Through Rugby Australia, all members of the Rugby Community and their wider families are able to protect themselves online through Social Protect.

As a Social Protect user, you will access our automatic, realtime protection from online abuse across social media, combining more than 2 million terms of abuse in 100+ languages to ensure you and your followers remain safe.

Social Protect monitors comments made on your social media posts for racist, sexual or offensive language, spambots or scams. When Social Protect finds a match, it deletes the comment in realtime, protecting you and your followers from abuse.

As well as monitoring for a growing list of abusive terms, Social Protect includes artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to learn new abusive terms and combinations of words to ensure we stay one step ahead of abusers.

Social Protect also provides access to the latest education and tips on online safety and privacy through an in-app Education Hub.

Social Protect doesn't have a copy of your password, can’t sign into your account, can’t read your DMs, post as you or do anything other than delete comments.

Social Protect's permissions are limited to those authorised by you and available within the social media platform API. The only data that we collect and keep are comments that match keywords (or keywords you’ve added), which are stored to an evidentiary standard in case law enforcement intervention is required (for example, someone criminally threatens you).

Club-based and personal social media accounts can all be connected through Social Protect, using the below steps.

1. Download the Social Protect mobile app: (App Store) / (Google Play)
2. Register your Social Protect account using your case-sensitive invitation code
3. Your invitation code is linked to your rugby association. The code for RugbyWA is WARugby2025.
4. Link your personal/club/association accounts for each platform that you use.
5. Toggle the keyword categories on or off (or nominate your own words), to decide which comments are instantly deleted.

• YouTube
• TikTok
• Facebook Pages
• Instagram
• Discord

RugbyWA's association registration code for all members of the RugbyWA community is WARugby2025.

Struggling with the set-up of the app? Access the below manual for all registration information, in addition to learning how to set keywords, view quarantined comments, and frequently asked questions.

For further support, please contact rugby@socialprotect.ai.