Community Guidelines & Safety

Who TwoStep is for

TwoStep is an app for adult dancers, 18 and over. We don't allow accounts for anyone under 18. All styles and all levels are welcome, but the app is designed around street styles — hip hop, house, choreography, and the broader club and studio dance world.

What we expect from you

Be real

Use your real identity. Don't impersonate anyone else, don't misrepresent your experience or qualifications, and don't pretend to be affiliated with a studio, crew, or instructor that you aren't.

If you're an instructor or organizer, be straightforward about that. If you're a beginner, that's welcome here too — there's no pressure to look more advanced than you are.

Be respectful

Treat other dancers the way you'd want to be treated in a class or cypher. Feedback is welcome when it's constructive and asked for. Harassment, bullying, hate speech, or targeted attacks based on race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age, or any other characteristic are not.

Disagreement is fine. Cruelty is not.

Respect consent and privacy

Dance often involves recording — that's part of how we train. But other people's bodies and faces are theirs.

• Don't post videos that prominently feature other identifiable dancers without their permission, especially outside the context they were recorded in.
• Don't share another user's content (videos, profile info, session details) outside the app without their consent.
• Don't share another user's personal information — full name, home address, workplace, contact info — with anyone, on or off the platform.
• If someone asks you to take down content that includes them, do it.

Respect creative work

• Choreography belongs to the choreographer. Credit them when you can.
• Music has rights holders. You're responsible for any copyrighted music in your uploads. If you don't have rights to use a track, don't post it.
• Don't pass off other people's work as your own.

Content that isn't allowed

The following will get content removed and may get your account suspended or terminated:

• Hate speech and harassment. Content that promotes hatred, discrimination, or violence against people based on protected characteristics. Targeted harassment of any individual.
• Threats and intimidation. Threats of violence, doxxing, or any conduct intended to intimidate.
• Sexual content. TwoStep is not a platform for sexual content, even in a dance context. Suggestive or sensual movement that is part of legitimate dance training (heels, waacking, certain choreography, etc.) is fine — explicit or pornographic content is not.
• Self-harm, dangerous activity, or drug content. Content depicting or promoting self-harm, dangerous stunts, or illegal drug use.
• Content involving minors. TwoStep is 18+. Don't post content centered on minors, and don't post content of yourself if you're under 18.
• Infringing content. Music, choreography, or footage you don't have rights to.
• Spam, scams, and misleading content. Including impersonation, fake reviews, fake credentials, and fake claims about classes or events.
• Illegal content. Anything that violates applicable law.

If you see content that violates these rules, report it.

Session safety

TwoStep lets you organize practice sessions and invite other users to dance with you, in person or remotely. This section is the most important one if you use that feature.

What we do and don't do

What we do:

• Provide tools to organize sessions among users.
• Let you block, mute, or report other users.
• Investigate reports and remove users who violate these guidelines.

What we don't do:

• Verify the identity, age, or background of any user. Profile information comes from users themselves.
• Conduct background checks.
• Attend, supervise, or have any presence at sessions.
• Vet venues or guarantee the safety of any location.
• Act as an intermediary for off-platform interactions.

You are responsible for your own safety. Use your judgment.

Before a session

• Check the host's profile and history. How long have they been on the app? Do you have mutual connections in your crew or in the broader NYC dance community? Have you seen them at studios or events?
• Pick public spaces when you don't know someone well. Established studios, dance spaces, and public parks are good defaults. Be cautious about sessions at private residences with people you've only met through the app.
• Confirm the venue and time directly. If something feels off about the location — last-minute changes, unusual venues, addresses that don't match what's listed — trust that instinct.
• Tell someone where you'll be. A friend, roommate, or family member should know the address and roughly when to expect you back.
• Have a way out. Don't rely on getting a ride from someone you just met. Make sure you can leave whenever you need to.

During a session

• Trust your gut. If something feels wrong, leave. You don't owe anyone an explanation. You don't have to be polite about it.
• Keep your phone charged and accessible.
• Don't share sensitive personal info. Home address, financial information, ID numbers, workplace specifics, daily schedule — none of that needs to come up at a dance session.
• Get consent before recording anyone. Before you film someone else's run, ask. Before you post footage that includes other attendees, ask.
• Watch out for the people around you. If you see another dancer in an uncomfortable situation, check in with them.

