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Privacy
You may be trusting us with something personal. Here is exactly what happens to it.
Last updated November 7, 2026
The short version
- Only two people read what you send us: the host and one helper.
- We use it to reply to you and to plan a possible episode. Nothing else.
- If we don’t go ahead with your story, we delete it within 6 months.
- We never sell or share your details, and the site uses no tracking cookies.
- Nothing is published unless you sign a release first.
What the story form collects
The answers you type into the form at /guest: the name you want to be called, your email, where you are, your story and the details you choose to share, your recording preferences, and which mornings suit you. We also record when you sent it and, if you came from one of our short links, which one (for example “tiktok”), so we know where guests find us.
Please use a nickname for the other people in your story, not their full names.
Who sees it
The host and one helper. That’s all. Submissions go to a private Google Sheet and a private copy goes to our contact@143memorylane.com inbox, both only open to the two of us.
How long we keep it
- Stories we don’t go ahead with: deleted within 6 months, from the sheet and from our inbox.
- Stories we record: kept for as long as we need them to make and look after your episode, under the release you sign.
- Premiere emails: kept until you unsubscribe, which you can do from any email we send.
Want your story deleted sooner, or a copy of what we hold? Email contact@143memorylane.com and we’ll do it.
The services we use
A few companies handle data for us, only to make the site and email work:
- Cloudflare hosts the site, filters spam with Turnstile, and counts visits with cookie-free Web Analytics (no personal profiles, no cross-site tracking).
- Google stores the private sheet and our inbox (Google Sheets and Gmail).
- Resend sends the confirmation emails from contact@143memorylane.com.
- YouTube plays films on episode pages. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
Cookies and your device
We don’t set tracking or advertising cookies, so there’s no cookie banner. While you fill in the story form, your answers are saved in your own browser (not on our servers) so a reload doesn’t lose them. They’re cleared once your story is sent, or when you press “Clear them”.
Publishing
Sending a story never gives us permission to publish it. If we pick your story, you sign a release before we record. It explains what we can make from your recording (the film, the podcast, Patreon and a fictional book adaptation) and lets you choose a pseudonym.
Age
Guests must be 18 or older. We don’t knowingly collect stories from anyone younger.
Contact
Questions about your data: contact@143memorylane.com.