Safety Center
Marriage is a serious step, and a matrimony platform carries a serious responsibility. This page explains what YakDil does to protect you, and what you can do to protect yourself. Reporting, blocking, verification, incognito, hiding your photos entirely, and human moderation are free for every member, always. Two conveniences sit inside Plus: in-app calling, which costs us money per minute to run, and photo blurring for men (it is free for women). Nothing you need in order to protect yourself is behind a paywall, and nothing ever will be — if you want your photos private, you can hide them completely, for free, whoever you are.
How YakDil protects you
Selfie verification
Members verify with a live selfie before their profile earns a verified badge. Verification submissions are reviewed, and unverified accounts have limited reach.
Women-first privacy
Women’s profiles start with the strongest privacy defaults: photos blurred to everyone until she chooses otherwise, only verified members able to see her or express interest, and her last-seen time hidden. Blurring is free on women’s profiles; for men it is part of Plus, while hiding photos entirely is free for everyone. Every setting, hers and his, is adjustable at any time, and how much of your location is shown — city, country only, or nothing at all — is one of them.
Your profile photos stay private
Photos are never a public link: every single view is access-checked against the owner’s settings, and location metadata is stripped from the file automatically. A woman’s full-resolution photos are served only to members she has matched with; everyone else receives a blurred version, blurred on our server, in the actual image bytes. Anyone, man or woman, can hide their photos entirely. Your profile is never indexed by search engines. A photo you choose to attach to a community post works differently: it is shown in full to every member who can see that post, so post one only when you mean the whole community to see it.
Guardian (wali) mode
A member can invite a trusted family member into her journey, at whatever level of access she chooses. Family involvement is supported, never forced.
Block and report, everywhere
Every profile, every chat, and every community post and comment can be reported, and any member can be blocked. Blocking is immediate and silent. The blocked member is not told. Reports go to a human moderation queue.
Human moderation
Reports are reviewed by people, not just software. We aim to review and act on every report within 5 business days, and we handle urgent safety reports first: threats, exploitation, or anything involving a minor. Moderators can remove content, warn, suspend, or permanently ban accounts, and serious cases are escalated.
Screenshot deterrence
The app discourages screenshots of profiles and chats to reduce misuse of your photos.
Protect yourself: practical guidance
Stay on YakDil until trust is built. Scammers try to move conversations to WhatsApp or Telegram quickly, away from moderation. Keep conversations here until you and your family are confident.
Never send money. Ever. No genuine marriage prospect asks for money, gift cards, crypto, visa fees, or “emergency help.” A request for money is the single clearest scam signal. Report it immediately.
Involve your family early. A khastgari with family present is both tradition and protection. YakDil’s guardian mode exists exactly for this.
Meet safely. First meetings should be in public, appropriate settings, with family aware or present. Tell someone you trust where you are going.
Guard your documents. Never share passport, tazkira/ID, bank, or immigration details with someone you met online, no matter how serious the relationship feels.
Video-call before meeting. Seeing and hearing the person confirms they match their photos and reduces catfishing risk. In-app calling is a Plus feature, so if you are on the free plan use any video app you already trust — the advice is to see them before you meet them, not to pay us for it.
Know the scams by name
The emergency: weeks of warm conversation, then a sudden crisis: hospital bills, a visa fee, a stranded relative. The story is engineered to make refusing feel heartless. Refuse anyway, and report.
The investment: “I trade crypto and gold, let me grow your savings.” On a matrimony app, this is never real.
The visa promise: marriage dangled in exchange for sponsorship, or requests for money to “process papers.” Genuine families process papers together, after nikah, through lawyers, not through transfers to strangers.
The rushed heart: declarations of love within days, pressure to secrecy, and urgency about everything. Real intentions survive patience; scams cannot afford it.
Signs of emotional manipulation
Guilt when you want to involve your family. Anger when you ask ordinary questions. Stories that shift between tellings. Requests to keep the relationship secret “for now.” Any of these alone deserves caution; together they are your answer. A person of good character welcomes your family’s eyes. A manipulator fears them.
Digital safety habits
Keep control of the email or phone you sign in with, and update it in Settings if it changes. Never share a sign-in code with anyone. We will never ask for it, and neither will any honest person. Be wary of links sent in chat. Keep the conversation inside YakDil and do not give out your phone number, address or workplace early — once a stranger has your number, blocking them here no longer stops them. (YakDil Plus adds voice and video calling inside the app, which is a convenient way to avoid handing over a number; it is not required, and every reporting, blocking and privacy tool works without it.) And if your photos are blurred to non-matches, do not undo that care by sending pictures off-platform to someone you have not verified.
How to report a problem
Open the member’s profile or your chat with them, choose Report, and select the reason: fake profile, scam, harassment, inappropriate content, or other. Attach details if you can. Our moderation team reviews every report. If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first.
When things go well
Matched, and the families are ready to meet? We wrote The Khastgari Guide: how to prepare, what to ask, and how to discuss mahr with dignity.
Our commitments
Safety tools are free for everyone. Reports are read by humans. Your data is never sold, and your profile is never searchable on the open web. The full details are in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.