Complaints Policy

Last updated: September 9, 2026

This Complaints Policy explains how to submit complaints about content, accounts, conduct, billing, safety issues, Platform features, or other matters involving AfterDarkSociety.com, the AfterDark Society mobile applications, and any related websites, applications, communities, messaging tools, features, and services that link to this policy. In this policy, we refer to those services collectively as the “Platform.”

The Platform is operated by After Dark Society, LLC (“After Dark Society,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

This policy is part of our Terms of Service and applies in addition to our Community Guidelines, Takedown and Appeals Policy, Nonconsensual Intimate Content Policy, Child Safety Standards, Anti-Trafficking and Exploitation Policy, DMCA and Copyright Policy, Privacy Policy, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2257–2257A Record-Keeping Compliance Statement, and other applicable Platform policies.

1. Purpose

This policy provides a process for submitting complaints about:

  • content appearing on the Platform;
  • user accounts, profiles, groups, events, messages, comments, or posts;
  • suspected violations of the Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other Platform policies;
  • safety concerns;
  • harassment, abuse, impersonation, scams, fraud, or privacy concerns;
  • adult-content compliance concerns;
  • subscription, billing, cancellation, or refund issues;
  • Platform features, functionality, bugs, or accessibility issues; and
  • other Platform-related concerns.

Some complaints are handled under more specific policies, as described below.

2. Matters Covered by Other Policies

If your complaint involves one of the following issues, you should use the applicable process:

(1) Nonconsensual intimate content. Use the Nonconsensual Intimate Content Policy.

(2) Content depicting you without consent. Use the Takedown and Appeals Policy.

(3) Content involving a minor or child sexual exploitation. Use the Child Safety Standards.

(4) Trafficking, coercion, exploitation, prostitution, escorting, or illegal sexual services. Use the Anti-Trafficking and Exploitation Policy.

(5) Copyright infringement. Use the DMCA and Copyright Policy.

(6) Privacy rights requests. Use the Privacy Policy.

(7) Billing, cancellations, refunds, or subscriptions. Use the Subscription, Billing, Cancellation, and Refund Policy.

If a complaint involves multiple issues, we may review it under one or more applicable policies.

3. How to Submit a Complaint

You may submit a complaint through the Platform reporting tools, including to report content that is illegal or that violates our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines.

You may also contact us at:

support@afterdarksociety.com

For legal notices, contact:

legal@afterdarksociety.com

For privacy questions or privacy rights requests, contact:

privacy@afterdarksociety.com

For copyright notices, use the notice process in the DMCA and Copyright Policy.

4. Information to Include

To help us review your complaint, include as much of the following information as possible:

  • your full name;
  • your email address;
  • your username, if you have one;
  • the username, profile, post, message, group, event, URL, screenshot, date, or other information identifying the subject of the complaint;
  • a description of the issue;
  • the policy, right, or concern involved, if known;
  • whether the complaint involves safety, minors, nonconsensual intimate content, trafficking, coercion, exploitation, illegal content, harassment, impersonation, fraud, privacy, copyright, billing, or another issue;
  • whether immediate danger may exist;
  • any supporting documents, screenshots, messages, or other information;
  • the outcome you are requesting; and
  • a statement that the information in your complaint is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

Do not submit government ID, sensitive documents, explicit images, or private images unless we request them through a secure process or unless they are necessary to explain your complaint.

5. Urgent Complaints

If someone is in immediate danger, contact emergency services first.

If your complaint involves a minor, child sexual exploitation, trafficking, coercion, exploitation, nonconsensual intimate content, threats, blackmail, sextortion, stalking, or imminent harm, say so clearly in your complaint.

We may prioritize urgent complaints and may take immediate action before completing a full review.

6. Our Review Process

After we receive a complaint, we may:

  • acknowledge receipt where appropriate or required;
  • request more information;
  • review content, accounts, messages, groups, events, reports, metadata, verification records, consent records, payment records, support history, or other relevant information;
  • use automated tools, human review, vendor support, trust-and-safety review, or legal review;
  • temporarily restrict or remove content while reviewing the complaint;
  • contact the complainant, affected user, uploader, account holder, payment provider, app store, or other relevant party where appropriate;
  • escalate the matter under another Platform policy;
  • grant, deny, or partially grant the requested action;
  • provide an outcome notice where appropriate or required;
  • provide an appeal process, as described in Section 11;
  • preserve records;
  • report to law enforcement, NCMEC, regulators, payment processors, card networks, app stores, or other appropriate entities where required or permitted; and
  • take any other action required or permitted by law or Platform policy.

7. Review Timing

We try to review complaints promptly.

All complaints will be reviewed and resolved within five business days of receipt. We will tell the complainant the outcome of the review.

For valid nonconsensual intimate content removal requests subject to a shorter legal deadline, we will follow the timing stated in the Nonconsensual Intimate Content Policy.

For child-safety, trafficking, coercion, exploitation, imminent-harm, or emergency matters, we may act more quickly.

8. Possible Outcomes

Depending on the complaint, our review may result in one or more of the following outcomes:

  • no action;
  • request for more information;
  • user warning;
  • content labeling;
  • content restriction;
  • content removal;
  • content disabling;
  • account restriction;
  • account suspension;
  • account termination;
  • group or event restriction or removal;
  • message restriction;
  • verification requirement;
  • consent-form requirement;
  • creator-status review;
  • reversal of a prior decision;
  • denial of an appeal;
  • referral to another complaint process;
  • referral to a neutral review body where required;
  • refund, credit, cancellation, or billing escalation where appropriate;
  • report to law enforcement, NCMEC, regulators, payment processors, card networks, app stores, or other appropriate entities; or
  • other action required or permitted by law or Platform policy.

