Intimate-Image Removal Policy ============================= Tillyard. Version 1.2. In effect from October 21, 2026. Fingerprint of this text (SHA-256): 4948a1f276b3fdbc0b5f6296676af54e9274ef64564a314b89df96814329e9b2 This version: https://tillyard.org/policies/intimate-image-removal-policy/v/1.2 - If an intimate image of you, real or fake, has been shared on Tillyard without your consent, ask us to remove it. Use the form at tillyard.org/removal/intimate, or email safety@tillyard.org. You do not need an account, and it costs nothing. - Tillyard is almost all text. The only pictures a member can upload are figures in a paper for Tillyard Research, which the editor looks at before the paper is published, and receipts for a research grant, which only the member and the owner see. A link to an image, text that encodes an image, a description of one, or a threat to share one can be typed, and all of these, and any figure, can be reported through this process. - A valid request has four parts: your signature (typing your full name counts), enough detail for us to find the material, a short statement that you believe in good faith it was shared without consent, and a way to reach you. - When we receive a valid request we will remove the material as soon as possible, and no later than 48 hours after we receive it. We will also make reasonable efforts to find and remove known identical copies on the platform. - Do not send us the image. We do not need to see it, and we never ask for ID. - We give each request a ticket number and aim to tell you the outcome. We do not tell the person who posted the material who asked for it to come down. - If the site is paused, or the form will not work for you, email safety@tillyard.org or write to 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062. A pause on the site does not pause the 48 hours. - If the person shown was under 18, the same process applies and so does the Child Safety Policy. Please do not save, copy or forward the image. - If you are in danger now, call 911. If this summary and the full text below ever differ, the full text governs. How to ask, in one minute ========================= This part comes first because it is the part you may need in a hurry. The numbered sections after it say the same things in full. Where to ask ------------ - The form: tillyard.org/removal/intimate. No account is needed. The report page at tillyard.org/report and the page "Where to send what" at tillyard.org/policies/contact both lead to it. - Email: safety@tillyard.org, with the subject line "Intimate image removal". - Post: Tillyard, Attn: Intimate image removal, 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062. - If you are a member: the report control beside the item, category "An intimate image of me". What to put in it ----------------- 1. Your signature. Typing your full name counts. A person you have authorized can sign for you. 2. Where the material is on Tillyard, in enough detail for us to find it. 3. A short statement that you believe in good faith that it was shared without your consent. 4. A way to reach you. Do not send the image. We do not need to see it, and we never ask for ID. What we do, and by when ----------------------- When we receive a request with those four parts we remove the material as soon as possible, and no later than 48 hours after we receive it, and we look for identical copies on the platform and remove the ones we find. You get a ticket number, and we aim to tell you the outcome. We do not tell the person who posted the material who asked. If you think we have not done what the law requires, you can complain to the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces this law, at TakeItDown.ftc.gov (section 17.2). Removing an Intimate Image: Short Notice is this part by itself, on one screen. 1. About this policy ==================== 1.1 Who we are -------------- Tillyard is an Ohio nonprofit corporation. In this policy "we", "us" and "our" mean Tillyard. "The platform" means the website at tillyard.org and everything people can do there. 1.2 What this policy is for --------------------------- It explains how to ask us to remove an intimate image that was shared on the platform without the consent of the person shown, and what we do with that request. The public notice of our removal process that United States law (the TAKE IT DOWN Act) asks services like ours to give, in clear language that is easy to find, is the one-screen page Removing an Intimate Image: Short Notice at tillyard.org/removal/intimate. This policy is the full account behind that notice. 1.3 Who can use it ------------------ Anyone. You do not have to be a member, a student, an adult or in the United States. 1.4 How it fits with our other documents ---------------------------------------- - The Terms of Use are our agreement with members. - The Community Guidelines say what may and may not be posted, including the wider rules on sexual content, harassment and threats. The Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy says what can happen to an account and how to appeal. - The Privacy Notice explains what we do with personal information, including information from people who are not members. - The Child Safety Policy covers anything involving a person under 18. - The Copyright Policy covers requests based on copyright. Where two documents could cover the same point, the more specific one governs. Section 37.5 of the Terms of Use sets the order among all our documents, including the sections of those terms that prevail over every other document. This policy is the specific one for how removal requests about intimate images are made and handled. The Child Safety Policy is the specific one for everything else about material that shows, or may show, a person under 18. 