Privacy Policy
Last updated July 2, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how VidHalo ("we", "us") collects, uses, and protects your information when you use our website and services (the "Service").
Information we collect
Information you provide
- Account details — your email address and a securely hashed password when you sign up.
- Connected YouTube channel— when you connect a channel, we store OAuth access and refresh tokens and your channel ID and title so we can read your videos' metadata and analytics and publish localizations you request.
- Billing details — if you subscribe, our payment processor collects your payment information. We store a customer and subscription identifier and your plan status, but never your full card number.
- Preferences — settings such as your pinned audience languages.
Information collected automatically
- Usage data — the searches you run and analyses you generate, so we can deliver results, enforce plan limits, and keep your saved history.
- Essential cookies — we use a session cookie to keep you signed in and a cookie to remember your selected channel. We do not use third-party advertising or analytics cookies.
How we use your information
- To provide, operate, and improve the Service.
- To analyze YouTube search results and generate briefs, and to read and (at your request) update your own channel's video metadata.
- To manage your account, subscription, billing, and plan limits.
- To communicate with you about your account, including billing receipts and renewal reminders.
- To secure the Service and comply with legal obligations.
Third-party services
We share data with the following processors only as needed to run the Service:
- YouTube / Google — the Service uses YouTube API Services to read public video data and, for your connected channel, your metadata and analytics. By using the Service you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google's use of your data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy. You can revoke our access at any time via your Google security settings or by disconnecting your channel in the app.
- Payment processing (Stripe) — handles subscription payments; your card details are provided directly to and stored by Stripe.
- AI processing (Anthropic)— video transcripts, comments, and metadata are sent to Anthropic's Claude models to produce the analysis and translations. This data is not used to train their models.
- Transcript retrieval — a third-party transcript provider is used to fetch publicly available captions for analysis.
- Hosting & infrastructure — our hosting and database providers store the data described above to run the Service.
Data retention
We keep your information for as long as your account is active. You can delete your saved analyses at any time, and you can disconnect a channel to remove its stored tokens. When you close your account, we delete or anonymize your personal data except where we must retain it to meet legal or accounting obligations.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. To exercise these rights, contact us at support@rankchamp.com.
Security
We use industry-standard measures to protect your data, including encryption in transit, hashed passwords, and access controls. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to protect your information.
Children
The Service is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version here and revise the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
Questions? Contact us at support@rankchamp.com.