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Law Enforcement Guidelines

Last updated: August 2026

These guidelines are for law enforcement officers seeking records from ssslither LLC, a Nevada limited liability company, operator of ssslither. They are informational and are not a submission to any jurisdiction, a waiver of any objection, or consent to any request.

Members of the public should not use this page. If you are in danger, contact your local emergency services. To report a member or content, use the report tools in the app or our contact page.

How to reach us

Send legal process to:

Legal, ssslither LLC
732 S 6th St, Ste N
Las Vegas, NV 89101
United States
jordan@breatheheavy.com

Email is acceptable for service copies and is faster, but we do not accept service of process by email as a matter of law. Please include a return email address on official letterhead, the name of the issuing agency, an agency phone number we can call back, and a response deadline that allows a reasonable time.

We are a very small company. We do not have a staffed 24-hour legal desk. Requests are handled as promptly as we can manage, and emergencies are prioritized.

What we require

We disclose member records only where we are compelled by valid legal process, or where a narrow exception in the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2701 and following, applies. As a general matter:

  • · Basic subscriber information such as the account email, the account creation date, and recent IP addresses requires a valid subpoena.
  • · Non-content records such as activity timestamps or the fact that two accounts exchanged messages requires a court order under 18 U.S.C. § 2703(d).
  • · Content, meaning the text of messages, photographs, videos, voice notes, and album contents, requires a search warrant issued on probable cause.

Requests must be specific. We do not respond to requests that identify no account, ask for records about an unbounded set of members, seek all members in a geographic area, or ask us to monitor an account going forward. We object to overbroad requests rather than narrowing them ourselves.

Requests from outside the United States generally require a mutual legal assistance treaty request, a letter rogatory, or other process recognized under United States law.

Preservation

We honor a formal preservation request under 18 U.S.C. § 2703(f) for 90 days, and will extend it once for a further 90 days on a renewed request. Send preservation requests to the address above, identify the account by its exact email address, and state the date range you need. A preservation request holds records in place. It does not disclose them, and legal process is still needed for that.

Emergencies

Where we believe in good faith that an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure without delay, we may disclose the information needed to address that emergency, as 18 U.S.C. § 2702(b)(8) and (c)(4) permit. Mark the subject line EMERGENCY DISCLOSURE REQUEST and include the nature of the emergency, the danger involved, why the information is needed to prevent it, and how it will help. We evaluate each one on its own facts, and a request that is not a genuine emergency will be sent back to normal process.

Child safety

Reports we make to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children under 18 U.S.C. § 2258A are routed to law enforcement by NCMEC, and follow-up on those reports should come to us through NCMEC or with a report identifier. We preserve the contents of a report and the associated images for at least one year as 18 U.S.C. § 2258A(h) requires, and we will extend on request.

Notice to our members

Our policy is to notify a member before we disclose their information, so that they can seek to protect their rights, unless we are prohibited by law or a court order from doing so, or unless we believe in good faith that notice would create a risk of injury to someone, of death, or of destruction of evidence, or that the case involves child sexual exploitation.

If your request includes a non-disclosure order, please attach it. We will not withhold notice on the basis of a request alone.

What we actually hold

Please read this before drafting, because it will save both of us time. ssslither keeps very little.

  • · We do not verify identity. We have no legal names, government identification, or background checks on any member.
  • · We store an approximate, city-level location, not a movement history.
  • · Media set to disappear or sent as a one-time view is deleted when the timer runs out or after it is viewed, and on the free tier media is deleted after 30 days. Deleted media may persist briefly in routine encrypted backups and then rotates out.
  • · When a member deletes their account we delete their profile, media, and messages. What remains is a minimal record we keep to enforce a ban or to meet a legal obligation.
  • · We do not sell member data, and we hold no advertising or cross-site tracking profiles.

Because retention is short, a preservation request sent early is usually the difference between records existing and not existing.

Cost reimbursement and objections

We reserve the right to seek reimbursement for the costs of responding, as 18 U.S.C. § 2706 permits, and to object to, move to quash, or otherwise challenge any request we consider legally deficient, overbroad, or improper. Nothing here waives any right, privilege, or objection.

Civil subpoenas

Civil litigants should note that the Stored Communications Act bars us from disclosing member content in response to a civil subpoena. Seek the content from the member directly.