Privacy Policy

What we collect

Gistly collects your account email and name (via our sign-in provider), the personalization answers you give during onboarding, and the YouTube video links you share with the app.

If the app crashes or something fails on our side, we record a diagnostic report so we can fix it. It identifies your account and the video involved, so we can tell which failure was yours; it does not contain the video’s text or your summary.

If you send us feedback from inside the app, we keep what you wrote, along with your email address and which version of the app you were using, so we can look into it and reply to you.

How we use it

We fetch the public transcript of each video you share, generate a summary personalized to your profile, and email it to you. Summaries are stored so we can offer future features. We do not sell your data.

To create your summary we send the video’s public transcript and your personalization answers to Google’s Gemini API, which writes the summary and returns it to us. When a video has no transcript of its own, we send Google the video’s link instead, so it can listen to the video and write one out for us. We pay for Gemini, and under its paid terms Google does not use what we send to improve its own products or show it to reviewers. Google keeps a short-lived copy only to check that its own service is not being abused. It is still a video and a profile leaving our servers, so please don’t share a video you need to keep private. We also use Clerk to sign you in, Supabase to store your data, Resend to deliver your email, Firebase to send the alert to your phone, and Sentry to record crashes and errors so we can fix them.

Payments

If you subscribe to Gistly Pro, you pay Google, not us. Google Play is the seller of record and handles the whole transaction, so we never see or store your card or payment details. What reaches us is the fact that a subscription started, renewed, or ended, which is how the app knows which plan you are on.

We use RevenueCat to receive that information from Google. We send it an identifier for your account so it can tell us which account a purchase belongs to; we do not send it your videos, your summaries or your personalization answers. What you are buying, how it renews and how to cancel are set out in our Terms of Service.

Data security & retention

Data is encrypted in transit. Your summaries and profile answers are kept until you delete your account.

We temporarily cache the text of what is said in each video for up to 30 days, so that a video shared by several people is fetched once rather than every time. Where that text was written out from the video’s audio because the video had no transcript of its own, we keep it for up to 7 days rather than 30. Either way it is not tied to your account, is never shown to other users, and is deleted automatically when that window ends.

You can delete your account and all associated data at any time from within the app, or via our account deletion page.

Contact

Questions: ajay@operateai.in