Safety
vibeofthe.city puts you in touch with places, and with people, you do not know yet. Most of that is straightforward — this page collects the guidance that keeps the rest safe.
When you meet someone
For a first meeting, pick a public, busy place: a café, a bar, a square, a museum. A flat, a hotel room or a remote viewpoint are not good places to meet someone for the first time.
Arrange your own way there and back so you can leave at any moment without depending on anyone. Keep your phone charged and with you.
You can leave whenever you want. If something feels off, that is reason enough — you owe nobody an explanation, an apology or a second meeting.
Tell someone
Before you go, tell someone you trust who you are meeting, where, and when you expect to be back. A screenshot of the profile and a location link are enough.
If you are travelling alone and have nobody in the city, agree on a short check-in message — one before the meeting and one after.
What does not belong in a chat
Keep your home address, your hotel and room number, your workplace, your ID or passport details, and any bank details, card numbers or payment links out of chats — including group trip chats.
You do not need to share your phone number, your messenger or your social profiles to use vibeofthe.city. Share them only once you genuinely trust the other person.
Nobody from vibeofthe.city will ever ask you for your password, a verification code or payment details. Anyone who does is impersonating us — please report it.
Do not send money
Never send money to someone you met through the app — not as a deposit for a booking, not as emergency help, not as an "investment", and not as a fee to unlock supposed credit. This is the most common scam pattern in travel apps.
Even shared trip costs are best settled directly between people who know each other. vibeofthe.city does not process payments between users and cannot recover money you transfer outside the app.
Suggestions are inspiration, not a guarantee
Forecasts, city-pulse items and AI-generated suggestions in vibeofthe.city are built from public signals and from what other users contribute. They are a starting point, and they make no binding statement about whether a venue is open, safe, accessible or still in business.
Check opening hours, prices and accessibility with the venue itself before making a long trip out to it. For remote paths, hikes, beaches and night-time hours, doubly so.
Photos and location
A photo often gives away more than its subject: the street outside your accommodation, your number plate, a door number, a boarding-pass code, the view from your window. Look at an image once through a stranger's eyes before you share it.
If you would rather people did not know where you are right now, share after you have left the place. And anyone still travelling also has an empty home.
Photograph places, not strangers. And do not upload photos of children who are not your own.
Reporting and blocking
Every profile, message, comment, photo and tip can be reported from within the app. Every report is reviewed by a human, and the person you report is not told that it was you.
Blocking takes effect immediately: a blocked person can no longer message you, invite you to trips or see your content. Your block list lives under Settings → Blocked.
If something serious happened and you want to talk to us, write to hello@vibeofthe.city.
In an emergency
If you are in immediate danger, call the emergency services — not us. Anywhere in the European Union, 112 reaches police, fire and ambulance free of charge from any phone, and in many countries the call centres also answer in English.
In Spain, 112 covers all services. In Germany, 110 is the police and 112 is fire and ambulance.
Outside the EU, use the local emergency number; your embassy or consulate website normally lists it. Report crimes to the local police — we cannot stand in for a police report, though we do support the authorities with legitimate legal requests.