How Does BoPeep Work?
BoPeep lets its users create, send, and sign petitions via email anonymously. For Petition Creators: A petition’s creator can draft a petition anonymously on BoPeep’s platform, list the email addresses to whom the petition should be sent, and then the platform will anonymously send the petition to those email addresses to be signed. The petition’s creator can select from three different types of petitions to use: Transparent, Semi-Blind, and Blind. Each of these petition types offers a different level of anonymity to protect those who sign. These protections are described in greater detail below. Once the deadline to sign the petition has expired, the petition’s creator can use BoPeep’s platform to anonymously email the final petition to anyone.
Here are examples of what the final petitions will look like, for each petition type:
For Petition Signers: If you have been invited to sign a petition by someone using BoPeep’s platform, you will receive an email containing a unique link to a webpage that will allow you to respond to the petition. Your response may or may not be anonymous depending on the type of petition that was sent to you. Your invitation will tell you the type of petition you are being asked to sign. There are three different types:
- Transparent Petitions: if you have been asked to sign a “Transparent” petition, that means your response will not be anonymous. The final petition will list the names and email addresses of everyone who signed. It will not say who created the petition.
- Semi-Blind Petitions: if you have been asked to sign a “Semi-Blind” petition, that means that your response will start out anonymous and encrypted, but if a predesignated number of people sign, the names and email addresses of everyone who signed will be revealed. Your invitation will tell you what the required number of signatures is before everyone’s signature is revealed. If the required number of signatures is not met by the end of the petition’s deadline, everyone’s responses will remain anonymous (even to the creator of the petition), and the petition will eventually self-delete.
- Blind Petitions: if you have been asked to sign a “Blind” petition, that means that your name and email address will be kept anonymous and encrypted, except that the final petition will list (a) the number of people that signed, (b) the number of people that the petition was sent to, and (c) the domain names of the email addresses that the petition was sent to. Note, full email addresses will NOT be listed. Only the domain names—i.e. “@gmail.com,” “@hotmail.com,” etc.
Here are examples of what the final petitions will look like, for each petition type:
The creator cannot change any of the petition’s settings after it has been sent out. Petitions are free to sign and you don’t need to create an account.