Privacy Policy

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Personal Information: When you register on our site, subscribe to our newsletter, fill out a form, or enter information on our site, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, or other details to help with your experience.

Usage Data: We may also collect information on how our service is accessed and used. This data may include information such as your computer's IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.

Product Analytics: We use PostHog, an analytics provider that processes data on our behalf, to understand how Editory is used. On the website this runs only after you accept analytics cookies. In the Editory app it records which screens you open, when the app is opened and closed, and your device type, operating system and app version, linked to your account so we can see how the website and the app are used together. It never records the content of your videos or scripts, is not used for advertising, and is not sold. You can turn it off at any time in the app under Account, Privacy, “Help improve Editory”, or by declining analytics cookies on the website.

Video Recordings and Face Data: When you record or upload a video, we collect that video and its audio. We also process the video to find where a face appears in the frame, as described in Section 2.

What we collect: The videos you record in the Editory app or upload to Editory, including the people who appear in them. From those videos our servers detect where a face is in each sampled frame (its position and size, and the position of the eyes). We do not create face templates, face geometry, or any other biometric identifier, and we do not use face data to identify or recognize anyone. Editory does not analyze faces on your device; the face guide shown while you record is an on-screen outline only.

How we use it: Face positions are used only to edit the video you asked us to make: to frame and crop the speaker, to keep the speaker in view when the video is resized for different screen shapes, and to place captions and graphics so they do not cover the speaker's face. Your recording is also used to separate the speaker from the background for some layouts, to transcribe what is said, and to render the finished video. We do not use face data or recordings for advertising, we do not sell them, and we do not use them to train machine-learning models.

Where it is stored: Recordings and the videos we make from them are stored in Microsoft Azure cloud storage, and finished videos are also stored by our rendering provider on Amazon Web Services. Face positions are stored only as framing coordinates in the video's editing data in our database.

Sharing: We do not share face data with third parties for their own purposes. To make your video, the recording is processed on our behalf by service providers that act only on our instructions: fal.ai (separating the speaker from the background), ElevenLabs (transcribing the audio), Microsoft Azure (storage and, when you ask Editory to describe a video, AI analysis of sampled frames) and Amazon Web Services (rendering). Your videos are shared further only where you choose to publish or share them.

Retention and deletion: Recordings, the videos made from them and their face positions are kept for as long as you have an Editory account; they are not set to expire after a fixed period. They are deleted when you delete your account, which you can do at any time in the app (Account → Delete account) or on the web. To have copies of finished videos held by our rendering provider removed as well, email the address in the Contact Us section.

We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:

• To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To improve our website in order to better serve you.
• To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property or safety.

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other types of misuse.

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions. You can delete your account yourself at any time.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at David@editory.news.