Safety

Safety and moderation

What to do when something is wrong, what happens next, and how to get your account and your work out again if you want to.

Reporting something

Every photograph, comment, wall post and account carries a Report option. It goes to a queue that a person reads.

Every report is reviewed within 24 hours, and content that is unlawful or puts somebody at risk comes down as soon as it is seen rather than waiting out that window.

Reporting is private. The account you report is never told who reported it, and reporters are not told who else reported the same thing. You are also not told the outcome of a report about somebody else's account — what happens to another person's account is not yours to be told, and that cuts both ways.

Blocking

Blocking is separate from reporting and works immediately, without waiting on a review. The two of you stop seeing each other, follows between you are removed, and nobody is told they have been blocked.

It is enforced by the database rather than by hiding buttons, which means it holds everywhere — feeds, search, albums, comments, and anywhere else the two of you would otherwise meet.

Unblocking does not restore the follows. That is intentional: a follow is a decision, and it should be made again rather than reappearing on its own.

If something of yours is removed

You are told. An alert arrives saying what was done and the reason recorded for it, and you can appeal that decision once, from the notice itself. A person reads appeals, and where one succeeds the decision is reversed and the material restored if it still exists.

You are not told who made the decision. Moderation here is done by one or two people, and naming them turns a disagreement about a photograph into a problem for somebody's safety.

Copyright

If a photograph here is yours and was posted without your permission, you can file a takedown notice. You do not need an account to do it — the form is public, because the person who needs it usually is not a member.

A valid notice has to identify you, identify the work, say where it is on The 406: Montana, and include two sworn statements: that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised, and that the information is accurate. Those are requirements of the law rather than paperwork; an incomplete notice cannot be acted on as a formal takedown.

If your photograph is removed and you believe that was wrong, you can send a counter-notice. Repeated upheld notices against an account end it.

What is collected

No advertising trackers, no third-party analytics, no data sold to anybody. The full list is in the privacy notice, and the short version is: your account details, what you post, and — only if you switch it on — a location rounded to about eleven kilometres that nobody but you can read.

Location is opt in, and off until you turn it on. Nothing about where you were is attached to a photograph, or read from one, unless you have asked for it — and you can turn it off again at any time, which stops it from that point on.

Coordinates your own camera wrote into a file are a separate thing and are still in the file you uploaded. Strip them before uploading if that matters for a particular photograph.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account yourself, at any time, without asking anybody. It is under Account & security, in the gear menu on your own profile, and it takes effect immediately.

Download anything you want to keep first. There is no waiting period and no way to reverse it.

If you cannot sign in — locked out, or you have already uninstalled — there is a public page for requesting deletion that needs no account.

Getting in touch

Urgent reports, legal notices, copyright complaints and questions about your data all go to the same address, and it reaches a person: the contact address.

Last updated 7 August 2026