VycutPrivacy Policy
The short version: your videos never leave your iPhone. Vycut transcribes, picks moments, edits and renders clips on the device. To write each clip's headline, it sends that clip's transcript text (never audio or video) to a language model, and nothing from it is stored. We only keep the small amount of account information needed to sign you in, plus two onboarding answers.
What stays on your iPhone
Videos you import, their audio, transcripts, the moments Vycut picks, and every clip it renders are processed and stored only on your device. We never upload your videos or audio, and we can't see them. Clips you save go to your Photos library, which you control.
Clip headlines
When you're signed in, Vycut writes each clip's hook headline by sending the transcript text of that clip (a few sentences, at most 3,000 characters) and its language to our account server, which passes it to Groq to run a language model and returns headline suggestions to your iPhone. We don't log or store the text, and it is never linked to advertising or used to train models by us. If the request can't be made, the headline is written on your iPhone instead.
What we collect
- Account details: when you sign in with Apple or Google we receive your name (if you share it), your email address (or Apple's private relay address) and an account ID. We use these only to sign you in and to contact you about your account.
- Onboarding answers: what you plan to clip and where you heard about Vycut. We use them to improve the app and to understand which channels bring people to us.
- Basic technical details: the app version and your iPhone model, stored with your onboarding answers to help us fix problems.
We don't use advertising identifiers, we don't track you across other apps or websites, and we don't sell or share your data with data brokers or advertisers.
Who processes it for us
- Clerk, which runs sign-in.
- Neon, which hosts the database that holds your onboarding answers (EU region).
- OVHcloud, which hosts our small account server (EU).
- Groq, which runs the language model that writes clip headlines from a clip's transcript text (United States).
- Apple and Google, when you choose to sign in with them, under their own privacy policies.
The first time you make clips, Vycut downloads a speech-recognition model from Hugging Face. That request contains no personal information beyond what any download does, such as your IP address. If your iPhone has Apple Intelligence, moment picking runs on Apple's on-device model, which also writes headlines when the cloud request isn't available.
How long we keep it
We keep your account details and answers until you delete your account. You can do that any time in Settings → Account → Delete account. It permanently removes your account and answers from our systems. Clips on your iPhone and in Photos are not affected.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (including under the UK GDPR and EU GDPR), you can ask to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, or object to how we use it. Email us and we'll respond within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data-protection authority; in the UK that is the ICO.
Children
Vycut isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we'll delete it.
Changes
If we change this policy we'll update the date above, and for significant changes we'll tell you in the app.
Contact
Cloudex Technologies LTD · info@cloudextechnologies.io