A public setting
A First Meet Spot is a participating public café that offers a familiar, easy-to-find setting for a first conversation.
First Meet Spot
Public cafés for a first hello
First Meet Spot highlights participating public cafés as settings for meeting someone first encountered online.
ABOUT
What is a Spher First Meet Spot?
A First Meet Spot is a public café Spher recommends for a first in-person meeting.
The café gives you a familiar, easy-to-find setting; Spher helps you keep people you trust in the loop.
This recommendation comes from Spher. Café staff do not arrange, supervise or take part in the meeting. Participation is not a safety certification or guarantee.
ABOUT
What is Spher?
Spher is the free women's safety and community app behind First Meet Spot. Users can choose to share their live location with selected contacts and take part in communities and conversations.
PROGRAMME BOUNDARIES
What the recommendation covers
Optional contact sharing
Spher provides contact-based alerts and location sharing when a user chooses to activate those features.
A clear programme boundary
The café provides the setting. Its staff do not arrange, monitor or take responsibility for a meeting.
A familiar first-meet format
The programme highlights places that are public and easy to identify without rating them or guaranteeing safety.
User-controlled sharing
The user decides whether to share information, which contacts receive it and when sharing stops.
No guarantee or supervision
A First Meet Spot recommendation is not supervision, vetting, emergency response or a guarantee about another person or location.
The app's limited role
Spher can send information to selected contacts when activated. It cannot guarantee that a contact sees or responds to it.