Community Standards

These are the 8 major rules of the road.

• Be respectful. No harassment, hate, or targeted attacks.
• Protect privacy. No private intimate content, leaks, or data mining.
• No targeted violent threats or illegal activity.
• Protect Children. Zero tolerance for sexual exploitation, sharing or creating pornographic materials, or inviting anyone under the age of 18 to join Babble-on.
• Authenticity. No bots, coordinated spam, or inauthentic engagement farming practices.
• No scams or fraud.
• We may remove content or users that break our guidelines.
• We may report content to law enforcement where required by law or where someone is at serious risk.

Each category below is a short version of a longer rule. The detailed, operational version of each is in the category-by-category enforcement detail in Part Two.

1. Safety and illegal activity

Do not use Babble-on to threaten, plan, or celebrate real-world harm. That includes credible threats of violence, incitement to violence, glorification of terrorism or violent extremism, human trafficking, the sale of weapons or controlled substances where prohibited, and any post that creates an immediate physical danger to a real person. Talking about violence is not the same as endorsing it. Journalism, research, history, fiction, and survivor speech are welcome. We look at intent, context, and impact, not the topic in isolation.

2. Child safety

This is the rule we enforce most strictly. Babble-on has zero tolerance for the sexual exploitation of children in any form. That includes child sexual abuse material, sexualizing minors, sextortion, soliciting minors for sexual contact, and any content that normalizes or facilitates these things. If we find this content, we remove it, ban the account, preserve the evidence, and report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children CyberTipline, as federal law requires. There is no appeal for a confirmed violation in this category. Babble-on is an 18+ platform, and inviting minors to join is strictly prohibited.

3. Harassment and hateful conduct

Do not target other users with abuse or objectionable content. That includes slurs, dehumanizing language, threats, sexualized harassment, and hateful attacks on someone because of who they are — their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, disability, or serious disease. We look at who is speaking, who is being addressed, and how the words are being used. A slur reclaimed by a member of the group it targets is not the same as a slur weaponized against that group. A clearly rhetorical "I’ll kill you if you finish the pizza" is not a threat. Sharp criticism of public figures, public arguments, and public institutions is not harassment, but personal attacks dressed up as criticism are. Strong disagreement is welcome here. Cruelty is not.

4. Sexual content and exploitation

Babble-on is not a place for pornography or sexual solicitation. Explicit sexual content is not allowed in posts, profile media, usernames, or display names. Nudity in clearly educational, medical, or artistic contexts is allowed with appropriate sensitivity controls. We treat the following as severe violations and remove them immediately:

• Non-consensual intimate imagery (real or AI-generated), including deepfakes and face-swapped sexual content.
• Hidden-camera nudity, creepshots, and upskirt content.
• Sextortion and sexual extortion.
• Any sexual content involving a minor (see Section 2).

5. Privacy and personal information

Do not post other people’s private information without their consent. That includes home addresses, personal phone numbers, private email addresses, government IDs, financial account numbers, leaked private messages, private medical information, real-time location, and threats to publish any of the above. Information that someone has clearly chosen to make public about themselves — a public business address, a published author bio, a public-figure title — is not doxxing.

6. Authenticity: no bots, no AI content, no engagement farming

Babble-on exists because the rest of the internet is full of fake people and fake content. We protect the difference here. Do not:

• Operate bots, automated accounts, or scripted posting tools of any kind.
• Impersonate another person, brand, or organization. Parody is welcome when it is clearly labeled.
• Buy, sell, or coordinate inauthentic engagement — likes, follows, replies, reposts.
• Evade an account suspension by creating a new account.
• Operate a corporate, promotional, or commercial brand account. Babble-on is for individual humans.

7. Scams and fraud

Do not use Babble-on to deceive people for financial gain. This includes phishing, fake giveaways, romance scams, investment and crypto scams, fake account-recovery requests, fake charity drives, and any attempt to impersonate Babble-on staff to extract information or money.

8. Self-harm and mental-health content

You can talk about your mental health here. You can talk about depression, anxiety, recovery, grief, and survival. We want this to be a place where people are honest with each other about hard things. What we do not allow is content that encourages, instructs, or glorifies suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders, or that targets people in crisis to manipulate or harm them. If our systems detect that someone may be in crisis, we may surface support resources in-app. We will never share that information with advertisers, because we do not have advertisers.