1.5 What this policy does not replace ------------------------------------- This policy is not legal advice. It does not limit any right you have against the person who shared an image, or anyone else. Using it does not stop you from going to the police, a lawyer, your college or any of the organizations listed in section 17. 2. Words we use =============== Words that have one meaning in every one of our documents, such as member, visitor, staff, the editor, record item, hold, case and tip, are defined in Definitions. The words below are added for this document's own subject, or repeated from Definitions for convenience. If a repeated meaning ever differs, Definitions governs the meaning of the word. 2.1 Intimate image ------------------ An intimate image is a photograph, video or other visual depiction of an identifiable person that shows any of the following: - their uncovered genitals, pubic area, anus or (after puberty) female nipple; - the display or transfer of bodily sexual fluids onto or from their body; or - the person engaged in sexually explicit conduct. An image made in a public place is included where the person did not choose to show themselves that way, or did not consent to the sexual conduct shown. If you are not sure whether an image fits this description, send the request anyway. The Community Guidelines reach further than this definition, and we may remove private or sexualized material that falls short of it. 2.2 Digital forgery ------------------- A digital forgery is an intimate image of an identifiable person that was made or altered with software, an app, artificial intelligence or any other technical means, and that a reasonable person looking at it would take for a real image of that person. Many people call these deepfakes. In this policy "intimate image" includes digital forgeries. You do not have to show whether an image is real or fake, and we do not ask you to. 2.3 Identifiable ---------------- A person is identifiable when their face, their likeness or another distinguishing feature (a birthmark or a tattoo, for example) appears in the image, or when information shown with the image points to them (a name, a user name, a school, a caption). 2.4 Consent ----------- Consent means a clear, conscious and voluntary "yes" from the person shown, given freely and without force, fraud, pressure, threats or deception. For this policy: - Agreeing to an image being made is not agreeing to it being shared. - Sharing an image with one person is not agreeing to that person sharing it with anyone else. - Agreeing once is not agreeing forever, or agreeing to every place the image might be posted. - A person under 18 cannot consent to an intimate image of themselves being made or shared. - Nobody consents to a digital forgery by having ordinary pictures of themselves online. 2.5 Reported material --------------------- Reported material is whatever on the platform a request points to. We sort it into two kinds. Image material is an intimate image in any form the platform could carry: - a link or web address that leads to the image, shown as text; - text that encodes the image (for example a long block of encoded characters that a computer can turn back into a picture); - a picture drawn in typed characters that amounts to an intimate image of an identifiable person; and - directions that take a reader straight to the image somewhere else (for example an account name and album on another service). Related text is writing about an intimate image that does not carry or lead to it: a description of what an image shows, a statement that images of a named person exist, a caption, a request that others share an image, or a threat to share one. 2.6 Requester and authorized person ----------------------------------- The requester is the person who sends us a request. An authorized person is someone acting for the person shown, with that person's permission or with legal authority to act for them (section 4.2). 2.7 Valid request ----------------- A valid request is a written request that has the four parts listed in section 5.1. 2.8 Remove ---------- To remove something means to take it out of every place on the platform where a member or the public could see it (section 9.3). 2.9 Identical copy ------------------ An identical copy is the same image material appearing somewhere else on the platform: the same link, or the same encoded text (section 10). 2.10 Ticket ----------- A ticket is the reference number we give a request so that you and we can be sure we are talking about the same one. 2.11 Staff ---------- Staff means the owner (our president) and anyone working for us under a paid, written contract who handles safety matters. At present the owner is the only member of staff. Members are never given this role. 3. Why a site that is almost all text has this policy ===================================================== 3.1 What cannot be posted here ------------------------------ The only things a member can upload are figures in a paper for Tillyard Research and receipts for a research grant. A figure is kept private until its paper is published, and a receipt is never public. The platform has no way to upload or host a video, an audio clip or any other kind of file. There are no profile pictures. A link that a member types appears as text that cannot be clicked, unless it points to one of a short list of sites we allow. The platform never shows a preview of what a link leads to, and it does not fetch or display images from other sites. The résumé tools read a file inside your own browser and never send the file to us. 3.2 What can still happen ------------------------- A platform that is almost all text closes most of the routes by which intimate images spread, but not all of them. Someone can still: - type or paste a link to an image hosted somewhere else, in table chat, a private note, a group thread, a profile, a paper, an item on The Record or anywhere else that accepts text; - paste text that encodes an image; - describe an image, or tell people where to look for one; - threaten to share an image unless someone does what they want; or - use a table's outside call link to move people to a video call on another company's service, where images can be shown. All of these can be reported through this policy. 