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Privacy Policy

Effective November 3, 2026 · Clippy Creator Studio, operated by Domenico Ditanna. Contact: support@clippycreatorstudio.com.

What this policy covers

This policy covers this website, its private client workspace, software licensing and the companion connections described below. Local Mac editing is also described in the separate app privacy policy. The website’s media upload and delivery endpoints are disabled. Recordings and remote review use your Mac or a customer-operated connection service, as described below.

Notice at collection: information and purposes

You can sign in with Google or, when available, a code sent to your email. We process your account identifier, verified email, available display name and sign-in verification records to identify you and protect your workspace. We do not receive your Google password. Google website sign-in requests only your basic profile and verified email, not access to your YouTube channel, mail or files. Connecting a social account or Google Drive inside the Mac app is a separate permission flow.

We collect project titles, briefs, feedback, support messages and file details you provide in project records. Earlier editing-service uploads may contain images, voices and other personal information; new media transfers are not hosted by this website. We use submitted records to respond to requests, provide support and maintain project history. Share only material you have permission to provide. Do not put passwords, payment details or unnecessary sensitive information in a brief or support message.

Hosting and authentication providers may process IP addresses, browser information, request logs, and session cookies to deliver and secure the service. We have not added advertising pixels or third-party behavioral analytics. When paid checkout is available, Stripe collects payment information directly. Clippy retains purchase identifiers, billing status, name and email, not full card details. The pricing page shows whether new purchases are open; creating a free website account does not start a paid subscription.

Software purchases and device activation

The public Mac sales page can be browsed without signing in. Software purchases require a signed-in Clippy account with a verified email and are bound to that account. License validation processes your license identifier, a hashed random installation identifier, the Mac name submitted by the app, app version, activation dates, and last verification time to enforce the three-device limit. This does not upload your footage, transcripts, projects, or YouTube credentials. The app stores its key and signed activation in the Mac keychain.

Stripe processes checkout and billing when purchases are available. Resend delivers license, support, editing-service, and software-release emails. Purchasers receive software-release announcements, potentially several per day or week. You can turn off release emails in your account or use the unsubscribe link in an announcement without losing software access. Essential receipts, license delivery, and account-security messages are separate. Optional promotional email consent is separate from purchasing. Contact us to correct purchase information, address an activation issue, or request deletion, subject to records needed for active service, fraud prevention, and legal obligations.

Accounts and free group access

Purchases and group-code redemptions require an account. We collect your name, authenticated email, optional channel or business name, code-redemption record, access dates, acceptance timestamp, and email preference. The Clippy operator can view these records to provide access, updates, fraud prevention, and support. Other customers cannot view them. We retain these records while access is active and as needed for support, security, and applicable legal obligations; you may request deletion at any time.

Group codes provide complimentary software access for the period shown before you confirm redemption. Access is not conditional on promotional emails, selling information, or waiving privacy rights. Optional promotional consent starts unchecked and can be withdrawn in your account without losing group access. Essential account and service communications are separate. We have not enabled automated promotional emails. If you close your account, we cannot continue providing account-based downloads; contact us about your records or access before closure.

Who can access your information

Your submitted application and its Application discussion are available only to the applicant account and authorized Clippy owner administration for intake review. Producer grants do not give access to that discussion. Replies are saved in the website without automatic email delivery. Production feedback is separate and limited to your signed-in account and producers you explicitly authorize for that project. Project collaboration, approval and publishing-record permissions are separate choices. Website media upload and download endpoints are disabled, including for producers. Historical media, if retained, is not made available through those endpoints. You can change or revoke a project grant; revocation cannot remove copies someone downloaded previously. Project activity records identify changes to access, revisions, approvals and recorded publication, and may include earlier upload and delivery activity. Recording an external publication link does not publish a video or connect a social account. OpenAI Sites provides website hosting; Google provides sign-in; Cloudflare provides database and file storage infrastructure. These providers process information under their own applicable service terms and privacy policies. Contacting us by email also uses email service providers.

