Your safety is built in.
When strangers meet in person, trust matters more than features. Every layer of ESCAPE, from signup to checkout to the event itself, is designed to keep people safe.
How we verify
Real people. Verified identity.
No anonymous accounts, no fake profiles. Every person on ESCAPE proves who they are before they can interact with others.
Phone OTP
Every user is verified by phone number with a one-time passcode. One account per person, traceable identity.
Email verification
Optional for most users, required for university communities. Proves institutional affiliation with domain-based validation.
Venue document verification
Businesses and venues submit incorporation documents or domain email for manual review. Verified venues earn a trust badge.
At-event safety
Safe by design, not by policy.
Vibe matching is built so that unwanted attention is structurally impossible. No one-sided contact, no cold messages, no pressure.
Vibe is double-blind
Nobody sees your interest unless it is mutual. Send a Vibe, and it stays invisible until the other person vibes back.
Intent selection
Choose your intent when you vibe: Connect (networking), Hang Out (friendship), or Interested (romantic). Clear expectations from the start.
No unsolicited messages
You can only message someone after a mutual Vibe match. No cold DMs, no harassment vectors.
Moderation tools
Report it. Review it. Resolve it.
Every community gets a full moderation toolkit. Reports are actionable, bans are appealable, and every decision is logged.
Report system
Report users, posts, or communities directly from the app. Reports are triaged by severity and assigned to reviewers.
Ban system with appeals
Community admins can ban members with documented reasons. Banned users can submit appeals for review.
Audit logs
Every moderation action is logged with timestamps, actors, and reasons. Full transparency for community leadership.
Moderation queue
Admins review reported content in a dedicated queue. Prioritized by severity, with bulk action support.
Community safety
Control who gets in. Manage who stays.
Community leaders decide the rules. From open enrollment to invite-only with questionnaires, you set the bar for your space.
Join approval workflows
Communities can require admin approval before new members join. Open, request-based, or invite-only policies.
Screening questionnaires
Custom registration forms with conditional logic screen new members before they enter. Up to 50 questions per community.
Member roles
Hierarchical roles (Owner, Admin, Manager, Moderator, Member) with granular permissions at every level.
Admin controls
Remove members, manage posts, configure join policies, broadcast announcements, and review analytics.
Payment security
Your money is handled right.
Every transaction is processed through Stripe with server-side validation. No card data ever touches our servers.
Stripe PCI Level 1
Card details never touch ESCAPE servers. All payment processing goes through Stripe, the highest level of PCI compliance.
Server-side validation
Ticket prices and totals are validated server-side on every transaction. Client-side tampering cannot alter amounts.
Cloudflare Turnstile
CAPTCHA challenges on web forms prevent automated abuse, bot signups, and fraudulent payment attempts.
Correlation IDs
Every payment carries a unique correlation ID for end-to-end traceability. Full audit trail from checkout to payout.
Data privacy
What we don't store matters most.
No passwords. No card numbers. No exposed preference data. Privacy is not a setting you toggle. It is how the system works.
Passwordless auth
No passwords stored, no passwords to breach. Phone-based OTP eliminates credential stuffing and password reuse risks.
Phone-based identity
Your phone number is your identity. One account per number, verified at signup, no anonymous accounts.
Privacy-safe AI scoring
AI compatibility scores are computed from your preferences, but raw answers are never exposed. Other users see match quality, not your data.
Preference data stays private
Your interests and preferences inform matching algorithms but are never shared with other users or third parties.
Report an issue
See something? Say something.
If you ever feel unsafe or witness behavior that violates our community standards, reach out. We take every report seriously.