3.3 How we treat links and encoded images ----------------------------------------- For this policy we treat image material (section 2.5) as if it were the image itself. A link that leads to an intimate image of you is handled on the same 48-hour clock as the image would be if the platform could carry it. Related text gets the same process and the same priority in our queue. The 48-hour deadline is a legal one that attaches to images, so we do not promise a time for related text, but we handle it as an urgent matter, and a threat to share an intimate image is among the most serious things we deal with. 3.4 Where the image itself lives -------------------------------- When someone posts a link here, the image is stored on another company's service. We can remove the link from the platform and act on the account that posted it. We cannot delete the image from the other service. Section 17 explains how to reach the services that can. 4. Who can ask ============== 4.1 The person shown -------------------- If you are the person shown in the image, or the person a digital forgery is made to look like, you can ask. 4.2 Someone acting for the person shown --------------------------------------- An authorized person can ask on someone else's behalf. That includes: - a parent or legal guardian of a person under 18, or of an adult who cannot act for themselves; - a lawyer; - a victim advocate, a helpline or another support organization; - a friend, partner or relative whom the person shown has asked to help; and - the personal representative or next of kin of someone who has died. Tell us who you are, who you are acting for and why you are able to act for them. One or two sentences is enough. If something about a request gives us real reason to doubt it, we may ask a follow-up question, but we do not hold up removal while we wait for the answer. 4.3 No account needed --------------------- You do not need an account to make a request, and we never ask you to create one. If you are a member, you can use the report control beside the item instead (section 6.2). 4.4 If you are not the person shown and are not acting for them --------------------------------------------------------------- If you come across what looks like an intimate image of someone else shared without consent, please tell us. Members can use the report control. Anyone can email safety@tillyard.org. We treat a report like this as urgent and may remove the material under section 13. The 48-hour legal deadline belongs to requests from the person shown or someone authorized by them, so if you know that person, the surest route is to tell them about this policy. 4.5 If you posted the material yourself --------------------------------------- If you posted something you now want gone, delete it yourself where the platform lets you, and tell us if you cannot. If what you posted was an intimate image of another person, removing it quickly is the right thing to do. It does not undo the breach of our rules (section 12). 4.6 If the person shown is under 18 ----------------------------------- Read section 14. The same form works, and extra rules protect the young person. 5. What a request needs ======================= 5.1 The four required parts --------------------------- A valid request is in writing and has all four of these. 1. A signature. This is the signature of the person shown, or of the authorized person acting for them. It can be physical (a signed letter) or electronic. Typing your full name in the signature box of the form, or at the end of an email, counts as signing. 2. Where the material is. Tell us what the material is and give us enough to find it. Section 5.3 lists what helps. 3. A good-faith statement. A short statement that the person shown believes in good faith that the intimate image was shared without their consent, with anything that helps us understand that. One sentence can be enough: "I did not agree to this being shared", "This image is fake", or "I was 16 when this was taken". 4. A way to reach you. An email address or a postal address where we can contact the person shown or the authorized person. 5.2 What we do not ask for -------------------------- - The image. Please do not send it, attach it or paste it. We do not need to see it to act. - Identity documents. We do not ask for a driver's license, a passport, a student card or a selfie. - An account, a fee or a reason for not having reported sooner. - Proof that you did not consent. Your good-faith statement is enough. - A sworn statement or a police report. - An explanation of how the image came to exist. That is not our business. 5.3 What helps us find the material ----------------------------------- Give us as much of this as you have. None of it is required beyond "enough to find it". - The address of the page, copied from your browser's address bar. - The name of the member who posted it, as it appears on the platform, and their school if shown. - Where on the platform it was: a room or table in The Shop, a note or a thread, a profile, a paper in Tillyard Research, an item on The Record, an answer to the house question, or somewhere else. - The date and rough time you saw it, and your time zone. - The link or text itself, or its first and last few characters. If the link leads to an image of someone under 18, give us the address but do not open it again (section 14). - An earlier ticket number, if you have reported this before. If the material is in a private note or a group thread that you are not part of, tell us who you understand sent it and to whom. We may be able to find it from that. 5.4 If something is missing --------------------------- The 48-hour deadline in section 9 is a legal deadline that starts when we receive a request with all four parts. We do not use a missing part as a reason to wait. If we can find the material from what you sent, we may hide it straight away and ask for the rest afterwards. We aim to tell you promptly what is missing and how to send it. If the only gap is one we can sensibly work around (for example you signed the message but left the signature box empty), we treat the request as valid. 