Active In Touch is designed to allow people to share and meet up within the interest of sport, dance, fitness, leisure, health and travel and all types of recreation. At Active In Touch we hope that people using the site will do so responsibly and in a genuine manner, however, we feel it necessary to provide our users with the following safety guidelines.

Creating your profile

When posting a profile on Active In Touch, your personal details will only be shown if you say so. It is important that you do not put any personal details in any messages to other users unless you feel it safe to do so.

Contacting Others

If you find somebody you would like to meet up with we suggest that you take the following advice into consideration:

When using the Active In Touch site to make live contact or by using the email correspondence. We would advise that you carefully think about the information you use within your profile.
If you make contact using the phone, think about withholding your number until you are confident to do so.

Go with your feelings; be careful, and do not continue correspondence if you suspect someone is:

• Being dishonest with you

• Trying to pressurise you to meet up, or find out your personal information

• Inconsistent with their information (look back through your correspondence with them to check)

• Ignoring your questions

Meeting with others

Here are a few general tips for meeting someone for the first time

• We recommend taking a friend with you for the first meeting.

• Don't forget your chosen partner is still a stranger to you. Make sure you meet in a public place that you know. If you don't already know it, go to the place in advance so that you can be sure it will be busy with the general public, and you won't end up on your own.

• If you are meeting someone from the site with the intention to do some activity which is not within a safe environment (i.e. going running, cycling or walking) we strongly recommend that you meet up in a public place prior to the exercise session, maybe suggest meeting for a coffee first.

• Do not arrange to be picked up or taken home (remember your personal details need to stay that way!), so make your own travel arrangements

• Tell a trusted friend about your activity plans: pass them the information you have about the person you are meeting, and ask them to be available in case you need some support. Tell them where you are going, how long you expect to be, and call them when you have arrived back home alone safely.

• Take a mobile phone with you (fully charged & with plenty of credit!) and arrange to call to a friend during the activity, or for them to call you during the activity and check you are ok.

• Always use your common sense and go with your feelings, don't worry about seeming overly cautious.


It's really important to us and to you that this site is a safe place, for honest people. If you think someone is abusing the system let us know - we'll look into it (the user won't know you have highlighted them).

No harm can be done in letting us know. safety@activeintouch.org