Leave a voice note

Is it anonymous?

We never ask for your name, email or phone number, and there are no accounts. Your voice is still your voice, though: if you mention names, places or details, people who know you may recognise you, so leave them out.

To stop one connection sending lots of notes, the server keeps a record tied to your IP address and the time you sent your note, for a short while. That record is never published, and a published note shows only the day it arrived, not the time. Like most websites, our web server logs also record IP addresses, and those logs are kept for 14 days.

Emailing a recording to us instead is not anonymous, because your email address comes with it.

What happens to my recording?

It goes into a private review queue, not straight onto the site. Every note is reviewed before anything is published, and notes that aren't approved aren't published.

An approved note gets the next file number and appears in the Intake Room as the latest file, and in the Archive. Published notes may also be shared, or cut into short clips, on our Instagram and Threads.

Can I get my note removed?

Email hello@theofficeofquietarchive.com with the file number (or, if it hasn't been published, roughly when you sent it) and ask for it to be taken down. Copies that other people have already saved or shared elsewhere are outside our control.