5.5 Optional things that help us protect you -------------------------------------------- You can also tell us: - whether you feel in danger, and whether the person who posted the material knows where you are; - whether you know who posted it; - whether the person shown was under 18 when the image was made; - whether an address is safe to write to, and whether there are words you would like us to keep out of email subject lines; - whether you plan to go to the police, so that we can keep our records ready for a lawful request (section 11.6). 5.6 Language ------------ We work in English. If you write in another language we do our best to understand the request, and we may reply in English. A request is not turned away because of the language it is written in. 6. How to send a request ======================== There are three channels. Each one starts the same process, and a valid request sent by any of them starts the same 48 hours. 6.1 The removal form -------------------- The removal request form is at tillyard.org/removal/intimate, and you can open it whether or not you are signed in. The report page at tillyard.org/report and the page "Where to send what" at tillyard.org/policies/contact both lead to it. It asks for the four parts in section 5.1 and nothing else that is required. It has a short automated check to keep out bots, and limits on how many requests one connection can send in a short time. It never shows a tip button or any request for money. If the check fails for you or a limit gets in your way, use email (section 6.3). You do not need to explain why. 6.2 The report control, if you are a member ------------------------------------------- Every piece of member-written content on the platform has a report control beside it. Choose the category for an intimate image of you. Because you are signed in we already know who is asking and where the item is, so the form is shorter. It still asks you to confirm the good-faith statement and to sign. 6.3 Email --------- Write to safety@tillyard.org with the subject line "Intimate image removal". You can copy this: Subject: Intimate image removal 1. My name: 2. I am: the person shown / acting for the person shown (if acting for someone: their name, and why I can act for them) 3. Where the material is on your site: 4. My statement: I believe in good faith that the intimate image identified above was shared without the consent of the person shown. (anything else that explains this) 5. How to reach me: 6. Signature (type your full name): Optional: Is anyone in danger? Was the person shown under 18? Is this address safe to reply to? Do not attach or paste the image. 6.4 Post -------- Write to Tillyard, Attn: Intimate image removal, 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062. Post is slow. The 48 hours start when the letter is received at that address, not when you send it. If you can use the form or email, please do, and use a postal service with tracking if you cannot. 6.5 One request, several items ------------------------------ One request can cover as many items as you need. List each place you know of. You do not have to find every copy yourself (section 10). 6.6 Please do not ask in public ------------------------------- Do not make a removal request by posting in a room, a thread or anywhere else on the platform. It draws attention to the material and may not reach us. 6.7 Requests that reach us another way -------------------------------------- If a request reaches us somewhere else, for example at support@tillyard.org, we handle it under this policy as soon as we recognize it for what it is. The three channels above are the surest and fastest. 7. If the site is paused or the form will not work ================================================== The platform is run by a small company and is built to switch parts of itself off when something goes wrong or a daily limit is reached. None of that changes your rights or our deadline. If the site is paused or the form will not work. Columns: what you see, what is happening, what to do. What you see | What is happening | What to do --------------------------------------------- A notice that the site is read-only | Members can read but not post. We aim to keep the removal form open in this mode. | Use the form. A maintenance page | The site has been switched off for a while. We aim to show the removal contact details on that page. | Use the form if it opens. If not, email safety@tillyard.org. Messages that a feature is "paused for today" | A daily ceiling has been reached. Capacity is held back for sign-in, reporting and the removal form. | Use the form. An error page, or nothing loads | The website is unreachable. | Email safety@tillyard.org, or write to 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062. The form refuses you (the bot check fails, or you are told to slow down) | A protection against abuse has caught you by mistake. | Email safety@tillyard.org. You cannot use the form because of a disability or the technology you use | The form is not working for you as it should. | Email safety@tillyard.org to make the request. Separately, tell accessibility@tillyard.org about the barrier if you are willing, so we can fix it. The safety@tillyard.org mailbox does not run on the same system as the website, so it keeps receiving mail when the website is down. The same contact details are on a simple page at tillyard.org/assets/policies/index.html, which is served separately from the software that runs the rest of the site. When the whole website is unreachable, the material is unreachable too. We still count the 48 hours from when your valid request arrived, and we still remove the material before the site comes back wherever we can. 8. What we do when a request arrives ==================================== 8.1 We record it ---------------- We record the time the request arrived and give it a ticket number. The recorded time of arrival is what the 48 hours are counted from, and it is not changed afterwards. 