This website does not automatically submit your project materials to an AI model. If a proposed editing workflow requires another provider, we will explain that before using it. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not publish your footage as marketing material without your permission. We may disclose information where legally required or necessary to address fraud, abuse, or a security incident.

Support and app versions

When you submit a bug report, Clippy support receives your account email, report text, and any platform or version you provide. Activated Mac apps report their app version during license checks so we can track update adoption and support older releases. This reporting does not include footage, transcripts, or editing activity. Only authorized Clippy administration can view these records.

Retention and security

Project records and any previously uploaded files remain until removed through a request to us; disabled media endpoints do not by themselves delete historical files or backups. Retention depends on the purpose: account and license records support active access, device limits, billing disputes, and legal recordkeeping; project materials support editing and delivery; support and email-delivery records support responding to requests and preventing duplicate messages. We do not currently apply a fixed automatic deletion period to these records. You may request deletion; we will explain any records that must be retained and why. Do not use this service as your only backup. You can request earlier deletion below. Provider backups and security logs may remain for their applicable retention periods.

We use authenticated access and private file storage, but no online service can guarantee absolute security. Processing may occur in the United States or other countries where our providers operate.

Your choices and privacy requests

In Account privacy, signed-in users can download an account-record export, request deletion, and check request progress. The export covers the website records identified in the download; it does not contain all footage, provider-held records, or other people’s private information. Contact support if you need a broader access request. Deletion requests offer a separate choice to request cancellation of subscription renewal. Neither submitting a request nor downloading an export automatically closes your account or cancels billing.

After verification, our completion target is 30 days, subject to any earlier applicable legal deadline. Account closure revokes website access and online license/device access; an offline app may retain access until its current signed activation expires or is refreshed. We complete deletion only after handling applicable storage and processor tasks, and explain required billing, fraud-prevention or legal retention. Closing this account does not delete published social posts, your local media, or files on a connection service you operate.

Visit Your privacy choices to check advertising-sharing status or start an access, correction or account-deletion request. Our accessibility help page offers another way to request assistance or information in an alternative format.

Email support@clippycreatorstudio.com to request access, a copy, correction, deletion, or account closure. Identify the account email and request; do not send identity documents unless we explain why they are necessary. We verify requests proportionately, allow authorized agents where applicable, and respond within applicable legal deadlines. If we deny a request, you may appeal by replying with “Privacy appeal.”

Depending on where you live and whether a law applies, including the California Consumer Privacy Act, you may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, and receive personal information, opt out of sale, targeted advertising or qualifying profiling, limit qualifying uses of sensitive information, and receive service without discrimination for exercising rights. We offer the request channel above to all users. We do not conduct sale, advertising sharing, or eligibility profiling. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals do not change this site’s behavior because those activities are not enabled.

Children

This service is intended for adults age 18 and older, not children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child provided information, contact us so we can investigate and remove it. Use the subject “Child privacy concern” and provide only enough information to locate the account or content. Parents and guardians may use this channel without creating an account. We do not offer child accounts or a parental-consent signup flow. If we learn we collected personal information directly from a child under 13, we will stop that collection, restrict the account, and arrange deletion, except as legally required. An adult uploading footage of other people must have authority to share it; the adult-only account rule does not remove those people’s privacy rights. Do not create an account for a child.

California privacy disclosures

The categories described above include identifiers (name, email, account and installation identifiers); commercial information (purchases, license and redemption records); internet or device information (request logs and app versions); and audio, visual, or other content you choose to submit. Sources are you, Google, Stripe, and your interactions with our services. These are the categories this service collects and discloses for business purposes, including during the preceding 12 months to the extent the feature was available.

Account and device identifiers are processed by our hosting and storage providers. Billing information is processed by Stripe and our hosting providers. Email addresses and message content are processed by Resend and our email providers, including support forwarding to the operator’s Gmail inbox. Project records and any retained historical audiovisual uploads are stored by our hosting/storage providers. Authorized producers can access permitted project records; website media transfer endpoints are disabled. Submitted intake applications, their Application discussion replies, and support messages are available to authorized owner administration for those purposes. Application discussion replies are not included in producer feedback or automatic email notifications. We do not sell these categories or share them for cross-context behavioral advertising, including information about minors, and we do not disclose them to other businesses for their own direct marketing.

