Child Safety Standards

Halflight has zero tolerance for content depicting child sexual abuse or exploitation, and for any conduct that grooms, sexualises, or endangers minors. This page sets out the standards we apply, how users can report such content from inside the app, and how we respond when it is confirmed.

1. About Halflight

Halflight is a mobile client for the Pixelfed and Mastodon networks. Halflight does not host any social content of its own — posts, profiles, direct messages, and media live on the federated instance the user has signed into, not on our infrastructure. Each instance you connect to has its own moderation team and rules, which govern the content you post and view through that instance.

These standards apply to the use of the Halflight app and to the conduct we expect from anyone using it, regardless of which instance they have signed into.

2. Standards against CSAE

The following are strictly prohibited when using Halflight:

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) of any kind.
• Sexualisation of minors, including drawn, generated, or otherwise non-photographic depictions.
• Grooming behaviour, including soliciting personal information, sexual contact, or sexual content from minors.
• Sharing, soliciting, or linking to CSAM or related material from any source.
• Conduct that endangers the safety of minors or facilitates their exploitation.

This restates and reinforces the prohibition already set out in Terms §2.2 and in the in-app Acceptable Use prompt shown before posting. There are no exceptions, and the rule applies to all users of Halflight regardless of jurisdiction.

3. In-app reporting

Every post, profile, and direct message in Halflight has a Report action. Reports are forwarded to the moderators of the originating instance via the standard Mastodon/Pixelfed /api/v1/reports endpoint. This is the in-app mechanism users should use to flag suspected CSAE for review by the responsible moderation team.

For details on how reporting works across the federated network, see the Moderation Policy reporting section.

If you believe content amounts to CSAM, you should also report it directly to the appropriate national hotline — for example, the NCMEC CyberTipline (United States), IWF (United Kingdom), or your country's equivalent. National hotlines coordinate with law enforcement and with the platforms hosting the content; the in-app report ensures the originating instance is aware so it can act on its end.

4. Our response to confirmed CSAE

When CSAE on the network is confirmed:

• Instance-level escalation. The instance's moderators have the tools to suspend the responsible account, remove the content, and report the user to local authorities. Reports filed via the in-app Report action are routed to them.
• Instance-level action by Halflight. Halflight may add the source instance to its denylist, preventing future logins from that server through the app. See Moderation Policy — Instance-level actions Halflight may take.
• Cooperation with hotlines and law enforcement. Halflight cooperates with NCMEC, IWF, and equivalent national hotlines, and with lawful requests from law enforcement in the relevant jurisdiction.

5. Child Safety point of contact

The named contact responsible for Halflight's CSAE prevention practices is:

• Name: Boris Kourtoukov
• Email: support@halflig.ht

Please mark the subject line as "Child Safety" so the message is prioritised. This contact is for child-safety queries from law enforcement, hotlines, regulators, researchers, and platform operators. End users should use the in-app Report action described in §3 for reports about specific content.

6. Compliance with applicable law

Halflight's developer is based in Norway. We comply with Norwegian and EEA law on child protection and on the handling of CSAM, including Straffeloven §311, and we cooperate with lawful requests from law enforcement in the user's jurisdiction.

The EU Digital Services Act point of contact named in Terms §9 handles general user and authority queries; child-safety queries are routed through the §5 contact above.