Age assurance

RYZZ is for adults. Nobody under 18 may hold an account, and there is no version of the service for anyone younger. This is how that is checked.

Four layers

At the door — a declaration. Before any adult content is visible you confirm you are 18 or over. This establishes nothing on its own. It is a statement of who the service is for, made before someone sees it.
At sign-up — a date of birth. Asked once, kept on your account, and checked against the 18 floor on our servers rather than in your browser. Still a self-declaration.
Before entering a genre — a verified check. Performed by a specialist provider using facial age estimation with liveness detection. This is the layer that carries weight. It happens once and applies to every genre afterwards.
On every photograph — a known-image check. Before anything else, each upload is checked against the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s database of known child sexual abuse material. This is an identification rather than a judgement: it asks whether this exact image is already known, not whether it looks like anything.
On every photograph — automated screening. Each upload is examined before publication. Anything reading as under 18 is removed from view and escalated to a trained reviewer; it is never published while that is open.

What we hold, and what we do not

The verification provider performs the check and keeps the evidence. Our systems accept a result and a reference, and the endpoint that receives it refuses a request carrying a document, a selfie, or a date of birth — that refusal is in the code, not a policy we intend to follow.

When we get it wrong

Age estimation is a judgement about appearance, so it is wrong in both directions. An adult wrongly flagged has their account suspended pending review by a person, and a cleared review restores it. We would rather review an adult than publish a child, and we would rather say that plainly than pretend the error rate is zero.

Reporting

Anyone can report a profile they believe belongs to a minor, from that profile, without an account being required to act on it. Reports of this kind are the highest priority we operate and are not queued behind anything else. Where the law requires us to report material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, we do, and we preserve what we are required to preserve for one year.