Child Safety Standards

Gauntlet Challenge Ltd operates Gauntlet Challenge, a private, invitation-only fitness accountability app for small groups of adult friends. We have zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) and for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This page sets out the standards we hold ourselves to, in line with Google Play’s Child Safety Standards policy.

An adults-only service

Gauntlet Challenge is strictly for people aged 18 and over. Age is checked at registration through a required date-of-birth (month and year) declaration; anyone who indicates they are under 18 is stopped at that point and no account is created or retained. The app has no public content, no discovery, no follower graph and no username search — a member only ever interacts with a small circle of people they have personally, deliberately connected with by a warm invitation. There is no mechanism by which strangers, including minors, can find, contact or be contacted by members.

Our zero-tolerance standards

• We prohibit any content or conduct that sexualises, endangers or exploits children. Accounts involved in such activity are terminated.
• We do not permit the creation, storage, sharing or solicitation of CSAM anywhere in the service.
• We prohibit grooming, predatory behaviour, and any attempt to use the service to make contact with a minor.
• We preserve relevant material where required for reporting and legal process, notwithstanding the app’s ordinary 24-hour content deletion.

Reporting and enforcement

Every social surface in Gauntlet Challenge — friends lists, challenge rosters and daily-group rosters — carries in-app Report and Block controls, so any member can report a safety concern about another member and immediately stop all interaction with them. Reports are reviewed and acted on, including account termination where warranted.

We comply with all applicable child-safety laws in the jurisdictions where the app is available, and we report apparent child sexual abuse material and related conduct to the appropriate authorities, including the U.S. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and, in the United Kingdom, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and relevant law-enforcement bodies, as required.

How to contact us

Our designated point of contact for child-safety matters, able to speak to our CSAM/CSAE prevention practices and compliance, is: