LOS ANGELES—The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) has named Lion’s Den, MojoHost and Segpay as its Featured Sponsors for the month of August 2020.
ASACP’s monthly Featured Sponsors are among the industry’s most respected companies and serve as examples of how responsible business practices, ethical operation and social awareness can help protect minors from accidental exposure to age-restricted materials online.
According to ASACP’s executive director Tim Henning, the association encourages all online companies and organizations to assume a leadership role in the fight to keep children out of and away from adult-oriented materials by sponsoring ASACP and its proven successes, including those that happen behind-the-scenes.
“The online industry continues to rapidly change, embracing new platforms and processes in response to evolving consumer demands,” Henning said. “This makes for significant challenges in regards to child safety in such a fast-evolving landscape where so many people are online in so many different ways.
“Under the best of circumstances, ASACP’s resources are stretched to their limits, but the COVID crisis continues and continues to complicate our mission; especially on the travel front, where the real-life outreach to industry stakeholders that the association once relied upon has been dramatically curtailed,” Henning explained. “The industry is resilient, however, spawning virtual events that seek to fill the gap in real-world encounters—but this is not the same in terms of driving awareness and the vital fundraising we must do to make a positive difference in preserving the innocence of connected youth, so more must be done.”
This current situation makes the support that ASACP receives from its sponsors, such as Lion’s Den, MojoHost and Segpay, all the more important in continuing its 24-year-long record of success, and enabling its range of free child protection resources, including market-specific Best Practices and a Code of Ethics for online businesses, app publishers and operators of age-restricted websites.
Among its most notable achievements, ASACP’s RTA (Restricted To Adults) meta labeling system helps parents prevent their children’s access to countless adult-oriented webpages and mobile apps and is offered to all site and app publishers free of charge, as are all ASACP services including its CP Reporting Tipline, which has received and processed well over 1 million user reports to date, thanks to the generosity of the nonprofit association’s sponsors and members.
Lion’s Den
An ASACP Title Sponsor that has supported the association since 2006, Lion’s Den is dedicated to providing the very best in adult merchandise, including a range of adult toys, magazines and DVDs, lingerie, massage oils and gifts for both bachelor and bachelorette parties, and more, through its retail stores and over the internet via LionsDen.com.
Lion’s Den opened its first retail facility in Columbus, Ohio in 1971, and has since grown to more than 45 outlets throughout the country.
“By treating our customers with dignity and respect we have come to form a loyal relationship with our patrons,” said a company spokesperson. “Lion’s Den fully understands that human sexuality is a personal and sensitive matter [and] it is our goal to provide the most secure and safe environment for our customers to explore eroticism without any disconcertion and to protect children from exposure to products and services intended for adults only.”
MojoHost
As a leading adult technology company, MojoHost has a history of supporting the industry, recognizing the vital work by ASACP when it became a sponsor a decade ago. The company specializes in adult website hosting with shared and dedicated hosting. Additional services include the MojoCDN content delivery network, MojoCloud storage and private cloud architecture, MojoShield web application firewall, MojoDomains service, and more.
Founder and CEO Brad Mitchell serves on the association's Advisory Council and Executive Board and provides marketing resources. Keeping children away from age-restricted content fits in with his personal goals as a parent, even more than his role as a technology and thought leader.
“The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) needs more industry support,” stated Mitchell, who urged the community to step up. “Now more than ever, I challenge business owners to pick a membership level that they can afford, and step up no matter how small. It truly helps the organization and goes towards a critical cause in the digital age.”
Segpay
Since 2005, Segpay has helped high-risk businesses take payments quickly while implementing a compliance framework, and has supported ASACP since 2016 as a valued Corporate Sponsor.
For her part, Segpay CEO Cathy Beardsley said the company is proud to work with the association to help carry out the mission of making the internet safer for children.
“As a mother of three myself, it’s an issue that’s especially important to me and one that Segpay takes very seriously,” Beardsley explained. “Where our merchants don’t already use age verification measures, we encourage them to take advantage of ASACP’s ‘Restricted To Adults’ labeling to help parents filter content that is not intended for children.”
Beardsley said the company’s commitment to compliance dictates that it regularly reviews and checks its merchants’ content to identify, report and immediately shut down any child exploitation wherever it is found.
“ASACP plays a crucial role in facilitating this reporting and ensuring a trusted online environment that ultimately helps the adult industry become more accepted in mainstream society,” Beardsley added. “That is good for our business while helping to make the world a better place.”
“The much-appreciated generosity of industry leaders such as Lion’s Den, MojoHost and Segpay enable ASACP to carry out its vital mission to protect today’s constantly connected youth,” Henning concluded. “ASACP’s Featured Sponsors demonstrate that despite the evolving challenges of the current marketplace and world beyond, proactive leadership and corporate responsibility continue to make a difference.”
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