8.2 We acknowledge it --------------------- If you used the form, the page you see after sending shows your ticket number and a link to its status page. The site does not send email yet, so if you wrote by email, we reply by hand from safety@tillyard.org with your ticket number. If you wrote by post and gave no email address, we aim to reply by post. 8.3 The material may be hidden straight away -------------------------------------------- Where a request identifies a specific item that our systems can find, the item may be hidden as soon as the request arrives, before a person has looked at it. Hiding takes the item out of view for other people on every page where it appeared. It is a holding step. A person still reviews the request. 8.4 A person handles it ----------------------- Removal requests are handled by staff, which at present means the president alone. Nothing alerts us by phone yet. Members never see or decide these requests. 8.5 We do not need to see the image ----------------------------------- We act on what you tell us and on what is stored on the platform. We do not ask you for the image. Staff do not need to open a reported link to remove it, and where the person shown may be under 18 they do not open it at all (section 14). If an image is sent to us anyway, as an attachment or in a letter, we do not open it or pass it on. We delete it, unless the law requires us to keep it, as it does when the person shown may be under 18. 8.6 How we decide ----------------- We do not hold a hearing on consent. No intimate image of a real person belongs on a professional network, so we do not weigh whether an image is newsworthy, whether the person shown is well known, or what the person who posted it says was agreed. If a valid request tells us you did not consent, we remove the material. 8.7 If we need more from you ---------------------------- If we cannot find the material from what you sent, we aim to write back promptly and say exactly what would help. We keep looking in the meantime with what we have. 9. Our 48-hour commitment ========================= 9.1 The commitment ------------------ When we receive a valid request from the person shown in an intimate image, or from an authorized person acting for them, we will: 1. remove the image material as soon as possible, and in any case no later than 48 hours after we receive the request; and 2. make reasonable efforts to identify and remove any known identical copies of it on the platform. These are the responsibilities the TAKE IT DOWN Act places on platforms. The 48 hours is the only fixed deadline in this policy. 9.2 How the 48 hours are counted -------------------------------- - The time starts when a valid request arrives through any channel in section 6: when the form or the report control is submitted, when the email reaches the mailbox, or when the letter is received at the postal address. - It runs without stopping. It does not pause for nights, weekends, public holidays, exam weeks or a pause on the site. - "As soon as possible" is the rule. Forty-eight hours is the outer limit. - A request with a part missing becomes valid when the missing part arrives (section 5.4). 9.3 What removal covers ----------------------- Removal takes the material out of every place on the platform where a member or the public could see it, including: - rooms and tables in The Shop, and the house question; - private notes and group threads, for every person in the conversation; - profiles, the directory and items on The Record, including their public pages; - papers and their public pages in Tillyard Research, and drafts that have been offered to readers; - Pursuits entries, booths and their ledgers, session pages and organization pages; and - anything else that displays member-written text. Pages on the platform are built at the moment someone asks for them, so once an item is removed it stops appearing straight away, on public pages as well as members' pages. Our emails never carry text written by one member to another, so there is no emailed copy to recall. Removal takes the material out of your own view too, for example where it was sent to you in a note. If you need a record of what was said, tell us (section 11.6) and we can keep one in the case file. Do not screenshot an image of anyone under 18. After removal, a copy of the removed text may be kept out of sight in the case file for the reasons and the time given in section 16. 9.4 Material that has already gone ---------------------------------- Some material deletes itself. Table chat, for example, is kept for a short period and then dropped, and members can delete their own notes. If the material is already gone when your request arrives, we aim to tell you so. We still look for identical copies, and we may still act on the account that posted it. 9.5 Material we cannot find --------------------------- If we cannot find anything matching your request, we aim to tell you what we searched and what else would help. A new detail from you is enough to start again. You do not need to repeat your statement or your signature. Quote your ticket. 9.6 Material that is not on the platform ---------------------------------------- If the image or link is on another service, or was shown during a video call that a table moved to on another company's service, it is outside what we can remove. We aim to tell you that and point you to the organizations in section 17, and we may still act on the member's account if a member of ours was responsible. 