Safety Tips For Online Dating.

Lovers Uganda offers a fun, relaxed and safe environment that gives you control over your online dating experience, allowing you to progress at your own pace in order to establish a healthy relationship - whether it's just a casual friendship you're after, or a passionate, lasting romance. Keeping in mind that to grow any relationship, it takes time to get to know someone and so we want to encourage you to exercise caution when getting to know people online and off-line.

Please take time to read through our safety tips to ensure that your experience is safe and truly rewarding.

Day To Day Tips

• Never include your personal contact information in your profile, especially telephone numbers, email, physical home address or current work place.
• Remain anonymous until you feel safe and ready to explore other options: Your communication options on loversUganda are designed to help you protect your identity until you choose to reveal it.
• Set up an email account just for online dating usage. Hackers can breach nearly any technology. As an added safety measure, set up a third-party email address to use expressly for dating purposes.
• Only provide your contact info to another user when your instincts tell you this is someone you can trust.
• Keep your passwords confidential and make sure they are not easy to guess.
• Block abusers: loversUganda encourages you to block any member who behaves in an abusive or harassing way or one who comes across to you as shady or suspect.
• We do not validate the identity of a member or the information that they submit on a profile. Although we take steps to eliminate any suspect members, it is not possible to be 100% sure that all members will be honest and truthful in their dealings with other members. Be alert and use common sense when communicating with other members.

Fraud Awareness

• NEVER share your personal or financial information like credit card numbers or bank info with people you have just recently meeting online.
• DON'T ever send money to someone you meet online, especially by wire transfer. Keep in mind that wiring money is like sending cash: the sender has no protections against loss. Scammers often insist that people wire money, especially overseas, because it's nearly impossible to reverse the transaction or trace the money. Don't wire money to strangers or to someone who claims to be in an emergency (and wants to keep the request a secret).

Before You Meet

• You never are obligated to meet anyone, regardless of your level of online intimacy. And even if you decide to arrange a meeting, you always have the right to change your mind. It's possible that your decision to keep the relationship anonymous is based on a hunch that you can't logically explain. Trust yourself. Go with your instincts.
• Meet in public: loversUganda encourages you to arrange to meet in a populated, public place. We strongly discourage you from meeting in a private home, hotel room or in a remote location.
• Tell friends where you are going: loversUganda encourages you to tell at least one friend or family member you are meeting, where you are going and when you expect to return. Let your date know the meeting is not a secret.
• Do not ask the other person to pick you up: loversUganda encourages you to get yourself to and from the date, even if you have to have a friend drive you or take a taxi.
• Stay sober: loversUganda encourages you to refrain from drinking excessively, as it could impair your ability to make good decisions and may put you at risk. There are plenty of drinks to chose from so, on the first date, stick to nonalcoholic drinks or, at a minimum, limit your alcohol intake.
• Do not succumb to the temptation to take first dates to your home or to go to their home: Stay in a public place, even if you are pressured. If you feel pressured, end the meeting and leave at once.
• Never do anything you feel unsure about. If you are in any way afraid of your date or feel you're in danger, don't be afraid to just get up and leave, it's better to be safe than sorry. Never worry or feel embarrassed about your behavior; your safety is much more important than one person's opinion of you.
• Set up a next date if you are ready and feel comfortable: loversUganda encourages you to schedule a second date if you feel a connection, but, we also encourage you to continue to follow all of our dating safety tips on future date hook ups and meetings.
• Don't leave personal items unattended. You don't want to risk having personal information stolen. If you're drinking, keep your drink with you at all times so it can't be tampered with.