Privacy, Safety & Wellbeing

How Looma protects people by age tier, how to verify, report, and block, and how wellbeing tools, scroll caps, and mental health resources work in the app.

Where these controls live

  • Settings → Safeguards - Safety Status, Daily Scroll Cap, Safety & Compliance Audit, two-factor authentication, Profile PIN
  • Settings → Wellbeing - Health Reminder, Mindful Mode, Health Resources, Inspiration
  • Settings → Policies - Zero Tolerance, Terms of Use, Privacy
  • Profile - Age verification, Identity verification, Linked Profiles, Private Account, Pause, Delete
  • On posts and chats - Flag / Report and Block

For theme, backup, messaging privacy toggles, and purge tools, see the Settings guide. For Profile ACCOUNT tools, see Account & Profile.

For Looma’s broader child-safety architecture and “what we never do,” read How Looma Protects Kids. This guide focuses on what you can do and see inside the app.

Safety levels (what actually changes)

Primary Looma accounts are for adults (18+). Younger users usually appear as linked profiles created by a verified adult. Your active level is shown in Settings → Safeguards → Safety Status as Current Level plus a source (for example platform, card, vouch, or via main profile on a sub-profile).

Exact age-band labels vary slightly across Safeguards copy, Create Profile, and the public safety page. What matters day to day is the capability set of your level:

Restricted

  • Strictest experience: no public feeds in the usual sense, no chat/calls, no comments, no search
  • Friends feed hidden (Linked Profiles description)
  • Create Profile helper calls this a walled garden with short usage
  • Health breaks and quiet hours are enforced

Supervised

  • Friends-only feed with chat and calls when verified
  • No comments, search, or external sharing
  • Explore / Organizations typically unavailable
  • Health breaks and quiet hours enforced; Mindful Mode / Health Resources locked to safety defaults

Independent Minor

  • Public discovery with comments, search, and sharing
  • No marketplace
  • Health breaks still apply; quieter nights than adults

Adult

  • Full feature set after age verification
  • Unverified adults can browse in a limited way but cannot chat, post, like, or use many social actions until age verification finishes
  • Marketplace, precise location, adult Safeguards tools (2FA, Profile PIN), and more unlock with adult access

Settings → Safeguards info text also summarizes tiers as Adult (18+), Independent Minor (16–17), Supervised (13–15), and Restricted (<13). Create Profile uses Restricted (12–13), Supervised (14–15), Independent Minor (16–17). If bands look slightly different in one screen versus another, trust the protections you see for your active profile, and read Child Safety for the full safety story.

Age verification vs Identity verification

These are different on purpose.

  • Age verification (Profile tile) unlocks chat, posting, and more for adults. Subtitles: Required to unlock chat, posting and more or Full access unlocked. Methods described in-app include device age signal, card check, vouching, and identity verification. You may also see a banner: Verify your age to unlock Looma.
  • Identity verification is for earnings payouts (Stripe ID + selfie). Status lines include Verify your Identity, Processing…, Action required, Full earnings unlocked, and Not completed.

In-app age info links out to the full safety approach and safety specification. Details of Profile tiles: Account & Profile.

Linked Profiles, PIN, and quiet hours

Verified adults on the main profile can open Linked Profiles to manage safety levels, promote, or remove profiles. Creating additional profiles is limited to verified adults.

  • Change safety level one step at a time among Restricted, Supervised, and Independent Minor (PIN-gated)
  • Promote … to a full account sends an email invite
  • Delete a linked profile (PIN-gated)

Settings → Safeguards → Create Profile PIN / Reset Profile PIN sets the 6-digit Security PIN used for switching into supervised profiles and for many linked-profile changes.

When quiet hours lock the app, you may see Looma is locked with Unlocks at a time, plus options such as Switch to the main profile or Logout.

Daily Scroll Cap, Health Reminder, and breaks

Daily Scroll Cap

Settings → Safeguards → Daily Scroll Cap opens an explainer. The subtitle shows your current cap and notes it applies to feed & content browsing only.

The page describes what counts (feed browsing, profile browsing) and what does not (messaging and calls, spaces and community time, Looma Gives). Caps reset at midnight and cannot be turned off from this screen. Your active tier sets the limit you experience.

