Effective date: 8 November 2026
This version replaces the earlier policy dated 27 October 2026.
VidWhale ("VidWhale", "we", "us") is a pre-publish content intelligence tool for video creators, operated by VidWhale For Computer Systems & Communication Equipment Software Design, a sole establishment licensed by the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (licence no. 1657798), Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This policy explains what information we handle when you use vidwhale.com and the VidWhale application (the "Service").
Most features that use our AI services require a free account. You sign in with Google; we request your basic profile (name, email address, and profile picture) and nothing else through sign-in. Signing in sets a session cookie (vw_session) that keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. This cookie identifies your account and is required for the Service to work; we do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
When you use the following features, the associated data is stored in our cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud, including Firestore and Cloud Storage), linked to your account:
The reel video file and videos you upload are deleted after 7 days, and draft narration audio 45 days after your last save; the Library entry stays. Generated clips, AI images and audit reports are kept with no fixed end date; email hello@vidwhale.com to have them deleted.
Payments are processed by Stripe, our payment processor.
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand how many people visit the site and which pages they read. It does not use cookies, does not track you across other websites, and does not collect information that identifies you personally. Cloudflare processes this data on our behalf. Some pages load fonts and code libraries from Google Fonts and jsDelivr, which see your IP address when your browser fetches them.
When you are signed in, reels are assembled on our servers (see section 3). Some reels — such as those made while signed out, with more than 30 shots, or if our servers are unavailable — are assembled inside your browser instead and are never uploaded to us.
The site keeps a few things on your device so that it works. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies.
You can clear all of this in your browser's settings. You will be signed out, and work in progress that you have not saved will be lost.
API keys you bring are stored only in your browser's local storage. When you use one, the key passes through our servers to that provider and is never stored. Your prompt or script is also checked by our content-safety screening first (see section 6).
To produce results and keep the Service safe, the content you submit is processed by these providers acting on our behalf, solely to fulfil your request:
We also use Google Cloud to host the Service and store your data, Resend to send account and billing emails, Stripe to process payments, and Cloudflare Web Analytics for page statistics (section 4).
VidWhale uses YouTube API Services. By using VidWhale's YouTube features you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. How Google handles your data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
Connecting your YouTube channel is optional. If you connect it, we ask for read-only access (youtube.readonly and yt-analytics.readonly) so we can show your channel statistics inside VidWhale. We can never post, upload, edit or delete anything on your channel.
What YouTube data we store, why, and for how long:
Who else receives YouTube data: to suggest script ideas, we send the titles, lengths and subscriber counts of the top public videos on your topic, and how far each one beat its channel's usual views, with a one-line summary of what they have in common, to xAI (Grok), which writes your scripts (section 6). To build weekly topic suggestions, we send public video titles, channel names, publish dates and lengths to Google (Gemini on Vertex AI), which scores them and removes duplicates. Everything we store is kept on Google Cloud (section 3). Data from your own channel, and the data shown in Competitors, is not sent to any other company. What the site keeps on your device, including your channel's name in the header, is listed in section 5.
Whatever the list above says, we delete every piece of YouTube data we store no later than 30 days after we fetched it. Data from your own channel is used only to show it to you. We never sell it or use it for advertising.
You can disconnect at any time in the app. That immediately deletes your stored token and revokes VidWhale's access at Google. You can also remove VidWhale's access yourself in your Google security settings. Our data deletion page lists every option.
VidWhale's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
We never sell your data. We never use your content to advertise to you. We never store the API keys you bring.
You can delete your account at any time in the app: Account → Delete account. If you have a subscription, it is cancelled at that moment. Your account and the data stored with it, including videos you uploaded, are deleted immediately from our live systems; reel video files assembled on our servers within 7 days; backup copies of your data, which our database keeps for 7 days so we can undo mistakes, are deleted automatically within 7 days; our server logs, which can contain your account ID and email address but no YouTube data, are kept for up to 30 days. After 7 days, deleted data cannot be recovered. If you cannot sign in, email hello@vidwhale.com and we will delete your account within 7 days. Our data deletion page lists every option.
Our servers and storage run on Google Cloud in the us-central1 region (United States). Server logs are retained for up to 30 days for security and troubleshooting.
Depending on where you live (including under the EU GDPR and the UAE Personal Data Protection Law), you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. To exercise any of these, email hello@vidwhale.com and we'll respond as the law requires.
The Service is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has provided us data, contact us and we'll delete it.
We'll update this page when our practices change, with the effective date above.
VidWhale For Computer Systems & Communication Equipment Software Design
Flat A 201, Silicon Gate 1, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Licence no. 1657798 · hello@vidwhale.com · +971 50 325 5710