Privacy Policy

Your privacy matters to us. Learn how we responsibly collect, use, and protect your personal information.

Last Updated: December 13, 2025

🔒 Privacy First
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This policy explains our practices transparently.
⚠️ Critical AI Content Disclaimer

VideoSummary bears NO RESPONSIBILITY for:

  • • Accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content
  • • Any errors, inaccuracies, or harmful information in summaries
  • • Use of summaries for legal, medical, financial, or other critical decisions
  • • Copyright violations or other intellectual property rights infringements
  • • Any damages or consequences resulting from the use of generated content

Users bear full responsibility for verifying and appropriately using any information obtained through this application.

What Information We Collect

👤 Account Data
Information you provide when creating an account
Email addressRequired
NameOptional
PasswordEncrypted
User preferencesOptional
📊 Usage Data
How you interact with our service
YouTube video URLs
Subscribed channels
Generated summaries
Ratings and feedback

How We Use Your Information

🚀 Service Delivery
To provide and maintain our core features
• Generate AI summaries
• Manage accounts & subscriptions
• Send service notifications
📈 Service Improvement
To enhance and optimize our platform
• Analyze usage patterns
• Fix bugs & improve performance
• Develop new features
• Improve service based on usage patterns

Data Sharing & Security

✅ Trusted Partners
We only share data with essential service providers
SupabaseDatabase
OpenRouterAI Service
LLM ProvidersAI Services
🚫 We do NOT sell your data
🔐 Security Measures
How we protect your information
HTTPS/TLS encryption
Encrypted data storage
Security best practices
Access controls
Secure password hashing

YouTube Integration

YouTube Data Handling
We only access publicly available YouTube data and respect platform policies

📥 What We Access

  • • Public video metadata
  • • Public captions/transcripts
  • • Channel information
  • • Video thumbnails

🚫 What We Don't Access

  • • Your YouTube credentials
  • • Your watch history
  • • Private account data
  • • Video files themselves

📋 YouTube API Compliance

Our YouTube integration follows YouTube Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.

• We only access publicly available video metadata and captions
• We respect video privacy settings (private/unlisted videos)
• We provide attribution and links to original content
• We use content only for personal educational purposes
• For videos without captions, we may use AI to generate transcripts
• AI-generated transcripts are used only when official captions unavailable

Your Privacy Rights

🛡️ GDPR & CCPA Rights
You have control over your personal data
AccessRequest a copy of your personal data
RectifyCorrect inaccurate information
EraseDelete your account and data
PortabilityData export functionality
ObjectObject to personal data processing (including automated decisions)

📧 To exercise your rights, contact us at:

privacy@videosummary.org

📞 Contact Information
Questions about your privacy or data rights?

Privacy Inquiries

privacy@videosummary.org
📝 Privacy Acknowledgment

By using VideoSummary, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.