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Your safety matters
We strive to keep Wattpad a safe place for you to share your stories. Please read our 🔗Community Safety Guidelines for steps to feel secure and happy on the platform.

Are you a victim of bullying, or do you know someone who might need help on the platform? Find support on the 🔗BullyingPrevention profile. If you find yourself in a difficult situation, remember you are not alone, and asking for help is always alright. Please, visit this page to reach 🔗Helplines and Supportive Resources

You can visit Wattpad's 🔗Safety Portal to educate yourself and learn the steps Wattpad takes to keep you safe.

Keep your account secure.
Your well-being and data are important to us. Therefore, we can only encourage you enough to take extra precautions to keep your account safe.

You can read a bit about what involves protecting your account with 🔗this article, and you may read about what is and isn't private on Wattpad in 🔗this article.

Do you want some quick steps on how to stay safe? Read the articles below:
🔗Protect your account
🔗Protect your personal data 

Resetting username, email, and password
If you at any point lose access to a device or experience suspicious activity on your account, you may follow the below guides on how to reset the keys to your account, which are your username, email, and password.

--> 🔗Change/reset your username + 🔗If you forgot your username <--
--> 🔗Change/reset your email + 🔗if you lose access to your email <--
--> 🔗Change/reset your password <--

You'll be logged out of all devices automatically by resetting your password.

Additional resources
Just as anywhere else on the internet, as you use it, you may start encountering cookies, which are meant to personalize your experience in regards to ads. If you are interested in knowing more about your data and how Wattpad uses it, please consider consulting below articles:

🔗General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
🔗Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA)
🔗Wattpad's EU Digital Services Act (DSA)
🔗How to access and download your data on Wattpad

Empathy is the ability to process someone else's experience and feelings. Learning about empathy is important so that we can build safe communities and stronger friendships. If we are empathetic towards each other, we can also help protect each other from online harm. That's something we prioritize highly, and you can read more about it 🔗here.

Users on Wattpad are diverse in terms of background, age, and needs. To accommodate users, Wattpad does its best to improve a little every day to create a safe and inclusive place for everyone. If you are interested, feel free to read more with the following articles:

Accessibility
🔗Multi-year Accessibility Plan
🔗Text-to-speech
🔗Using accessibility features
🔗How to use Shake for Help 

For parents of Wattpadders
🔗Guidelines for Parents & Families