Autessa Ethics Hotline

Anonymous reporting

Autessa Ethics Hotline gives employees an anonymous reporting site where they can raise a concern in a few minutes, without signing in and without being identified.

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Confidential ethics hotline

Speak up safely.

Use this hotline to tell the ethics committee about something that doesn’t seem right. You can stay anonymous.

Make a report →Check a report

☎ If someone is in immediate danger, call 911.

No retaliation

Good-faith reports are protected.

Anonymous if you want

No IP address or device details.

You choose who sees it

Leave out anyone involved.

The area

What does anonymous reporting cover?

The public speak-up site: a calm hotline page, a guided four-step report form, anonymous or confidential contact, and a case code and passphrase that only the reporter holds.

Anonymous reporting is the heart of any whistleblower hotline. If the first page feels risky, nobody gets to the form. Ethics Hotline opens with promises in plain words, asks only for what an investigation needs, and hands the reporter the only key to their report.

Who works here

Anyone with the hotline link: employees, contractors, and anyone else you share it with. No account is needed. The committee edits the wording in Settings.

In one sentence each

Speak-up page · The speak-up page is the hotline’s front door: what you can report, a no-retaliation promise, how anonymity works, what happens next and an emergency note, all in plain words.
Guided report form · The guided report form walks a reporter through four steps (what happened, who can see it, protect your report, review and send) and sends nothing until they choose Send report.
Anonymous or confidential reporting · Every reporter chooses between Anonymous, where the hotline never asks who they are, and Confidential, where only the committee sees their name and email and they get status emails.
Case code and passphrase · Each report gets a case code and a passphrase that only the reporter holds: the passphrase is suggested in their own browser, never put in a URL or storage, and kept by the hotline only as a hash.

Subtopics

Everything in anonymous reporting

Speak-up page

The speak-up page is the hotline’s front door: what you can report, a no-retaliation promise, how anonymity works, what happens next and an emergency note, all in plain words.

Guided report form

The guided report form walks a reporter through four steps (what happened, who can see it, protect your report, review and send) and sends nothing until they choose Send report.

Anonymous or confidential reporting

Every reporter chooses between Anonymous, where the hotline never asks who they are, and Confidential, where only the committee sees their name and email and they get status emails.

Case code and passphrase

Each report gets a case code and a passphrase that only the reporter holds: the passphrase is suggested in their own browser, never put in a URL or storage, and kept by the hotline only as a hash.

On screen

What it looks like

Guided report form

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Step 1 of 4

What happened

What kind of concern is it? *

Fraud, accounting or auditing

Misstated numbers, expense fraud, bribery, theft.

Security or privacy incident

Data shared or accessed when it shouldn’t be, weak controls.

Harassment or discrimination

Unwelcome conduct, bias, a hostile environment.

Health and safety

Unsafe conditions, injuries, threats.

Conflict of interest

Personal interests affecting business decisions.

Policy or legal violation

Breaking a company policy, a contract or the law.

Retaliation

Being punished for raising a concern.

Something else

Anything that doesn’t fit above.

What happened? *

Several vendor invoices were approved by the same person who submitted them…

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Anonymous or confidential reporting

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Who can see it

How do you want to be contacted?

👁‍🗨 Anonymous Recommended

We don’t ask who you are. You follow up with your case code and passphrase.

Confidential

Your name and email are shared only with the committee, and we email you when the status changes.

Anonymous reports send no name, no email and no device details at all.

FAQ

Questions about anonymous reporting

Do reporters need an account to use the hotline?

No. The speak-up page, the report form and the Check a report page all work without signing in. Reporters never create an account, and the hotline does not record their IP address or device details.

Which fields are required on an ethics hotline report?

Only two: the kind of concern and a description of what happened of at least 20 characters. When, where, who was involved, earlier reports and evidence are optional, so reporters can share as much as they are comfortable with.

What is the difference between anonymous and confidential reporting?

Anonymous means the hotline never knows who you are; you follow up with a case code and passphrase. Confidential means you share your name and email with the ethics committee only, and the hotline emails you when your case’s status changes.

What if a reporter loses their passphrase?

It can’t be recovered, by design, because the hotline keeps only a hash of it. The reporter can make a new report and mention the case code of the earlier one, and the committee can connect the two.

Other areas of Ethics Hotline

Feature areaAnonymous follow-up →Autessa Ethics Hotline keeps a private, two-way conversation open between an anonymous reporter and the ethics committee for as long as the case is open.Feature areaCase management →Autessa Ethics Hotline includes ethics case management: every report becomes a case with a state, an assignee, internal notes, a conversation and a recorded outcome.Feature areaIndependence and privacy →Autessa Ethics Hotline routes reports to a named, independent ethics committee, lets reporters exclude anyone the report involves, and logs every time a case is opened.Feature areaMetrics and evidence →Autessa Ethics Hotline measures how the hotline is used and how fast the committee responds, and proves end to end that reports arrive.Feature areaAdministration →Autessa Ethics Hotline is set up in minutes and configured on one Settings page: who is told, how long cases are kept, and what the hotline says.

Open your hotline this week.

Guided setup makes the data key in seconds, the first member claims the committee, and a hotline test proves reports and emails arrive.

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100% customizable, code and all

Make Autessa Ethics Hotline fully your own.

Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.

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