A Sanctuary LLC (return to main page)
A Safe Place To Finally Heal From The Trauma TM
Support for survivors of assault and abuse, by providing a place to:
feel safe, feel welcomed, and have access to multiple resources.
About Anonymity
What is Anonymity?
Why Should I Care?
Is it a promise?
Here is our policy regarding our member's anonymity.
Definition - What is anonymity?
According to World English Dictionary
Anonymous - adjective1. from or by a person, author, etc, whose name is unknown or withheld:
an anonymous letter
2. having no known name
3. lacking individual characteristics; unexceptional
4. denoting an organization which provides help to applicants who remain anonymous: Alcoholics Anonymous
1) Visitors to A Sanctuary are not tracked.
Additionally, most anyone that browses the internet can do so anonymously through their browser or third party software. As a result, we cannot determine if a particular person has accessed A Sanctuary.
2) Those individuals who join Your Sanctuary, our forum, do so simply by supplying a valid email address and then choosing their user name. This means that those that have registered to access Your Sanctuary are anonymous, however, our software does retain the connection particulars.
3) The only way to "break" the anonymity of a member is if one of the following conditions occur:
A) The member posts or otherwise reveals that they are going to intentionally cause themselves severe bodily harm (as some survivors do self-harm, this would not normally be included, as typically "most" self-harm is not severe)
B) The member posts or otherwise reveals that they are going to intentionally cause severe bodily harm to another.
C) The member (if under 18 years of age) posts or otherwise reveals that they are being abused or assaulted and will not report.
We will first try to assist the member in finding a safe method that they can use to report (an exception to this may be if the member is in another country and has posted that they cannot leave or do not have another location where they will be safe).
D) The member posts or otherwise reveals that they have been threatened with severe bodily harm or death and will not act in a way to prevent the attack or assault.
E) Lastly, when duly served with a legal court order requiring us to release the information as stated in the court order.
This isn't just a matter of following the State and Federal laws, it is a moral responsibility that we must act according to what the average person would expect. We believe that any survivor will agree that suicide is both a selfish and permanent answer to a temporary problem even though each of us knows and understands that surviving doesn't mean we will be "all better" tommorow.
We may add to or modify this somewhat in the near future.
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Resources
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National Crisis 24hr Hot-lines (USA only)
Rape, Abuse,
and Incest
Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network (RAINN)
1-800-656-HOPE 1-800-656-(4673),
they really do care.
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Suicide Prevention
Any crisis that makes you think of suicide1-800-suicide
1-800-(784-2433)
OR
1-800-273-talk
1-800-273-(8255)
Click for your State's
list of local hot-lines
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Self-Harm Prevention
1-800-DONTCUT
1-800-(366-8288)
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International Hot-lines
We are looking for world-wide Suicide / Crisis Hotlines and will post them here as they
become available.
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Crisis Web-links
Self-Harm Prevention
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Your Sanctuary
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