We do not request sensitive information such as government identifiers, precise location, or health details. Content you submit may nevertheless include sensitive information; provide only what is necessary for your project. We do not use sensitive information to infer characteristics about you or make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

Where the CCPA applies, California residents may request knowledge/access, correction, deletion, and a portable copy, and exercise applicable opt-out and sensitive-information rights without discrimination. Email requests do not require an account. Use your account email and describe the request; we may verify control of that email and relevant existing account records before disclosing or deleting data. An authorized agent may contact us with evidence of authorization. We will acknowledge applicable access, correction, and deletion requests within 10 business days and respond within 45 calendar days; if a permitted extension is necessary, we will explain it before the initial deadline. We will explain any applicable exception.

We have not added third-party advertising trackers that collect your activity over time across unrelated websites. Necessary sign-in cookies keep you signed in for up to 14 days; temporary sign-in flow cookies last up to 10 minutes. Do Not Track does not alter these necessary functions. Global Privacy Control users receive the same no-sale/no-advertising-sharing treatment as all visitors. Google and Stripe operate their own services under their privacy policies.

Optional iPhone companion and Wi-Fi tether

Wi-Fi tether is a direct live-monitor connection between your Mac and paired iPhone on the same local network. It uses local service discovery, an encrypted connection and a pairing key saved in the devices’ keychains. Your Mac sends the selected window’s live preview, captured audio and connection status directly to the phone. This stream does not pass through the Clippy website or a Clippy-hosted relay. macOS controls window-sharing permission; the iPhone uses Camera permission to scan the QR and Local Network permission to discover the Mac. Stopping the session ends capture; resetting pairing changes the key used to authorize the phone.

Sending recordings, reviewing edits remotely and sending editing or approval commands are separate from Wi-Fi tether. These optional features require a customer-operated HTTPS connection service, either on your own cloud host or on your Mac through a private VPN. The service processes pairing records, Mac and profile identifiers, video titles, processing and publishing status, uploaded files, review previews and the commands you send. Social-platform passwords and OAuth tokens remain on the Mac. Both apps must use the same service address and their separate connection keys. Clippy’s website does not host this media or command relay.

You control the host, storage, access and backups for your connection service, subject to any hosting provider’s terms. In the supplied service, mobile sessions expire after 30 days; originals are removed after your Mac acknowledges receipt, and waiting uploads and queued originals older than seven days are cleaned up during service requests. Your Mac retains the local files it received. Review media remains until replaced or removed on your host. Disconnecting a device prevents future access but does not itself erase every stored copy or backup. Manage deletion with your host administrator; Clippy support cannot delete files from a service you operate. Keep the phone app open during transfers and the Mac awake and running Clippy to process footage.

Optional Discord community membership

You can join the Clippy Discord without linking it to your purchase. If you choose tier verification when available, Discord shares your user ID and username so we can link that identity to your signed-in Clippy account. We use verified subscription status to assign or remove Basic, Pro or Agency roles. We do not request your Discord email, read your private messages, or send your purchase email, card details or license key to Discord. The role and anything you post in community channels may be visible to other members. We retain the account link and sync status while linked; contact support to unlink or change your Discord account. Account-deletion processing includes the link and a required check of role removal on Discord. Discord operates under its own terms and privacy policy.

Referral program

If you join our referral program, we store your code, accepted terms, Stripe connected-account identifier and commission records. Stripe collects payout identity, tax and bank information directly. Using a referral link or code links your Clippy account to the referrer; their private dashboard shows a pseudonymous referral ID, signup and subscription dates/status, and commission amounts. It does not show your email, footage or social accounts. We retain attribution and payout records to administer discounts, commissions, refunds, fraud prevention and required financial records. Referral attribution is separate from advertising tracking; we do not add advertising cookies for this program.

Changes

We update the effective date when this policy changes. Material changes will be announced on this website; where required, we will give additional notice or obtain consent before a new use of information.