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The University will be closed for Winter Break from Monday 22 December until Monday 05 January. Reports will not be monitored during this time, and those submitted after 22 December will be responded to when the University reopens in January.

For urgent advice or support on gender-based violence or hate crime, visit SARCS, Police Scotland, or your GP for medical assistance. The University's External Support webpage provides details of other organisations that can help.

In an emergency, if you or someone else is at immediate risk, call 999. For non-emergency medical advice, call NHS on 111.

Threatening to or distributing intimate images without permission.

This is sometimes called 'revenge porn' or 'the non-consensual sharing of intimate images'.

If someone has shared revealing or intimate photos or videos of you, or is threatening to share them, this is a crime in Scotland. There are steps you can take.

Intimate images can be shared in a number of ways, for example by text, social media or showing a physical or digital copy to another person.

What are intimate images?

Intimate images can be pictures or videos of you doing something normally done in private. These may have been taken without your knowledge, or, you may have agreed to the pictures being taken, but you didn't agree to them being shared with others.

An intimate image could show:
  • you taking part in a sexual act
  • your genitals, buttocks or breasts exposed in a private place (for example, at home)
  • you wearing only your underwear in a private place (for example, at home)

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