Safety Guidelines

Version

1.0 (pending final legal review before public launch)

Effective Date

2026-07-22

Last Updated

2026-07-22

Operator

Vallabh Sakhare, trading as ScatterBrain (“we”, “us”)

Contact / reports

support@pipchat.in (in-app reporting is the primary channel)

These Safety Guidelines explain the safety features Dinner Date provides, their limits, and the steps you must take to protect yourself. They form part of the Dinner Date legal framework and are read together with the Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, Privacy Policy, and Location & Geofence Policy. The in-app pre-date Safety Checklist (shown before you post or apply) is the operative, version-controlled copy of this guidance; this document mirrors and expands it. Independent legal review recommended before public launch.

1. The honest starting point

Dinner Date exists to make meeting someone safer than open chat with a stranger — not risk-free. Meeting anyone from a digital profile, here or anywhere else, carries real risk that no app can remove. We try to keep profiles accurate, but fake profiles and false details are easy to create on any platform and we cannot guarantee otherwise. The decision to meet, and to accept that risk, is yours alone. This guidance is a starting point, not a guarantee, and it cannot prevent every unwanted, unsafe, or criminal experience.

Dinner Date has no support helpdesk and cannot intervene during a date. We can only act on your report afterwards. In an emergency, contact your local emergency services directly. The app shows verified local helpline numbers offline; keep your own emergency numbers to hand as well.

2. Before you apply or confirm

• Read everything the other person has chosen to show on their profile, in full, and specifically from a

safety point of view. Don’t talk yourself out of anything that reads as aggressive, offensive, or off.

• Assume a profile can be fake. We cannot verify that what someone tells you about themselves is true.
• Don’t fully trust anyone on a first meeting, however well the conversation has gone.
• Keep the conversation on Dinner Date until you meet. Be wary of anyone who rushes you off-platform,

professes strong feelings quickly, avoids video/voice, or asks for money — these are classic scam signs.

3. Check the venue yourself

• Dates happen only at public, approved venues (restaurants, cafés, and similar). Never agree to meet

at a private residence, a car, a hotel room, or anywhere that will be isolated at your date’s time.

• Confirm the venue is real, open on the day, and open at your date’s time — **especially if the app

tells you its hours are unverified.** You and the other person must each acknowledge unverified hours before such a date can proceed.

• Check the venue location on the map, that you can get there and leave again, and that its prices suit you.
• Pick somewhere public with regular footfall at that hour.

4. Set up your safety net (required)

• At least one Emergency Contact is mandatory before you can post or apply to a date. Keep your

contacts current and correct; you cannot remove your last contact while you have an open post or active match.

• Tell someone you trust where you’re going, who with, and when you expect to be back — and make sure

they’re actually reachable during the date, for an SOS, drift alert, or check-in.

• Arrange your own transport there and back. Don’t rely on your date for it.
• Keep your phone charged.

5. Safety tools inside the app

Dinner Date provides these tools. They support you; they do not guarantee safety.

• Check-in. When you arrive, you confirm your presence at the venue. Check-in uses a location check

(you must be within a short distance of the venue) and a QR code each person shows the other. Verified check-in also releases your date bond.

• Drift alert. Optional monitoring that, while the app is open, compares your device’s location

against the venue area and alerts your Emergency Contact if you move away unexpectedly and don’t respond to an “are you OK?” prompt. Your coordinates are never sent to or stored by Dinner Date — the device sends only a yes/no “drifted” signal. Because it runs only while the app is in the foreground, it is not a substitute for staying alert. It can auto-start at check-in (you can turn this off in Settings).

• SOS. A one-tap alert that notifies your Emergency Contact. When you trigger SOS, the app records

your own device’s location trail for 24 hours so a trusted contact or the authorities can locate you; this is the one situation in which Dinner Date stores precise location, and it is done because you asked for help. That trail is readable only to you and cannot be deleted for a short protective period.

• Safe check-out (“returned home safe”). After a date, you confirm you got home safely against a

private safe location you set. To stop a bad actor forcing a false “I’m safe” at the venue, the app will not accept a safe location set right next to the date venue, and changing your safe location after a date requires your device biometric or PIN.

• Helplines. The app shows verified government helpline numbers for your region, and works offline.
• Block and report. You can block anyone and report a person or a date, attaching evidence.

Full detail on what location data these features use, and what is and isn’t stored, is in the Location & Geofence Policy and Privacy Policy.

6. During the date

• Meet and stay in public at the agreed venue. Watch your drink; don’t leave it unattended.
• Keep personal details — home address, workplace, financial information — to yourself unless genuinely

necessary.

• Never lend, borrow, buy, sell, invest, or transfer money with someone you met here, before, during,

or after the date. Dinner Date is not liable for anything arising from a private transaction.

• If something feels wrong, leave. You don’t owe anyone an explanation or a full evening.

6a. What the agreed terms actually are — and are not

When you and another person settle the terms of a date — the venue, the date and time, the bill split, the stated intent, any dealbreakers, and turning up at all — that is an agreement between the two of you. Dinner Date is not a party to it.

We cannot guarantee, and are not liable for, any of the following:

• that the other person turns up at all, arrives on time, or stays for the date;
• that they go to the agreed venue, at the agreed date and time;
• that they honour the agreed bill split, or pay their share of the bill, tab, or any other charge;
• that their stated intent, dealbreakers, or anything else on their profile is truthful;
• that they behave in any particular way before, during, or after the date.

We do not attend, supervise, chaperone, or mediate your date, and we cannot force anyone to do what they agreed to do. Any bill, cost, loss, or dispute that arises between you — including an unpaid share of a bill and any money or time you have spent — is a private matter between the two of you to settle.

The behaviour bond is a deterrent and a fixed, limited remedy under the Refund & Deposit Policy. It is not compensation, insurance, or a guarantee that anyone will perform. It will not cover a bill, a claim, or a dispute.

You can and should report anyone who does not honour the terms. We review every report and may warn, suspend, or ban an account — but that is enforcement against the account, not a remedy for your loss, and it is not an adjudication of the dispute between you. See Terms of Service §§74.6–74.8.

Practically: agree the bill split before you go, be prepared to cover your own share, and do not commit to spending you cannot afford on the assumption that someone else will pay.

7. If something goes wrong

• Act immediately on your own judgement: people nearby, venue staff, friends or family, or your local

emergency services and helplines.

• Use SOS to alert your Emergency Contact.
• Report the person or date afterwards, even if nothing came of it — your report is the only signal we

have to warn, suspend, or ban an account and to protect others.

• If you experienced or witnessed a crime, contact the police. Dinner Date will preserve relevant evidence

and cooperate with lawful requests as described in the Law Enforcement Request Policy.

8. Reporting to us

Use in-app Report (with optional evidence upload) or email support@pipchat.in. Messages and safety records are retained for a limited period to support investigations even after a chat would otherwise be cleared — see the Account Deletion & Data Retention Policy. Serious reports may lead to immediate suspension pending review under the Reporting & Enforcement Policy.

9. Changes

We may improve these Guidelines and the safety tools over time. The in-app Safety Checklist is version-controlled and you may be asked to re-acknowledge it. Material changes are notified where required by Applicable Law.