9. Copyright and other people’s work

Post your own stuff. If you share someone else’s writing, photo, art, music, or video, do it within the bounds of fair use — quoting, commenting, criticizing, parodying. Reposting an entire work as if it were yours is not allowed. If you believe your copyrighted work has been posted on Babble-on without permission, you can file a notice with our designated copyright agent (see our Copyright Policy).

We try to be proportionate. A first-time mistake on a minor rule is not treated the same as a deliberate, repeated, or severe violation. Here is roughly how it works.

Possible actions on a post

• A warning label or sensitivity screen.
• Removal of the post.

Possible actions on an account

• A warning.
• Temporary read-only mode (you can read but not post).
• Temporary suspension for a defined period.
• Permanent suspension for severe or repeated violations.

Violations with no second chance

For the categories below, a confirmed violation results in immediate permanent removal from Babble-on. There is no warning ladder.

• Child sexual exploitation in any form.
• Credible, specific threats of violence against a person or group.
• Posting non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI-generated.
• Operating a bot, scraper, or coordinated inauthentic account.
• Evading a previous ban with a new account.

How to report a post or account

Tap the three-dot menu on any post, profile, or message, then tap Report. Choose the category that fits best. You can add a short note. We do not show the reported user your identity.

How to block someone

Tap their profile, then Block. They will not be able to see your posts, follow you, or message you. You will not see anything from them either. You can unblock any time from Settings.

How appeals work

If we take action on your account or a post, we will tell you which rule was violated and what action we took. If you believe we got it wrong, you can appeal once from inside the notification or from Settings. A different person from the one who made the original decision reviews the appeal. Appeals are typically resolved within five business days. We will tell you the result and the reasoning. Appeals are not available for the no-second-chance categories listed above.

If you see something dangerous

If you believe someone is in immediate physical danger, please contact local emergency services first, then report the content to us. We may proactively contact law enforcement if we believe there is a credible imminent risk to life.

These Community Standards are one document within a multi-document policy stack. App-store policies and U.S. consumer-protection guidance both treat these as functionally distinct documents, and we follow that convention.

These standards apply to every surface on Babble-on, public and private, and to all users who access the service. Platform surfaces covered:

• Posts, replies, and reposts.
• Profile fields: username, display name, bio, profile photo, banner image, pinned posts, linked URLs.
• Direct messages between users, including text and media sent in DMs.
• Images and video uploaded to any surface — posts, profiles, or DMs.
• Embedded or linked media that we host or that we render.
• Live and audio features, communities, groups, lists, or topic spaces, when added.

How rules apply to direct messages

Our standards apply to DM content. We do not proactively read user DMs. We do act on (a) user reports of DM content, (b) CSAM hash-match identification on any media uploaded to Babble-on including DMs, and (c) confirmed-illegal-content signals for the narrow categories of child sexual abuse material, non-consensual intimate imagery, and credible threats. DM content is subject to legal process and emergency disclosure as set out in our Law Enforcement Guidelines.

How rules apply to uploaded images and videos

All uploaded media is scanned at the moment of upload against the NCMEC hash database via PhotoDNA, to prevent known child sexual abuse material from being published. Confirmed matches trigger the workflow in Section 6.2. Non-consensual intimate imagery is handled through user reporting under the workflow in Section 6.3, with a dedicated review queue and a 24-hour target response time. Original media is subject to user reporting and human moderation review on the same standard as text content.

Geographic scope

Babble-on at v1.0 is a United States service. We accept users in all U.S. states and territories, including California. California users have additional consumer-privacy rights under the CCPA and CPRA; see our Privacy Policy for how to exercise them. We do not currently accept users in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or other regulated international jurisdictions; users from those regions are outside our intended user base at v1.0.

Off-platform behavior is generally outside our enforcement reach, with two exceptions: (a) we may consider credible off-platform threats made against an identifiable Babble-on user, and (b) we may act on credible evidence that an account is part of a coordinated, off-platform-organized campaign of on-platform abuse.

Each section below corresponds 1:1 to a user-facing category in Part One. For each category we define the prohibited behavior in operational terms, give examples, list contextual exceptions, and identify the default enforcement tier.

