Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 5, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Clipped (“Clipped”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses and shares information when you use our website, applications and services (together, the “Service”). By using the Service, you agree to the practices described here.

1. Information we collect

Information you give us. Such as your name, email address, account details, the channels you add, and the content you create, edit or upload, as well as anything you send us when you contact support.

Information from connected platforms. When you connect an account such as Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Kick, we receive the information that platform shares with your permission, for example your account ID, display name, profile image, channel details and access tokens that let us read stream data and publish on your behalf.

Stream data. To analyze a live stream or VOD, we process publicly available video, audio, transcripts and chat messages from the channels you choose to watch.

Usage and device information. Such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages viewed, and actions taken in the Service, collected through logs and similar technologies.

2. How we use information

• to provide, operate and maintain the Service, including transcription, sentiment analysis, clip detection, editing and publishing;
• to publish content to your connected accounts when you ask us to, or automatically under settings you enable;
• to improve, secure and troubleshoot the Service;
• to communicate with you about the Service, including updates, support and security notices;
• to comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms.

3. How we share information

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only:

• With connected platforms, when you direct us to publish content or otherwise act on your behalf;
• With service providers who process data for us (such as hosting, storage, analytics and AI model providers) under obligations to protect it and use it only to provide services to us;
• For legal reasons, if required by law or to protect the rights, property or safety of Clipped, our users or others;
• In a business transfer, such as a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, subject to this Policy;
• With your consent, or at your direction.

4. Google and YouTube data

Clipped uses YouTube API Services to publish clips to YouTube channels you connect. Our use of YouTube API Services is subject to the YouTube API Services Terms of Service. By connecting a YouTube channel or using Clipped's YouTube features, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's handling of your information is described in the Google Privacy Policy.

What we access. When you connect a YouTube channel through Google, you grant Clipped two permissions: to upload videos to that channel (youtube.upload), and to view your YouTube account (youtube.readonly), which we use to read the channel's name and ID, so you can see and choose where a clip will be posted, and to read the title and the view, like and comment counts of the videos Clipped uploaded to it, which Clipped's Analytics shows you. Separately, Clipped's Trends page uses YouTube API Services with Clipped's own API key, not your account, to read public details of popular YouTube Shorts: their title, channel, view count, length, publish date, description and tags.

What we store. The access and refresh tokens Google issues; the channel's ID and name; the IDs and links of the videos we upload for you; and those videos' titles and view, like and comment counts. For Trends, the public details above. We do not access or store anything else from YouTube — not your other videos, comments, subscribers, YouTube Analytics or watch history.

How we use it. Only to upload the clips you post, or that post automatically under settings you turn on, with the title, description and privacy setting you choose, and to show you where each was posted and how it is doing. We do not use YouTube data for advertising, we do not sell it, and we share it with no one except the service providers that host Clipped, under the obligations in section 3. Our use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

How long we keep it, and how often it is refreshed. Nothing from YouTube is kept for more than 30 days without being refreshed from YouTube; anything that has not been refreshed in 30 days is deleted automatically.

• Tokens are kept while the channel is connected. Every day Clipped checks with Google that its access is still granted.
• The channel's name is read again from YouTube every day.
• Titles and view, like and comment counts are read again hourly in a video's first two days, every six hours until it is 30 days old, and daily after that. Counts that have not been read again for 30 days are deleted. When YouTube no longer has a video, because it was deleted or made private, its title and counts are deleted as soon as Clipped finds out.
• Video IDs and links are kept while the channel stays connected and the video's counts keep being refreshed, and deleted once 30 days pass without that. For mashups and posts from Clipped Studio, which are not refreshed, they are deleted 30 days after posting.
• Trends details are read again from YouTube at least once a day while a video is on Trends, and deleted 30 days after they were last read.

When any of this is deleted, Clipped keeps only that a clip was posted to YouTube and when, which is Clipped's own record and not YouTube data.

Revoking access and deleting your YouTube data. You can disconnect a YouTube channel at any time in Clipped's Settings → Accounts. Disconnecting revokes Clipped's access at Google and immediately deletes the tokens and everything listed above that Clipped kept about the channel. To delete all of your YouTube data at once, use Delete your YouTube data in Settings → Your data: it disconnects every channel, revokes Clipped's access at Google, and deletes everything Clipped kept from YouTube about any channel you have connected, immediately. You can also revoke Clipped's access from your Google security settings (myaccount.google.com/permissions). Clipped checks every connected channel daily and deletes the same data for any channel whose access was revoked, so it is gone within seven days. Videos already published stay on your YouTube channel; you can delete them in YouTube Studio. Questions about your YouTube data: hello@clipped.so.

5. Data retention and deletion

We keep information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the Service, and afterwards only as long as necessary for legal, security or legitimate business purposes. Data from YouTube is kept only as section 4 describes.

• Disconnecting a platform (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch or Kick) deletes the access tokens we hold for it straight away, and revokes Clipped's access on that platform where the platform allows it; see section 4 for YouTube.
• Deleting your account: use Delete your account in Settings → Your data, or email hello@clipped.so from the address on your account. From Settings it happens immediately; by email, within seven days. We delete your account and everything only you had — your recordings, clips and their files, settings, API keys, mashups and connections — revoke Clipped's access to every platform you connected, and delete your billing customer record with our payment processor (which keeps its own records of past payments, as the law requires). Recordings another account is also using keep only the parts that are theirs.
• Deleting particular data: email us and we will delete what you ask for, within seven days for data from YouTube and within 30 days for anything else, unless we must keep it by law.

6. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or export your personal information, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent. To exercise these rights, email hello@clipped.so. You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

8. Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies that are necessary to keep you signed in and to operate the Service, and may use them to understand how the Service is used. You can control cookies through your browser settings, though some features may not work without them.

9. International transfers

We and our service providers may process information in countries other than your own. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for such transfers.

10. Children

The Service is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age of digital consent in your country), and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.

11. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify you, such as by posting the updated Policy on this page and updating the date above.

12. Contact

Questions about this Policy or your data? Email us at hello@clipped.so.