Privacy Policy

This policy explains what AetherVideo AI ("we," "us") collects when you use aethervideo.app (the "Service"), and how it's used. We built the Service to work without requiring an account, so we deliberately collect as little as we can while still making the product function.

What we collect

When you use the Director or Studio, we collect:

• An anonymous session identifier. The first time you generate a shot, we set a single httpOnly cookie (avid) containing a random, signed identifier. It contains no personal information — it exists only to track your free-trial credit balance and apply rate limits, and it can't be read or modified by page scripts.
• The prompts and instructions you submit. Text you enter to generate, refine, or narrate a shot is sent to the third-party AI providers below to produce a result. We don't maintain a permanent, searchable store of prompt history tied to your identity — generated results live in your browser's local storage on your own device, not on our servers.
• Basic request metadata. Like most web services, our hosting and security infrastructure logs IP addresses and request timing briefly, to enforce rate limits and detect abuse.
• Account fields, if you sign up or sign in. The current sign-up/sign-in flow is a local, cosmetic profile stored only in your browser — it does not create a server-side account or transmit your name/email to us. If that changes (e.g. we launch real accounts), this policy will be updated first.

Third parties we share data with

We use a small number of infrastructure and AI providers to run the Service. Each only receives what it needs to do its job:

• Anthropic — processes your prompts to generate cinematography packages.
• ElevenLabs — processes narration text to generate voiceover audio, when you use that feature.
• Upstash — stores your session's credit balance and rate-limit counters.
• Vercel — hosts the Service and may log requests for reliability and abuse prevention.

We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for third-party advertising.

Cookies

We use exactly one first-party cookie (avid) to identify your free-trial session, described above. We don't use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. If we add analytics (aggregated, non-identifying usage metrics) or error monitoring in the future, they'll be listed here.

Data retention

Session and credit-balance data is kept only as long as needed to operate the free-trial system, and is periodically cleared for inactive sessions. Generated shot and sequence results are stored in your own browser, not centrally — clearing your browser data or local storage removes them.

Your choices

You can clear your session at any time by deleting the avid cookie or your browser's cookies for this site, which resets your free-trial balance. Because we don't maintain accounts tied to personal information, there isn't a separate account-deletion flow to request — clearing cookies and local storage removes everything we're able to associate with you.

Children's privacy

The Service is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes to this policy

If we materially change what we collect or how we use it, we'll update the effective date above and, where appropriate, note the change on this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to privacy@aethervideo.app.