9. Content and Account Complaints

If your complaint involves content or an account that you believe violates Platform policy, identify the content or account as specifically as possible.

We may remove, restrict, or disable content or accounts that violate the Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other Platform policies.

We may decline to remove content if we determine that it does not violate law or Platform policy, if the complaint is unsupported, or if the complaint does not include enough information for us to locate or evaluate the content.

10. Billing Complaints

If your complaint involves subscriptions, cancellations, refunds, duplicate charges, unauthorized charges, free trials, app-store purchases, or CCBill purchases, provide the purchase channel and transaction information available to you.

For CCBill billing support, cancellation assistance, refund requests, duplicate-charge issues, unauthorized-charge issues, or payment questions, contact CCBill Consumer Support:

Email: support@ccbill.com
Phone: (888) 596-9279
Support Portal: https://support.ccbill.com/

For Apple App Store purchases, use Apple’s subscription-management and refund tools.

For Google Play purchases, use Google Play’s subscription-management and refund tools.

You may also contact support@afterdarksociety.com for assistance, but some billing actions may need to be completed through CCBill, Apple, Google, or another payment provider.

11. Appeals

If you disagree with a complaint outcome, you may appeal. Send your appeal to support@afterdarksociety.com or use the Platform reporting tools. We will review the appeal and tell you the result.

Your appeal should include:

  • your full name;
  • your email address;
  • your username, if you have one;
  • the complaint or decision being appealed;
  • the reason you believe the decision was incorrect;
  • any supporting information; and
  • the outcome you are requesting.

We may deny appeals that are incomplete, repetitive, abusive, fraudulent, submitted in bad faith, unsupported, or inconsistent with law or Platform policy.

12. Appeals by Persons Depicted in Content

A person depicted in content may appeal a decision not to remove that content if the person believes:

  • the content was created without valid consent;
  • the content was uploaded, posted, or distributed without valid consent;
  • consent is invalid or void under applicable law;
  • the person was under 18 when the content was created;
  • the content is nonconsensual intimate content;
  • the content involves coercion, trafficking, exploitation, fraud, force, incapacity, threats, or abuse; or
  • the decision was incorrect.

These appeals are handled under the Takedown and Appeals Policy and, where applicable, the Nonconsensual Intimate Content Policy.

13. Neutral Review

If there is a disagreement regarding an appeal, we will allow the disagreement to be resolved by a neutral third-party body, at After Dark Society’s expense. This also applies to a dispute concerning consent, depicted-person rights, or removal.

After Dark Society will remove or restrict the content while neutral review is pending.

14. False or Abusive Complaints

You must not submit false, misleading, abusive, fraudulent, or bad-faith complaints.

You must not use the complaint process to harass another person, retaliate against another user, suppress lawful content in bad faith, interfere with another person’s account, or make knowingly false claims.

We may deny abusive complaints and may restrict or terminate accounts that misuse the complaint, reporting, takedown, or appeal process.

15. Privacy and Confidentiality

We may disclose complaint information where necessary or appropriate to review the complaint, contact affected users, provide notice, process an appeal, comply with law, enforce Platform policy, protect safety, prevent fraud, cooperate with law enforcement, or work with vendors, payment processors, card networks, app stores, legal advisors, or regulators.

We may withhold or delay notice to an affected user if we believe notice would create a safety risk, facilitate retaliation, interfere with an investigation, violate law, expose a person to further harm, reveal sensitive reporting information, or undermine Platform integrity.

16. Recordkeeping

We may retain complaint records, reports, decisions, appeals, content, messages, account information, metadata, verification records, consent records, payment records, and related information for as long as needed for legal compliance, safety, fraud prevention, moderation, dispute resolution, payment processing, app-store compliance, tax, chargeback, audit, or legitimate business purposes.

17. No Guarantee of a Particular Outcome

Submitting a complaint does not guarantee that we will remove content, restrict an account, issue a refund, reverse a decision, or take a specific action.

We review complaints based on the information available to us, applicable law, Platform policy, safety concerns, payment-processor rules, app-store rules, card-network rules, and operational considerations.

18. Relationship to Other Policies

This policy does not replace the Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, Takedown and Appeals Policy, Nonconsensual Intimate Content Policy, Child Safety Standards, Anti-Trafficking and Exploitation Policy, DMCA and Copyright Policy, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2257–2257A Record-Keeping Compliance Statement, Privacy Policy, or Subscription, Billing, Cancellation, and Refund Policy.

If a complaint involves multiple issues, we may process it under one or more applicable policies.

19. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time.

When we make material changes, we may notify users by posting the updated policy, updating the “Last updated” date, sending an email, providing an in-platform notice, using a click-through notice, or using another method reasonably designed to notify affected users.

Your continued use of the Platform after an updated policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the updated policy.

20. Contact

For complaints or general support, contact:

support@afterdarksociety.com

For legal notices, contact:

legal@afterdarksociety.com

For privacy questions or privacy rights requests, contact:

privacy@afterdarksociety.com

For DMCA notices and counter-notices, use the contact information in the DMCA and Copyright Policy.