3.1 Safety and illegal activity

Prohibited

• Credible threats of violence against an identifiable person, group, or location, where the content includes a target plus an act and is not obviously rhetorical.
• Incitement of imminent violence.
• Glorification, praise, or material support of designated terrorist or violent-extremist organizations.
• Coordination of human trafficking or smuggling.
• Sale or trade of firearms, explosives, or regulated drugs where the transaction would be illegal in either party’s jurisdiction.
• Content that creates an immediate, real-world physical risk to a specific person (e.g., publishing a target list with an address).

Allowed in context

• News reporting, historical reference, academic analysis, counter-extremism work, survivor testimony, fiction, satire, and clearly rhetorical hyperbole ("I could kill for a coffee").

Default tier Tier 1 (immediate removal, account-level review) for credible violent threats, terrorism praise, and trafficking coordination. Tier 2 (removal plus warning, escalation on repeat) for borderline glorification and regulated-goods promotion.

3.2 Child safety

This section operates under strict liability. Intent is not a defense. Confirmed violations always result in (a) immediate content removal, (b) permanent account ban, (c) preservation of evidence, and (d) a report to NCMEC’s CyberTipline.

Prohibited

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in any visual, audio, textual, or AI-generated form.
• Grooming or solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes.
• Sexualization of minors, including non-explicit imagery presented in a sexualizing context.
• Sexual extortion of minors.
• Promotion, normalization, or guidance for sexual contact with minors.
• Identification of a CSAM victim or sharing of victim-identifying details.
• Inviting a minor to join the platform.
• Solicitation of a minor via direct message, including any attempt to move conversation off-platform, any request for images, any sexualized language, or any pattern of an adult initiating private contact with a user we have reason to believe is a minor.

Legal anchor 18 U.S.C. § 2258A requires electronic service providers that obtain actual knowledge of an apparent child-exploitation violation to report it to the NCMEC CyberTipline and to preserve the contents of the report and any related material for one year, under secure handling. See Section 6.2 for our operational workflow.

Because grooming most often happens in private, we treat the DM surface with particular care. Any confirmed adult-to-minor sexualized contact in DMs is Tier 0 regardless of whether explicit content was sent. We use behavioral signals — not message content — to surface accounts for review: patterns of adults initiating contact with many minor accounts, off-platform contact requests, age-discrepant contact patterns, and similar indicators. Confirmed cases trigger immediate account termination, evidence preservation, and a NCMEC CyberTipline report under the workflow in Section 6.2.

Default tier Tier 0: Permanent account ban without appeal. Mandatory NCMEC report. Mandatory evidence preservation. Mandatory law-enforcement cooperation where required by lawful process.

3.3 Harassment and hateful conduct

Prohibited

• Targeted insults, slurs, or dehumanizing language directed at an individual.
• Attacks on a person on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, disability, or serious disease.
• Coordinated harassment campaigns including organized brigading from off-platform.
• Unwanted sexualized commentary directed at a specific user.
• Wishing serious harm or death on a named person.
• Repeated unwanted contact after the recipient has indicated they want it to stop.
• Unwanted direct messages of a sexual nature sent to a user who has not invited that kind of contact.
• Continued direct messages to a user after they have blocked, muted, or otherwise indicated they want contact to stop.
• Using alternate accounts to message a user who has blocked or muted you on another account. This is treated as both a harassment violation and a ban-evasion violation, and counts as two strikes.

Allowed in context

• Sharp criticism of public figures in their public roles.
• Reclamation or counter-speech use of slurs by members of the affected group.
• Discussion of slurs and hateful conduct in journalism, education, or research.

Default tier Tier 1 (immediate removal, longer suspension) for severe targeted attacks, organized dogpiles, and threats embedded in harassment. Tier 2 (removal plus escalating account penalty) for most violations.

3.4 Sexual content and exploitation

Prohibited

• Pornographic content, including illustrated and AI-generated pornography.
• Sexual solicitation, escort-service promotion, and "sugar" arrangements.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including real, edited, deepfaked, face-swapped, or AI-generated.
• Hidden-camera or covertly recorded intimate imagery.
• Creepshots, upskirt, and downblouse imagery.
• Sexual extortion ("sextortion").
• Any sexual content involving a minor (see 3.2).

Allowed with sensitivity controls

• Educational and medical content showing nudity.
• Breastfeeding and post-mastectomy imagery.
• Documented artistic nudity from museum-grade or clearly artistic sources.

