NOISEBOLT

Privacy

Last updated 9 November 2026

Who is responsible

QuoteNod Ltd (company number 17446525, 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX) is the data controller for NoiseBolt and noisebolt.com. We are registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office under number ZC242574. Email privacy@noisebolt.com with any question about your data.

The NoiseBolt app

You don't need an account to use the free version of NoiseBolt. Your sounds, settings, hotkeys and backups stay in folders on your own PC. Your microphone audio is processed on your PC and sent only to the devices and apps you choose. We don't receive it.

The app connects to the internet only to do things you'd expect:

• to check for and download updates (through the Microsoft Store, or from GitHub if you downloaded NoiseBolt from our website), which shares your IP address and basic request details with them;
• to fetch a sound when you paste a link, which contacts the site you linked to;
• if you sign in, to check your NoiseBolt account for Pro (it fetches a signed Pro key that lasts to the end of your paid period) and for notices about your shares, at start-up and every 6 hours;
• to show the community, download sounds you add, and, if you sign in, to vote, share and comment (see below).

The Stream Deck and Touch Portal connection listens only on your own PC and is protected with a key, so other devices on your network can't use it.

The community

Anyone can browse, listen to and download community sounds without an account. If you make a NoiseBolt account or join the community, this is what we hold and why.

• Your NoiseBolt account. Your email address, so you can sign in and so we can send you sign-up and password-reset codes (we never show it to anyone or send you marketing unless you ask). Your password, stored only as a scrambled one-way hash that we can't turn back into the password. That you confirmed you're 13 or over. A sign-in session for 30 days: in the app it's stored encrypted for your Windows user, and on the website it's a cookie that only lets you stay signed in. We use these because you asked for an account (our contract with you).
• Your community profile. The display name you choose, that you confirmed you are 13 or over, and when you agreed to the rules. Your name is public on your shares and comments.
• What you share. Your sound files, titles, descriptions, categories, length, a waveform picture, and an audio fingerprint (a list of numbers describing the sound, used to stop music removed for copyright being shared again). Files are stored with Cloudflare. What you share is public.
• Votes and comments. Which shares you voted on, and your comments, which are public.
• Pro. When you buy Pro, Paddle tells us your Paddle customer number, your plan, its status and when your paid period ends, plus each payment's amount, tax and fee, so we can turn Pro on for your account and keep our accounts. We keep payment records for 6 years because tax law requires it. We never receive your card details.
• Notices. Messages to you about your shares (for example one that hasn't been downloaded for 3 months and will be deleted unless you keep it). Read notices are deleted after 90 days.
• Emails we send. Sign-up and reset codes are sent through Resend, or Brevo when Resend is busy; they see your email address and the message.
• Reports. If you report something while signed in, we link the report to your account so we can stop abuse of reporting; the person reported is never told who reported them. If you're not signed in, the report has no name on it. Anything you write in the details box is seen only by our moderators.
• Moderation. Our moderators can see reports, hidden content and accounts. We keep a record of every moderation decision, and the reason, to show regulators that we deal with harmful content. We do this under our legal duties in the Online Safety Act 2023 and our legitimate interest in keeping the community safe.
• Limits and logs. We count actions per account per day (for example uploads) to stop spam, and our host keeps short-term request logs.

How long we keep it. Your account, profile, shares, comments and votes until you delete them or your account; an account whose email was never confirmed is deleted after 7 days. A share nobody downloads for 3 months is deleted unless you keep it. Sign-in sessions for 30 days. Email codes for 15 minutes. Daily counters for 2 days. The details written in a report for 12 months after it's closed, and the report itself and moderation records for 2 years. Pro history for 2 years. If we remove content because the law requires it, we may keep what's needed to show what we did for as long as the law requires.

Your controls. On your account page you can download everything we hold about you as a file, change your password, delete any share, and delete your whole account, which removes your profile, shares, files, comments, votes and notices straight away. Reports you made stay, without your name, so moderators can finish them; payment records stay, without your account, for tax law.

This website

This site has no advertising or tracking scripts. If you sign in, it sets one cookie that keeps you signed in; it's needed for the feature you asked for, so we don't ask for consent, and it's deleted when you sign out or after 30 days. Without signing in, no cookies are set. The site saves the language you pick in your browser's local storage; this never leaves your device. It guesses your currency from your browser's time zone and language settings, on your device, without contacting anyone.

Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, keeps short-term server logs (IP address, page requested, browser type) to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. We rely on our legitimate interest in running a secure website for this.

When you subscribe to Pro

Pro is sold by Paddle.com, our reseller and merchant of record. When you check out, Paddle collects your name, email, country and payment details to take payment, prevent fraud and meet tax law, under its own privacy notice. Paddle's checkout loads from paddle.com on our account page only when you choose to buy. Card details never reach us.

Emails

If you email us, we use your message and address to reply and keep them for up to two years. We only send product news if you ask for it, and every email has an unsubscribe link.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, object to how we use it, or ask us to limit it. For your community account you can do most of this yourself on your account page; otherwise email us and we'll reply within a month. If you're unhappy with our answer, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, or your local data protection authority.

Who else handles data

Paddle (Pro payments), Resend and Brevo (sign-up and reset emails), Cloudflare (hosting, the community server and file storage), Microsoft (the Microsoft Store, where the app comes from) and GitHub (updates for website downloads). Some of them may process data outside the UK. Where they do, they use safeguards approved under UK law, such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum or the UK-US data bridge.

Children

The NoiseBolt app can be used at any age, and listening to or downloading community sounds needs no account. You must be 13 or over to make a NoiseBolt account, and buying Pro needs a parent's permission if you're under 18. Mature shares are hidden unless you choose to see them. If we learn that someone under 13 has made an account, we delete it. If you're a parent and think your child has joined, email privacy@noisebolt.com.