These guidelines are for law enforcement and government agencies requesting information about users of is-totally.exposed. They are not legal advice and don’t create any rights for anyone. Users should see our Privacy Policy.
How to contact us
Send requests through the contact form, choosing “Law enforcement request”, and include your agency, an official address where we can reply and the legal process you are relying on. We don’t accept requests by phone.
What we may have
- For an upload: the original file with its embedded metadata, the time of upload, the uploader’s IP address and user agent, and the anonymous identity or account that posted it.
- For an anonymous identity: its handle, creation date, posts, rooms, likes, reports and bans.
- For an account: the username, creation date, email address if one was given, and the same activity.
Much of the Site is temporary by design. Public copies are deleted on a timer, and we don’t keep logs of every page view. Accounts are optional, so we usually have no name, email or phone number for a poster.
What a request must include
- The links (URLs) to the posts, rooms or subdomains concerned, or the handle or username.
- The requesting agency, officer’s name, badge or ID number, and contact details.
- The legal basis for the request and a valid legal process from a court or authority with jurisdiction over us.
We review each request and may reject or narrow requests that are invalid, overbroad or not from a competent authority. Requests from outside the jurisdiction where we operate may need to go through a mutual legal assistance treaty or similar process. Unless the law or a court order forbids it, or notice would endanger someone, we may tell the affected user, though for anonymous users we usually can’t.
Preservation requests
We honor preservation requests (for example under 18 U.S.C. § 2703(f)) and will preserve the identified records for 90 days, extendable once with a renewed request, while you obtain formal legal process.
Emergencies
If you believe there is an imminent risk of death or serious physical injury, write to us through the contact form with “EMERGENCY” at the start of the message, describe the emergency and how the information requested would help. We may disclose information voluntarily in good faith where the law allows it.
Child safety
We report apparent child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), which makes reports available to law enforcement, and preserve the related material and data as required by 18 U.S.C. § 2258A.