This notice explains what data OutaStory GmbH processes when you offer and deliver narration as a professional speaker through the speaker marketplace. It builds on the member notice and adds what is specific to your speaker profile, audio recordings and payouts. It is one of the role-specific privacy notices.
Who this notice covers
It covers speakers active on the professional narration marketplace. Everything about your underlying reader account is in the Member Privacy Notice, and the contractual marketplace rules are in the Speaker Terms.
Speaker profile and public data
Your speaker profile — display name, biography, the languages you narrate in, your specialties, an indicative rate and voice samples — is shown publicly on the marketplace so authors can find and commission you. Beyond the required fields you choose what to include; please keep it accurate and up to date.
Your recordings and voice samples
We process the audio files you upload as voice samples and deliver as commissioned narration so we can store them, attach them to the relevant story and make them available to listeners on the platform. Your voice in these recordings is personal data; we use it only to run the marketplace and serve the narration, not to train third-party speech models. More on how AI is used on the platform is in our AI guidelines.
Commissions and communication
When an author commissions you, we process the commission and message data between you — offer, price, status, deliveries and approvals — to broker and complete the engagement.
Payments, escrow and tax data
Payments are held in escrow and paid out to you through Stripe Connect Express. Before you can receive payouts you complete Stripe's identity verification (KYC) and provide valid payout details; in doing so Stripe acts as an independent controller for the identity and bank data needed to verify you. We process the payout and commission data for each engagement and, where the law requires, report it to the tax authorities. Statutory tax records are kept for the legally mandated period (up to 10 years). The marketplace's economic terms are in the Speaker Terms; the general payout logic is described in the revenue-share policy.
Moderation and abuse prevention
To protect the community and meet our legal duties, we record the IP address and a timestamp when you accept the speaker terms, and we keep moderation records for reports and enforcement. This abuse-prevention data is kept on a legitimate-interest basis for up to 12 months.
Retention and deletion
Delivered narration and the records tied to it are kept while your account is active and the recordings are attached to published stories. If you delete your account, we remove or anonymise your personal data, except records we must keep for statutory tax or legal reasons and narration already delivered, whose availability is governed by the speaker terms.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and data portability, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Note that statutory retention may limit erasure of tax-relevant records.
The full picture
This notice is a focused summary for speakers. The complete privacy policy, with every data category, legal basis, retention period and processor, is the comprehensive privacy policy.