' data through People Nearby or WYA Tap.

09Events & Places

Treat venue staff with respect and follow house rules. If a place listed on WYA feels unsafe, or staff behave inappropriately, report it — that report never affects your own account standing.

10Reporting

You can report anything you witness or experience — in a chat, on a profile, during or after a meetup — using the report option on that profile or conversation. Reports are handled confidentially, and we look into every one. Filing a report you know to be false is itself a violation.

11Enforcement

Outside the zero-tolerance list, we use a three-tier system: an educational warning for a first, lower-severity issue; a formal warning for repeated or more serious conduct; and a permanent ban if it continues or the harm is significant. You'll always be told which guideline triggered the action.

12Appeals

Think we got it wrong? You can appeal any account action from inside the app. Appeals are reviewed by someone who wasn't involved in the original decision — the goal is to check the call was correct, not to offer a second chance regardless of what happened.