For the grown-ups in the room.

WobbleFly is a social platform built to stay small. It is designed to be the size of your child's actual life — their friends, their interests, their handful of conversations — rather than a place that rewards scale.

The things a user can do are:

• share permanent photos and video as Posts
• share visual moments as Glimpses, which are temporary
• highlight content for a chosen group as Spotlights
• post quick, temporary Sparks
• write and talk about text, ideas, blogs, questions and conversations in Wave
• join communities and discussions
• send and receive Messages
• follow people, and be followed

There are no follower targets, no public leaderboard, and no advertising network. The design goal is that a WobbleFly account with twelve followers is a complete account.

The minimum age to create a WobbleFly account is [Minimum age to create an account] Anyone below that should not have an account, and we remove accounts we find belonging to someone under it.

WobbleFly is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. If a child has made an account, tell us and we will investigate and remove it.

Older teenagers are a real part of who this is for, and so are adults. The Community Guidelines apply to everyone, with a higher level of protection for anyone under 18.

This is the part most pages about children online leave out, so here it is first.

• There is no parental dashboard. You cannot link a parent's account to your child's and see what they post.
• There is no family management system, and no way for you to approve their friend list from your side.
• There is no setting that limits how long they can spend on WobbleFly from outside the app.
• There is no automatic DM-free mode that you can switch on for them.
• There is no read-receipt control, and no way to hide follower counts, because there are no follower counts to hide.
• There is no age verification that would let us confirm who a user is beyond the age they enter at sign-up.

If any of that is a condition of your family using WobbleFly, you should know now that it is not available, and not discover it after they have set it up.

What we can offer instead is the ordinary set of controls the user has themselves, which we have set out below, plus the fact that WobbleFly runs no advertising at all — so there is nothing being sold to your child, and no ad-tracking profile being built about them.

These are all things your child controls, but they are the ones that matter, and they are all in one place in the app's settings.

• Private account. WobbleFly is designed to provide public and private accounts. On a private account your child approves who follows them, and approval comes before the follower relationship exists. This is the single most useful setting for a teenager.
• Message permissions. Restrict who can start a conversation, so an unknown account cannot reach them first.
• Glimpse and Spark audience. Your child controls who sees a single Glimpse or Spark, including narrowing it to chosen people or to themselves alone, without changing the whole account.
• Hidden words. Filter out words and phrases they would rather not read.
• Two-step sign-in. Required for account recovery, and worth turning on everywhere else too.
• Quiet hours. Decide when WobbleFly is allowed to interrupt them. It will keep to it.
• Blocking. No notification, no search result, and no trace that the blocked account was ever there.

The most useful thing a parent can do is not to audit the account but to be someone they could tell something to. In practice that usually means a few specific conversations.

1. 01What gets permanence. Posts stay up. Glimpses and Sparks are temporary, and Messages are private — so the habit worth building is thinking about which one they are about to use before they post.
2. 02Blocking is allowed and expected. If someone is bothering them, that is a normal thing to end, not a confession. Nobody has to be polite to someone who is hurting them.
3. 03Reporting is not tattling. It is the only mechanism that lets a stranger's bad behaviour actually stop, and it works even when they have blocked the other person.
4. 04What is being left out. A small platform has gaps in it, and not following someone is a normal use of the product rather than a social failing.
5. 05Nobody is watching as hard as it feels. There is no audience-building pressure and no advertising, which means the main thing at stake is the actual relationships they have.
6. 06What to do when something goes wrong. Agree in advance who they would tell, so they are not deciding in the moment.

You do not need to read their Messages to know who they talk to. And the evidence suggests that a child who would tell you something is far better protected than one who would not.

You can report a safety concern about a child, whether or not you are the account holder and whether or not you are on WobbleFly.

1. 01If the account is on WobbleFly, use the report option on the post, reply, message, profile or account, and mark it as a safety concern about a minor.
2. 02If it is happening elsewhere — another platform, school, in person — tell us anyway, and say that. We cannot act on other platforms, but knowing the wider picture changes how seriously we treat the WobbleFly account.
3. 03If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first, and tell us afterwards.
4. 04If a child has an account when they should not, say so, and we will investigate and remove it.

Reports about minors are treated as our highest priority. [Target response window for reports]

Contact [Safety contact email] or use the in-app report option. We do not require you to be the account holder, and we will not tell the reported person who reported them.

Account problems are usually not safety problems, and they are handled separately so that neither queue is slowed down by the other.

• Locked out, or cannot get past two-step sign-in: account recovery is the fastest route, and two-step sign-in is required for it.
• Something was removed and you disagree: ask for an appeal. It is a different process from reporting someone, and it is reviewed by someone who was not involved in the original decision where we can arrange that.
• A Glimpse or Spark disappeared: that is by design. They are temporary formats and they expire. The account that made it can still be blocked and reported.
• Concerned about the WobbleFly account itself: escalation route and grievance process are described in the Community Guidelines.

[Support email] [Grievance and appeal process]

An account can be deleted from within the app. Deletion removes the profile, the content, the follower relationships and the community memberships.

Some information is kept for a limited period where it is genuinely needed — legal compliance, security, fraud prevention, resolving a dispute, or the operation of backups — and that retained information is not used to reactivate the account.

The retention periods for each category of data are set out in the Privacy Policy, and are [Retention periods by data type]