Legal Lingo

1. You’re Submitting Voluntarily

You confirm that:

  • You are submitting this story of your own free will.
  • You are at least 18 years old.
  • The story is either your personal experience or shared with permission from those involved.
  • You understand your submission may be edited for clarity, length, and dramatic effect (we’re storytellers, not court reporters). 🎭

2. Anonymity Isn’t Immunity

While we encourage creative aliases and will not intentionally reveal your identity, you understand:

  • We cannot guarantee complete anonymity.
  • You are responsible for the content you disclose.
  • If your story contains identifiable details, that’s on you, bestie. 🚨

3. No Active Crimes, No Ongoing Investigations

Sips & Secrecy is a storytelling platform — not a confessional booth. By submitting, you confirm that your story:

  • Does NOT include active, ongoing, or planned illegal activity.
  • Does NOT request advice on how to commit or conceal a crime.
  • Does NOT contain credible threats of harm to yourself or others.

We reserve the right to:

  • Refuse to read or air any submission.
  • Edit or remove illegal or dangerous content.
  • Report credible threats, admissions of ongoing criminal conduct, abuse, or illegal activity to appropriate authorities if required by law.

4. Defamation & Liability

You agree:

  • Not to falsely accuse, defame, or knowingly misrepresent real individuals.
  • Not to submit content that violates someone’s privacy or legal rights.
  • That you are solely responsible for the accuracy of your submission.

Sips & Secrecy, its hosts, producers, affiliates, and glitter-adjacent partners assume no liability for the content submitted by listeners. 🎙

5. Permission to Use Your Story

By submitting, you grant Sips & Secrecy:

  • Permission to read, adapt, edit, dramatize, and distribute your story on the podcast and related media platforms.
  • A non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use the submission in audio, video, social, or promotional content.

You will not receive compensation unless otherwise agreed in writing. (If you become iconic, we’ll just tag you as “Anonymous Chaos.”)

6. Not Legal Advice

This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Nothing shared or discussed constitutes legal, medical, or professional advice.

Final Confirmation

By clicking “Submit,” you confirm that:

  • You’ve read this agreement.
  • You understand it.
  • You’re not trying to get us subpoenaed.

Now… spill responsibly.