Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 15, 2026

1. Who is responsible

StreamToShorts is operated by an individual based in Georgia, who is responsible for your personal data. Contact for any privacy question or request: streamtoshorts@gmail.com.

2. What we collect and why

• Google sign-in: your name, email address, profile picture and Google account ID. Used to create and secure your account. We do not get your Google password or access to your Gmail, Drive or YouTube.
• Your videos: files you upload or links you paste, plus what we create from them: audio, transcripts, still frames, moment scores, captions and the finished Shorts. Used only to provide the Service to you.
• Payments: the credit packs you buy, amounts, dates and the Stripe payment reference. Card details go directly to Stripe; we never see or store your full card number.
• Technical data: IP address, browser and request logs, kept for security and troubleshooting.

Legal bases: performing our contract with you (account, processing, payments), our legitimate interest in keeping the Service secure, and legal obligations (tax and accounting records).

3. Cookies

We use one essential cookie that keeps you signed in. We do not use advertising cookies.

Analytics (optional): if you click Accept on our cookie banner, we load Google Analytics, which sets cookies and tells us which pages are visited, roughly from where, and from which kind of device, so we can improve the site. It is not loaded at all if you decline or ignore the banner. You can change your choice any time: cookie settings.

Google's sign-in button and Google Fonts are loaded from Google, which receives your IP address when the page loads.

4. Who processes data for us

• Hetzner Online (Germany): hosts the servers where your account, videos and Shorts are stored.
• Google: sign-in, and Google Analytics if you accept analytics cookies.
• Stripe: payments, receipts and, where it acts as reseller, tax collection.
• Anthropic (AI provider): short transcript excerpts and a few still frames from your video may be sent to its API to find the best moments and write hooks. Under its commercial terms this data is not used to train its models.
• Google Drive and Dropbox: when you paste a share link, our server downloads that file from them.

These providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States, under their own safeguards (such as standard contractual clauses). We do not sell or rent personal data and do not share it for advertising.

5. How long we keep data

• Account data, videos and Shorts: while your account is open. We may delete source videos and Shorts of old projects to save space and will warn you in the app before doing so.
• After you ask us to delete your account, we delete your data within 30 days. Copies in server backups are overwritten within a further 14 days.
• Payment and credit records: kept as long as tax and accounting law requires.

6. Your rights

You can ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to its processing, or send it to you in a portable format. Email streamtoshorts@gmail.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 Georgia's Personal Data Protection Service or to the data protection authority in your own country.

7. Security

Connections are encrypted (HTTPS). Your videos are only reachable after signing in to your account; the database is not exposed to the internet; server access requires cryptographic keys. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects you, we will tell you.

8. Children

The Service is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.

9. Changes

We will update this page when our practices change and show the new date at the top. Significant changes are announced to signed-in users.