What's changed

Every change to our privacy policy, terms, content policy and child safety standards, newest first, in plain words. The pages themselves are the full version; this page says what moved and what it means for you.

3 November 2026

A shared post you can't open now says who wrote it.

• If somebody shares or sends you a private account's post that you can't open, you now see who wrote it and can ask to follow them. The post itself stays private.

Pages changed: privacy policy.

2 November 2026, later the same day

You can now see who liked and shared a post.

• Anyone who can see a post can see who liked it.
• This includes likes from before today, and likes from private accounts. A private account's posts and profile stay private.
• Who shared a post on their wall can be seen on that post by anyone who can see it, even if the account that shared it is private. Until today, only the sharer's followers could see a share, and the shares on a profile still are.
• Only a post's author sees who sent it in a message, and never who it was sent to. That was already so; the privacy policy now says it.
• Child safety standards: corrected to say that only a private account's follows need approval, and that being private keeps your posts, not everything, to approved followers.

Pages changed: privacy policy, child safety.

2 November 2026

Photos are checked before anyone sees them, including photos in messages. Accounts can now be suspended.

• A computer program now checks every photo you add to a post, your profile or a message (that includes group posts, your profile photo and your cover) before anyone else sees it. It looks at photos only, never at what you write.
• Photos already in posts and on profiles have been checked too. If one was blocked, the post it is in is hidden from everyone else until you change it.
• A message with a photo is delivered once the photo has been checked. If the photo is blocked, the message is not delivered at all, words included.
• Nobody at Treehouse reads your messages unless somebody in the chat reports one. The program checks the photos in them; it does not read what you write.
• It blocks nudity and sexual content, sexually suggestive poses or clothing, violence, gore, hate symbols, drugs, gambling and rude gestures. Gambling is legal and may be ordinary for you; Treehouse still does not show it, and it never counts against your account.
• Photos of drinking, smoking or vaping are fine, and so are ordinary swimwear and shirtless men. Selling or advertising alcohol, tobacco or vapes is still not allowed.
• A block is final. Nobody sees a blocked photo, not even us, and it cannot be brought back. Most are deleted straight away. One blocked as sexually explicit is kept for 30 days where nobody can see it, in case the law requires it to protect a child, and then deleted.
• If you think the program got one wrong, write to support@thetreehouse.me. Please describe the photo; do not attach it.
• An account that breaks the rules can now be suspended for a set time, up to a year, and it lifts by itself on the date we tell you. While suspended you can still read, follow, block, report, change your settings, and deactivate or delete your account; you cannot post, comment, like or send messages. We tell you which rule it broke, never who reported you, and nobody else is told.
• An account can also be closed or deleted. A deleted account is closed straight away and erased 30 days later, and until then we can undo it if we got it wrong.
• Every suspension, closure and deletion is decided by a person. The program decides only whether a photo is shown.
• Every page now links here, so you can always see what changed.

Pages changed: privacy policy, terms, content policy, child safety.

30 October 2026

Messages can now be reported.

• Somebody in a chat with you can report a message, for example if it is abusive, a scam or unsafe. On the web it is in the message's menu. On phones it arrives with the next app update; until then, use the web or email us.
• What a moderator sees when a message is reported: that message and up to 20 messages before it and 5 after, and only ones the person reporting could see. That can include messages from other people in the chat.
• Nobody at Treehouse reads your messages otherwise. Every time a moderator looks, it is written down. Nobody is told that a report was made.
• Somebody who has left a chat, or declined to join it, can still report messages they saw while they were in it.
• A message you unsend still disappears for everyone, photos included, but we keep its words so that somebody who saw it can still report it.
• A message reported for a child's safety is kept, with the words of the messages around it, even if it is later unsent or deleted.

We also wrote down three things the app already did:

• Photos are saved again before we keep them, without hidden details such as where they were taken.
• Editing a message keeps only the new words.
• Delete for me removes a message from your copy of the chat only.

Pages changed: privacy policy, terms, content policy, child safety.

27 October 2026

Comments and accounts can now be reported, not only posts.

• Press and hold a comment, or open somebody's profile and choose Report account. Reporting an account is also how to tell us somebody is under 18.
• A moderator can see what was reported, even if your account is private and they do not follow you. They look only to decide that report, and every time one of them opens a report it is written down.
• Reports are read by a small team. Child-safety reports are read only by our most senior moderators.
• Child-safety evidence: the moment something is reported for a child's safety, we keep a record of it and stop its photos from being deleted, even if the post or the account is deleted. Before this change the pages said a copy could never be deleted. Now our lead moderator can let it go, with a written reason, and every time that happens it is recorded.
• Blocking in group chats: if you block somebody you are already in a group chat with, you both stay in it but stop seeing each other there, and they cannot add you to a new one.

Pages changed: privacy policy, terms, content policy, child safety.

Changes before 27 October 2026 were made while only our testers used Treehouse.

Questions? Write to support@thetreehouse.me and a person will read it.