Most people using NovaClip are between 13 and 18. This page is written to be read by them, not by a lawyer.
Last updated 22 August 2026 · NovaClip · novaclip.org
Most of NovaClip works without a server at all. These live in your browser's local storage, on the computer or phone you are using:
Clearing your browser data deletes all of it. There is no copy on our side to restore it from, which is the trade for not holding your information.
Signing in to save progress across devices gives you a code — a short string like a link to a shared document. Whoever has the code has the account.
We chose this deliberately. Collecting email addresses and passwords from under-18s means holding data that can be breached, and it means a password a young person has probably reused elsewhere. So we hold neither. What our server stores against your code is the progress you saved and the time you saved it — nothing that identifies you.
The cost is real and worth saying: lose the code and the account cannot be recovered, because there is nothing to prove it was yours.
NovaClip can use your camera and microphone for the video editor, the selfie studio, the voice changer, motion transfer, and face or voice sign-in. Your browser asks permission every time and you can refuse; the rest of the site still works.
None of it is uploaded. The video, the audio, the face measurements and the voiceprint are processed in the page and stay in your browser's storage. "Sign in with your face" means "unlock on this browser" — like the fingerprint prompt on a password manager — not an identity held on a server.
One honest exception: voice commands. Those use your browser's own speech recognition, and some browsers — Chrome in particular — send the audio to the browser maker's servers to turn it into text. That is your browser doing it rather than NovaClip, it only happens while voice commands are switched on, and you can leave them off.
Everything on this list happens only when you use the feature it belongs to. The one thing that runs on every page without being asked for is Google Analytics, which has its own section below.
| When you… | What is sent | Who receives it |
|---|---|---|
| Ask the AI anything | The text you typed | Our Cloudflare Worker, which passes it to Google's Gemini API |
| Check a message with the safety tools | The text you pasted | The same worker; card numbers and codes are stripped out before it is sent |
| Save progress with a code | Your progress and your code | Our Cloudflare Worker (Cloudflare KV storage) |
| Research trends or connect a channel | The search, or the channel you authorised | YouTube's own API |
| Use the globe or map views | The place being looked at | Google Maps and ArcGIS map tiles |
| Use meme templates | The caption text | memegen.link, which draws the image |
| Load any page | Nothing extra | Some libraries load from jsDelivr and unpkg, which see your IP address as any website you visit does |
| Send a report | Only what you write in the form | Us, by email |
Those companies have their own privacy policies and we cannot make promises on their behalf. What we can say is that we do not send them anything about you beyond what the feature needs to work.
NovaClip uses Google Analytics 4 to count how many people visit and which pages they use. It is the only measurement tool on the site and there is no advertising attached to it.
What it records: the pages you open and when, roughly where you are (worked out from your IP address, which Google shortens before storing — it is not kept in full), your browser, device type and screen size, and which site you arrived from.
What it cannot record: your name, your email or your account code, because NovaClip never asks for the first two and never sends the third. Nothing you type — not a message you check for scams, not an AI prompt, not a video — reaches it.
To switch it off: block cookies for this site in your browser settings, use your browser's tracking protection, or install Google's own opt-out add-on. NovaClip works exactly the same with it blocked.
NovaClip is for people aged 13 and over. The site asks your age once and will not let you in below 13. If you tell us you are under 13 we do not keep what you typed — you are simply not let in.
If you are a parent and believe a child under 13 has used NovaClip anyway, email us at the address below and we will remove anything connected to their code.
NovaClip is served over HTTPS everywhere. API keys live on the server and are never sent to your browser. Requests to save progress are rate-limited. No system is perfect, and we would rather say that plainly than claim otherwise.
If what NovaClip does changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. A policy that has drifted from the software is a promise being broken quietly, which is worse than having no policy at all.
Questions, deletion requests, or anything that felt wrong: novacliptools@gmail.com, or use the report form.
NovaClip is an independent project. It is not affiliated with Google, YouTube, Microsoft or any of the services it connects to.