DRAFT — ATTORNEY REVIEW REQUIRED BEFORE PUBLISHING
Counsel to confirm: whether Leak Cleaner is a covered platform under the TAKE IT DOWN Act, the accuracy of the 48-hour description, the § 6851 carve-out discussion in §5 (strategy §5.2 marks this passage as requiring counsel's opinion before it goes live), and the FTC escalation description. The penalty figure is unverified.
Non-consensual intimate imagery: our policy, and the routing.
Two different things live on this page. Our own policy, for anything in a system we control. And how we file removal requests for you against platforms that hold something of yours.
§1 — Our own removal policy
If an intimate image of you appears anywhere in a system we control, and you did not consent to it being there, tell us and we remove it.
Write to FOUNDER: NCII email or use the data request form. You do not need to be a client. You do not need to prove ownership. You do not need to give us a legal name to start.
| Commitment | Clock |
|---|---|
| Acknowledgement from a person | 1 business day |
| Removal or disabling of access, once we have located the item | 2 business days from a valid request |
| Reasonable steps to locate and remove identical copies in our systems | With the removal |
| Written confirmation of what was removed and when | Same day as removal |
The clocks above are what we commit to, not an average of anything.
We are probably not a covered platform under the TAKE IT DOWN Act. There is no public upload surface here and no portal on day one. We hold ourselves to the same standard anyway, because the standard is the point and our coverage status is not your problem.
§2 — What the TAKE IT DOWN Act requires of others
This is general information about how the statute works. It is not advice about your situation.
The TAKE IT DOWN Act became enforceable on 19 May 2026, with the Federal Trade Commission enforcing from that day.
It requires covered platforms to remove reported non-consensual intimate imagery within 48 hours of a valid request, and to make reasonable efforts to remove known identical copies.
These windows are what hosts, search engines and platforms publish, or what the published procedure commonly takes. They are not our results, and they are not a commitment. We do not publish a removal rate or an average turnaround, and we will not quote you one.
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form instead — the sentence text is identical either way.)Civil penalties are reportedly up to $53,088 per violation VERIFY (figure from a law-firm client alert. Founder to confirm the current amount and the source before publishing.)
A valid request needs a signature from the depicted individual, or from an authorized person acting on their behalf. That second clause is what lets us file for you under your written designation. It does not require a lawyer.
What you sign, and what it does not let us do →
§3 — How we use it for you
TIDA is one rung on a ladder, not the whole ladder. We use it where it fits, and your report names which URLs it applies to and which are better served by a copyright notice.
Six rungs. The host notice first, after a logged fair-use screen. Search delisting in parallel, because it is the fastest rung and needs nobody's cooperation. Then Cloudflare, which removes nothing but makes the origin host identify itself. Then upstream: the transit provider, the registrar, and the ad networks paying the site. Then the statutory routes, which reach places copyright cannot. Then a handoff to your own attorney, which we refer and never do in-house.
Every timeline lives on one page, so it can only be wrong in one place.
§4 — StopNCII, which we set up with you for free
StopNCII.org is free, it takes about 20 minutes, and it works whether or not you ever pay us anything.
The hashing runs on your own device. Only the number leaves your phone or laptop. Participating platforms then block matches proactively, before anybody reports them.
We set up StopNCII hash-blocking with you on Telegram, regardless of tier, and we walk non-clients through it the same way if they ask. It is preventative, it costs us nothing, and it is the single highest-value 20 minutes available to anyone reading this page.
§5 — The limit, before you ask
TIDA's definition borrows from an earlier federal statute on disclosure of intimate images (15 U.S.C. § 6851), and that statute carries carve-outs around content the depicted person consented to distribute commercially. VERIFY
How that reads against any particular set of yours is a lawyer's question and we will not answer it. What we will tell you is how we route the work. TIDA first for content that was never offered for sale. The copyright route first for paid sets. Your report labels which lever we used on which URL.
§6 — The route most people pick wrong
There are two tools with confusingly similar names.
NCMEC's "Take It Down" is only for imagery of people who were under 18 at the time. It is run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
StopNCII is the adult equivalent, run by SWGfL, the UK charity behind the Revenge Porn Helpline.
Routing an adult case to NCMEC wastes the time of an organization that is dealing with child exploitation. Routing a case involving a minor to StopNCII wastes the only route that matters. Pick by the age of the person depicted at the time, nothing else.
§7 — If FTC escalation becomes relevant
The FTC enforces TIDA against covered platforms. Where a platform receives a valid request from us and does not act within the statutory window, we document the request, the delivery, the window, and the non-response.
We give that documentation to you in full. What you do with it is your decision, made with your own attorney. We do not file complaints on your behalf and we do not tell you whether to.
§8 — The hard stop
If any content involves a person who was under 18 at the time, this stops being a commercial matter, immediately and for good.
We preserve. We do not download and we do not forward. We report to the NCMEC CyberTipline. We notify the platform. We contact outside counsel the same hour. We contact nobody else. Nothing is monetized. The commercial relationship ends.
There is a written, dated procedure, with a named responsible person. Everyone who works a search or a notice here follows it from their first day or they do not start.
If that is your situation and you are reading this at 2am: the NCMEC CyberTipline is at report.cybertip.org and it is free, 24 hours a day. Go there before you do anything else, including replying to us.
§9 — This is not only about OnlyFans
The people this law was written for are a much larger group than paid-content creators. Streamers, cosplayers, fitness accounts, and people with no public presence at all who have been targeted with an AI-generated depiction.
The route is the same. The statutory clock is the same. You do not need to sell anything, anywhere, to use it.
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