Legal anchor The TAKE IT DOWN Act, effective May 19, 2026, requires covered platforms to remove non-consensual intimate imagery — including AI-generated and digitally altered NCII — on notice. Babble-on’s NCII removal workflow is operational on day one of launch and is described in Section 6.3.

At launch, NCII removal operates through public reporting from any image, video, or direct message; intake from the depicted person, an authorized representative, or a verified parent or guardian for minor victims; a dedicated NCII review queue with a 24-hour target response and a 48-hour maximum, well inside the statutory window; account suspension and content removal on verified reports; and reasonable effort to prevent re-upload of removed content, scaled to platform size. Babble-on participates in StopNCII.org and similar industry hash-sharing protocols. Automated hash-matching against the StopNCII database deploys as platform scale warrants.

Default tier Tier 0 (permanent ban) for NCII, sextortion, hidden-camera content, and any sexual content involving a minor.

3.5 Privacy and personal information

Prohibited

• Home addresses, personal phone numbers, private email addresses.
• Government identifiers (SSN, passport, driver’s license, national-ID numbers).
• Financial account numbers, payment-card details.
• Leaked private communications (DMs, emails, texts) of an identifiable non-public person, posted without consent.
• Real-time location of an identifiable person.
• Private medical information about an identifiable person.
• Threats to publish any of the above.
• Posting screenshots, photographs, or other reproductions of another user’s direct messages without their consent. Public-figure exception does not apply to private one-to-one communication.

Allowed in context

• Information the subject has clearly made public about themselves (e.g., a published business address, a public bio on their own site).
• Reporting on a public figure’s public conduct that necessarily references public-record information.

Default tier Tier 0 if the doxxing is paired with a threat. Tier 1 for doxxing of a private individual. Tier 2 for borderline cases involving public figures.

3.6 Authenticity, automation, AI content, and impersonation

This section is the operational expression of our "Purely Human" product promise. We enforce it more aggressively than peer platforms.

Prohibited

• Automated, scripted, or scheduled posting by anything other than our first-party scheduling tools.
• Scraping or bulk programmatic access to the platform without a written agreement.
• Impersonation of another person, brand, or organization (including by username, display name, profile photo, or pattern of posts).
• Coordinated inauthentic behavior: networks of accounts that exist to amplify, harass, or simulate organic conversation.
• Buying, selling, or trading engagement (likes, follows, replies, reposts).
• Operating a corporate, brand, promotional, government, or institutional account. Babble-on is for individual humans only.
• Evasion of an account suspension by creating a new account.

Default tier Tier 0 for confirmed bot operation, scraping, coordinated inauthentic networks, and ban evasion. Tier 1 for impersonation. Tier 2 for unlabeled AI content on first offense.

3.7 Fraud and scams

Prohibited

• Phishing, credential harvesting, fake login pages.
• Fake giveaways, prize scams, romance scams, account-recovery scams.
• Investment, crypto, and "financial-freedom" scams.
• Impersonation of Babble-on staff, support, or moderation.
• Fake charity drives and crowdfunding misrepresentations.
• Deceptive links (cloaked URLs, bait redirects).

Default tier Tier 1 (immediate removal, account-level review). Confirmed scammer accounts are permanently banned.

3.8 Self-harm, suicide, and eating disorders

This category requires distinguishing supportive speech from harmful speech. Support-seeking, recovery, and survivor speech are protected. Method-sharing, encouragement, and predatory targeting are not.

Prohibited

• Content that encourages or instructs suicide or self-harm.
• Detailed method descriptions or how-to content.
• Glorification or celebration of suicide or self-harm.
• Pro-anorexia, pro-bulimia, or pro-restriction content framed as aspirational.
• Targeting vulnerable users (e.g., DMing people who post about suicidal ideation with method suggestions or coercive content).

Allowed in context

• Discussion of personal experience, recovery, and survival.
• Mental-health education and research.
• Coordinated support, including grief and bereavement spaces.

Default tier Removal plus support-resource surfacing. Escalating account penalty on repeat. Tier 0 for targeting vulnerable users.

3.9 Copyright and intellectual property

Prohibited

• Reposting another person’s copyrighted work in full without permission or a clear fair-use basis.
• Stripping attribution from another creator’s work.
• Trademark abuse: using another entity’s trademark in a way likely to confuse users about source or sponsorship.