10. Identical copies and stopping material coming back ====================================================== 10.1 What we look for --------------------- When we remove image material we make reasonable efforts to find the same material elsewhere on the platform. Here that means the same web address, allowing for trivial differences in how an address can be written, the same encoded text, and the same figure where we hold it. 10.2 How we look ---------------- We can run an automated search for the exact link or text across the member-written text we store, including private notes and group threads. Staff look only at the matches. Text that has already been deleted under our normal schedules cannot be searched and no longer exists to be found. 10.3 Stopping the same link coming back --------------------------------------- We may add a removed link to the list our automated text checks use, so that a new post containing it is held for review before others see it. This does not catch a different link to the same image. 10.4 Copies that are not identical ---------------------------------- The same image can sit at many addresses. If you find another link, a shortened link or a new post that leads to the same image, tell us and quote your ticket. We treat each new location you report as a new valid request with its own 48 hours, and you do not have to repeat your statement. 10.5 Image fingerprints ----------------------- Large image-hosting services stop re-uploads by keeping a digital fingerprint of each removed image. We hold almost no images, and we keep no fingerprints to share. The services in section 17 let you create a fingerprint on your own device, without sending the image to anyone, so that participating services can block it. 11. What we tell you ==================== 11.1 A ticket and a status page ------------------------------- Every request gets a ticket number. We aim to give you a link to a status page that you can open with the ticket number and the email address you gave us. 11.2 The outcome ---------------- We aim to tell you the outcome in a few words, which will be one of these: - the material was removed, and whether we found and removed identical copies; - the material had already gone when we looked; - we could not find the material, and what would help; - the material is not on our platform, and where to turn; or - we did not remove it, and why. 11.3 What we cannot tell you ---------------------------- We do not give out a member's contact details, or other information about them that you could not already see on the platform. If you need to identify the person who posted the material, a court or a law enforcement agency can require that information from us through legal process. We generally do not describe the action we took on someone's account beyond saying that we acted. 11.4 How we contact you ----------------------- We write only to the address you gave, and only about your request. We aim to keep email subject lines neutral so that someone glancing at your inbox learns nothing from them. Tell us if you need more care than that. 11.5 If you disagree with the outcome ------------------------------------- Reply to any message from us, quoting your ticket, and say what you think we got wrong. We aim to look at it again. Tillyard is a small company, and the person who looks again may be the person who decided the first time. You can also tell the Federal Trade Commission about any platform that ignores a valid removal request, at TakeItDown.ftc.gov. If your request concerns something posted by a person who works for us, it is handled in the same way, and you are free to go straight to the organizations in section 17 without telling us first. 11.6 If you are going to the police ----------------------------------- Tell us, and we can keep the records of your request and of the removed material ready for a lawful request. We can give you a copy of your own request and written confirmation of what we removed and when. Federal law limits what we may hand over about another person's account or messages without legal process, so the rest goes to the police or a court when they ask for it properly. 12. The person who posted the material ====================================== 12.1 What they are told ----------------------- The member whose content was removed is normally told that an item was removed for breaking our rules. We do not tell them who asked, and we do not show them the request. We may hold back this notice where we think telling them straight away could put someone at risk. They may work out who asked from the content itself. If you are worried about how the person will react, tell us in your request (section 5.5) and read section 17. 12.2 What can happen to their account ------------------------------------- Sharing an intimate image of someone without consent, linking to one, or threatening to share one is among the most serious breaches of the Community Guidelines. It may lead to permanent removal of the account the first time it happens, and to the withdrawal of any titles or items on The Record. It can also be a crime under federal and state law. Where it is appropriate and the law allows, we may refer the matter to law enforcement. 12.3 Appeals ------------ The law gives the person who posted the material no right to have it put back, and nor do we. A member can use the single appeal that our rules provide (see the Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy) to challenge action taken on their account. The material stays down while the appeal is considered. We restore material only where we conclude the request was clearly mistaken (for example, the item was not image material at all), and even then we may decline. 12.4 No retaliation ------------------- Contacting, threatening or retaliating against a person because they made a request under this policy is a separate and serious breach of our rules. 