Sell feet pics anonymously and keep your name out of it

Four ways a set can point back to you

Check four things before anything goes online. Your body, meaning a face at the edge of a shot, a tattoo, a toe ring or a pedicure people know you for. Your room, such as a rug someone would recognise, the view out of a window or mail with your name on it. Your accounts, if your nickname or email also lives on other sites. Your payment method, because some show the fan your real name.

Build the shot so only your feet show

A plain set beats a busy room

Rest your feet on something bare, like a towel, a blank wall or a sheet of card. Soles, arches and nail polish read better against it, so the private shot also turns out to be the better feet pic.

Check the edges, not the centre

Most giveaways hide at the border of the frame, so zoom into the corners before you upload. Look for anything that reflects, such as a mirror, a glossy tile or a dark screen. Check for a window someone could match to a street or an envelope with your name, and for things that turn up in your other photos too, like a signature polish, a toe ring or a bracelet.

No face needed

A face never has to appear, not in clips and not for the verified badge, which takes one photo of your feet. Your nickname is the public part of you. For a profile picture without a face, see our guide to photos and your profile.

Shoot fresh for this site

An old picture is found in seconds with a reverse image search. Keep photos from your social accounts off feetpics.com, and keep the sets you make here off your personal accounts.

Location data in your files

A phone camera can tag every photo and video with where and when it was taken and which device took it. feetpics.com removes that data from every file you upload, photos and clips alike, at Broadcast, in Edit profile and in an offer teaser. Switch it off on your phone too, so the originals you keep and anything you send elsewhere carry none.

iPhone, following Apple's instructions

• Stop tagging new photos. Open Settings, go to Privacy & Security, then Location Services, pick Camera and set it to Never.
• Share a single photo without its place. In the share sheet, tap Options and switch Location off.
• Clean a photo already in your library. Open it in Photos, tap More, choose Adjust Info, then Adjust Location, then No Location.

Android

Turn location off in your camera app's settings before shooting. Every maker puts that switch somewhere else. According to Google, Photos only clears a location that was estimated or typed in by hand, never one the camera recorded, so the switch in the camera is the step that counts.

When the set is clean, the guide to delivering sets safely explains how to hand it over.

Nickname, inbox, payments and your page

• A fresh nickname. Leave out your real name, any handle from another platform, and combinations like your town plus the year you were born. Your username is public and cannot be changed later.
• A separate inbox. Create an email address just for feetpics.com, with a password you use nowhere else. The FBI's IC3 has warned about hijacked accounts and leaked private content. Its advice is a unique passphrase, multi-factor authentication and keeping your log-in to yourself.
• Blocking. Once you block a member, they can't write to you or send you anything else, and neither of you appears in the other's lists any more.
• Numbers and emails in texts. Phone numbers, emails and usernames of other apps are hidden in public texts, offers and the inbox. Leave them out anyway.
• Your payment method. PayPal, Cash App, Venmo and a bank transfer show the fan the name on your account when they pay. A PayPal business name, a nickname cashtag or crypto keeps your own name private.
• What buyers can see. In Edit profile you switch off what you do not want to show: your country, your age, Active today, your languages, the year you joined. The preview on My page shows your page exactly as a guest sees it.

Pausing or leaving

Delete a clip or a photo in My page to take it off your page; the file is erased from our servers. Pause your page under My page if you need a break. Before a longer pause, clear old copies of sets you delivered from your camera roll and your cloud backup.