PRIVACY

Short version: we collect the minimum we need to run AI Screencasts, we don’t sell your data, and we use third parties only where the job genuinely requires one. This page tells you exactly what that means.

What we collect

When you sign up, we collect your email address and whatever name you provide. That’s handled by our authentication provider, Clerk.

When you subscribe, our payment processor Stripe collects your billing information. We never see your full card details. We receive a Stripe customer ID and the subscription status.

When you watch a screencast, our video host Mux receives playback events from your browser (play, pause, quality changes) so the player works and so we can see aggregate viewership. We store your watch position and duration per episode so we can show you "Continue watching" next time.

When you use the contact form, we collect the name, email, subject, and message you type, so we can reply to you.

What we don’t collect

• No third-party advertising cookies. We don’t run ads.
• No analytics fingerprinting. We don’t load Google Analytics or similar.
• No tracking pixels in our emails. The activation email is plain HTML with no open tracking.
• No payment card numbers. Those live at Stripe, not on our servers.

Who we share it with

The only places your data is processed outside our own infrastructure:

• Clerk: authentication, session management, and storage of your subscription tier. See clerk.com/privacy.
• Stripe: billing, payment processing, invoices. See stripe.com/privacy.
• Mux: video streaming and playback analytics. See mux.com/privacy.
• Cloudflare: the infrastructure running this site and storing watch history. See cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
• Resend: transactional email delivery (welcome email, contact form responses). See resend.com/legal/privacy-policy.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to anyone, for any reason.

Cookies

We set exactly the cookies required to keep you signed in and to honor an action you just took. No advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no cross-site identifiers, no third-party analytics that profile you across the web.

The complete list:

• Clerk session cookies: keep you signed in across pages. Set by our authentication provider; required for any account-bound feature.
• pending_newsletter_optin: a 15-minute cookie set by the sign-up page to remember your newsletter preference between the sign-up form and the email-confirmation step. Cleared on the first authenticated request or after 15 minutes, whichever comes first.
• cookie_notice_seen: a 1-year cookie that records that you’ve seen the privacy banner so we don’t show it on every page. Stores the value 1; nothing else.

Your rights

Two of the GDPR rights are wired up so you can exercise them yourself, instantly, from your account page:

• Right of access + portability (Articles 15 + 20). Click Download JSON on your account page to receive a single JSON file with everything we hold: profile, subscription summary, bookmarks, watch history, newsletter status. No waiting period, no human involvement.
• Right to erasure (Article 17). Click Delete my account on your account page, type DELETE to confirm, and within seconds we cancel any active subscription, delete your Stripe customer record, wipe your bookmarks + watch history + newsletter subscription, and delete your Clerk login. Irreversible, audit-logged, no recovery.

For the rest - rectification (Art. 16), restriction of processing (Art. 18), objection (Art. 21), and the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority - write us at the contact page. We answer EU/UK/CCPA requests within the statutory timelines (one month for EU/UK, 45 days for CCPA).

Data retention

• Account data is kept as long as your account exists, and wiped on deletion.
• Watch history entries expire after one year of inactivity per episode.
• Billing records are retained for the period required by applicable financial regulations (typically 7 years).
• Contact form messages are retained only as long as needed to resolve your request.

Children

AI Screencasts is a professional tool for working adults. It is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes to this policy

If we change anything material, we’ll email subscribers and update the "Last updated" date above. Non-material changes (typos, clarifications, new third-party sub-processors that do the same kind of job an existing one does) may happen without notice.

Contact

Privacy questions, data requests, or anything else: write us at the contact page. We respond within two business days.