PRIVACY POLICY

1. Who is responsible

VaniumClips, India, runs VaniClips and decides how your information is used. We do not publish a postal address: contact is by email only. For anything about privacy, write to support@vaniclips.com.

2. This website

The pages you are reading now do not use advertising or tracking cookies and load no fonts or scripts from other companies. Like every website, our hosting provider keeps short-lived technical logs (IP address, browser, pages requested) to keep the site running and secure.

If you join the waitlist or email us, we keep your email address and message so we can reply and tell you when VaniClips opens. Ask us at any time and we will delete them.

3. What we collect when you use the app

• Account. When you sign in with Google we receive your name, email address, profile picture and Google account ID. We never see your Google password.
• Your videos. The files or links you submit, the transcript we make from them, and the clips, titles and captions produced.
• Usage. The jobs you run, the minutes they use, your plan, and any errors.
• Your ownership confirmation. Each time you confirm you may use a video, we record the time, the kind of source and a shortened (partly hidden) IP address.
• Payment. Payments are taken by our payment provider, a merchant of record that is named at checkout. We do not receive your card number. We receive your customer ID, plan, payment status and renewal date.
• Technical data. IP address, browser type and a sign-in cookie that keeps you logged in.

4. Why we use it

• To provide the service: make your clips, show your results, apply your plan’s limits. (Needed for our contract with you.)
• To take payment and keep the records the law requires. (Contract and legal duty.)
• To keep the service safe, stop abuse and handle copyright complaints. (Our legitimate interest.)
• To write to you about your account or changes to the service. (Contract and legitimate interest.)

We do not sell your information. We do not use your videos to train AI models, and we do not show them to anyone else.

5. Who we share it with

Only the companies we need to run VaniClips, and only what each one needs:

• Google: sign-in, and the Gemini API, which receives the transcript and some frames of your video to help choose the moments.
• Hetzner: the servers where videos are processed and stored for a short time.
• Cloudflare: DNS, delivering the website (CDN), protecting it from attacks, and routing the email sent to our contact address.
• Our payment provider, a merchant of record named at checkout: takes payments and handles sales tax.

Some of these companies are outside your country. Where the law requires it, we rely on approved safeguards such as standard contractual clauses. We may also share information when the law obliges us to.

6. How long we keep it

• Uploaded videos and clips: deleted automatically. Free-plan clips are deleted after 48 hours and paid-plan clips after 24 hours (sooner if our storage runs short). The original video is deleted at the same time or earlier.
• Account, usage records and ownership confirmations: for as long as you have an account. When you delete your account they are removed straight away, together with your videos and clips.
• A marker that an account was deleted: after deletion we keep only a scrambled (hashed) code and the date. It lets us confirm, if you ask, that your account was deleted. It cannot be turned back into your email address.
• A hashed usage counter: for accounts on the Free plan we also keep, next to that hashed code, how many free minutes were used that month, the date of the last video and how many videos were made that day. If the same Google account signs up again in the same month, it continues from that usage instead of getting a new free allowance. This is only to prevent abuse of the Free plan. The counter is deleted when the month ends.
• Copyright reports: reports sent to us under “Reporting copyright problems” in the Terms, and our replies, are kept for our records.
• Payment records: for as long as tax and accounting law requires.
• Technical logs: up to 30 days.

7. Cookies

The app uses one essential cookie that keeps you signed in. It is not used for advertising or to follow you across other websites, so there is no cookie banner. Google’s sign-in button, which the app loads from Google, sets Google’s own cookies (for example one that remembers the state of the sign-in prompt).

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under GDPR in the EU and UK), you can ask us to:

• show you the information we hold about you, and give you a copy;
• correct information that is wrong;
• delete your account and your information (you can also do this yourself, at any time, on the Account page of the app);
• stop or limit a use of your information that you object to.

Write to support@vaniclips.com from the address on your account and we will answer within 30 days. If you are unhappy with our answer, you can complain to your local data protection authority.

9. Security

Connections are encrypted, each user can only reach their own videos and clips, and files are deleted automatically after their storage time. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach puts your information at risk, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.

10. Children

VaniClips is not for people under 18. We do not knowingly collect their information. If you think a child has given us information, write to us and we will delete it.

11. Changes

When we change this policy we change the date at the top. For important changes we tell you by email or in the app before they apply.

12. Contact

Privacy questions and requests: support@vaniclips.com. See also our Terms of Service.