Law enforcement

A small, text-only site holds less than you might expect. Read the first table before drafting anything.Last updated 2026-08-17

Draft — not yet reviewed by counsel. Wording may change before it is relied on.

1. What exists and what does not

Category	Held?	Detail
Basic subscriber information	Yes	Handle, email address, account creation time, last access time, birth year (not full date), timezone setting.
IP addresses	Partly	Origin web logs are kept 14 days. Cloudflare edge logs are held by Cloudflare under its own retention. Registration and consent rows store a keyed hash of the IP, not the address. Ban rows keep a keyed IP hash for 30 days.
Public and member-visible content	Yes	Posts, comments, profiles, crew posts, rides, listings, events — as displayed to members. Deleted content may survive in a preserved snapshot only if a report or hold was placed on it, or in encrypted backups for up to 35 days.
Direct or private messages	No	There is no messaging feature. None has ever existed.
Photos, video, files	No	No upload capability. Nothing to produce.
Payment or financial records	No	The site takes no money and processes no payments.
Precise location	No	No GPS. "Home" is free text the member typed. Ride origins are free text; no geocoding is stored.
Attendance	Yes	Which shows a member said they attended or plan to attend. Self-declared, not verified.
Blocks, reports, moderation actions	Yes	Who a member blocked; reports filed and received (with a snapshot); the moderation ledger with statements of reasons.
Preserved content	Only under a hold	A copy of specific content, kept for the duration of its basis and then blanked.

2. What we require

Basic subscriber information (handle, email, timestamps, retained IP hashes or logs): a valid subpoena, court order, or search warrant.
Non-content records beyond basic subscriber information (for example, who a member blocked or reported): a court order under 18 U.S.C. §2703(d) or a warrant.
Content (posts and other stored communications, including preserved snapshots): a search warrant issued on probable cause.
Preservation: a request under 18 U.S.C. §2703(f). We preserve the identified account or content for 90 days, renewable once on a further request, and hold nothing beyond that without process. Preservation is not disclosure.
Requests from outside the United States: through a mutual legal assistance treaty or letters rogatory, unless an emergency (below).

We review every request for facial validity, scope, and the requesting agency’s identity, and produce the minimum that responds. Overbroad requests get a narrowing conversation, not a data dump.

3. Emergency disclosure

Under 18 U.S.C. §2702(b)(8) and (c)(4) we may voluntarily disclose information when we believe in good faith that an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to a person requires disclosure without delay. Send the request to [email protected] with “EMERGENCY” in the subject and include: the nature of the emergency, the specific account or content, why the information is needed now, and a callback number on an agency domain. Every emergency decision, granted or refused, is written down.

4. User notice

Our policy is to notify the member before producing their information, unless we are legally prohibited from doing so (for example by a court order under §2705(b)), or we believe in good faith that notice would risk harm to a person or the destruction of evidence, or the request is an emergency. Where notice was delayed by an order that later expires, we notify then.

5. How to serve

Email (preferred): [email protected], from an agency domain, PDF attached. Acknowledged within two business days.
Post: Deadnorth LLC, [TO BE FILED — Deadnorth LLC mailing address].
Not accepted: Requests via the report form, social media, or a member’s account.

We do not charge for responding to routine requests. We produce in plain formats (JSON, CSV, or PDF). Where a request seeks records that do not exist, we say so in writing rather than searching for something else.

6. Transparency

The number of government requests received, and preservation requests honoured, is published yearly on the Moderation and transparency page. Reports we ourselves make to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children are counted there too.