Safety centre
What DinnerDate does, what you should do, and who to call when neither is enough.
If you are in immediate danger, stop reading and call emergency services. In India that is 112 from any phone. DinnerDate is not an emergency service and cannot intervene during a date. The numbers below can.
Before the date
Set it up so someone would notice.
Nominate emergency contacts
DinnerDate requires this before your first date. Pick someone who would actually pick up — and tell them you have listed them, so an alert is not the first they hear of it.
Keep it to the venue
Every DinnerDate takes place at a real, listed, public venue. If a match suggests moving somewhere private before you have met, that is a reason to stop, not to compromise.
Keep money in the app
Nobody legitimate asks a first date for a transfer, a gift card or a crypto payment. Requests like these are the single most common scam on dating platforms — report and block, do not negotiate.
Trust the pause
If the conversation feels rehearsed, rushed or too smooth, you are allowed to cancel a date for no reason at all. There is no social debt in the app and no penalty for changing your mind before it is confirmed.
During the date
What the app is doing while you eat.
Check-in
You confirm each other at the venue. This is what releases both date bonds, and it is why a no-show costs something here.
SOS
One tap alerts the contacts you nominated and gives them a link they can open without an account. Use it early — a false alarm costs nothing.
Monitoring without surveillance
Your phone checks whether you are still at the venue and sends a yes-or-no answer. Your coordinates stay on your device. An active SOS is the one, documented exception.
Safe check-out
Closing out a date confirms you left safely. If you do not, the people you nominated are the ones who find out.
Afterwards
Reporting is not a formality.
Every report is read by a trained reviewer against a written policy, and the decision is logged. Blocking is immediate and does not wait for a review.
Reporting & Enforcement
How to report, what we act on, what the outcomes are, and how to appeal one.
Child safety
DinnerDate is 18+ and has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse material. Report it immediately — in the app, or to legal@pipchat.in.
Emergency numbers
India — national helplines
These work from any phone, anywhere in India, with or without DinnerDate. The app carries the full directory offline, including state-specific numbers.
| Number | Service | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| 112 | All-in-one emergency (ERSS) | Police, fire and ambulance — the single national emergency number |
| 100 | Police | Police control room |
| 108 | Ambulance | Emergency ambulance service |
| 101 | Fire | Fire and rescue |
| 1091 | Women's helpline | Women in immediate danger |
| 181 | Women's helpline (support) | Abuse, harassment and domestic violence support |
| 1930 | Cyber crime | Online fraud, sextortion, blackmail — report immediately |
| 1098 | Childline | Children in distress (under 18) |
| 14416 | Tele-MANAS | 24/7 government mental-health support in local languages |
| 14567 | Elder Line | Support and protection for senior citizens |