VeiligSamen – neighbour alert

Protection when you need it. VeiligSamen is a neighbourhood watch app built for one moment: the moment you need help from your own street. Hold the SOS button for two seconds and neighbours nearby who have the app are alerted straight away, with your location. Whoever can come offers to. You decide who to accept. No group chat. No member list. No timeline. One button. HOW IT WORKS 1. Hold the SOS button for two seconds. 2. Neighbours with the app within 500 metres get an alert showing the distance and a pin on the map. If nobody responds, the alert reaches further into the neighbourhood. 3. A neighbour who can come offers their help. Accept, and the two of you see each other's name and can agree something in the app. 4. Press 'I'm safe' when it is over. If you go quiet, the app asks you whether you are all right. WHY THIS APP EXISTS The people who can reach you fastest usually live on your own street. Yet there is rarely a way to reach them at that exact moment. A message in a group chat needs typing, needs reading, and needs somebody who happens to be looking. VeiligSamen skips all of that. WHAT WE DO • Use your location while you are using the app — and, during your own alert, in the background too, so neighbours can see where you are now • Show neighbours the distance, not your name; your name only once you accept a helper • Leave it to you to say when the alert is over WHAT WE DON'T DO • No background location unless you switch it on yourself • No access to your contacts • No adverts, no subscriptions, no paid features • Your data is not sold and not shared with advertisers WHO IT IS FOR For a street, a neighbourhood or a residents' association that wants to keep neighbourhood watch simple. It works with a handful of households: whoever is nearby gets the alert. The more neighbours have the app, the better the chance somebody within 500 metres sees yours. REACHABLE WITH THE APP CLOSED By default you are visible for as long as you have recently opened the app. If you also want to be alerted while your phone is in your pocket, you can add a fixed address under Reachability — your home, for instance — or switch on background location yourself. Both optional, both switchable off again. IMPORTANT VeiligSamen is not an emergency number and not a replacement for 112 (or your local emergency number). In an emergency, always call the emergency services first. The app alerts neighbours who take part voluntarily; there is no guarantee that anyone is nearby or that anyone will come. VeiligSamen is free and stays free, without adverts. It is made by Gold Development in Rotterdam (Dutch chamber of commerce 61213535), built and hosted in the Netherlands. Maps come from the Dutch Kadaster via PDOK. Privacy policy: https://veilig-samen.nl/privacy Delete your account: https://veilig-samen.nl/account-verwijderen