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Q: What about safety and children? When is it safe to let someone meet my children?
A: When it comes to safety, nothing is more important in life than protecting your children's privacy and identities. You'd think twice before you introduced your child to someone you'd just met out in the world, and you need to exercise that same
caution online.
Therefore, you should not post pictures of children on your profile, not even as your secondary pictures. This includes your own children as well as nieces, nephews, grandchildren, etc.
And when it comes to introducing someone you’ve met online to your children, wait until you feel completely safe with that person – and after that, wait a little longer still.
Q: What are your top red flags that might indicate someone is unsafe?
A: The four main things that should tip you off are:
- Any premature discussion about sex that makes you feel uncomfortable
- Any focus on children
- Any focus on financial issues or things that could lead to identity theft
- Any indication of violent behavior
At TRUE, we take our members’ safety seriously. We don’t want felons or marrieds on our website, period. If you are a criminal or married, DO NOT use our website. Consider this to be fair warning: Our Member Safety team vigorously pursues individuals who misrepresent themselves on our website. We report violators to appropriate federal, state and local authorities, including parole boards. We also actively pursue prosecution of these offenders in other ways. For example, we recently filed a civil lawsuit against a convicted felon and Florida registered sex offender for misrepresenting his felony status when attempting to access TRUE’s members. This felon was prevented from communicating with TRUE’s members due to TRUE’s proactive policy that requires criminal background screenings on its communicating members in the U. S. – the only one of its kind among major online dating sites. TRUE is the only online dating company that has pursued civil prosecution of an individual for misrepresenting himself online. TRUE’s first lawsuit was filed in November 2005 and was resolved by agreement, the terms of which required the sex offender to: (1) cancel his existing memberships and refrain from using TRUE.com and other companies in the online dating and relationship industry; (2) complete a community service obligation; and (3) pay damages to TRUE.
We can't guarantee that criminals can't get on our site, but we can guarantee that they'll be sorry they did. DISREGARD THIS WARNING AT YOUR PERIL.
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