Wow Cut Video ("we", "us", "our") automates video clip generation and subtitle creation. This policy covers every way to use it: the website, the Chrome extension, the macOS app and the iOS app. Contact: [email protected]
2. Where your video is processed
This differs by product, and it is the most important thing to know about your data:
Website — your video is uploaded to (or downloaded by) our servers, processed there, and the finished clips are stored there for you to download.
macOS and iOS apps — the video never leaves your device. Cutting, subtitle burning and export all happen locally. What does leave is the compressed audio track (for speech recognition) and the resulting transcript text (for AI analysis), plus short audio windows when pause removal needs to check for speech. We also record that a run happened (see "Usage data") so your plan's allowance can be counted.
Chrome extension — works like the website: the video is downloaded and processed by our servers. See below for what the extension itself reads.
Chrome extension
The Wow Cut Video extension for Chrome sends a YouTube video to your Wow Cut Video account for processing. It does nothing until you click its toolbar icon, and it does not run on any page in the background.
What it reads, and only after your click: the address, title and length of the YouTube video in the current tab, and a still frame of it for the preview inside the panel. The still frame stays in your browser and is never uploaded.
What it sends to us: the video's link and title, and only when you press the button that starts processing. The link is reduced to the video itself — playlist, timestamp and tracking parameters are removed.
Sign-in: the extension uses your existing wowcut.app session cookie and does not store a password or token of its own. Signing in happens on wowcut.app with Google.
Stored in the extension: the id, link, title and status of your most recent job, kept in Chrome's local extension storage so the panel can show progress when you reopen it. Removing the extension removes it.
We do not read your browsing history, other tabs or other websites, and we do not sell, share or use this data for advertising. The use of information received from the extension adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
3. What data we collect
Account data — your email address, and for Google sign-in also your name and profile picture. With Sign in with Apple we receive your email (which may be Apple's private relay address) and a stable identifier Apple gives us for your account.
Usage data — video URLs or files you submit, original and edited transcripts, processing history, and output clips. On the website these are stored on our servers; for the apps we store the run's metadata (date, mode, settings, outcome) but not the video or the clips.
Payment data — subscription status and payment confirmations. Web and macOS purchases go through WayForPay; iOS purchases go through Apple's In-App Purchase, where we store the subscription identifier Apple sends us. We never receive or store card numbers on any surface.
Technical data — browser type, IP address, and server logs retained for up to 30 days.
Analytics data — which pages and buttons were used, and a coarse acquisition channel ("google", "threads", "direct", …). See section 9 for the identifier this uses and its limits.
4. How we use your data
To authenticate you and maintain your account.
To process your videos and return results.
To manage your subscription, payment history and plan allowance.
To measure which parts of the product people get stuck on, in aggregate.
To improve the service and diagnose technical issues.
5. AI processing and your consent
Two things are sent to AI providers, and nothing else is:
the audio track of your video, to Groq for speech recognition;
the resulting transcript text, through OpenRouter (an API routing service) to Anthropic's Claude models, to correct the text and identify highlights, captions, timing and cutaway suggestions.
On the website and in the macOS app, this processing is the service you asked for: starting a job is what asks us to do it, and you can stop by not starting one. In the iOS app you are asked to agree on a separate screen before the first such request, and you can withdraw that agreement at any time in the app under Settings › Privacy › AI processing consent. After withdrawing, features that need online processing will not run until you agree again; editing and export continue to work on the device. Withdrawing does not delete work already processed — use account deletion or email us for that.
6. Data retention
Server-side results and transcripts, including original and edited text stored in our database, are removed from active storage during the daily cleanup after 7 days from the end of processing. For older records without an end time, the creation time is used. Active processing is not interrupted by this cleanup. Temporary source files may be removed earlier.
Processing history (such as the title, date, mode, settings and outcome) remains while your account is active; it does not retain the expired transcripts or output clips. Analytics events are kept for at most 13 months. Files stored locally by the iOS or macOS app, and copies you save or export, are separate from this server cleanup — the iOS app expires its own finished job folders after 7 days, and never touches your Photos library.
7. If you delete your account
Account deletion is available in the iOS app settings, or by emailing us. When an account is deleted we remove your jobs, transcripts, output files and analytics events, and erase your email address and the device/location details from your account record.
Some data is deliberately kept, and you should know which: a one-way identifier from your sign-in provider (so that a later sign-in is recognised as the same person — this is what prevents deletion being used to reset free-plan allowances), your plan status and usage counters, and payment records we are required to retain for accounting purposes. If you signed in with Apple, we also revoke this app's access to your Apple ID at deletion, and tell you if that could not be done so you can remove it yourself.
If you want complete erasure including the above, email [email protected] and say so.
Apple — Sign in with Apple, and In-App Purchase for iOS subscriptions. Subject to Apple's Privacy Policy.
Groq API — audio transcription. Your audio may be processed on Groq's servers.
Anthropic Claude via OpenRouter — AI text analysis. We send transcript text through OpenRouter, an API routing service, for processing by Anthropic's Claude models to correct text, identify highlights, and generate captions and cutaway suggestions.
Pexels and Pixabay — stock footage and cut-out images, searched only when you ask for cutaway suggestions. The search terms come from your transcript.
WayForPay — payment processing for web and macOS. We do not receive or store your card data.
DigitalOcean — cloud hosting. Data is stored on servers in the EU.
Sentry — error reporting, to find crashes and failures.
9. Cookies and local storage
We use one technically necessary cookie: your session token. We use no advertising cookies and no third-party analytics, and we do not track you across other websites.
The site does keep a few values in your browser's local storage, and one of them deserves naming plainly: a random identifier created on your first visit, so that our own counts measure people rather than page hits. It carries nothing about you, it is never shared with anyone, and it is never stored together with your account — an event record holds either the random identifier or your account, never both, so these two cannot be joined. Alongside it we keep the coarse acquisition channel (for example "google" or "direct") and your interface language.
Because this measurement is first-party only, is not linked to your identity, is not used for advertising or profiling, and is kept for at most 13 months, it does not require a consent banner. You can remove all of it at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser, and browsing in a private window prevents it being kept at all.
10. Your rights
If you are in the EU/EEA or the UK, you have the right to:
Access the personal data we hold about you.
Request correction or deletion of your data.
Receive your data in a portable form.
Object to processing or request restriction.
Withdraw consent you have given, without affecting processing already carried out — including the iOS AI-processing consent described in section 5.
Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
To exercise any of these rights, email us at [email protected]. We reply within 30 days.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. We will notify you of material changes by posting a notice on the site. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.