13. Removals we make in good faith ================================== 13.1 We may act without a valid request --------------------------------------- We may remove material that appears to be an intimate image shared without consent whenever we become aware of it: from a request that is incomplete, from a report by someone who is not the person shown, from an automated flag, or because staff came across it. 13.2 We may be wrong, and the law allows for that ------------------------------------------------- The law protects a platform that removes material in good faith because it appeared to be an intimate image shared without consent, even if it later turns out that the material was lawful. Members agree in the Terms of Use that we may remove content. When in doubt we take something down, and correct that on appeal if we were wrong. 13.3 Our other rules still apply -------------------------------- Material that falls outside this policy may still break the Community Guidelines. A request that does not qualify here is not thrown away. We may deal with it under those rules. 14. If the person shown is under 18 =================================== 14.1 It is a different and more serious matter ---------------------------------------------- A sexual image of a person under 18 is child sexual abuse material. It is illegal to make, hold or share, whoever made it and whatever the young person agreed to. The Child Safety Policy governs how we handle it. 14.2 You can still use this process ----------------------------------- A young person, a parent or guardian, or anyone helping them can use the form, email or post in section 6. Tell us that the person shown is or was under 18. The 48-hour commitment in section 9 applies in the same way. 14.3 Please do not copy the image --------------------------------- Do not save, screenshot, download, forward or post the image, and do not send it to us, even to help. Give us the place where it appears on the platform and stop there. Holding or passing on such an image can be a crime even when the reason is a good one. 14.4 What else we do -------------------- Federal law requires us to report apparent child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and to preserve what we reported. We do that as the Child Safety Policy describes. Staff do not open the link. We restrict the account that posted it and do not tell that person a report was made. 14.5 If the image was made when you were under 18 and you are an adult now -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everything in this section still applies. Section 17 lists a free service run by NCMEC for exactly this situation. 15. Misuse of this process ========================== 15.1 What misuse looks like --------------------------- This process exists for one purpose. It is misused when someone: - makes a request they know to be false, for example to get a paper, a profile or an item on The Record taken down because they dislike it or its author; - pretends to be the person shown, or to be acting for them; - sends requests to harass a member or to bury us in work; or - uses it for a different kind of complaint in the hope of a faster answer. 15.2 The right place for other complaints ----------------------------------------- - Copyright: the Copyright Policy. - A page or record about you that is wrong, or that names you without your agreement, where no intimate image is involved: the dispute and correction form (see the Disputes and Corrections Policy). - Harassment, threats or other rule-breaking: the report control, or the Community Guidelines. If a request arrives here that belongs somewhere else, we may pass it to the right process and tell you. 15.3 What we may do about misuse -------------------------------- We may decline a request we conclude was made in bad faith, restore what was removed because of it, and act on the account of a member who made it. Where a pattern of abusive requests comes from one source we may ask that further requests from that source come through a single channel. We still read them. A request that has the four parts is always handled within the 48 hours, whoever sent it and whatever came before. 15.4 Honest mistakes are not misuse ----------------------------------- Asking in good faith never counts against you, even if we conclude the material is not covered. We do not ask for proof up front, and we do not penalize someone for being unsure. 16. Your information ==================== 16.1 What we collect when you make a request -------------------------------------------- - What you give us: your name and signature, your contact address, your statement, where the material is, and anything else you choose to add. - What we create: the ticket number, the times the request arrived and was dealt with, what we found, what we removed and what we told you. - A small amount of technical information used to keep bots and abuse off the form, described in the Privacy Notice. 16.2 What we use it for ----------------------- To handle your request, find identical copies, contact you about the outcome, stop the material coming back, keep a record that shows what we did and when, protect people's safety, and meet our legal duties. We do not use it for marketing, we do not add you to any mailing list, and we do not sell it. 16.3 Who sees it ---------------- - Staff who handle safety matters. - The companies that provide our hosting and email, which process it for us as the Privacy Notice describes. - NCMEC, where the person shown may be under 18. - Courts, regulators and law enforcement agencies, where the law requires it or allows it. We do not show your request to the person who posted the material. 16.4 How long we keep it ------------------------ We keep the record of a request, and the hidden copy of the removed text, for five years after the ticket is closed. We keep it longer only while a legal claim, an investigation or a legal duty requires it. Backups may hold an older copy for a limited time before they are deleted. Nothing in a backup is shown to members or the public. 