Legal
Draft — not yet in forceHow to reach the people responsible for this site — the single channel, and what each kind of message should contain.
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.
The general address and the expected response time.
Where formal notices should be sent, and the address for service. Must match the addresses given in the DMCA policy and the 2257 statement exactly.
Pointer to the specialised routes rather than a duplicate of them.
Operating entity and registered address, to the extent disclosure is required. Cannot be published before the entity details are final.
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.