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Draft — not yet in forceHow anyone can ask for specific material to be taken down, including people who are not users of the service.
What follows is the agreed structure of this document, not the document itself. The binding wording is being drafted and reviewed by a qualified lawyer, and it replaces this outline before the site opens to the public. Nothing on this page creates or limits any obligation.
We publish the outline rather than a placeholder because you are entitled to know what a policy will cover before you can read it, and because a page of convincing-looking text that no lawyer has seen is worse than an empty one: there would be no way to tell the two apart.
Each heading below becomes a numbered section of the final text.
Explicitly not limited to account holders or rights holders. Anyone may ask, including someone who has never used the service and someone writing on behalf of another person.
The minimum needed to locate and assess the material: the address of the page, what specifically is objected to, and the basis of the request. Kept short on purpose, so that the form of a request never becomes a reason to refuse one.
A committed acknowledgement time and a committed decision time, differentiated by urgency category rather than given as one figure that would be meaningless at both ends of the range.
The expedited route for material involving a minor or non-consensual content, and the commitment to act before completing the full assessment.
How the outcome is communicated to the requester and to anyone affected, what reasons are given, and how a decision either way can be contested.
One channel, and it is a real inbox. There is no support chat widget, no ticket portal and no social media account for this site — by decision, not by omission, so there is exactly one place a message can arrive and one place it can be answered from.
Please put the name of this document in the subject line. Formal notices should follow the specific requirements set out in the relevant policy once it is published.
These are not adapted from a template pack. Several of the clauses only make sense here: no payment is ever taken on this domain, passwords are entered only on account pages, and all visual material is generated rather than photographed. Each of those facts changes the document that describes it, and a generic template would state the opposite.
The thirteen documents are marked as launch blockers in the project’s own route map, which means the site is not considered releasable while any of them is still an outline. The review covers United States federal requirements and state privacy law, and the set is written independently of the sibling site rather than copied across.
Twelve more documents, all at the same stage.