Procedure Copyright complaints are handled under our DMCA process (Section 6.4), not under this general enforcement framework. A user with three valid DMCA notices on file in any rolling 12-month period is subject to our repeat-infringer policy and may be permanently banned.

Repeat-violation escalation

Outside the red-line tier, we use a strike-based system. Each Tier 1 or Tier 2 violation in a rolling 12-month period adds a strike.

• Strike 1: Warning, content removal.
• Strike 2: 24-hour read-only mode.
• Strike 3: 7-day suspension.
• Strike 4: 30-day suspension.
• Strike 5: Permanent suspension.

Tier 1 violations count for two strikes. Tier 2 violations count for one. Tier 3 actions do not contribute to strike count.

Notice

Every enforcement action — Tier 0 through Tier 2 — produces a written notice to the affected user. The notice identifies the specific Community Standards section violated, the action taken, the duration if temporary, and the path to appeal (or absence of appeal, for Tier 0).

Appeals

Availability

Appeals are available for all Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 actions. They are not available for Tier 0 actions in the child-safety and NCII categories, and may be unavailable for other Tier 0 actions where re-platforming the user would itself constitute a continuing violation.

Procedure

• Filing window: 30 days from the action notice.
• Reviewer: a moderator who was not involved in the original decision.
• Standard of review: de novo (the reviewer evaluates the content and context fresh, not for procedural error).
• Target resolution time: 5 business days. 10 business days maximum, with notice to the user if we exceed 5.
• Outcome: written decision identifying the reasoning, sent to the user.
• Re-appeal: one further appeal is available if the user can identify a clear factual error in the first decision.

Reversal handling

When an appeal is upheld, the original action is reversed in full: content restored, account state restored, strike count adjusted. Reversed actions are logged separately and reviewed quarterly to identify systematic moderator error.

This section describes the specific operational workflows that turn our policies into compliance with U.S. federal law and app-store rules.

6.1 Section 230 and Good Samaritan moderation

47 U.S.C. § 230 generally provides immunity for interactive computer services for hosting third-party content and for good-faith moderation decisions, but it does not preempt federal criminal law, federal intellectual-property law, or specified federal sex-trafficking statutes. Our enforcement framework is structured to be defensible as good-faith moderation: written rules, consistent application, written notices, available appeals, and documented decision logs.

6.2 NCMEC CyberTipline reporting (18 U.S.C. § 2258A)

When we become aware of an apparent violation of federal child-exploitation statutes — through user report, hash match, moderator review, or any other channel — the following sequence is triggered:

• All images and video uploaded to Babble-on, on any surface including direct messages, are scanned at the time of upload against the NCMEC hash database via PhotoDNA. Confirmed hash matches are blocked from upload and the uploading account is suspended pending review.
• For other detection channels: immediate content quarantine (removed from user view, preserved in a secure-handling tier separate from general moderation logs).
• Account suspension.
• Report to NCMEC CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org as soon as reasonably possible.
• Preservation of the report contents and any related material for 90 days, extended to one year, in line with 18 U.S.C. § 2258A retention requirements.
• No notice to the suspect account beyond the standard suspension notice.
• Cooperation with subsequent lawful process from law enforcement.

Babble-on is registered with NCMEC as an Electronic Service Provider, which is required to submit CyberTipline reports programmatically. All Tier 0 child-safety actions are logged in a separate, access-restricted system. Access requires named-individual authorization and is itself audited. Moderators who review CSAM-adjacent content are rotated off the queue on a fixed schedule and have access to mental-health support, consistent with industry trust-and-safety practice.

6.3 NCII removal and the TAKE IT DOWN Act

The TAKE IT DOWN Act, effective May 19, 2026, requires covered platforms to remove non-consensual intimate imagery on notice within a specified window, and treats AI-generated and digitally altered NCII as covered. Babble-on’s NCII removal workflow is operational on day one of launch. At launch, Babble-on’s NCII compliance operates through notice-and-removal rather than automated hash-matching, with all elements scaled to platform size:

• The in-app NCII report path is one tap from any image, video, or direct message.
• A public web form at babble-on.io accepts NCII reports from people who are not Babble-on users, including victims whose images may have been posted on the platform without their knowledge.
• Reports route to a dedicated NCII review queue with a target response time of 24 hours and a maximum of 48 hours, well inside the statutory window.
• Reports are accepted from the depicted person, an authorized representative, or a verified parent or guardian for minor victims.
• We do not require notarization, sworn statement, or government identification to file an NCII report. Reasonable identity attestation is sufficient at intake; verification deepens if a removal is contested.
• Verified reports trigger content removal and account suspension pending review.
• When content is removed, we record a hash of the removed media in our internal hash store and use that hash to block re-upload of the same content. This is our "reasonable effort to remove identical copies" under the statute, scaled to our launch volume.

