These guidelines are for law enforcement and government agencies only. If you are not a law enforcement or government official, please submit your request via our Help Center.
Cantina is a social AI platform that enables user-generated content, messaging, and AI-powered interactions. For product details, please refer to this link. These guidelines explain how law enforcement agencies may request user information from Cantina.
Cantina is committed to protecting user safety, security, and privacy. As part of that commitment, we store and maintain private and personal information as described in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. We disclose non-public user information only when required by law or when permitted under applicable legal standards.
Requests for User Information
Cantina’s disclosure of user information is governed by the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2701, et seq., which requires that we disclose user information to law enforcement only in response to specific types of legal process. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more details about the types of user information that Cantina collects.
Categories of user information
For purposes of legal process, user information may include:
Subscriber information (e.g., account identifiers and registration details)
Non-content metadata (e.g., account activity information, where retained)
User content (e.g., messages, prompts, uploaded media, and AI-generated outputs associated with a user account, subject to retention limitations)
Cantina does not create or retain additional records for investigative purposes beyond what is described in our Privacy Policy.
Within the United States
Cantina will respond to legally binding requests from U.S. law enforcement and governmental agencies that include one of the following documents:
- A valid, jurisdictionally sufficient subpoena can be used to obtain basic subscriber information set out in 18 U.S.C. 2703(c)(2), namely: Cantina screen name and username, email address (if provided by user), phone number, account creation date, IP address, device information.
- A valid, jurisdictionally sufficient court order issued under 18 U.S.C. 2703(d) can be used to obtain other categories of non-content data regarding a user.
- A valid, jurisdictionally sufficient federal or state search warrant can be used to obtain user content such as photos or written communications.
International Requests
Cantina may require non-U.S. governmental and law enforcement agencies to submit a request for legal assistance to designated government authorities under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (“MLAT”) framework, or a letter rogatory to disclose the contents of a user’s account.
Cantina may, at its discretion, provide limited subscriber non-content information to non-U.S. governmental and law enforcement agencies in response to legal process that is duly authorized in the requesting country.
Requirements for submitting a legal request
For a U.S. or non-U.S. law enforcement request to be honored, it must be issued in accordance with governing law and include all of the following information along with the PDF of the request:
- The following contact information:
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- Name of issuing agency
- First and last name of the requesting law enforcement officer
- Official email from a known law enforcement domain
- Official direct phone number
- Badge/ID number of the requesting law enforcement officer
- Address of agency
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- Profile name and URL of the Cantina account in question
- Details regarding the specific information being requested and its relationship to your investigation
Please submit your request for user information here.
All requests should be addressed to:
Cantina, Inc.
10 Jay St, 4th FL
Brooklyn, NY 11201
US
If you have any questions please contact lawenforcement@cantina.ai.
Emergency Requests
Under our Privacy Policy and 18 U.S.C. § 2702(b)(8), we may disclose certain information at our discretion with law enforcement if we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to a person that Cantina may have information necessary to prevent.
When submitting an Emergency Disclosure Request you must include the following information:
- Identity of the individual in danger of death or serious physical injury;
- The nature of the emergency and why it poses a threat of imminent death or serious bodily injury that would justify immediately disclosing the requested information rather than relying on standard legal process;
- Information in Cantina’s possession you are seeking to obtain on an emergency basis; and
- How the specific information requested will assist in averting the threatened death or serious physical injury.
Please submit your Emergency Disclosure Request here.
Account Preservation
Cantina does not guarantee the existence or retention of particular user data. However, In accordance with 18 U.S.C. 2703(f), we will preserve any user information in our possession that may be relevant in a criminal legal proceeding in response to a formal and valid request from a law enforcement agency that includes a specific time range for preservation not to exceed 90 days.
Cantina will not produce records to the law enforcement agency without service of proper and valid legal process (e.g., subpoena, court order or warrant). Valid preservation requests should be submitted here.
If you have any questions please contact lawenforcement@cantina.ai.
Child Safety
Cantina will remove any content that comes to our attention that depicts (or may depict) sexually explicit images of minors or appears to sexualize or exploit children, including content drawn to our attention by government requests. We will promptly report this content to the National Center for Exploited and Missing Children, which may relay this and related information to U.S.- or foreign-based law enforcement agencies.
If a request involves a child exploitation or safety matter, please specify that in the request so that we may quickly address the request.
Data Retention
In accordance with our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and applicable law, Cantina retains different types of user information for various periods of time. Due to the nature of the information on Cantina, we may store some user information for only a short period of time. Unless we receive a valid preservation request, we generally do not retain information for law enforcement purposes.
User notification
Per Cantina’s Privacy Policy, we will use reasonable efforts to provide notice to our users when we respond to a request for their information unless we are prohibited by law from doing so -for example, by an order under 18 U.S.C. § 2705(b)-, or if we believe that an exceptional circumstance exists, such as child exploitation, the threat of imminent death or bodily injury, or where notification would be counterproductive.
Law enforcement or other official government agencies that do not want Cantina to notify a user of their request should include a court order or reference to other legal authority that bars Cantina from disclosing the existence of the request to the user.
If your request for information draws Cantina’s attention to a violation of our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines, Cantina will take action to prevent further abuse, which may alert the customer to Cantina’s awareness of its misconduct. Your request should explicitly include instruction to Cantina to not take action if you wish to prevent potential awareness on the part of Cantina’s user(s).
Testimony and certification
Records produced in response to law enforcement requests are self-authenticating and do not require the testimony of records custodians. We are unable to provide expert testimony.
If you need a special certification, please include it in your request.
Cost Reimbursement
Under 18 U.S.C. §2706, Cantina may seek to be reimbursed for any costs we incur in responding to information requests. Unusual or extensive requests may incur additional costs, but we may waive fees at our discretion.
These guidelines are regularly reviewed by Cantina and are subject to change at our discretion.
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