AudioSorted
Privacy policy
Last updated 11 November 2026
Short version: we don't keep your recordings, we don't sell data, and we collect the minimum needed to run the service and take payments.
Who's responsible
AudioSorted is run by John Anderson, a sole trader and audio professional based in Scotland, United Kingdom, as part of Frequency Lab Records. Contact: hello@audiosorted.com. We're the "controller" of the personal data described here under UK data protection law.
Your recordings
When you upload or record audio, it's sent to our clean-up engine (run on Apify's cloud servers), cleaned, and sent back to you. The original and the result are held only in a temporary folder while the clean-up runs and are deleted automatically as soon as it finishes, even if it fails. Nobody listens to your audio, and it's never used to train AI or shared. On Telegram, your own chat keeps the messages you send and receive on Telegram's servers. That's controlled by you and Telegram, not us.
What we collect
- Free-use counting (website): to give 2 free clean-ups a day, we turn your IP address into a scrambled code that changes every day. We never store your actual IP address. Old codes are deleted daily.
- Bot protection: Cloudflare Turnstile checks you're a person, not a bot. Cloudflare processes technical data for this (see Cloudflare's privacy policy).
- Purchases: Stripe processes your payment and gives us your email address, the pack bought and the amount. We store your email with your pass code so we can help if you lose it, plus how many clean-ups are left. We never see your card details. We keep purchase records for 6 years because UK tax law requires it.
- Your browser: your pass code is saved in your browser's local storage so you don't have to type it each time. You can remove it at any time with "Remove from this device".
- Telegram: your Telegram user ID, how many clean-ups you've used, your settings (strength, loudness) and the link you joined from (e.g. "tiktok"), so we can see which adverts work.
- Basic counts: numbers of clean-ups per day, with no personal details.
We don't use advertising cookies or tracking pixels.
Why we can use it
To provide what you've asked for (our contract with you), to meet legal obligations (tax records), and for our legitimate interests in preventing abuse and understanding how people find us.
Who we share it with
Only the services that run AudioSorted: Cloudflare (website and security), Apify (clean-up engine and storage), Stripe (payments), Telegram (the bot) and Google (our email inbox). Some of these may process data outside the UK under appropriate safeguards. We never sell your data.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of your data, or ask us to correct or delete it (except records we must keep for tax). Email hello@audiosorted.com. If you're unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).