Privacy Policy

This policy explains what information we collect when you use this website, how we use it, and the choices you have. We keep it simple and we collect only what we need.

What we collect

When you ask a question, we collect your question, your name, and your email so we can answer you. Your question is encrypted. When you subscribe or take the quiz, we collect your email and quiz answers. We do not sell your data.

Analytics and cookies

We run our own first-party analytics so we can understand how the site is used and improve it. We do not use third-party trackers, advertising pixels, fingerprinting, or session recording, and our analytics records never include your IP address. We set two of our own cookies: one that lasts up to two years to estimate returning visitors, and one that lasts thirty minutes to group a single visit. They hold only random identifiers, never your name, email, or anything you typed.

For each visit we record the page viewed, where you arrived from (such as a search engine or a social link), your approximate location from your network (country, region, and city only, never precise coordinates), your device and browser type, and how the page performed for you. We never record the contents of any field you type, and your question is never attached to this analytics record. You can clear these cookies in your browser at any time.

Our legal basis for this first-party analytics is our legitimate interest in understanding and improving the site, balanced against your privacy, which is why it is kept minimal and holds no identifying data. You have the right to object: contact us and we will stop. We do not currently share this data with any advertising or analytics platform, and if we ever add conversion measurement we will ask for your consent first. We keep analytics records only as long as needed (visit records up to twenty-four months, interaction signals up to ninety days), then delete them automatically.

What is kept on your device

When you hand in a worksheet, your files are never stored on your device by that page, and neither are your name, email, or phone number. Two small items are kept in your browser and nowhere else: anything you have typed but not yet sent, so a closed tab or a lost signal does not cost you your work, and a short marker so you are not asked to confirm the same email address twice. Both expire on their own after twenty-four hours. What you typed is removed the moment your worksheet reaches us; the marker stays for its twenty-four hours, because that is the whole point of it. Clearing your browser data removes both immediately.

How we use it

We use your information to answer your question, send what you asked for, run the community, and improve the site. Payments are handled by our payment processor; we do not store your card details.

Be on the show

Sending a question to the show is different from everything else on this site, because a show submission may be made public. When you submit one we collect your real name, your email, an optional phone number, the on-air name you chose, roughly where you are from (city, region, and country, whatever you filled in), and the question itself, either as text or as a voice recording. Your written question and any transcript of your recording are stored encrypted. Recordings are stored in private cloud storage that is not publicly listable, until and unless they are used on the show.

If you send a voice recording, it is passed to OpenAI’s speech-to-text service to produce a written transcript, so the question can be read as well as heard. If your question is shown on screen, the recording is passed to that same service a second time to work out when each word is spoken, so the words can be highlighted in time with your voice, and again if that ever has to be redone. That is the only third party your recording is sent to, it is used for nothing else, it is not used to train anything, and the transcript comes straight back to us and is stored encrypted with the rest of your submission.

If you type your question instead, it is passed to OpenAI’s text-to-speech service, which produces an audio version read by a synthetic voice, and that audio is passed to the same speech-to-text service so the words can be highlighted in time with it if the question is shown on screen. The synthetic reading is stored in the same private cloud storage as recordings and is deleted along with your submission. So whichever way you send it, one processing service sees your question. Typing rather than recording means no third party ever receives your actual voice; it does not mean nothing leaves this site.

Because a show submission is a signed permission, we also keep proof that you gave it: the IP address and browser your submission came from at the moment you ticked the boxes, the exact wording of the permission you ticked, and the time you ticked it. That record exists only to show what you agreed to and when. It is never published, it is never used to track you around the site, and it is deleted with the rest of your submission when you ask us to remove it.

Under the release you agree to when you submit, your question and your recorded voice may be played, read out, edited, and published publicly, on any platform, with no time limit. Only the on-air name you chose is ever said out loud, and where you are from is only ever mentioned at the level of a region or a country. Your last name, email, and phone number are never published; they exist so we can reach you about your submission and keep a record of the release you agreed to.

We keep show submissions, including the recording, until you ask us to remove yours. To withdraw a submission before it airs, or to ask us to erase the personal information we hold about you, email support@tomisinatobatele.com from the address you submitted with. If you are in the UK or the European Union you keep your data protection rights, including erasure, and if you are in Canada you can withdraw consent under PIPEDA. Both cover the information we hold: once something has been published, copies other people have already made are outside our control, which is why the release asks you to decide before you send.

Your choices

You can unsubscribe from emails at any time, and you can ask us to delete your information by contacting us through the contact page.

Contact

Questions about your privacy? Reach us through the contact page.