Privacy policy

This policy explains what information Yo Chat Clips handles, where it is kept, who else is involved, and the choices you have. "Yo Chat Clips", "we" and "us" mean the operator of the Yo Chat Clips app and of this website, based in Canada. You can reach us at hello@yochatclips.com.

Yo Chat Clips is in development and is not publicly available yet. This policy describes how the app works and will apply from its release. If something changes before then, this page will be updated.

1. What stays on your computer

Yo Chat Clips is a program you install on a Windows PC. These things are created and kept there, and are not sent to us:

• the videos and live-stream recordings the app downloads at your request, and the clips it makes from them;
• your sound effects, pictures and settings;
• the sign-in tokens for the YouTube channels and TikTok accounts you connect.

Removing the app's folder removes all of it.

2. What our server holds

Your account. Your email address; your password, stored only as a salted hash that cannot be read back; whether your email is confirmed; which plan you are on; and whether "Help improve Yo Chat" is on. We use this to sign you in, send you confirmation and password-reset codes, and give you the features of your plan.

Payments. If you buy a paid plan, the payment is taken on a page run by our payment provider, Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe and never reach our server. We keep a reference number for your Stripe customer record and whether your subscription is active.

Your clip decisions, if you share them. The app has a switch called "Help improve Yo Chat". The sign-up form shows it and explains it, and you can turn it off there or at any time in Settings. While it is on, each time you approve, discard or edit a clip the app sends us:

• the words spoken in that clip, its title, its length, and the name of the channel it was clipped from;
• the caption and sound effects the app proposed, and the ones you kept;
• what you decided, and for a discard, which of the listed reasons you picked;
• the VideoFX level on the clip and whether sound effects and VideoFX are switched on in your settings.

These records are stored against a random identifier, not your email address. They never include your videos, file names, or anything about your YouTube or TikTok accounts. We use them to improve how the app chooses moments and writes captions, including by training our own software on them. While the switch is off, nothing is sent.

3. How the AI is used

To choose moments and write captions, the app makes a written transcript of the video on your computer. That text, together with the video's title, the channel's name and the names of your sound effects and pictures, is sent through our server to our AI provider, Anthropic, which returns its suggestions. The video and its sound are not sent. We do not keep this text as part of your account. Anthropic handles it under its own terms and privacy policy.

4. YouTube and Google

Yo Chat Clips uses YouTube API Services to upload clips to a YouTube channel you connect. By using that feature you also agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google handles your information as described in the Google Privacy Policy.

• The only permission the app asks Google for is the one that lets it upload videos to your channel.
• When you connect a channel, Google gives the app a sign-in token. It is stored on your computer and used only to upload the clips you approve, or the clips the app makes when you have chosen to post without review. It is not sent to our server.
• The app does not read your channel's existing videos, comments, subscribers or analytics.
• You can disconnect a channel in the app's Settings, which deletes the token from your computer. You can also remove the app's access at any time from your Google Account's security settings: myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Yo Chat Clips' use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

5. TikTok

If you connect a TikTok account, the app asks TikTok for permission to read your basic profile (so it can show which account is connected) and to publish videos to your account. The sign-in token is stored on your computer and used only to post the clips you choose. Our server may take part in completing or renewing that sign-in, and does not use it for anything else. You can disconnect the account in the app's Settings, and you can remove the app's access in TikTok's own settings.

6. Other companies involved

We use a small number of service providers to run Yo Chat Clips: Stripe for payments, Anthropic for the AI described above, an email-sending service for confirmation and reset codes, and hosting providers for our server and this website. They receive only what they need to do that job. We do not sell your information, and we do not share it with advertisers.

Some of these providers are outside Canada, including in the United States, so your information may be processed there and be subject to the laws of those countries.

7. This website

This website has no sign-up forms, no advertising and no tracking cookies. Like any website, the company that hosts it keeps short-lived technical logs, such as the IP addresses that request pages, to keep the site running and secure.

8. How long we keep things, and deleting them

• In the app's Settings, "Delete what I shared" removes every clip decision your account has shared.
• "Delete my account" removes your account and everything it shared from our server. A paid plan has to be cancelled first.
• You can also ask us to do either by writing to hello@yochatclips.com from the address on your account.

We keep account information for as long as the account exists. Records of payments may be kept longer where tax or accounting rules require it. Clip decisions that have already been used to train our software cannot be removed from what it has learned, but the records themselves are deleted.

9. Your rights

You can ask to see the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, withdraw your consent to sharing clip decisions, or ask us to delete your account. Write to hello@yochatclips.com. If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the data-protection authority where you live. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under your local law, and we will honour them.

10. Children

Yo Chat Clips is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has created an account, write to us and we will delete it.

11. Security

Connections to our server are encrypted. Passwords, sign-in tokens and emailed codes are stored on the server only in hashed form. No system is perfectly secure; if we learn of a breach that affects you, we will tell you as the law requires.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. If a change affects how your information is used in an important way, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.

13. Contact

Yo Chat Clips, Canada. hello@yochatclips.com