Privacy, in plain English.

Here's what happens to anything you send me through this site. Written by hand, kept short, no dark patterns.

When you fill in the form

Two things go to my server: your email address and the message you write or dictate. Your IP address is also seen, but only to rate-limit submissions; the counter expires within an hour or two and isn't used for anything else. If you arrived from an ad or a campaign link, the URL parameters travel along too, so I can tell which channel a message came from.

The message is then handled by an automated pipeline:

• A small AI model (Anthropic Claude, called via Cloudflare's AI Gateway) checks whether it looks like a real inquiry or spam.
• If it looks real, a larger model drafts a personal reply based on what you wrote.
• That draft is checked by another model before it goes out.
• The reply is emailed to you from hello@tellmewhatsannoyingyou.com.

Your message and email address are passed to Anthropic during these steps. Inputs are processed to generate the reply and are not used to train models.

When you reply to that email, Cloudflare Email Routing forwards your reply to my personal inbox so I can read it and write back. From that point on, the conversation is just regular email between you and me.

When you use the dictation button

Tapping the microphone opens a connection from your browser directly to ElevenLabs (the company that runs the speech-to-text model the site uses). Audio is streamed to them, transcribed in real time, and the text appears in the message box. I never receive the audio — only the text, once you submit.

Cookies and storage

The site uses two small things in your browser:

• Cloudflare Turnstile — a bot-protection check that may set cookies on the challenges.cloudflare.com domain. It runs only when you submit the form.
• sessionStorage — if you arrived from an ad, the campaign parameters are kept in your tab's session storage so they're attached to the form when you submit. It's cleared when you close the tab.

No analytics, no tracking pixels, no third-party advertising cookies. The page also asks search engines and AI crawlers not to index it.

How long things are kept

• Form submissions: passed through the pipeline, not stored long-term. Rough request logs survive in Cloudflare for up to seven days for debugging.
• Replies you send back to hello@: forwarded to my personal inbox and kept there as long as I'd keep any other email from someone I'm working with.
• Rate-limit counters: expire on their own within an hour or two.
• Audio from the dictation feature: never stored by me.

Your rights

If you're in the EU, the GDPR gives you rights to access, correct, or delete the data I hold about you. In practice that means: anything you've sent me by email, plus the original form submission if it's still in logs. Email hello@tellmewhatsannoyingyou.com and tell me what you'd like done. I'll get back to you within a week.

Who's responsible

This site is run by Michel Hendriks, an individual based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The data controller is me. There is no company behind it.

Changes to this page

If anything changes, it'll appear here. There's no email notification — the date below shows when it was last updated.

Last updated: 25 April 2026