Health Reminder

Settings → Wellbeing → Health Reminder. Adults can adjust session interval, cooldown, and daily tier limits. For younger tiers this is often locked with Enforced by your safety level.

Break screens

  • Soft reminder: Time for a Break with continue / remind later options
  • Forced: Mandatory Break / Break Complete, with limited escapes such as Go to Messages when chat is allowed, switch to main profile, or logout
  • Support CTA: Need help? Find support near you

Profile → Usage (My Looma Usage) shows your usage chart.

Wellbeing tools

Settings → Wellbeing (info title Mindful Experience):

  • Mindful Mode - includes Mindful Mode Enabled, Disable Comments, and Hide Likes. Locked for Restricted and Supervised.
  • Health Resources - Health Resources Enabled. Same lock rules as Mindful Mode. When enabled, Looma can surface mental health support entry points.
  • Inspiration - Quotes Enabled for everyone.

Mental Health Resources

In-app title: Mental Health Resources. Quick actions include Call 9-8-8 (CA/US), Text 9-8-8 (US), and Find local help, plus sections such as Global Help, Canada, United States, and Self-Care (for example Find a Helpline and regional crisis lines).

If you or someone else is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services. Looma’s resources are support links, not a crisis hotline inside the app itself.

Privacy controls

  • Private Account on Profile edit. Non-adult profiles stay private (switch disabled).
  • Private communities with join codes or join requests (see Communities & Networks).
  • Notification privacy: by default notification content stays private. Settings → Communication → Messaging → Enable Decrypted Notifications can show previews while the app is open.
  • In a chat, Conversation Info → Blur Secure Media.
  • External share controls are hidden when your tier does not allow external sharing.
  • Adults can use Personalized Ads settings; see Settings.
  • Encrypted backups and message purge tools are also in Settings (tier-gated).

Report content or a message

Posts, comments, listings, discussions

Use Flag / Flag post for review (or Report where shown). The sheet asks What is happening? with options such as Hate Speech, Spam, Harassment, Offensive Content, Misinformation, AI Content, and Other. Add comments if needed, then Submit.

Messages

Long-press a message → ReportSubmit Report. Categories include Hate Speech, Harassment, Sexual Content, Threats Violence, Self Harm, Spam Scam, Doxxing, Ai Bot Behavior, and Other. Success copy: Report submitted. Thank you for keeping Looma safe.

There is not a separate “Report profile” sheet today. For harmful accounts, use content/message reports and Block, and email safety@looma.social for urgent cases. Child-safety contact on the public site: childsafety@looma.social.

Block someone

  • From a public profile or chat Conversation Info: Block / Block user
  • Blocked people cannot follow you or see your content in the usual way
  • Review the list under Connections → Blocked
  • Unblock when you want to reverse it

Safety & Compliance Audit

Settings → Safeguards → Safety & Compliance Audit is a read-only view of active protections, including Biometric Login, Community Chat, Voice & Video Calls, Marketplace Access, Precise Location, Health Break Enforcement, and Looma Gives (NFC). The header may show OS VERIFIED or SELF-DECLARED depending on how your age signal was established.

Two-factor authentication and Profile PIN

Adults can enable Two-factor authentication (recommended for payouts) and manage Create Profile PIN / Reset Profile PIN under Safeguards. Setup details are in the Settings guide.

Policies and Zero Tolerance

Settings → Policies opens:

  • Zero Tolerance
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy

Read the full documents on looma.social/legal.html. Child Safety Standards and related trust materials are also linked from Looma’s public site.

Pause or delete your account

Adults can Pause account (hide profile and posts; stop messages and notifications) or Delete account (scheduled permanent deletion with password confirmation). Details: Account & Profile.

Content moderation while posting

If something you try to post does not meet Looma’s rules, you may see a moderation dialog asking you to reword the content, with reasons listed. This is separate from user reports.

Quick tier checklist

  • Restricted: tightest limits; no chat/calls/search/comments; enforced breaks
  • Supervised: friends-focused; chat/calls possible; no comments/search/external share; enforced wellbeing locks
  • Independent Minor: public discovery with remaining time and health limits; no marketplace
  • Adult unverified: browse-limited until Age verification
  • Adult verified: full social feature set, with optional 2FA and parent tools for linked profiles

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