Escrow
a safe place to put what happened

If you are in danger right now, call your local emergency number. Escrow is not an emergency service.

a report

Before anything else: are you safe right now?

This is the first question the composer asks, and it is the only thing on that screen. Nothing is asked about what happened until you have answered it.

The writing box is open. This page shows you every step it asks first, so you know what you are walking into before you start.

If you are in danger right now

Call your local emergency number. If you are hurt, go to a hospital or a clinic.

In most places a forensic exam is possible for 72 hours after an assault, and it is easier the sooner you go. Going does not oblige you to report anything.

You do not need to write anything here first, and you never need an account to reach this screen.

The composer’s first screen lists the emergency number and the support organisations for your country, each with its source and the date it was checked.

what writing a report is like

One question per screen, and a way out of every one.

Seven steps, about 6 minutes, and no account until the last one. Every screen has a back link, a “save and leave” that keeps the draft on your device, and a “leave now” that clears the page.

  1. 1

    Are you safe right now?

    Two doors and nothing else on the screen. If you need help now, you get your country's emergency and support resources, and you type nothing.

  2. 2

    What happened?

    One box. Write as much or as little as you want, in any language, with gentle prompts underneath you can ignore. It saves to your own device as you type, with no account.

  3. 3

    Where was it?

    You search the place. A public venue is named exactly. A home or an office is snapped to a street block, and a live preview shows you the dot before anything is published.

  4. 4

    What should we call him here?

    You set an alias. If you type a real name we keep it for our records, and on the map he stays an alias until police, a court or the press have published it themselves.

  5. 5

    Add an identifier, if you want

    A profile link, a phone or a workplace. Only you see it. It is what lets us tell you if someone else reports the same person.

  6. 6

    Publish it, or seal it

    Publish it as a pin on the world map under your alias for him. Or seal it, and nobody sees it until someone else names the same person. You may do both.

  7. 7

    An email and a password

    Two fields, at the end. This is how you edit your report, get your filing packet, and hear about a match. No name, no age, no phone.

the end of it

Your dot settles on the map, and your packet is already waiting.

A published report becomes a dot on the world map, and nobody can move it but you. A sealed report locks with a case identifier and a timestamp, and nothing happens until you say so.

Either way your filing packet is underneath it: your words as a clean statement, plus the office, the documents, the exam window and the deadline for the place you pinned, each with its source.

See where the pins go

What we never ask forby design
your name
never asked, at any step
your age or phone
never asked
your exact address
used for your packet, never shown or sold
payment
no survivor ever crosses a payment page
a photograph
no faces on this site, anywhere

free forever, and yours to delete

The writing box is open.

This page is only the walkthrough, so nothing you read here is collected. The box itself is one link away, and it begins where every report begins: are you safe right now?

You can stop at any screen, and nothing is published or sealed until you say so.