Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 11, 2026
What we collect
Account data. If you create an account we store your email address and, for password accounts, a salted hash of your password (we never store or can recover the password itself). If you sign in with Google we store your email and a Google account identifier.
Usage data. We record your IP address to meter free daily credits, and we keep records of credit balances and purchases. Processed videos, transcripts, and rendered clips are cached on our server for roughly 12 hours and then deleted automatically.
Payments. Purchases are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card number; we store only a reference to the completed payment and the credits it granted.
YouTube and Google services
ClipForge uses YouTube API Services. If you connect your YouTube channel, we store an access token that lets us upload clips you explicitly choose to publish to your own channel. We do not read your subscriptions, history, or private data. By using these features you also agree to the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. You can revoke ClipForge's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions, which immediately invalidates our stored token.
Video analysis (clip selection, captions, scores) is performed in part by Google's Gemini models; public video URLs and transcript text are shared with that service for processing.
Cookies
We use a small number of first-party cookies, strictly for sign-in sessions and security (for example, OAuth state validation). We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
What we don't do
We do not sell your data. We do not share it with third parties beyond the service providers named above (Stripe, Google) as needed to operate the product.
Data removal
To delete your account and associated data, contact us at blueblazer3810@gmail.com. Cached video data expires automatically within about 12 hours regardless.