Reports and takedowns

Report a seal

Use the form at seal.net/report or write to abuse@seal.net. Send the seal’s link without the part after the #, which is its key, and say what is wrong and what you saw.

What happens next

• A report sent with the form is taken once you open the confirmation link we email you.
• Each report is decided automatically, and you get the outcome by email.
• A letter is acted on when our mail server verified its sender’s domain; a letter it could not verify gets no answer, and the form works from any address. A verified report that names a live seal closes access to it at once, and so does an order from a government domain.

What the owner sees

Recipients see that access was closed after a report. The owner sees the block on the seal’s own page and can contest it there; the decision comes at once. The files stay as they are, encrypted and unopened; when the block is lifted the seal opens again as it was.

Copyright notices

A notice names:

• the work, with a link to the original;
• the seal’s link;
• how to reach you;
• that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised, and that the notice is accurate;
• your full name, as your signature.

Law enforcement

An order sent from a government domain, from an address our mail server verified, is carried out at once and answered in the same thread.

Information about the person who made a seal is given only on a lawful request a person has checked. What we hold is described under Anonymous use in the Terms; we never hold the contents of a file or its key.

A request to preserve a seal keeps its files and its record after the seal ends, until the request is lifted.

Child safety

Child sexual abuse material is not tolerated. A confirmed report closes access to the seal at once. The owner is not told what the report was about.