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Privacy & submission terms · Last updated 5 September 2026

What we know about you. Nothing, mostly.

Two parts. Part A is what this site knows about you, which is nothing, and what happens to a vent after you press send. Part B is what you agree to by sending one. Both are short, because there isn't much to tell.

This is between Vent Out (“we”, “us”) and you. It’s written to be read, not skimmed past. Where it says we do something, we do it. Where it says we don’t, we don’t.

The short version

  • We never know who you are. Not your name, not your email, not your IP address. Not even us.
  • Your vent reaches us as text and a time. Nothing else comes with it.
  • If you want a vent gone, tell us and it’s gone.

Part A · Privacy

Who we are and how to reach us

  1. Vent Out is run by one person in England. It isn’t a company.
  2. That person is an employee who has, in order:
    • sat through meetings that could have been emails
    • sat through meetings that ended with nothing done
    • absorbed a steady supply of passive aggression from colleagues
    • drafted a resignation letter
    • built this instead
    They still have the job. They just have somewhere to put it now.
  3. This notice covers anyone who visits the site or sends a vent. That’s “you”.
  4. Questions, takedown requests or anything else: vent@ventouthq.com.

What this website knows about you

  1. Nothing. No accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no tracking.
  2. Nothing about your visit is saved in your browser or by us.
  3. The company that hosts the site handles the request to show you the page, as every website’s host does. We don’t collect or look at any visitor logs.

What happens when you press send

  1. Your words go to Tally, the company whose form sits on this page, and from Tally to us.
  2. We’ve switched off everything that could identify you. The form doesn’t collect your email address and doesn’t keep your IP address. What reaches us is the text and the time. That’s all.
  3. We never ask your name, your employer, your job title or how to contact you. Please don’t put them in. If you do, we take them out before anything is posted.
  4. We can’t work out who sent a vent. Not from the form, not from anywhere. That isn’t a promise we make, it’s how the thing is built. It’s anonymous even to us.
  5. By pressing send you give Vent Out permission to post your vent on our social media accounts, with anything confidential or identifying removed first. The full terms are in Part B.

What we do with your vent

  1. We read it.
  2. We remove names, companies and anything that could point to a person or a workplace.
  3. Some vents are posted on our accounts on Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube.
  4. Vents we don’t post are kept for three months, in case they suit a later series, then deleted.
  5. Posted vents stay on the platforms under our account.
  6. Because nothing links a vent to a person, we can’t confirm who wrote one, and we can’t find “yours” unless you can quote it.

Who else is involved

  1. Tally provides the form. Because it loads inside this page, Tally’s servers receive your IP address to deliver it, as any website does. Tally is set not to keep it.
  2. Notion is where we keep vents while deciding what to post. Each vent is copied there as text only, with nothing attached that could identify you, and is deleted from there on the same three-month rule.
  3. Google Fonts supplies the typefaces. Your browser fetches them from Google, which sees your IP address in the process. That’s true of most websites. We mention it because we said we’d tell you everything.
  4. The social platforms take over once you tap through to one of our accounts.
  5. Each of these has its own privacy policy, which we don’t control.

Your rights, and getting a vent taken down

  1. UK data protection law gives you rights over information about you, including seeing it, correcting it and having it deleted. We hold almost none, so there’s little to see, but the rights are yours.
  2. Want a vent taken down? Email us the vent as you originally wrote it, before we edited it. Only you know that version, so it’s how we tell it’s yours without knowing who you are. Then it comes down.
  3. If a vent has something in it that identifies you, it comes down on any request, no questions.
  4. We can only remove a vent from our own accounts, not from anywhere it has been shared or screenshotted.
  5. You can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

If this changes

  1. If any of this changes, we change this page and the date at the top.
  2. We won’t start collecting anything new without saying so here first.

Part B · Submission terms

The deal

  1. By sending a vent you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, don’t send one.
  2. There’s no account and no tick box, so this page is where the agreement lives.

What you’re letting us do

  1. You give Vent Out permission to edit, shorten, correct and post your vent on our accounts and on this website, anywhere, for as long as we like, without payment and without credit, because there’s nobody to credit.
  2. Editing means removing confidential and identifying details and trimming for length. We don’t change what you meant.

No names

  1. Don’t name people, companies, clients or anything that would let a reader work out who you mean. Vent about the situation.
  2. If a vent identifies someone, we edit it or we don’t use it.
  3. You’re responsible for what you send. Don’t send anything you know to be untrue about a real, identifiable person.

What gets posted

  1. We decide what’s posted, where and when.
  2. We can decline anything, and take anything down at any time, without giving a reason.
  3. Nothing is guaranteed to appear, and a vent not appearing says nothing about you.

What this isn’t

  1. Vent Out isn’t HR, legal advice, medical advice or an emergency service, and nobody reads submissions in real time.
  2. If you or someone else is at risk, or something at work has crossed a line, contact a union rep, a solicitor, your GP or the emergency services.

Law

  1. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.