Dating safety guides
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Online Dating Safety for People with a Learning Disability: What Mencap Advises
Mencap’s advice for people with a learning disability on dating online: protecting personal details, being careful with photos, and meeting safely.
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What Your Dating Photos Reveal: Location Metadata, Backgrounds and How to Limit Them
How photo location metadata and visible backgrounds can reveal where you are, and how to limit both, based on Apple, Google and Suzy Lamplugh Trust advice.
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Intimate Images Shared Without Consent: The Law in England, Wales and Scotland and How to Get Them Removed
The offences for sharing or threatening to share intimate images in England and Wales and Scotland, their penalties, and how StopNCII.org helps remove images.
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Checking a New Partner’s History: Clare’s Law in England and Wales and the DSDAS in Scotland
How Clare’s Law (England and Wales) and Scotland’s DSDAS let you ask police about a partner’s abusive past: who can apply, how, and what disclosure means.
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Drink Spiking and Dating: What the Home Office Advises and How to Report It
Home Office advice on drink spiking for anyone meeting a date: the signs, when to report, what police testing involves, SARCs, and how to help a friend.
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Ask for Angela: How Venue Safety Schemes Can Help on a Date, and What They Cannot Do
Ask for Angela lets you signal discreetly that you feel unsafe at a venue. See how it works on a date, how to find venues and what it does not guarantee.
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When a Match Will Not Stop Contacting You: Stalking Law and Support in England, Wales and Scotland
Repeated unwanted contact after a dating app match can be stalking. See how the law differs in England and Wales and in Scotland, and where to get support.
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Your Dating App Data: How to Request a Copy, Ask for Deletion and Move It
Dating apps hold sensitive personal data. See how to ask for a copy, request deletion or move your data, with the one-month deadlines the ICO describes.
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Cyberflashing on Dating Apps: The Law in England and Wales and in Scotland, and How to Report
Unsolicited explicit images are a crime in England and Wales and covered by a different offence in Scotland. See how each law works and how to report.
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The Online Safety Act and Dating Apps: What Platforms Must Do and What It Means for You
The Online Safety Act covers dating services. See what platforms must do on illegal content, age checks and reporting, and what Ofcom does not handle.