Table of Contents
Online Safety
This notice is designed to be accessible, understandable, and easy to read without legal and other jargon. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns about this notice, please get in touch with us by emailing hello@treadl.com.
This document will have slight changes made to it occasionally. Please refer back to it from time to time.
Important: this notice refers specifically to the version of Treadl running at treadl.com (and subdomains). We refer to this as "the service" or often simply just "Treadl". Treadl is open-source software and can be run by anyone and be called anything. Other "instances" of "Treadl" should have their own online safety notice, risk assessment, and/or any other required documentation and processes in place that are suitable to that instance.
Complaints
If you would like to complain about this notice, or how we may have treated a previous request or complaint from you, then please do so using our dedicated reports and complaints page.
About
The concept of online safety is hugely important to small communities like Treadl. By "online safety", we refer to the ability for people to use our services without the fear of being abused or harassed, and without people being exposed to harmful or abusive content.
Treadl uses the UK Government's Online Safety Act as a guide and framework for our processes.
Treadl is a platform that is partly based on the concept of user-generated content. As such, it is a "U2U" service (user-to-user) under the Online Safety Act. This also means that we have legal duties to ensure that we comply with the act and ensure that the risk of harms related to online safety are minimised.
Policy
Treadl's Online Safety Policy governs our approach to online safety, along with our responsibilities to illegal content risk assessments and other related factors.
Accountability
The named individual responsible for online safety duties (including the handling of reporting and complaints) for Treadl is Will Webberley.
Online Safety Risk
Using the guidance information available from Ofcom, we assess that:
- Treadl is a "smaller service" because it has fewer than 7 million monthly UK active users.
- Treadl is "low risk" as a result of our risk assessment against the 17 kinds of priority illegal content listed in the Online Safety Act.
We regularly review and make updates to our Illegal Content Risk Assessment, in accordance with our Online Safety Policy. For transparency, our most recent assessments, including the determination and implementation of mitigating measures, are publicly available and can be found below.
Recent Illegal Content Risk Assessments (including mitigation measures):