16.5 Your choices ----------------- You can ask us for a copy of your own request record. Once a ticket is closed you can ask us to delete your contact details. We may need to keep a minimal record that a request was made and what we did about it. Other rights you may have are set out in the Privacy Notice. 17. Things outside our reach, and other help ============================================ 17.1 What we cannot do ---------------------- We can remove what is on our platform. We cannot: - delete an image from the service where it is actually stored; - remove results or saved copies from search engines; - reach a copy that someone has already saved, or a link that someone has already copied; or - see or act on what happens in a video call on another company's service. 17.2 Organizations that can help -------------------------------- These organizations are separate from Tillyard. We are not affiliated with any of them and do not speak for them. Contact details were checked in October 2026 and can change, so check each organization's own website. Organizations that can help. Columns: if you need, who can help. If you need | Who can help -------------------------- Urgent help because you are in danger | Call 911. To stop an intimate image of you as an adult from spreading on other services | StopNCII.org. It is free, run by the Revenge Porn Helpline (part of the charity SWGfL), and creates a digital fingerprint of the image on your own device, which participating services use to block it. The image does not leave your device. It is for people who were 18 or older when the image was made. The same, where the image was made when you were under 18 | Take It Down, a free service from NCMEC at takeitdown.ncmec.org (https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/). You can stay anonymous, and the image does not leave your device. To report child sexual exploitation | NCMEC's CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org (https://report.cybertip.org/), or 1-800-843-5678, at any hour. To talk to someone about image-based abuse, including sextortion | The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Image Abuse Helpline, 844-878-2274, and its online safety center at cybercivilrights.org. To report a platform that ignored a valid removal request, or has no removal process | The Federal Trade Commission, at TakeItDown.ftc.gov. To get sexual images of you out of search results | Search engines have their own request forms. Google's removes the result from Google Search. It does not remove the image from the site that hosts it. To report sextortion or another federal crime | The FBI, at tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-225-5324. Someone to talk to right now | The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988 at any hour. Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741741. RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800-656-4673. Help from your college | Many colleges have a Title IX office, a counseling service and campus police who deal with this. We are not connected to any college, and we do not contact yours about your request. 17.3 If someone is threatening to share an image ------------------------------------------------ The advice that law enforcement and victim organizations usually give is: do not pay or give in to demands, stop replying, keep the messages (do not delete the conversation), and report it. Report it to us if any of it happened on the platform, and to the organizations above. 18. Limits of this policy ========================= 18.1 We act on what we know --------------------------- The only images on the platform are figures and receipts, and we do not scan them for intimate images, so we do not promise to find a link, a description or a figure before someone tells us about it. Automated text checks run on member-written text, and they miss things. The surest way to get something removed is to ask. 18.2 We are not an emergency service ------------------------------------ We are a small nonprofit, and nobody watches the site around the clock. We are not a substitute for the police or a crisis line. If you are in danger, call 911 first. 18.3 One fixed deadline ----------------------- The only time limit we commit to in this policy is the one in section 9.1. Everywhere else, "we aim to" means that we try, not that we promise. 18.4 No charge, no conditions ----------------------------- Making a request is free. It does not depend on being a member, on leaving a tip, or on anything else. Nothing you pay or do not pay to Tillyard affects how a request is handled. 18.5 Your legal rights ---------------------- Nothing here takes away a right the law gives you, and nothing here is a statement that a particular person has broken the law. 19. Changes to this document ============================ We may change this policy as the law, the platform or our experience changes. Each version has a number and an effective date at the top, and we keep earlier versions available. If a change makes a real difference to how requests are handled, we aim to say so on the platform before it takes effect. A change required by law, or one that gives requesters more protection, may take effect straight away. A request is handled under the version in force when it arrived, unless a later version is more protective of the person shown. 20. Contact =========== - Removal requests: the removal form at tillyard.org/removal/intimate; safety@tillyard.org; or by post to the address below. - Questions about this policy: legal@tillyard.org. - General help: support@tillyard.org. - Accessibility problems with the form: accessibility@tillyard.org. - Post: Tillyard, Attn: Intimate image removal, 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062. Tillyard is not a school or a law enforcement body, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by any college or university.