Clips Studio does not collect anything about you

The short version

• No telemetry. The app reports nothing back. There is no usage tracking, no crash reporting, and no analytics of any kind inside Clips Studio.
• No account. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to.
• Your video never leaves your PC. Transcription, scoring, face tracking, subtitles and rendering all run locally, on your own hardware.
• The AI runs locally too. The language model runs on your machine through Ollama. Your transcript is not sent to OpenAI, Google, Anthropic or anyone else.
• Two things reach the internet, and both are obvious: downloading a video you asked for, and downloading an AI model you chose.

What is stored, and where

Everything Clips Studio creates stays in one folder on your own computer:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Clips Studio

• Videos you downloaded or imported, and the clips rendered from them
• A local SQLite database of what has been processed, the scores it gave, and your creator profiles
• Your settings
• The AI models you downloaded

None of this is synced, backed up or transmitted. Uninstalling the app deliberately leaves the folder in place, because it holds your footage; delete it yourself if you want it gone.

When Clips Studio uses the network

Because you asked it to

• Downloading a video. Pasting a YouTube, Twitch or Kick link fetches that video from that platform. Your request goes to them, subject to their own privacy policies, exactly as if you had opened the page in a browser.
• Downloading an AI model. Choosing a model fetches it from the Ollama library. That is a file download; nothing about you is sent with it.
• Checking for updates. The desktop app asks a static file on Hugging Face whether a newer version exists. This is a plain file fetch with no identifier attached, and it can be turned off in Settings. Copies installed from the Microsoft Store do not do this at all, because the Store handles updates.

Only if you submit a report

The in-app Feedback Hub can file a bug report for you, so you do not need a GitHub account. Nothing is sent until you press Submit, and the exact contents are shown to you first.

A report contains what someone needs to reproduce the problem:

• What you typed in the report
• App version, operating system version, CPU, RAM, and graphics card model
• Which AI model and settings were in use
• Recent log output, with email addresses, secret-shaped strings and your Windows username automatically stripped out
• The platform and channel name of the video involved, if any — public information, and usually the whole point of the report
• Any screenshots you chose to attach

Reports become public GitHub issues. They travel through a relay that files them on the project's issue tracker, so do not put anything in one you would not post publicly. If you would rather send nothing, do not use the Feedback Hub; the app works exactly the same without it.

Only if you set it up yourself

Clips Studio has an optional command-line feature that can upload finished clips to your own YouTube channel. It is switched off, it is not part of the desktop app, and it does nothing unless you create your own Google Cloud credentials and place them in the config folder. If you do, the resulting authorisation token is stored on your machine and used only to upload to your channel. It is never sent to us — there is no "us" to send it to, since Clips Studio has no server.

This website

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, which records ordinary web server logs including IP addresses, as described in GitHub's privacy statement.

The site includes a Google Analytics loader that is not configured and does nothing: with no measurement ID set, no script is fetched and no cookie is written. If that ever changes, this page will say so before it does.

Donation links go to PayPal. Any payment happens on PayPal's own site under their privacy policy; Clips Studio never sees your payment details, and no donation is required to use anything.

Children

Clips Studio is a video editing tool for content creators. It is not directed at children, and it collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

How to verify any of this

You do not have to take this page's word for it. Clips Studio is open source under the GNU AGPL-3.0 licence, and every network call in it can be read: github.com/ColinGPT9/clips-studio. If you find something this policy does not describe, that is a bug — please open an issue.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the edit is visible in the repository's history like everything else.

Questions about privacy: open an issue on GitHub.