Version 2026-10-08. These rules are part of the Terms of Service. They apply to the 18+ layer of MESTONY, called After Dark.
After Dark opens only after a human check. You ask for access and confirm you are 18 or older, and the operator then reviews the request by hand and approves or refuses it. There is no automated check and no outside verification service running today. A connection point for one exists in the code but it is not switched on, and if that changes this page will say so before it goes live.
When a request is approved we keep four things: that it was approved, the date and time, the method (review by the operator), and which operator account approved it. We never ask for and never keep an identity document, a photo of you, a selfie, or a card number. Nobody looks at your face or your papers.
This check is our own policy choice and a data-protection safeguard, not a legal duty we are claiming. We do it because this layer must stay away from minors.
Before the door opens you give two separate, explicit consents: one for us to process what you tell us about your desires (this is special-category data under the GDPR, Article 9), and one to these rules. You can withdraw both at any time with the Close the door button. Closing the door stops all After Dark content immediately.
After Dark is written. The MESTONY rule that images may never contain people applies here without exception. No nude or sexual images or video, of yourself or anyone else, ever. MESTONY also uses no AI, here or anywhere else on the site, so everyone you write with is a person.
These are crimes. They are reported to the police with the data we hold, and the account is removed:
Offering, requesting or advertising sexual services for money or anything of value is prohibited, as is any payment or “tribute” between users, on or off the platform. This includes links to paid-content accounts. Messages that do this are blocked and repeat attempts close the door.
Every scene, role and word in After Dark assumes adults who agreed and can stop at any moment. Keep “no” and “stop” meaning exactly that, in play and out of it. Honour a partner who leaves a conversation. Pressure is a rule break.
No real names, no ages beyond “adult”, no locations, no photos of people, until both of you choose to reveal through the staged process. After Dark changes what you may say about desire; it does not change what you may say about identity.
After Dark results and conversations never appear on your public Card, in the Flow, in compare links, or in matching outside After Dark. Do not copy another person’s After Dark words anywhere else.
Use the Report button in any conversation, or write to [email protected]. We act on every report. If we remove content or close an account we tell the person what rule was broken and how to object (EU Digital Services Act, Article 17). Criminal conduct is reported to the Spanish authorities, as set out next.
Child sexual abuse material. Report it to the Spanish INHOPE hotline run by INCIBE at incibe.es/menores/hotline. A hotline report is not a criminal complaint, so a complaint is filed with the police as well. Nobody, user or operator, should download, copy, screenshot, store or forward such material: report where it is and leave it in place.
Other crimes. These can be reported to the Policía Nacional online at denuncias.policia.es/OVD, which has to be signed in person at the chosen police station within 72 hours or it has no legal validity. That online form cannot be used for offences of a sexual or violent nature, for cases involving a minor, where there are witnesses, or where the person responsible is identifiable, so those go to a police station in person. Crime committed online can also be reported to the Guardia Civil, Departamento Contra el Cibercrimen of the Unidad Central Operativa, formerly the Grupo de Delitos Telemáticos, through its cybercrime collaboration form at web.guardiacivil.es. Europol takes no reports from the public itself, it only lists each country's channel, at europol.europa.eu.
Sexual or violent images of a real person, shared without consent. This service carries no photos of people at all, but if you meet such content anywhere you can ask for urgent removal through the Canal Prioritario of the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos at aepd.es/canalprioritario. It has a separate entry point for people aged 14 to 17, and a report may be made by someone other than the person affected.
If you are unsure what to do, INCIBE runs a free confidential help line on 017, every day from 08:00 to 23:00, also reachable at incibe.es/linea-de-ayuda-en-ciberseguridad.
MESTONY and After Dark are built and run from Spain, by one person who lives there, so Spain is the single member state whose law governs this service. Article 3(1) of the e-Commerce Directive and Article 2.1 of Ley 34/2002 (LSSI) both point to the state of establishment, not to where a server stands and not to where the site can be reached. The law that applies is Spanish and EU law, in particular the GDPR, the Spanish data protection act LOPDGDD (Ley Orgánica 3/2018) and the EU Digital Services Act. Spanish criminal law applies to us as it does to anyone: Article 189 of the Código Penal on child sexual abuse material and Article 186 on supplying pornographic material to a minor are crimes whatever the medium, and section 4 of these rules exists to keep us far away from both. What Spain does not have is an age-verification statute binding a text-only service like this one, so we do not claim a legal duty we do not have. Our data protection supervisory authority is the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD). Spain's Digital Services Coordinator is the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). Single point of contact for authorities and users: [email protected].