Submitting a tip
This page links to every article about submitting a tip. They’re grouped in the order you’re likely to need them: before you submit, after you send, and how rewards work.
Before you submit
Section titled “Before you submit”- Should I use this?: when TypVault is the right way to report, and when to get emergency help instead.
- Is this safe?: what the platform knows about you, and what it’s built not to know.
- The steps, start to finish: every screen you’ll see, from picking a category to sending your tip.
- Location: the crime’s address: why the form asks for the address of the crime, not your home.
- Crime categories and follow-up questions: how picking a category changes the questions you’re asked next.
- Describing a person: what to include if your tip is about someone.
- Photos and files: what you can attach, and what happens to a file before it’s saved.
- The safety check: what happens to your wording before you send your tip.
- Writing in your language: you can write in whatever language you’re most comfortable with.
- Passphrases: the optional second lock you can add to your tip, and what it changes.
After you send
Section titled “After you send”- Your tip code: the one thing that lets you check on your tip again.
- What happens to your tip: who reads it, and when.
- Saving a draft: how to pause partway through and pick up where you left off.
- Returning: status and messages: how to check in and send or read a message.
- What can change after sending: what you can still update, and what’s fixed once you send.
- Why tips can’t be deleted: why a sent tip can’t be removed, and how that protects you.
- Lost your code or passphrase?: what happens if you lose either one, and why there’s no reset for it.
- Referrals to other programs: what happens when your tip is sent on to another program.
Rewards
Section titled “Rewards”- Rewards: how a cash reward works, and how you collect it anonymously.
- Crime of the Week: a featured case your program is asking the public for help with.
Related
Section titled “Related”If your question isn’t answered here, contact the program you’re reporting to.