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Start here if you want a plain explanation of what Safe Harbor is, how it is intended to protect choice and privacy, and what the project has not yet proven.
Meet Safe Harbor
The essential facts about the concept, who it is for, and what it is designed to help someone do.
01What is Safe Harbor?
Safe Harbor is being designed as a calm, private place where a child, teenager, or young adult can make sense of a difficult in-person or online situation, organize what they want to say, understand possible next steps, and decide who—if anyone—they want to ask for help. Created by Safe Evidence, it is built around a simple promise: safety without surveillance.
02Is the app available now?
No. The website is a public concept prototype for review and feedback. It cannot accept a real report, store incident details, contact anyone, or provide live support. The interactive demo uses fictional choices and keeps only temporary page state in the browser.
03Who is it being designed for?
It is being designed for children, teenagers, and young adults, including neurodivergent and disabled young people, and for the parents, caregivers, educators, advocates, counselors, and safety professionals who may support them.
04What kinds of situations could it help someone explain?
The concept covers difficult in-person or online situations such as bullying, harassment, threats, intimidation, grooming, exploitation, unwanted sexual or physical conduct, image sharing without permission, and follow-up with a school, organization, or platform. It would organize a person’s account; it would not prove what happened.
What it would—and would not—do
The product’s limits are part of its safety design, not fine print.
01Can I use this website during an emergency?
No. This site is not monitored and cannot provide emergency response. If there is immediate danger, call 911 or local emergency services. In the United States, you can also call, text, or chat 988 for crisis support. The NCMEC CyberTipline accepts reports concerning suspected online child sexual exploitation.
02Will it automatically tell a parent, school, platform, or police?
No. The intended design does not automatically contact anyone. A young person would select a specific possible helper, preview exactly what that person would receive, remove details, or decide not to share. Laws and professional duties may still require a human recipient to act after receiving information.
03Can it decide who is telling the truth or who is guilty?
No. It would not investigate, identify an alleged offender, determine intent, decide guilt, or promise to trace someone. A personal record may support a conversation, but it is not an official finding or authenticated forensic evidence.
04Does choosing a helper mean the product knows that person is safe?
No. “Choosing someone” means the young person selects a possible helper and reviews what they may share. The product cannot know whether a particular parent, caregiver, teacher, counselor, advocate, official, or organization is trustworthy or safe in that person’s circumstances.
How information is intended to be handled
The goal is to preserve only useful context while keeping choices visible and interruptible.
01Will it secretly monitor messages, accounts, or location?
No. Secret monitoring is outside the product boundary. The concept does not watch messages, accounts, location, browsing, or device activity in the background.
02Will someone need to upload harmful images or repeat cruel language?
The intended design avoids requiring harmful media or exact abusive language. A person could record limited context such as an approximate date, general place or online space, a link when useful, a short description in their own words, and what help they want.
03Can a young person review or remove information before sharing?
That is a core design requirement. Every detail should be visible before sharing, fields should be optional, and the person should be able to change, remove, or abandon the draft. The exact recipient and exact summary should be shown before any future sharing action.
04Is the future app guaranteed to be private and secure?
No guarantee is being made. Local-first handling, data minimization, deletion, shared-device risks, access controls, misuse resistance, and security still require implementation, threat modeling, independent review, and testing. The current website demonstrates design intent, not production security.
Accessibility, evidence, and next steps
What visitors can test now, what still needs proof, and how to contribute safely.
01How is accessibility being considered?
The concept includes larger text, higher contrast, reduced motion, simplified layouts, plain-language options, visible progress, large controls, keyboard-friendly structure, and no forced pace. No diagnosis or disability disclosure should be required to use access preferences.
02Does the prototype meet an accessibility standard?
The project does not currently claim accessibility conformance. It still needs assistive-technology testing, research led by and involving disabled users, cognitive walkthroughs, and remediation against documented findings.
03Has Safe Harbor been proven effective?
No. A working concept interface is not evidence that the future product prevents harm, improves reporting, produces legal or clinical outcomes, or is safe for real-world use. Qualified child-safety, privacy, legal, accessibility, security, and effectiveness review remain required.
04How does the concept survey work?
The survey is a separate, five-question concept review. A visitor can share their name and an optional contact email, or choose an anonymous response. It asks about clarity, usefulness, safety boundaries, and priorities. Before anything is sent, the visitor sees the complete response and can edit it, close it, or send it from their own email application. An anonymous response omits the identity fields, although the email application may still reveal the sender address.
05How do release-update requests work?
An adult uses their own email address and selects exactly what they want to hear about: release availability, optional early-access or future purchasing information, and optional research or pilot opportunities. The website does not automatically subscribe or store the request, and interest is not a purchase or reservation.
06How can I give feedback or discuss a partnership?
Use the product feedback form for critique of the concept, or the investor and partner page for a business, research, funding, or pilot conversation. Do not include names, account handles, allegations, screenshots, medical details, information about a real incident, or an emergency request.