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EscapePath

Plan your way to safety, at your own pace.

EscapePath helps people experiencing abuse, coercive control, trafficking, or forced labor discreetly find verified resources and build a personal safety plan. It is designed for the weeks or months of preparation that leaving often requires — not only the moment of crisis.

Before you continue

  • Visiting any website — including this one — leaves traces on your device, such as browser history. No website can erase those traces for you.
  • If someone may be monitoring this device, consider using one they cannot access, such as a computer at a public library, or a trusted friend's phone.
  • Nothing here happens automatically: visiting or using this site never notifies police, family, or anyone else, and no one is watching how you use it. Will anyone be told?
  • If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services.

Where to start

You never have to say who you are or which situation fits — everything here is open to everyone, in any order.

  • Start where you are — the path from first doubts to rebuilding afterwards, and what this site offers at each point.
  • Helping someone else — for friends and family who want to help without making things more dangerous.
  • Find help — verified shelters, hotlines, legal aid, and more, searched entirely on your device.
  • Make a plan — a private, skippable planner whose answers vanish when you leave.
  • Disguised browsing — use everything above behind an ordinary-looking website, if your screen may be seen.

Built for devices that may be watched

EscapePath assumes the person you need distance from may have access to your phone, your accounts, or your browsing history. Every design decision follows from that assumption:

  • No account is required for anything survivor-facing.
  • No analytics, tracking scripts, or third-party cookies.
  • No emails, texts, or notifications that could surface on a monitored device.
  • Education over automation: we explain how surveillance works and what your options are, and you decide.

Our principles

When two goals conflict, the earlier-listed principle wins.

  1. Safety before usability

    A slightly clumsier interaction that leaves less evidence beats a smoother one that leaves more.

  2. Privacy before personalization

    No recommendation engines, no profiles, no “welcome back.” Personalization exists only inside a single session or an explicitly created encrypted plan.

  3. Anonymous before authenticated

    Every survivor-facing feature works with zero identification. Authentication exists only where it protects the survivor or the platform.

  4. Education before automation

    We teach how browser history works rather than claiming to erase it, and explain trade-offs rather than making choices for people.

  5. Never overpromise safety

    No feature, copy, or marketing language may imply guaranteed anonymity, undetectability, or protection.

  6. Every interaction should minimize risk

    Each feature is evaluated against the threat model before it is built: what evidence does it create, and who could see it?

  7. Survivors remain in control of their own decisions

    The platform informs; it never reports, escalates, nudges, or acts on a user's behalf.

What EscapePath will not do or promise

EscapePath reduces risk through careful design and connections to qualified organizations. It cannot guarantee your safety, and it will not pretend otherwise.

It does not replace emergency services
The platform surfaces emergency numbers; it never dispatches or mediates.
It does not replace lawyers, therapists, or counselors
Educational content is not legal advice or treatment; we refer to qualified organizations.
It cannot detect spyware
Reliable detection is not technically achievable from a web page; claiming it would create false confidence.
It cannot guarantee anonymity
Internet providers, device owners, and operating-system surveillance are outside the platform's control.
It cannot guarantee a successful escape
Outcomes depend on circumstances the platform cannot influence.
It is not an investigation or rescue tool
The platform serves survivors, not investigators; intervention is the role of qualified organizations and emergency services.

EscapePath is not optimized for engagement, retention, or growth. A short visit that ends quickly can be a complete success. There are no growth loops, streaks, or re-engagement messages — each would create evidence of use.