Abuse & Child Safety
VDO.Ninja - Abuse & Child Safety
Last updated: September 8, 2025
If anyone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first. VDO.Ninja is a peer-to-peer tool with minimal central control. We do not proactively monitor or record calls, and we do not run 24/7 moderation.
How to report
Email: [email protected]
We review reports about child safety, harassment, hate, spam, fraud/phishing, malware, doxxing, and other Terms of Service violations.
Please include:
Room link/name (and any join tokens, stream IDs, hashes, or passwords)
Timestamps (with time zone)
Screen names of participants involved
The type of issue (e.g., child safety, harassment, spam) and a plain, non-graphic description of what you personally observed
If you reported to a national hotline (e.g., Cybertip.ca, NCMEC), the hotline report number
Do not send illegal media (e.g., CSAM). Submit such evidence to your national hotline and share the report number with us instead.
Important limitations (set expectations)
No 24/7 response: We handle reports best-effort and may not see your email before a live stream ends.
No proactive monitoring: We do not watch or scan sessions.
No uninvited access: We do not join private/passworded rooms unless the room host explicitly invites us or we are legally required to do so.
P2P reality: We cannot forcibly end calls already in progress, remove content from participant devices, or reliably identify people (no global accounts).
Not an emergency service: For urgent risk, contact local authorities and/or a national hotline.
What we can do (best-effort, within P2P limits)
Record the report and keep minimal incident metadata (e.g., hashed room token, timestamps, IPs involved) when legally required and able.
Coordinate with hotlines/LEA: file or supplement a hotline report when appropriate and cooperate with lawful requests.
Restrict at the edge (when feasible): disable a specific link we control, or block/rate-limit IP(s)/ASN(s) via our providers (e.g., Cloudflare).
Display a neutral safety notice on reported links when technically available. (This is not guaranteed and may not appear for short-lived rooms.)
When we disable (“hard-block”) a link
Because live/P2P rooms are short-lived and easily replaced, hard-blocking is rare and used only when we have credible confirmation of serious harm or a legal requirement. Examples include:
A national hotline report number (Cybertip.ca/NCMEC) that matches the link/timeframe;
A law-enforcement/court order;
Multiple independent detailed reports (from distinct networks/regions) indicating child exploitation, credible threats, malware, or doxxing dumps;
Direct verification with host consent or in a public broadcast the host asked us to check.
If the room is already over or rotating links is trivial, a late hard-block may have little value; a neutral notice (when available) or no action may be more appropriate.
What we won’t do
Publicly label a room “abusive/illegal” based only on a single unverified report.
Request or accept illegal media from you.
Join private/passworded rooms without host consent or legal compulsion.
Hosts: reduce risk (no central tooling required)
Treat room links/tokens like passwords; share only with trusted participants.
Rotate links/tokens for recurring shows; set passwords and change them after incidents.
If you want us to help verify a report, please email from the host’s email address:
“I am the host of [room link] and consent to VDO.Ninja safety staff joining to verify a report.” (If the room is passworded, include the password and a short time window you’re comfortable with.)
Child safety (CSAM/grooming)
For suspected child exploitation, report to your national hotline and share the report number with us. We may file our own report and preserve relevant logs as required by law.
We may restrict or disable a link without verification when evidence includes a hotline number, a legal order, or strong corroboration.
Any user-facing page remains neutral (e.g., “Access disabled due to a safety/legal issue.”).
Privacy & preservation
We keep minimal operational data and only as long as needed.
For safety/legal matters, we may preserve incident-related logs for the legally required period.
Cloudflare maintains its own request logs (IP, full URL including query parameters, user-agent, country, etc.) under its policies. See our Privacy Policy.
Contact: [email protected] (Send plain descriptions only—no illegal media. For child-safety evidence, report to your national hotline and include the report number when you email us.)
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