Privacy policy
Last updated: 15 November 2026
Clip Studio ("we") turns long videos into short clips and, if you ask it to, posts them to your social media accounts. This policy explains what we collect and why.
What we collect
- Account details: your email, name, password (stored only as a secure hash), time zone and country.
- Your videos: the files you upload, their transcripts, and the clips we make from them.
- Connected accounts: when you connect YouTube, TikTok or Instagram, we store the access tokens those platforms give us (encrypted), plus the account name and picture.
- Payments: Paystack and Polar process your payment. We receive the amount, currency, plan and a reference. We never see or store your full card number.
- Usage: minutes processed, posts made and basic activity, so we can apply plan limits and improve the service.
How we use it
Only to run the service you asked for: to transcribe your videos, choose and cut clips, publish the clips you schedule to the accounts you connected, bill your plan and keep the service secure. We do not sell your data and we do not use it for advertising.
Services we use
- Deepgram turns your video's audio into text.
- Anthropic (Claude) reads the transcript to choose moments and write captions. Anthropic does not train its models on this data.
- Cloudflare stores files. Render hosts the app. Neon hosts the database.
- Paystack and Polar handle payments.
YouTube, TikTok and Instagram
We use the YouTube API Services to upload the clips you schedule to your channel and to read your channel's name. By connecting YouTube you also agree to the YouTube Terms of Service; Google's privacy policy is at policies.google.com/privacy. Our use of information from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. You can revoke access at any time from your Clip Studio account page or at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
For TikTok and Instagram we only publish the clips you schedule and read your profile name and picture. You can disconnect them at any time from your account page or from the platform's own settings.
How long we keep it
Uploaded videos and clips are kept while your account is active so you can re-edit and post them. You can delete any video at any time. When you delete your account, or ask us to, we delete your videos, clips, tokens and account details within 30 days, except payment records we must keep by law.
Deleting your data
Email support@lib-smehub.org from your account's email address and ask us to delete your account. This also covers data deletion requests from Facebook/Instagram and TikTok.