Your privacy & how we handle your data

A plain-English summary of what data YT Transcriber stores, how it is protected, who can see your transcripts, and the controls you have over your own data.

What we store

We store the data needed to run your account and your library:

• Your account details (email and authentication identity, handled by our auth provider Clerk).
• The videos you transcribe: the YouTube URL/ID, video metadata (title, thumbnail), and the transcript text we fetched from YouTube’s captions.
• Anything you create in the app: folders, notes, and share links.

We do not store your payment card details — those are held by Stripe, our payment processor, never by YT Transcriber.

Your transcripts are private by default

Your library is visible only to you. Other users cannot see your transcripts, folders, or notes. A transcript only becomes viewable by someone else if YOU create a share link for it — and even then your notes are never included in a share link. You stay in control of what, if anything, you share.

How your data is protected

Data is stored in our managed database (Supabase) with Row Level Security, so the system enforces that you can only ever read your own rows — even if there were a bug in the application layer. Traffic is encrypted in transit over HTTPS. Authentication is handled by Clerk, and sensitive server secrets are kept out of the browser and out of the database.

Sharing and third parties

To provide the service we rely on a small number of processors: YouTube (to fetch captions), Clerk (authentication), Supabase (database/storage) and Stripe (payments, for paid plans only). We do not sell your data or your transcripts to advertisers.

Your controls

You can delete individual videos, folders, notes and share links at any time from the app. You can export your transcripts (TXT, PDF, SRT, ZIP) whenever you like. You can also delete your entire account and the data attached to it — see the article "Deleting your account and exporting your data" for how.