We file so your real name never appears in a public database.

Google forwards notices to a public archive.

Lumen is a Harvard-hosted archive of takedown notices. It is public and indexed. Google forwards copyright removal requests to it.

A notice filed under your legal name publishes a record reading, in substance: [legal name] asked Google to remove these URLs. The URLs are attached. It is a directory of your leaks, assembled by you, hosted at a .edu.

Three rules, on every notice.

We file as your authorized agent. The US copyright takedown law (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)) takes a signature from the copyright owner. It also takes one from a person authorized to act on their behalf. The notice carries our agent name and registered-agent address, never yours.

Where a legal name is unavoidable, we request redaction. Some routes refuse an agent-only filing. Your report names them before we file, and you decide. The process is Lumen's and it does not always work.

Where both paths work, we take the personal-explicit-imagery route first. Google's published description of this route says it asks for no proof of ownership and opens an opt-in that removes future duplicates from results VERIFY. Submit the URLs in a batch. Delisting removes the search result, not the file. It runs alongside the host notice, never instead of it.

Two things travel back toward the site operator when a notice is filed. Both of them carry our details instead of yours, and that is the whole reason we file.

Cloudflare hands your report to the site operator.

Cloudflare removes nothing. It forwards the abuse report to the origin host and names it. It also forwards the reporter's name and contact details to the site operator. VERIFY Where a category offers anonymity, we take it. Otherwise the details forwarded are ours.

A counter-notice asks for your legal name and address.

A counter-notice (17 U.S.C. § 512(g)) requires the filer's name, a physical address, and consent to the jurisdiction of a federal court. We will not file one for you without an attorney and your written go-ahead.

We can't delete what you already filed.

We request redaction, free, on any tier. Some are granted. Some sit for months. Nothing new gets filed under your name.

Your free Exposure Report flags every URL that would need your name on it. Run a free scan →

Ask your current provider whether they do this.

Ask which name goes on the notice. Ask whether it is published to Lumen. Ask what address a site operator receives from a Cloudflare report.