Source privacy
Privacy and retention for newsroom leads.
Leed is built to help newsrooms work audience tips without turning leads or source contact details into public content. Story context is journalist-gated; source identity is a separate, more protected data class behind source consent.
Who sees your lead
Story leads are not public. The board, the feed, and lead detail are visible only to verified journalists and Leed admins. Those pages can show the story lead, location, public-interest summary, beat tags, and signal language. They never select or render contact name, contact email, or private contact-request responses. Your submission receipt shows you triage progress and a signal tier without exposing anything publicly.
What stays private
Contact details, contact preferences, safety notes, and reporter outreach decisions are kept behind authenticated workflows. Verified journalists can request contact; the source chooses whether to accept or decline before any follow-up moves forward.
Retention frame
Story lead fields (journalist-visible)
Title, body, location, non-contact source display metadata, AI summary, beat tags, and vote totals are visible to verified journalists while the lead is active or needed for newsroom review. They are not published to the open internet.
Private source contact fields
Contact name, contact email, contact preferences, and contact-request responses are kept out of public pages and shared only through verified source-consent workflows.
Sensitive and held leads
Spam, PR, serious accusation, privacy, minors, whistleblower, medical, legal, or otherwise sensitive leads can be held for human review before discovery.
Audit and safety records
Admin actions, reports, and moderation decisions are retained so newsroom owners can explain why a lead was held, restored, removed, or routed.
Customer newsroom contracts may set shorter retention periods. A source, newsroom owner, or authorized administrator can request review, correction, export, or deletion at privacy@leed.media.
Support and escalation
For urgent source-safety, legal, takedown, account, or newsroom access issues, contact hello@leed.media. Production customers should also name an owner for incident response, auth delivery, AI triage failures, and moderation escalations before launch.