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Reporting abuse and illegal content

Last updated 10 August 2026

To report something, email support@allocus.dev with the link and a short explanation of what's wrong with it. A person reads every report.

If someone is in immediate danger, contact the police first. Allocus can take content offline; it can't respond to an emergency.

What Allocus is

Allocus rents servers to developers, who deploy their own applications to them. It does not review, select or monitor what they deploy — there is no feed, no recommendation system, and nothing is published by Allocus itself. In EU terms it is a hosting service, which is why the procedure below is built around acting on reports rather than policing content in advance.

That also means that when something on a customer's app is wrong, the customer is usually the faster and better route. Their app will normally say who runs it.

How to report

Email support@allocus.dev. To act quickly — and, for illegal content, to be treated as having proper notice — a report needs:

  • The exact address. The full URL, e.g. https://app.someone.allocus.dev/page. A bare hostname makes it much slower to find.
  • What is wrong with it, in your own words, and why you believe it is unlawful or breaches the Terms.
  • Your name and email address, so the report can be followed up. This may be omitted for reports concerning child sexual abuse material or terrorist content.
  • A statement that you believe the report is accurate and complete, made in good faith.

Reports missing these are still read, but may take longer or be closed for want of detail.

What happens next

StageTarget
Report acknowledgedWithin 2 working days
Assessed and decidedWithin 5 working days of acknowledgement
Manifestly illegal or actively harmful contentActed on immediately, ahead of the above
Reporter told the outcomeWhen the case is closed

Decisions are made by a person, not automatically. Nothing here is decided by an algorithm.

What Allocus does about it

The response is chosen to be the smallest one that ends the problem:

  • Nothing, if the report is unfounded, out of scope, or better directed at the customer running the app.
  • Notice to the customer with a deadline to fix it — the normal route for contested or non-urgent matters such as copyright and trademark claims, defamation, or a breach of the Terms that isn't harming anyone right now.
  • Taking the specific app offline, leaving the customer's other apps running.
  • Suspending the account, so nothing new can be deployed.
  • Closing the account and destroying the server, for the most serious cases and for repeat offenders.

Acted on immediately, without warning

Some things are removed as soon as they're confirmed, and the customer is told afterwards rather than first:

  • Child sexual abuse material.
  • Terrorist content, or incitement to violence.
  • Credible threats to a person's life or safety.
  • Malware, phishing pages, botnet control servers, or infrastructure being used to attack others.
  • Anything causing serious ongoing harm where waiting would make it worse.

Child sexual abuse material and credible threats to life are also reported to the police, as the law requires.

Notice first

Everything else normally starts with a message to the customer and a deadline — usually 72 hours, shorter where the harm is greater. Meet it and the case closes. Miss it, and the app comes down.

If your content was removed

You'll be told what was removed, the facts it was based on, which rule or law it breached, and that a person made the decision.

To challenge it, reply to that message within 30 days. A human being re-examines the case — someone gets a second look, not a rubber stamp — and you'll have an answer within 10 working days. If the original call was wrong, the content and the account are restored and it counts for nothing against you.

Data belonging to a removed app is kept for 90 days so that a successful challenge can actually restore something, and so it exists if the police ask for it. After that it is deleted.

Bad-faith reports

Reporting is free and stays open, but it isn't a weapon. Repeatedly sending reports that are unfounded, or using the process to harass a competitor, will get the sender ignored.

Requests from law enforcement and authorities

Orders from a competent authority are complied with to the extent the law requires, and the affected customer is told unless the order or the law forbids it. Send them to support@allocus.dev; this is also the contact point for authorities and for customers on these matters.

Allocus holds far less than people expect: a GitHub username, a contact address, and billing references. It does not hold payment card details, and it does not routinely inspect what runs inside a customer's applications.

Discretion

These are the ordinary steps, not a contract. Where a situation is serious, ambiguous, or simply doesn't fit, Henning Holgersen may act sooner, differently, or not at all — including acting on a strong suspicion before a report has been fully investigated. Where that happens, the affected customer is still told what was done and why, and the challenge route above still applies.

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