Privacy Policy
Last updated: 19 July 2026
This policy explains how Silver Footfalls collects and uses your personal data when you use silverfootfalls.com (the “Site”). We are based in Scotland, United Kingdom, and we handle personal data in line with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
1. Who is responsible for your data
Silver Footfalls is the data controller for your personal data. For any privacy question, or to exercise your rights, contact us at admin@silverfootfalls.com.
2. The personal data we collect
Account data
You create an account with your email address and a password, and an optional display name. We store your email and name to identify your account. Your password is never stored in readable form — we keep only a one-way cryptographic hash of it, which cannot be reversed to recover the password. We also send you email to confirm your address and, if you ask, to reset your password.
Purchase data
When you buy content we store a record of what you bought, the amount, the date, and a payment reference from our payment provider. We do not receive or store your full card number, expiry, or security code.
Age-verification data
To confirm you are 18 or over we use a third-party age-verification provider. The provider performs the check and returns to us only a simple “over 18: yes/no” result. Any identity document, photo, or similar information you give to the provider is handled by the provider under their own privacy policy; we are designed not to receive or store it. Because this data relates to accessing adult content, we treat it as sensitive and keep it separate from your browsing and purchase history.
Saved stories
If you bookmark (“save”) a story, we store that so your saved list appears on your account.
Technical data
Our servers briefly process your IP address and basic request information to keep the Site secure and to limit abuse. This is used in memory and is not stored in a long-term database by us. We do not use any analytics, advertising, or tracking tools.
3. Why we use your data, and our legal basis
| What we do | Data used | Lawful basis (UK GDPR) |
|---|---|---|
| Create and run your account; give you access to what you buy | Account & purchase data | Contract — Art 6(1)(b) |
| Check you are 18+ before showing adult content | Age-verification result | Legal obligation — Art 6(1)(c) |
| Keep the Site secure; prevent fraud and abuse | Technical data, purchase data | Legitimate interests — Art 6(1)(f) |
| Keep tax and transaction records | Purchase data | Legal obligation — Art 6(1)(c) |
| Answer your support messages | Account data + what you send us | Legitimate interests — Art 6(1)(f) |
We rely on legal obligation (not consent) for the age check, because the law requires us to prevent under-18s from accessing adult content — so you cannot opt out of the check and still view that content.
4. Cookies
We currently use only strictly necessary cookies — mainly the sign-in and session cookies that keep you logged in and keep your session secure. We do not use analytics or advertising cookies. Full detail is in our Cookie Policy.
5. Who we share data with
We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with the service providers that make the Site work, and only as needed:
- Our payment provider — to take payment.
- Our age-verification provider — to confirm you are 18 or over.
- Our hosting and email providers — to run the Site and send you account email.
- Our content-delivery provider — stores and delivers the audio files privately, through short-lived, expiring links.
- Authorities — where we are legally required to disclose data (for example, a court order).
6. Sending data outside the UK
Some of our providers may process data outside the UK, including in the United States. Where they do, we rely on a valid UK transfer mechanism — such as the UK–US “data bridge” for certified providers, or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement — so your data keeps an equivalent level of protection.
7. How long we keep your data
- Account data — while your account is active. You can delete your account yourself at any time from your account page: this immediately erases your personal data (name, email and password). We keep your purchase records in de-identified form because we are legally required to retain them (see below).
- Purchase / tax records — kept for up to 6 years to meet tax and accounting rules.
- Age-verification result — kept only as long as needed to show we met our legal duty, then deleted.
8. Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask us to:
- tell you what data we hold about you and give you a copy (access);
- correct data that is wrong (rectification);
- delete your data (erasure), where the law allows;
- restrict or object to how we use your data; and
- give you your data in a portable format.
To exercise any of these, contact us at admin@silverfootfalls.com. We will respond within one month. You also have the right to complain to the relevant data protection supervisory authority, though we hope you’ll contact us first so we can put things right.
9. Keeping data safe
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data. The Site runs over HTTPS, passwords are stored only as one-way hashes, audio is held privately and served only through short-lived links, and access to our systems is limited. No system is perfectly secure, but we take this seriously and review our measures.
10. Under-18s
The Site is open to everyone, but its sexually explicit content is for adults only and sits behind an age check. We take steps to prevent anyone under 18 from accessing that adult content, and we do not knowingly collect data from under-18s in connection with it. If you believe someone under 18 has accessed adult content on the Site, contact us and we will act.
11. Changes to this policy
We will update this policy when our practices change. The “last updated” date at the top shows the current version.
12. Contact
Privacy questions can be sent to admin@silverfootfalls.com.