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Swipe Safe: online dating profiles, safety and red flags
Seven short lessons with practical online dating tips for adults: compare apps on safety features, set up a profile that protects you, write an honest profile that works, spot red flags in chat, plan a first date, handle intimate-image threats and report problems in Australia, the UK or the US.
About this course
Online dating: profiles, safety and red flags.
Starter · About 1 hour of learning · 7 lessons · 16 quick checks · 1 download
Who it's for
Adults (18+) in Australia, the UK, the US and elsewhere who use or are thinking about dating apps.
How it works
7 guided lessons in your browser, with worked examples, exercises and a quick check after each lesson. Progress is saved in this browser only, and you can restart at any time. You start with just your first name and email, and you can take one whole course that way. After that, a free account lets you continue past lesson 1.
Sources we rely on
29 published sources, mostly regulators and official bodies, listed below so you can check the original guidance yourself.
By the end you can
- Compare dating apps on safety and privacy features
- Write an honest profile that doesn’t identify or locate you
- Spot common red flags in a dating chat, including money requests
- Write a reusable first-date safety plan
- Know the first steps and where to report and get support if something goes wrong
Downloads
- Dating safety checklist .docxFull versions of the course exercises: app safety check (10 questions), profile check, profile writing prompts, red-flag rules, reusable first-date plan, and an AU/UK/US “if something goes wrong” page.
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Learning time
About 1 hour of learning. May count towards your CPD or professional development; check your professional body's rules. Estimated from reading time, exercises, quick checks and downloads.
Sources
Check the originals.
How these courses are made. Spotted an error or out-of-date rule? Send a correction.
Not therapy or counseling. If you're struggling, please contact a support service. In an emergency call 000 (AU), 999 (UK), 911 (US/Canada) or 111 (NZ). Anywhere else, call your local emergency number.
- Online dating · eSafety Commissioner (Australia)
- Dealing with sexual extortion · eSafety Commissioner (Australia)
- Image-based abuse · eSafety Commissioner (Australia)
- Safety tips · Tinder (Match Group), vendor page
- Community Guidelines · Tinder
- How does Photo Verification work? · Tinder Help Center
- What you need to know about safety on Bumble · Bumble, vendor page
- Community Guidelines · Bumble
- Looking for love? Watch out for scammers (consumer alert, February 2025) · Federal Trade Commission (US)
- Social media: how to use it safely · National Cyber Security Centre (UK)
- StopNCII.org: stop non-consensual intimate image abuse · StopNCII.org (operated by SWGfL, which runs the UK Revenge Porn Helpline)
- Revenge Porn Helpline · Revenge Porn Helpline (UK, run by SWGfL)
- How to get in touch · Revenge Porn Helpline (UK, run by SWGfL)
- 1800RESPECT: national domestic, family and sexual violence counselling service · 1800RESPECT (Australian Government-funded)
- National Domestic Abuse Helpline · National Domestic Abuse Helpline (England, run by Refuge)
- National Domestic Violence Hotline · The Hotline (US)
- Report a scam · Scamwatch, National Anti-Scam Centre (ACCC, Australia)
- Report Fraud: the place to report cyber crime and fraud · Report Fraud (formerly Action Fraud), City of London Police (UK)
- 159 Phone number · Stop Scams UK (UK)
- ReportFraud.ftc.gov · Federal Trade Commission (US)
- Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) · FBI (US)
- Contact the police · GOV.UK
- Lifeline crisis support: 13 11 14 · Lifeline Australia
- Contact a Samaritan · Samaritans (UK and Ireland)
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline · 988 Lifeline (US)
- Triple Zero · Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts (AU)
- Contact us · Police Scotland
- Healthy relationships · The Hotline (US)
- National 911 Program · 911.gov, NHTSA (US)
Publisher
Who publishes this course.
Published by trainyourself.org, a trading name of Combine TRS Pty Ltd (ABN 42 112 983 678), Brisbane, Australia.
How it's made: researched from published official, public-health, university and support-service guidance (general education, not counselling or therapy), then run through automated quality checks against our course depth standard and automated source checks that match each rule to its official source, listed above. Read how these courses are made.
Last updated:
General education, not counseling, therapy, medical or legal advice. If you are struggling, contact one of the support services named in this course; in an emergency, call your local emergency number. Spotted an error or an out-of-date rule? Send us a correction.
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