Child Safety Standards

Legacy has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation. This page sets out what we prohibit, how we act, and — because it matters — what our architecture allows us to see and what it does not.

1. Legacy Is an Adults-Only Service

Legacy requires all users to be 18 or older. We ask for confirmation of age at account creation, and we do not knowingly permit accounts belonging to minors. We do not market Legacy to young people, we build no features intended for them, and we will close any account we learn belongs to someone under 18.

This is our primary child-safety control. A service with no minors on it is not a place where children can be approached.

2. What Is Prohibited

The following are prohibited absolutely, and result in immediate and permanent account termination without notice:

• Child sexual abuse material, in any form, including generated or synthetic material.
• Sexualization of minors, including text, images, or descriptions.
• Sexual solicitation of, or grooming behavior directed at, any minor.
• Trading, requesting, or advertising any of the above, including through coded or indirect language.
• Using Legacy to direct anyone to such material elsewhere.

These prohibitions appear in our Terms of Service and are accepted by every user at signup.

3. Reporting

Every piece of shared content in Legacy can be reported from within the app, on every surface where content is shared with others — posts, comments, messages, community threads, chat rooms, profiles, and aliases. Reports include a dedicated child-safety category.

You can also report directly to shawn@legacy-ai.app at any time, whether or not you have a Legacy account.

4. What We Do

• We act immediately. Child-safety reports are reviewed ahead of everything else. Other categories of report are acted on within 24 hours.
• We terminate. Accounts found to have violated these standards are terminated permanently, not suspended.
• We report to authorities. Where we become aware of apparent child sexual abuse material, we report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as required by United States law.
• We preserve evidence. An account subject to an unresolved child-safety report cannot be permanently deleted, and cannot erase the record by deleting itself. Reports retain the information needed to act on them even if the underlying content is removed.
• We do not warn the reported account that a child-safety report has been filed against it.

5. What We Can and Cannot See

We would rather state this plainly than let anyone assume otherwise.

Legacy encrypts private content end-to-end. Journal entries are encrypted with a key held on the user's device. Direct messages between people are encrypted so that only the participants can read them. We cannot read either, and we cannot scan them — not for this, not for anything. That is a deliberate architectural choice, and we are not going to weaken it.

What this means concretely:

• Content shared publicly or to community spaces is readable by us and is subject to automated screening and to review.
• Private journals and end-to-end encrypted messages are not readable by us and cannot be screened.
• Because we cannot see that content, our response to it depends on users reporting it — which is why reporting is available everywhere and why child-safety reports bypass every queue.
• Where a report concerns content we cannot read, we act on what we do hold: account information, and the metadata of who communicated with whom and when.

We consider the alternative — building the ability to read our users' private lives — to be a greater harm than the gap it would close. We are not the only safeguard, and we do not pretend to be.

6. Compliance Contact

For child-safety matters, including reports, law enforcement requests, and questions about these standards:

Legacy AI LLC
502 W 7th St, STE 100, Erie, PA 16502, USA
shawn@legacy-ai.app

Reports made to this address are reviewed by a person, not an automated system.

7. Applicable Law

Legacy complies with United States law regarding child sexual abuse material, including its reporting obligations to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children under 18 U.S.C. § 2258A, and applicable preservation requirements. Legacy is currently available only in the United States.

8. Changes

We will update these standards as Legacy changes. The effective date above reflects the most recent revision.