This section sets out how we protect people from illegal content on GoSavis, how we deal with it once we know about it, and how you can tell us about it. It applies to everything anyone can post, send, upload or link to on the platform.
How we find illegal content
We do not scan, filter or automatically classify what you post, and we do not profile users or analyse behaviour to look for illegal content. We rely on reports from the people who use GoSavis and from anyone else who sees something on it, on information from the police, a regulator or another authority, and on our own review of content. If we begin using an automated tool for this purpose, we will set out here what the tool is, when it is used and how it works, before we start using it.
The proposed Cloudflare photo-checking feature is not currently enabled. Before introducing it, we will explain the processing in our Terms and Privacy Policy and complete the applicable notice and compliance steps. Our existing content-reporting and moderation arrangements continue.
How quickly we act
Where anyone tells us about content that may be illegal, or we become aware of it in any other way, a person looks at it. Where we have reasonable grounds to infer that it is illegal, we remove it or restrict access to it as quickly as we can, and we record the decision and what the content was before it was removed, so the decision can be answered for later.
Terrorism content and child sexual exploitation and abuse content are the most serious things that can appear on any service, and reports naming either are dealt with ahead of everything else. We remove content of either kind as soon as we have reasonable grounds to infer it is present, and we do not wait for any other process to finish first. We report child sexual exploitation and abuse content that we detect on the platform to the National Crime Agency, as the law requires, and where telling an account holder that a report has been made would prejudice an investigation we do not tell them. Every other kind of priority illegal content is dealt with in turn, and we aim to keep the time any of it is on the platform as short as we can.
A private conversation is treated differently, and deliberately so. Because both people hold a copy of a message, upholding a report about the words of a conversation or a message does not delete them: deleting them would destroy the other person’s record of an exchange they may need. We record the decision and, where it is warranted, act on the account instead. A photo sent in a conversation is different: where we uphold a report about it, we remove it from the conversation for everyone in it, the words stay, and we keep a copy privately as evidence for as long as our retention periods allow.
Messages from people you do not know
A first message to you from someone who is not one of your contacts arrives as a message request rather than an open conversation. Someone is your contact if you share a Booking with them, have accepted a request from them or have messaged them. You can read a request and accept, decline, block or report it; until you accept it, the sender cannot send you anything more, including a photo, and declining it closes it without telling them. An invitation to a group from someone who is not your contact arrives the same way. A message to a Business about its services is never a request. A photo sent to you by someone who is not your contact is covered until you choose to view it, and if you block someone who shares a group with you, what they say in that group no longer reaches you.
Intimate images shared without consent
If you tell us that an intimate image of you has been shared on GoSavis without your consent, we treat the report as the most urgent kind we receive. We remove the content within 48 hours of a valid report, together with any copy of it that we identify, and we act on the account that shared it.
Telling us about illegal content
Anyone can report content on GoSavis, and you do not need an account to do it. You can report content whether or not it is about you: as the person the content is about, as someone it targets, as a parent or carer of a child who uses GoSavis or who the content affects, as an adult helping another adult, or simply as someone who has seen it. You can report a business or personal profile, a service listing, a post, a review, a comment, a photo or a video, and, if you are signed in, a conversation or a single message in it. You can report content you believe is illegal and content you believe is harmful to a child.
Use the Report control beside the content. If you cannot reach one, or you have no account, go to Report content, where you can paste a link to what you have seen and describe the concern in your own words. If you have no account, we give you a reference for the report and ask for an email address if you would like updates about it. Whether or not you have an account, you can choose not to receive updates when you report. You can also email support@gosavis.com. Identify the content, explain why you believe it is illegal or harmful, and include anything we would need to assess it.
A person reviews every report and the decision is recorded. Before you report, we tell you who will be told what about it. Once we decide a report about content anyone can see, we tell the person or Business responsible for it our decision and that it followed a report, unless telling them could prejudice an investigation. Nobody in a conversation is told about a report on it or on a message in it, and the person who sent a photo we remove from a conversation is told that it was removed. We never tell anyone outside our team who made a report or what they wrote.
Complaining about what we do, or do not do
You can complain to us about content you have reported that we have not removed, about a decision to remove your content or restrict your account, and about a failure by us to do what this section says we will do. Use the same routes, and say that you are complaining rather than reporting. The complaint route in the content rules above sets out how we handle it, and a decision to remove your content or suspend your account after a report can be appealed as the content rules describe.
If we get it wrong
If we remove your content, or suspend or close your account, in breach of these terms, you may bring a claim against us for breach of contract. Nothing in these terms takes that right away from you.
We apply this section consistently, to everyone, whatever the content is and whoever posted it. In deciding what to do we take account of your right to freedom of expression within the law and your right to privacy, and we do not read private conversations except where a report or a legal obligation requires it.