6.4 DMCA copyright workflow

17 U.S.C. § 512 conditions safe-harbor protection on, among other things, designating an agent registered with the U.S. Copyright Office and responding expeditiously to compliant takedown notices.

• Designated agent: registered with the U.S. Copyright Office’s DMCA Designated Agent Directory before public launch.
• Notice intake: dmca@babble-on.io plus a web form.
• Compliant-notice handling: content removed expeditiously, uploader notified, opportunity to file a counter-notice.
• Counter-notice handling: content restored 10–14 business days after a compliant counter-notice unless the complainant files suit.
• Repeat-infringer policy: three valid notices on a rolling 12-month basis triggers permanent account termination, consistent with § 512(i).
• Trademark complaints: handled in a parallel but distinct workflow, by the IP team.

6.5 COPPA scope and age screening

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act applies to operators of child-directed services and to operators with actual knowledge of collecting personal information from children under 13. The 2025 FTC amendments emphasize data-retention limits and require separate parental consent for certain third-party disclosures associated with targeted advertising. Operational posture:

• Babble-on is not a child-directed service. We require users to be 18 or older to register.
• We use a neutral age screen at signup that does not encourage under-age users to falsify their age.
• If we receive actual knowledge that an account belongs to a user under 18, we terminate the account and delete associated personal data within 30 days, retaining only the minimum information required to honor the deletion and to prevent re-creation.
• We have not enabled targeted advertising and do not plan to. This materially reduces our COPPA exposure on the third-party-disclosure axis.

6.6 FTC mobile-app and consumer-protection posture

The FTC has consistently directed mobile-app developers to tell the truth about privacy and security, honor stated privacy promises, and obtain affirmative consent for material changes. We follow this in three concrete ways:

• Every public claim in our marketing and onboarding ("no ads," "no engagement farming," "no data sales") is restated as a contractual obligation in our Terms and Privacy Policy.
• Material changes to data practices (new data uses, new sharing, new retention) require an in-app opt-in flow, not a quiet term update.
• Our security disclosures describe our actual technical controls. They are reviewed annually against current practice and updated on change.

State privacy law (U.S.)

Babble-on accepts users in all 50 U.S. states and territories at launch, including California. California is our compliance baseline because the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act establish the most prescriptive consumer-privacy regime currently in force in the United States. California-specific rights honored at launch:

• Right to know and access. Users can request the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about them, the sources of that information, the business and commercial purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
• Right to delete. Users can request deletion of personal information we have collected, subject to the exceptions California law permits (e.g., information needed to complete a transaction, detect security incidents, or comply with legal obligations).
• Right to correct. Users can request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• Right to opt out of sale or sharing. Babble-on does not sell personal information, and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. This right is therefore satisfied by our underlying practice; the disclosure is made in our Privacy Policy.
• Right to limit use of sensitive personal information. Users can request that we limit our use of sensitive personal information to purposes California law permits without an opt-out.
• Right against discrimination. We do not deny service, charge different prices, or provide a different level of service to users who exercise their California privacy rights.

How users exercise these rights. Babble-on provides at least two methods for submitting consumer requests, as required by California law: an in-app privacy controls page, and a dedicated email address (privacy@babble-on.io). We acknowledge requests within 10 business days and respond substantively within 45 days, with one 45-day extension permitted where reasonably necessary. Personnel handling consumer requests receive annual training on California privacy rights and on how to verify, route, and resolve requests. We retain a record of consumer requests and our responses for at least 24 months, as required by CPRA.

Other state privacy laws. Several other states have enacted comprehensive privacy laws (Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, and others as of 2026). Babble-on extends substantially equivalent rights to users in those states as a matter of operational practice, even where the state’s law would not strictly require it. State-specific variations are described in our Privacy Policy.

Breach notification. All 50 states have breach-notification laws, and timelines vary. Our incident response plan is structured to meet the strictest applicable timeline.