Safe dating tips

• Check the badges. A verified ID badge means our identity partner confirmed a government document, age and country. Phone verification is mandatory for everyone; ID verification is not — treat an unverified profile with more caution.
• Use your mutuals. If you share connections, ask one of them. A single honest sentence from a mutual is worth more than a week of messaging.
• Watch for inconsistencies. Names, employers, cities and stories that shift between messages are the most common early signal of a fake or misrepresented profile.
• Do a light search. A quick look at a LinkedIn or public profile should corroborate what you have been told. Reverse image search photos if anything feels staged.
• Move at your own pace. Anyone pressuring you to move to another app, exchange personal contact details immediately, or meet somewhere private is showing you who they are.

• Any request for money, crypto, gift cards, investment help, a loan, or 'a favour' — no matter how compelling the story. This is the single most common scam pattern in dating.
• Refusal to do a short live video call before a first meeting.
• Immediate declarations of intense feeling, or heavy pressure to commit before you have met.
• Requests for intimate photos, or attempts to escalate sexually before you have met in person. Sextortion is real and starts with an image.
• Attempts to pull you onto an outside platform quickly, especially messaging apps with no reporting tools.
• Vagueness about work, home city, or relationship status combined with reluctance to be seen in public.

If you see any of these, use Block. It is immediate and mutual, and it removes both of you from each other's product experience entirely. Then report the account so our team can act.

• Meet in public, always — a restaurant, bar, café or a Six Degrees table. Never a home, a hotel, a private club room, or an isolated location for a first meeting.
• Arrange your own transport, both directions. Do not be picked up, and do not give your home address.
• Pick the venue yourself or agree on it together in Action Chat, so the plan is on the record with a locked time and place.
• Keep the first meeting short and daytime or early-evening where possible. A drink or a coffee is easier to leave than a long dinner.
• Stay sober enough to make decisions. Order your own drinks, watch them being poured, and never leave a drink unattended.

• Share the name, the venue, the time and the profile link with a friend or family member before you go.
• Arrange a check-in text at a set time, and agree on what happens if you miss it.
• Enable location sharing with that person on your phone for the duration of the date.
• Keep your phone charged and carry a way to get home independently.

• Trust your instinct. Discomfort is reason enough to leave — you owe no one an explanation, an apology, or the rest of the evening.
• If you feel unsafe, tell venue staff. Bartenders and hosts at reputable venues are trained to help discreetly and can call you a car or escort you out.
• Hold personal details back until trust is earned: home address, workplace address, financial details, family routines, children's schools.
• If a situation escalates, leave and call local emergency services. Your safety comes before politeness and before anything on this platform.

• Six Degrees will never ask you for your password, a verification code, or payment outside of official in-app checkout.
• Never send money, share bank or card details, or accept a transfer request from someone you met here — including 'reimbursements' and 'accidental' overpayments.
• Do not share screenshots of your identity documents with any member. Our identity partner is the only place a document should ever be submitted.
• Keep photos and messages that contain identifying details — a street sign, a badge, a licence plate — off your profile.

• Tables are at vetted public venues with several members present, which makes them one of the safer ways to meet — but the same rules apply.
• Arrive and leave on your own terms. Do not agree to a second location with someone you have just met.
• If another guest behaves badly, tell the host or venue staff and report the member afterwards. Behaviour at a table is treated the same as behaviour in the app.

• Use the post-date rating to record punctuality, conversation and profile accuracy. Ratings are private, aggregate, and directly shape who stays in the network.
• Mark 'interested in a second date' only if you mean it. Silence is a complete answer and is respected here.
• If contact continues after you have stepped back, use Mute, then Unmatch, then Block. Each step is stronger and none of them notify the other person.
• A 30-day cooldown applies after a pass or an expired match, so you will not be re-surfaced to each other.

Persistence after a clear no is not romance. If a member contacts you off-platform, appears at places you mentioned, or uses other accounts to reach you, report it immediately with dates, screenshots and any usernames involved. We can remove accounts, block device and phone signals from re-registering, and cooperate with law enforcement where legally required.

If you believe you are in danger, contact local emergency services first. Then email support@sixdgreez.com so we can act on the account.

• We do: require phone verification, offer government ID verification, gate membership behind invitations and review, enforce blocks and cooldowns, and remove members who violate our standards.
• We do not: run criminal background checks, verify employment or income claims, supervise offline meetings, or guarantee any member's identity, intent, conduct or safety.
• You meet other members at your own risk. These tips reduce risk; they do not eliminate it.