Vimeo does not provide copyright enforcement agencies (or anyone else) with backdoor access to your account or videos.
That said, there are a number of ways that copyright owners or their agents can find and send takedown notices for videos that currently have a restricted privacy setting:
- The video was not always private and they detected it before the setting was changed
- The video was embedded on a third-party site to which they had access
- The video was placed in a collection with a less restrictive privacy setting, which would override the native video setting.
- The video was reported to them by someone with the password or who otherwise had access
- The user who uploaded the video did not actually choose a restricted privacy setting
Be advised that it is a violation of our rules to upload any video for which you don't have all the necessary rights and permissions, no matter what privacy setting you select.