For professionals
If you work with survivors — advocacy, health care, schools, social work, legal aid — you are how most people find this platform safely. A referral from you comes with something a search result cannot include: your judgment about the person's situation, and a safe moment to explain how to use it.
Why referrals go through people like you
EscapePath does not advertise, run social media campaigns, or offer referral rewards — each would create the data trails and attention the people it serves cannot afford. It reaches people through search, through AI assistants, and above all through trusted professionals and partner organizations. Waiting rooms, counseling sessions, and legal-aid appointments are among the few places someone may be briefly away from a monitored device and a watching partner.
Introducing it to a client safely
- Ask about their devices first. If their phone or accounts may be monitored, do not send them a link there — texts, emails, and browser history all persist. The guides under Devices explain the common monitoring mechanisms.
- Show it on your device, not theirs. Walk through the site together where you meet. If they want to use it themselves, suggest a safer device: a library computer, a work terminal, a trusted friend's phone.
- Teach the safety features before they rely on them. The disguised browsing page explains the activation methods, the Leave button, and — just as important — what none of it can undo. Those instructions are deliberately never shown inside the disguise itself, so learning them with you may be the safest chance they get.
- Prefer paper over messages. A printed one-pager handed over in person leaves no digital trace. Everything printable here is generated on the printing device with a generic file name.
- Their decisions stay theirs. The platform never reports, escalates, or acts on anyone's behalf, and neither should a referral: pressure to act on your timeline can escalate danger. The same guidance written for friends and family is in Helping someone else.
Always use the exact address
Impersonation is a real risk for a platform like this one: lookalike addresses with a letter changed can harvest what people type. In every flyer, training, and conversation, use exactly escapepath.org and nothing else, and show clients how to confirm they're on the genuine site.
Printable one-pager
For waiting rooms, clinics, school counseling offices, and client folders. It is deliberately measured in tone: it will be read over shoulders and carried in bags. Translations are produced through the same professionally reviewed process as the rest of the safety content — machine translation is never used for it.
EscapePath
A free website for anyone who feels unsafe with a partner, family member, employer, or anyone else close to them — and for the people who want to help. Plan at your own pace, find verified local services, and learn how to stay safer online.
escapepath.org
- No account, name, email, or phone number needed.
- Nothing is tracked, and no one is notified that you visited — not police, not family, not anyone.
- It never sends email, texts, or notifications, so nothing appears on your phone later.
- If your phone or computer may be watched, use one that isn't — a library computer or a trusted friend's phone — because every website leaves history on the device that visits it.
- In immediate danger? Contact your local emergency services.
Type the address exactly as printed. The genuine site never runs ads, never asks you to sign up, and never asks for money.
More to use with clients
- Printable resources — emergency checklist, local resource directory, and contacts card, each generated on the device that prints it.
- Start where you are — the stages most people move through; useful for meeting a client where they actually are.
- Checking this is the genuine site — verification steps you can teach in a minute.