Terms

Siren is for women, and you get in one of two ways: a member vouches for you with an invite, or three members hear a recording and agree. There is no other door.

You need to be 18. One account per person, and the number on it has to be yours: an account traces back to the member who vouched for you, and a false account costs her too.

You may describe what happened to you, in the first person, as you experienced it. That is testimony, and it is protected speech in the places Siren is stored.

You may not write what someone is. Calling a man a criminal, a rapist or an abuser is a claim of fact about a person, and it is defamation whatever you believe. Siren refuses reports written that way, and that refusal protects you, not him.

A report attaches to a phone number and nothing else. Do not add a name, a workplace, an address, a photograph or a link to a profile. Do not file a report for anyone else, and do not file one about something you were told.

Reports above L1 are read by a moderator before another woman sees them. A report can be held, edited back to testimony, or removed, and an account that files reports in bad faith is suspended.

Suspension costs the member who vouched for you, because that is what makes vouching mean anything. Being reported once by another member is not enough on its own: brigading is easier than moderating, and the threshold accounts for that.

A number that has been reported can ask for the report to be reviewed by someone who did not write it and did not moderate it. The reporter's identity is never disclosed to you, and a review can end with the report standing, narrowed, or removed. Write to the address below.

Siren is not an emergency service and does not contact one. A silent SOS goes to the women you chose, not to the police. If you are in danger, call your local emergency number: 112 across the European Union.

The Shield is not a background check. A number with no reports means only that no member has filed one, which is not the same as safe. Nothing in Siren is a substitute for your own judgement about your own safety.

Your messages are encrypted to your devices, and Siren holds no copy of the key. If you lose every device and every recovery code, that history is gone and nobody, including us, can bring it back. That is a property of the design, not a support problem.

Keep your recovery codes somewhere that is not the phone Siren is on. Anyone who has your number and one of those codes can get into your account.

You can delete your account from inside the app at any time, and deleting means deleting. What survives is what cannot identify you: counts, and the moderation record of any action taken on an account, which exists so that decisions about people can be audited.

Siren is provided as it is. It does not promise that a message will arrive, that a notification will wake your phone, that a call will connect, or that a report will be seen by the woman who needs it. Every one of those depends on networks and devices that are not ours.

To the extent the law allows, Siren is not liable for harm arising from use of the service. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

If these terms change in a way that affects what you may write or what happens to your account, you will be told inside the app before the change takes effect, not by a line quietly edited on this page.

Not filled in yet. An agreement needs two parties, and one of them is still half written. Siren is made by Athalanta, and you can reach it at [email protected]. What is missing is what a complaint needs: the registered legal name behind Athalanta, the address that receives legal notice, and the country whose law these terms are read under. A name registered nowhere is no better than a callsign on this page. Until it is filled in, Siren is open only to the women testing it.