Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 27, 2026

This policy explains what happens to your data when you use the Video to Text Chrome extension (“the extension”, “we”, “us”). In short: your video stays on your computer, only its audio is sent for transcription, we don’t keep your audio or transcripts, and we don’t collect personal information.

1. What happens to your video

• Your video never leaves your device. The extension extracts the audio track locally in your browser and splits it into short parts.
• Only the audio is sent to our transcription API, which runs on Cloudflare Workers. Our API forwards each part to one speech-to-text provider (see section 4) and returns the text to you.
• We do not store audio or transcripts on our servers. They exist only in memory while a request is being processed.

2. What is stored in your browser

The following stays in your browser’s local extension storage and is never sent to us:

• The audio parts and text of your current transcription, so the job can continue if you close the panel. They are removed when you start a new transcription.
• Your own Groq API key, if you choose to add one. It is sent only to Groq (api.groq.com) to transcribe your audio, and you can remove it at any time from the extension’s start screen.
• Your interface language and theme, and local usage counters (for example, how many transcriptions you have made) used to decide when to ask for a review.

3. Analytics

The extension does not send analytics or usage events, and this website does not use cookies or analytics. Versions before 2.2.0 sent anonymous usage events (a random installation ID, event names such as “opened” or “error”, extension version, browser language and operating system type) to a database hosted on Supabase. Version 2.2.0 no longer does this. Those earlier events were never linked to your name, email or Google account, and never contained file names, audio or transcripts.

4. Third-party services

Audio is processed by one of the following providers. We try them in order and use the first one that is available:

• Groq (privacy policy)
• Cloudflare Workers AI (privacy policy)
• AssemblyAI (privacy policy). We ask AssemblyAI to delete each transcript right after it is returned.
• Deepgram (privacy policy). We opt out of Deepgram’s model improvement program.

Our API runs on Cloudflare. We do not use your audio or transcripts to train AI models, and we do not sell or share your data for advertising.

5. Fair use limits and the installation ID

The free service has a daily limit. To enforce it, the extension creates a random installation ID (not linked to your name, email or Google account) and sends it to our API with each audio part. Our API counts requests per installation ID and per IP address. IP addresses are stored only as a one-way hash, never in readable form, and the counters reset every day. Our servers keep short-lived technical logs (such as error messages, never audio or transcripts) to keep the service running.

6. This website, the welcome page and the uninstall survey

After you install the extension, a welcome page opens on this website. It receives nothing from your files. When you uninstall the extension, your browser may open a short optional survey in a new tab. It is a Google Form, so anything you submit there is handled by Google as well; we receive nothing unless you choose to submit it, and the extension itself sends no data.

7. Security

• All data is sent over encrypted HTTPS connections.
• Our provider API keys are stored on the server and never shipped in the extension.

8. Your choices

• You decide which videos to transcribe and when.
• You can remove your Groq API key at any time.
• You can uninstall the extension at any time from Chrome’s extensions page. This deletes all data the extension stored in your browser.

9. Children’s privacy

The extension is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has provided us with information, contact us and we will delete it.

10. International processing

Our API and providers operate globally, so your audio may be processed on servers in different countries. The same protections described here apply wherever it is processed.

11. Legal basis (GDPR)

For users in the European Economic Area and the UK, we process audio to perform the service you request, and abuse prevention on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping the service working and free.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top and publish the new version at this address.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: kudapolet@gmail.com. We reply to privacy requests within 30 days.