Privacy notice
Last updated: 13 November 2026
The short version
Your photos and music are used only to make your world. They are processed on our server and deleted as soon as your file is downloaded. If you do not buy, they are deleted when you leave the page, and never later than 15 minutes after you add them. While you are at the payment page they are kept until the payment is finished or abandoned (about half an hour at most), so your world can be made when you come back. We keep no copy of your photos, your song or your finished world. We use no advertising trackers and do not build visitor profiles. We keep aggregate usage totals to understand which pages and promotions are useful.
Who is responsible
The data controller is the operator of Our Special World. Contact for anything about your data: [email protected].
What we handle, and why
- Your photos, song, captions, links and sign line. To build your world. Held only in temporary storage on our server while your world is being made, then deleted when your file has been transferred. Without a purchase they are deleted when you leave, or 15 minutes after upload at the latest; during payment they are kept until the payment finishes or is abandoned (about half an hour at most).
- Payment details. Handled by Stripe, our payment provider, which receives your card details, name, e-mail address and country. From Stripe we receive only what we need to deliver your world and keep accounts: your e-mail address, the amount, the currency and a payment reference. Stripe’s own privacy notice applies to what it processes.
- Your e-mail address. To send your receipt and a copy of your world, through our e-mail provider. We do not send marketing.
- Your network (IP) address. Looked up in a country database on our own server to show prices in your currency, and used briefly to protect the service from abuse. It is not stored with your order.
- Accounting records. Payment records are kept for as long as accounting law requires.
Aggregate usage totals
We count public page requests, fixed campaign-source names, choices to open the sample, checkout starts and completed orders. For a sample choice, your browser sends only a campaign-source name such as Pinterest, or an unknown-source label. These counts contain no visitor identifier, network address, full link, search query, photo, song or order reference, and they are not linked to individual visitors or orders. We set no cookies or browser storage for them. Automatic sample downloads are counted separately from choices to open the sample.
Our legal reasons
We handle your content and e-mail address to carry out the order you asked for, keep payment records because the law requires it, and protect the service because we have a legitimate interest in keeping it safe and working.
Cookies and storage
We set no cookies. During payment, this browser tab briefly stores an order number so it can pick up your order when you return from the payment page. It is removed when your world is delivered, and the browser forgets it when the tab is closed.
Where it happens
Our server is hosted by Hostinger, and Cloudflare delivers and protects the website’s traffic. Stripe may process payment data in other countries under its own safeguards.
Your rights
You can ask us what data we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it. Because we delete your content within minutes, usually the only thing we still hold is the payment record. You can also complain to your data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office).
Children
Buying a world is for adults. Please only include photos of children if you are their parent or have their parent’s permission.