If you're hosting

• Make sure you have permission to use the venue. If it's a studio, book it properly. If it's a private space, be sure you have authority to host there. Don't host at locations you don't have rights to use.
• Be clear about what the session is. Skill level, format, what people should bring, how long it'll go. Surprise pivots — "actually let's go to my place" — are a red flag for everyone.
• Be welcoming. New dancers are nervous. Make space for them.
• Set the tone. If you witness inappropriate behavior at a session you organized, address it. End the session if you need to.

Red flags

These don't always mean something is wrong, but they're worth paying attention to:

• Pressure to meet alone, privately, or to move to a different location than what was originally posted.
• Requests for money, gifts, or financial information.
• Personal questions that aren't about dance — your living situation, who you live with, your daily schedule.
• Requests to keep the session secret or to not mention it to others.
• Unwanted physical contact, including touching framed as "correcting form."
• Anyone making sexual comments about you, your body, or other attendees.
• Pressure to drink, use substances, or otherwise lower your guard.

If any of these come up, you can leave, block the user, and report them. You don't need to be sure something is "bad enough" to report it.

Account safety

• Use a strong, unique password.
• Don't share your login info with anyone.
• Sign out on shared or public devices.
• We will never ask for your password by email or DM. If anyone claiming to be from TwoStep asks for it, they're not from TwoStep.
• Enable Sign in with Apple if you want a stronger sign-in method.

If you think your account has been accessed by someone else, contact us immediately at safety@twostepapp.com.

Block, mute, and leave

You don't have to interact with anyone you don't want to:

• Block a user to prevent them from seeing your content, contacting you, or inviting you to sessions.
• Leave a crew any time. You don't need a reason and we don't notify the crew.
• Decline or leave a session any time. There's no penalty for declining or backing out, even at the last minute.

If you're being harassed by someone who keeps creating new accounts after being blocked, report it — that's a separate violation of our Terms.

Reporting

If you see or experience something that violates these guidelines or our Terms of Service, please report it.

• In-app: Use the report feature on a user, content, or session.
• Email: safety@twostepapp.com for general violations. Include as much detail as you can — usernames, dates, screenshots, session IDs.
• Copyright: dmca@twostepapp.com for copyright issues (see our DMCA policy).
• Privacy: privacy@twostepapp.com for data and privacy questions.

For emergencies or imminent danger, call 911 or your local emergency services first. We can investigate and take action on the platform, but we can't respond to emergencies in real time.

What happens after a report

We review every report. Depending on what we find, we may:

• Take no action (if the conduct doesn't violate our rules).
• Issue a warning.
• Remove specific content.
• Restrict, suspend, or terminate the account.
• Refer the matter to law enforcement.

We can't always share the outcome of a report with the person who submitted it, especially when it involves another user's account. But we read everything.

We're a small team. Response times will vary. Serious safety issues get priority.

When we take action

We may remove content or suspend or terminate accounts for:

• Violations of these guidelines or our Terms of Service.
• Repeat copyright infringement (per our DMCA repeat infringer policy).
• Conduct off the platform that we have reason to believe presents a safety risk to TwoStep users.
• Creating new accounts to evade a previous suspension or block.

We can take action without prior notice in serious cases. We try to be fair, but we have final say on what stays on the platform.

Privacy reminders

A few practical points that aren't fully covered in our Privacy Policy:

• Be thoughtful about what location info you share. Listing a studio address in a session is fine. Listing your home address is something to think twice about — anyone you invite will see it.
• Profile photos and bios are visible to other users. Don't include information you wouldn't want a stranger to see.
• Content you share inside a crew is visible to crew members. If you wouldn't want a particular person in your crew to see something, don't share it there.

Changes to these guidelines

We may update these guidelines as the app and the community grow. When we make significant changes, we'll let you know — through the app, by email, or both. Continued use of TwoStep after a change means you've accepted the updated guidelines.

Questions

For anything not covered above: