Jeddy is an app for meeting people face to face. That makes safety a design question, not a policy document written after the fact. Below is how the app is built and why.
The decision everything else rests on: public venues only
Most apps introduce you to someone across the city. You then have to agree on a place, travel there alone, and meet a person you have only seen in photographs. Every risky part of online dating lives in that gap.
Jeddy has no gap. You only see people who are at the same cafe, bar, festival or concert as you, right now. When you meet, you are already in a room with staff, other customers and lighting, and neither of you travelled anywhere to be there.
This is not a feature we added for safety. It is what the app is. But it is the reason a first meeting on Jeddy looks less like a date arranged online and more like being introduced to someone at a party.
What Jeddy never does
- Never shares your exact location. No coordinates, no address, no dot on a map. The app knows you are at a venue. Other users are only told that you are at the same one.
- Never reveals a one sided like. If you like someone and they do not like you back, they are never told. Nobody gets rejected in public, and nobody finds out they were passed over.
- Never shows you to people who are not there. When you leave the venue or close the app, you stop appearing. You are not browsable by strangers across the city.
- Never asks for payment details to meet someone. If anyone on Jeddy ever asks you for money, a transfer, a gift card or your bank details, that is a scam every single time. Report it and block them.
Before you match
- A photo from today. Profiles are built around a current photo rather than one chosen from years of camera roll. It is the most practical defence against someone pretending to be a different person, because a photo taken today cannot be borrowed from someone else's account.
- Mutual interest only. Nothing happens until both people have said yes. There is no way to message, approach or contact someone who has not matched with you.
- Shy mode. You can signal interest quietly, without a public gesture, which matters if you are in a small venue and worried about the moment being visible.
- Filters you control. You decide who is shown to you, including by gender, and you can stop being visible at any time.
After you match
Jeddy deliberately does not have long messaging. There is a quick game, and then you meet. This is partly because the point of the app is to actually meet, and partly because safety improves when there is no long private channel.
Extended messaging is where manipulation happens. Weeks of conversation are how a stranger builds trust before asking for money, photographs or a meeting somewhere private. Jeddy gives that pattern nowhere to grow. You match, you play one round, you say hello in a public room, and you decide there and then whether you want to keep talking.
Meeting someone for the first time
These apply to meeting anyone new, on Jeddy or anywhere else. None of them are about being afraid. They are the ordinary habits that let you relax.
- Stay in the venue. You met there for a reason. The first conversation belongs in the same room, not somewhere quieter, not outside, not at a second location someone suggests.
- Tell somebody where you are. A message to one friend saying where you are and roughly when you expect to be home costs ten seconds.
- Keep your own drink with you. Do not leave it unattended and do not accept one that you did not see poured or handed over by staff.
- Keep your details for later. Your full name, where you live, where you work or study, and your daily routine are not first conversation material. There is no rush and a decent person will not push.
- Arrange your own way home. Decide how you are getting back before the evening starts, and do not accept a lift from someone you met an hour ago.
- Leave whenever you want. You do not need a reason, an excuse or a polite exit. Feeling uncomfortable is reason enough, and you owe nobody an explanation for it.
Trust the early feeling. Almost everyone who has had a bad experience says afterwards that something felt wrong in the first few minutes and they talked themselves out of it because they did not want to seem rude. Seeming rude is a very small price.
If something goes wrong
Report and block are one tap from any profile and any match. Blocking takes effect immediately and permanently. The other person is not told that you blocked them, and they stop appearing to you at any venue from that moment on.
Report anyone who makes you uncomfortable, sends anything sexual you did not ask for, pressures you to leave a venue, asks for money, appears to be using someone else's photos, or seems to be under eighteen. Reporting is not an accusation and it is not a big deal. It is information, and it is how we find the accounts that are doing this to more people than just you.
Jeddy is an app, not an emergency service. If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number first. In Australia that is 000, in Turkey 112, and in the UK and Europe 112. Tell us afterwards, and we will do what we can from our side.
To reach us directly, write to info@getjeddy.com. Safety reports come before everything else.
What we ask of you
Jeddy only works if the room feels safe to everyone in it. Using the app means agreeing to a short list of things:
- Be eighteen or over. Jeddy is not for minors, and accounts we believe belong to someone under eighteen are removed.
- Be yourself. Your photo is you, today. Not a friend, not a filter that changes your face, not somebody else entirely.
- Take no for an answer, including silence. No match is a no. Not replying is a no. Ending a conversation is a no. None of these need explaining.
- Nothing sexual uninvited. Not in a photo, not in a message, not in person.
- Do not use Jeddy to sell, promote or recruit. Not products, not services, not investments, not your other accounts.
- Respect the venue. You are in someone's cafe or bar. Staff there are not part of this and the venue did not sign up for it.
Accounts that break these are removed. We would rather have a smaller app that people feel safe using than a bigger one they do not.
Your data
The short version: we collect what the app needs to work and nothing else.
- Location is used only to work out which venue you are at, and only while you are using the app. It is not stored as a history of your movements and it is not shared with other users as a position.
- Your photo is visible to people at the same venue while you are active there. It is not published on the web, not indexed by search engines and not sold.
- Deleting your account deletes your data. You can do it from inside the app or through the account deletion route without emailing anyone for permission.
The full legal detail is in the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.
Frequently asked questions
Are dating and meetup apps safe?
It depends entirely on how the app is built, not on what it costs. The questions that matter are whether contact requires a mutual match, whether your exact location is exposed, how fast reporting and blocking are, and whether the design pushes you towards meeting in public or towards weeks of private messaging. Jeddy is built so that all four answers are the safe ones.
What makes an app safer than another?
Mutual matching before any contact, no precise location sharing, one tap reporting and blocking, and a flow that ends in a public place quickly. Long private messaging is the common factor in most manipulation, because building false trust takes time and an app that gives it a private channel gives it room to work.
Does Jeddy share my exact location?
No. There are no coordinates, no address and no point on a map. The app works out which venue you are at, and other users are only told that you are at the same one, only while you are there with the app open.
Can someone see that I liked them if they do not like me back?
No. A one sided like is never revealed, so nobody is rejected in public and nobody finds out they were passed over.
Do I have to meet someone one to one?
No. Group mode lets several people at the same venue meet as a group, so you can use Jeddy without ever being alone with someone you have just met. For a lot of people this is the setting that makes the whole thing comfortable.
What should I do if someone asks me for money?
Stop replying, report and block. Anyone asking for money, a transfer, gift cards or bank details is running a scam, without exception, on any app at any price. Nothing about their story changes that.
Our commitment
Every safety report is reviewed and acted on. Accounts that break the rules on this page are removed, and we do not weigh that against growth. An app built on meeting people in person only works if everyone in the room feels safe, which makes this the one thing we will not trade away.
Safety is also not a page we wrote once. As the app grows, the protections here grow with it, and the date at the top tells you when this was last reviewed.
If you think something here is missing, tell us. Write to info@getjeddy.com and it reaches a person, not a form.
Meeting people should not be a risk you take
Jeddy shows you who at the same venue is open to meeting, in public, with no exact location shared.
Join the waitlistMore about how the app works in About Jeddy and the frequently asked questions. If you are meeting people in a new city, our guides go into the practical side.