The Collective Perspective
Law enforcement guidelines
For law enforcement and government agencies requesting records about accounts on The Collective Perspective, a members-only social network operated in the United States by Molly Ann Graham, doing business as The Collective Perspective.
Send all requests to: legal@thecollectiveperspective.com
Please send from an official government email address. Accepting a request by email is for convenience and doesn't waive any objection, including to jurisdiction or the manner of service.
Emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury? Email legal@thecollectiveperspective.com with “EMERGENCY” in the subject line. See emergency requests below.
Members of the public: please don’t use this address to report content. Use the Report option (flag icon) in the app, or email support@thecollectiveperspective.com. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911 or your local emergency number. To report child sexual exploitation you can also contact NCMEC’s CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org or 1-800-843-5678.
What to include
- Your name, agency, badge or ID number, official email address and phone number.
- The account: its @handle or profile link, and/or the email address associated with it. The more specific, the better.
- The records you need and the date range.
- The legal process (attached as a PDF), and any deadline.
- If applicable, a nondisclosure order under 18 U.S.C. 2705(b).
Legal process required
We disclose member records to US government agencies only in response to valid legal process under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Stored Communications Act (18 U.S.C. 2701–2713), or in an emergency as described below.
| Legal process | What it can require us to disclose |
|---|---|
| Subpoena (grand jury, administrative or trial) | Basic subscriber information under 18 U.S.C. 2703(c)(2): name, email address, account creation date and most recent sign-in time, length of service, means of payment (we hold a payment-processor reference and, for saved cards, the card brand and last four digits, not card numbers), and IP address records to the extent they qualify as basic subscriber information. |
| Court order under 18 U.S.C. 2703(d) | Other non-content records, such as the time and IP address of each post, comment, message and upload, file sizes and hashes, account activity and SENSE transaction records, in addition to basic subscriber information. |
| Search warrant | Contents of an account, such as posts, comments, direct messages and uploaded photos and videos, in addition to the records above. |
What we don’t have: we don’t record live rooms or calls, we don’t receive card numbers (payments are processed by Stripe), and identity-document and face images from the verification scan are held by our verification provider, not by us. Content a member deleted is generally no longer available unless it was preserved before deletion.
Preservation requests
Under 18 U.S.C. 2703(f), we will preserve the records of a specified account, as they exist when we receive the request, for 90 days while you obtain legal process. We extend this for another 90 days on a renewed request. Preservation doesn’t disclose anything; we release records only with the legal process described above. Please identify the account and date range as precisely as you can.
Emergency requests
Under 18 U.S.C. 2702(b)(8) and 2702(c)(4), we may voluntarily disclose information when we believe in good faith that an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure without delay. Email legal@thecollectiveperspective.com with “EMERGENCY” in the subject and tell us:
- the nature of the emergency and who is at risk;
- why it requires disclosure without delay;
- the account and the specific information you need to address it.
Requests that don’t describe an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury will need legal process.
Child safety
US law (18 U.S.C. 2258A) requires us to report apparent child sexual exploitation on our service to NCMEC’s CyberTipline, and we preserve the contents of such reports for one year. Agencies looking for a CyberTipline report should contact NCMEC. Members’ reports of child-safety concerns immediately hide the reported item and lock the account pending review.
Requests from outside the United States
We’re a US business, so requests from other countries generally need to come through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) or letters rogatory, or under an applicable agreement under the CLOUD Act. We may respond to emergency requests from foreign authorities as described above.
Notice to members
We may notify a member before disclosing their information, unless a court order (such as one under 18 U.S.C. 2705(b)) prohibits it, or notice would create a risk of harm, such as in an emergency or a child-exploitation case.
Civil matters
The Stored Communications Act doesn’t allow us to disclose the contents of members’ communications in response to a civil subpoena. Parties in civil cases should seek content from the member directly.
These guidelines are informational and don’t create any rights or obligations. Last updated 20 October 2026. Privacy · Terms