1. Privacy at a glance
Video Transcriber: Subtitles offers two transcription modes. Private On-Device processes the selected video and transcription on your device. High Accuracy Cloud is optional and sends an audio-only copy to cloud services for transcription. The original video is never uploaded for Cloud transcription. Translation, subtitle editing, styling, and final video rendering are performed on your device.
2. Private On-Device processing
When you select Private On-Device, your selected video, extracted media used for speech recognition, transcript content, translations, subtitle text, edits, and exports are processed locally on your device. Apple language or speech models may need to be downloaded by the operating system. Limited technical requests for features such as free-use quota, authentication, purchases, or Cloud Time balances may still communicate with our backend, but your video and transcript content are not sent to our servers for Private On-Device transcription.
3. High Accuracy Cloud transcription
When you choose High Accuracy Cloud, the app creates an audio-only copy from your selected video and uploads that audio for transcription. The original video is not uploaded. Firebase services are used to manage the Cloud job and temporary audio transfer, and AssemblyAI performs speech-to-text transcription. Transcript text and timing information may be temporarily processed or stored by our backend as needed to complete, recover, and deliver the Cloud transcription result. Translation remains on your device.
4. Authentication and technical identifiers
The app may use Firebase Authentication to create a technical or anonymous identifier and may use Sign in with Apple where needed to associate Cloud Time, purchases, or Cloud operations with you. We may store pseudonymous identifiers needed to enforce free-use limits, recover Cloud jobs, associate verified purchases, prevent duplicate credits, and maintain Cloud Time balances. We do not receive your Apple Account password.
5. Purchases and subscriptions
Apple processes subscriptions, introductory trials, Lifetime Access, and Cloud Time purchases. We do not receive or store your payment-card number, Apple Account password, or complete billing credentials. Apple may provide verified transaction information such as product identifiers, transaction identifiers, purchase environment, subscription status, renewal status, expiration, refunds, or revocations. We may retain limited purchase and ownership records to provide access, restore purchases, maintain Cloud Time, prevent duplicate credits, reconcile subscription status, and support billing-related features.
6. Storage and retention
Your active local project may remain on your device until you discard or replace it. For High Accuracy Cloud, temporary audio and result artifacts are scheduled for cleanup after processing and successful delivery where possible. Interrupted jobs, recovery, reconciliation, or failed cleanup may cause temporary Cloud artifacts to remain longer until automated cleanup or recovery can complete. Limited purchase, quota, Cloud Time, operation, billing, and job metadata may be retained as reasonably necessary for purchase restoration, accounting, fraud or abuse prevention, reliability, and support.
7. Analytics, advertising, and AI training
We do not sell your personal information, use your videos or transcript content for targeted advertising, or use your videos, audio, transcripts, translations, or subtitles to train our own AI models. Our own product analytics are currently disabled. Apple may provide crash or diagnostic information according to your device and App Store settings. If our analytics practices materially change, we will update this policy and applicable App Store privacy disclosures before enabling the new collection.
8. Photos, files, exports, and sharing
Photo Library and file permissions are used to let you select videos and save or share results. You control these permissions through device settings. When you intentionally save, export, or share a video, SRT file, subtitle text, or other result to another app or service, that destination handles the content under its own privacy practices.
9. Support communications and website information
When you contact support, we may receive information you voluntarily provide, such as your email address, message, device details, screenshots, or attachments. We use that information to respond and investigate issues. Our website host may also process standard technical information such as IP address, browser or device type, requested pages, access time, and security or error logs. The website does not process your videos.
10. Service providers and disclosure
We use service providers as necessary to operate the app, including Apple, Google Firebase, AssemblyAI, our email provider, and our website host. These providers may process limited information for the services described in this policy. We do not sell or rent personal information. We may disclose information when required by law, to protect users or the Services, or as part of a business transfer subject to applicable law.
11. Security, choices, children, and privacy rights
We use reasonable safeguards appropriate to the information we process, but no system can guarantee absolute security. You can choose Private On-Device instead of High Accuracy Cloud, manage app permissions, discard local projects, manage Apple subscriptions, and contact us with privacy questions or requests. The Services are not directed to children under 13. Depending on where you live, applicable law may provide rights concerning access, correction, deletion, or other handling of personal information.
12. Changes and contact
We may update this Privacy Policy as the app, service providers, or legal requirements change. We will update the Last Updated date when we do. For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact batchcompressvideos@gmail.com.