Privacy Policy

• Recordings, scenes, notes, and settings stay on your computer. Nothing is uploaded unless you explicitly use a cloud feature.
• A Videorc account is required to obtain signed desktop downloads and is also used for sign-in and Premium features. Windows Alpha testing itself is free.
• Payments are handled by Creem, our merchant of record. We never see or store card numbers.
• AI features only process content you explicitly submit, after you consent to the upload.
• We use exactly one cookie — the session cookie that keeps you signed in. No ad or tracking cookies, which is why there is no cookie banner.

Videorc is operated by OrcDev ("we", "us"). For anything privacy-related, contact us at orc@videorc.com. This policy covers the Videorc website (videorc.com), the account service, and the online features of the Videorc desktop app.

Account data. When you create an account: your name, email address, and a hashed password — or your Google account identifier if you sign in with Google. Used to sign you in, send you login links and password resets, and attach your Premium subscription to you.

Billing data. Payments are processed by Creem as merchant of record. Creem handles your payment details under its own privacy policy; we store only your subscription state — plan, billing interval, status, and renewal date — so the product knows what you paid for.

AI content (opt-in). Premium AI features (transcripts, titles, summaries, chapters, live captions (early alpha)) process recordings or audio that you explicitly choose to submit. We ask for consent before anything is uploaded. We also keep usage counts (number of AI runs, processing volume) to enforce fair monthly quotas. The optional live co-host (Premium, off by default) sends public live-chat messages from your own broadcast (author name, message text, platform) to the AI provider in short batches while you stream, only while you have enabled it and given consent; replies are never posted without your explicit approval, and chat batches are not retained after the response is produced.

Emails. We send transactional email only: login links, password resets, and subscription confirmations, delivered via Resend.

Technical data. Our hosting provider (Vercel) collects aggregate, privacy-friendly analytics and standard server logs. This does not use cookies and does not track you across sites.

The Videorc recorder is local-first. Your recordings, scene layouts, local library, session notes, and app settings are stored on your computer. Stream keys and connected-platform credentials are stored in your per-user app data, protected by your operating-system account permissions. None of this is transmitted to us unless you explicitly submit specific content to a cloud AI feature.

Videorc uses YouTube API Services when you choose to connect a YouTube account. By using that connection, you are also subject to the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.

With your permission, Videorc accesses your YouTube channel identity (channel ID, name, handle, and avatar), live-broadcast and live-stream identifiers and status, and live-chat messages needed to prepare, manage, and display your broadcast and chat inside the app. OAuth tokens and connected-channel metadata are stored locally on your computer. Videorc does not sell this data or send it to our servers.

Videorc's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

You can remove access at any time with Disconnect in Videorc. This asks Google to revoke the authorization and deletes the locally stored tokens and connected-channel data. You can also revoke Videorc from Google's third-party access settings. YouTube API data is refreshed when needed to provide the connected feature; it is not retained after you disconnect. If revocation is detected, Videorc stops using the authorization and prompts you to reconnect.

We use a small set of processors to run the service: Vercel (hosting and analytics), Neon (database), Creem (payments, as merchant of record), Resend (transactional email), and AI model providers reached through Vercel's AI Gateway and OpenAI (transcription) — the latter only for content you submit to AI features. We do not sell your data, and we do not use your content to train our own models.

Account and subscription data is kept while your account exists. Billing and webhook records are retained as needed for accounting and dispute handling. AI job inputs and outputs are kept so you can revisit your results, and are removed when you delete your account. To delete your account and its data, email us at orc@videorc.com.

Depending on where you live (including under the GDPR), you can ask for access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of your personal data, and you can object to or restrict certain processing. Email us and we will handle it — no forms, no runaround.

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will update this page and adjust the date above. Significant changes will be called out on the website or by email. See also our Terms of Service.