Clip privacy policy
The short version: your sermon stays on your device. Clip transcribes, edits and exports everything locally, and nothing you open, write or make in Clip is ever sent anywhere.
What runs on your device
Clip is a browser app. When you drop in a sermon video or audio file, everything — reading the media, transcribing it with Whisper, scoring and suggesting clips, cutting, rendering, and exporting — happens inside your browser, on your own machine. Audio and video files are never uploaded.
The Whisper model weights are fetched once from the Hugging Face model hub (with a jsDelivr fallback for the runtime library) and then cached by your browser. This is a download to your device — no file or transcript goes the other way.
What leaves your device
Nothing. There is no server to send it to: Clip has no account system, no upload endpoint, and no feature that transmits your work. Your audio, your video, your transcript, your clips, your glossary and your settings all stay on the machine you opened Clip on.
Never sent: audio, video, transcripts, stills, filenames, or anything else — there is no setting that changes this.
What is stored locally
- localStorage — your settings, the correction glossary, caption style, and the recent-projects list.
- IndexedDB — cached audio for projects you reopen ("Open recent"), so you can pick up where you left off. Removing a project also removes its cached audio.
Everything stored is tied to this browser on this device. Clear your site data (or use the clear options in the app) and it is gone. There are no accounts, no profiles, and nothing is synced anywhere.
Cookies and analytics
Clip uses no analytics and no advertising, and sets no tracking cookies. The app itself is served over HTTPS; site visits may be measured in aggregate by the host (Cloudflare Pages) for operational purposes only.
Data protection
- Your media never leaves your machine — it simply cannot be seen by us.
- There is no copy of your work anywhere else, so there is nothing to breach, subpoena or leak.
- There is nothing to sell: no accounts, no profiles, no behavioural data.
Contact
Clip is made and operated by Josiah Oslund. Questions about this policy, your data, or anything else: me@josiaho.com.
If you want your own never-leaves-your-device copy of this policy for church bulletins, email me — it is part of the stance: nothing about your congregation's sermons should be anyone else's data.