Privacy Policy · Guilty But Adorable
Last updated: 8 November 2026
Guilty But Adorable is a comedy show in which animated pets go on trial. This policy explains what personal data we collect when you send us your pet's case or sign up for our newsletter, why we collect it and what your rights are.
Kerim Bastug
Büntenweg 1
8885 Mols, Switzerland
Email:
guiltybutadorable@gmail.comWhen you submit a case through our form ("Put Your Pet on Trial"):
- your pet's name, species, breed, age and sex
- the description of the "crime" and anything else you write about your pet
- photos you upload and video links you send
- your Instagram or TikTok handle, if you give it
- your email address
- which consent boxes you ticked and when you submitted the form
When you sign up for "The Court Gazette" newsletter: your email address, the time you signed up and whether you open the emails and click links in them (standard newsletter statistics).
When you write to us by email: your message and email address.
When you comment on or interact with our posts on social media: your public username and comment, as shown by the platform.
Please do not send photos that show children or recognisable people.
Sending us a case is voluntary. We need your email address so we can contact you about it; without it we cannot accept the case.
- To review your case and decide whether it goes to court in a video.
- To turn your pet into an animated character and publish the video and posts on our channels (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Threads, Pinterest, Snapchat, X, Reddit). We only do this because you agreed to it in the form.
- To put your pet on products such as a mugshot poster, only if you ticked that box.
- To contact you by email before your case goes online and to tag your handle in the post.
- To send you "The Court Gazette" once a month, only if you ticked that box. You can unsubscribe at any time with the link in every email.
- To answer your emails and comments. We may quote a funny public comment in a later post ("Witness of the day") with your username.
Your data is never sold. We make no automated decisions about you; every case is chosen by a person.
Legal basis (for visitors from the EU and the UK)
We publish your pet, make products with it and send the newsletter based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and UK GDPR). We contact you about your case to carry out what you asked for when you submitted it (Art. 6(1)(b)). We keep records of consents, answer and quote comments, run our social media pages and keep our accounts secure based on our legitimate interest in running the show (Art. 6(1)(f)).
Who processes your data for us
We use these services to run the form, the newsletter, our email and our link page. They process data on our behalf and only as needed for their service:
- Tally (Belgium): the submission form and its storage
- Google (USA): Google Sheets for our list of submissions, Gmail for our email, Google Drive if you send us a Drive link
- MailerLite (Lithuania): sending the newsletter
- Linktree (Australia): our link page
- Infomaniak (Switzerland): our domain
- AI tools that turn your photos into the animated video and mugshot: Google (USA, image generation) and Segmind (USA, video generation with the Seedance model). ElevenLabs (USA) creates the voices of our court characters and receives no data from you.
- CapCut (ByteDance, Singapore): video editing
- Anthropic (USA): Claude, an AI assistant that helps us sort submissions and write scripts
- Fourthwall (USA) or another print-on-demand partner: only if you agreed to products and we make one with your pet
This means your data may be processed outside Switzerland and the EU, in particular in the United States, Australia and Singapore. Not all of these countries have data protection equal to Swiss or EU law. Where that is the case, the providers use the safeguards required by law, such as the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission recognised by Switzerland, or the Swiss-US and EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the provider is certified.
Once your case is published, your pet's video, name and photos are public on the platforms named above.
When you visit or interact with our pages on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and the other platforms, the platform processes your data under its own privacy policy. For our Facebook and Instagram pages, Meta gives us anonymous statistics about visitors ("Page Insights"); for these statistics we and Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. are jointly responsible. Meta takes on the main duties for this, including answering your requests. You can find details in Meta's privacy policy.
We do not set cookies ourselves. Tally, Linktree and MailerLite may use technically necessary cookies and collect basic usage statistics (for example how many people opened the form or clicked a link). Our Linktree page shows a YouTube video: when you press play, YouTube (Google) may set cookies and record that you watched it. The social media platforms have their own privacy policies.
We keep submissions only in the services listed above, protected by strong passwords and two-factor login wherever the service offers it, and only we have access.
- Cases that are not chosen: deleted no later than 12 months after you sent them.
- Cases that are chosen: kept as long as the video is online, plus your email address so we can reach you about it.
- Record of your consent: as long as the video is online and up to 3 years after, so we can show that you agreed.
- Newsletter: until you unsubscribe.
- Emails: as long as needed to answer you, at most 2 years.
You can ask us at any time what data we have about you and get a copy of it, ask us to correct or delete it, ask us to limit its use, and object to uses based on our legitimate interest (for example being quoted in a post). You can withdraw your consent at any time for the future; this does not affect what we did before. If you withdraw consent for a published video, we will remove it from our channels; copies others have already shared may still exist. Just write to
guiltybutadorable@gmail.com. We answer within 30 days.
You can also complain to a data protection authority: in Switzerland the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC,
edoeb.admin.ch), in the UK the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), or the authority in your EU country.
Visitors from anywhere in the world have these rights with us. For California and other US states: we do not sell your personal information and do not share it for targeted advertising.
You must be 18 or older to submit a case or sign up for the newsletter.
We may update this policy when we add new services, for example when our online shop opens. The date at the top always shows the current version.