Privacy Policy

1. What we do not collect

• No account, e-mail address or password — none is ever requested.
• No names, addresses, phone numbers or payment details.
• No first-party analytics, session recording or fingerprinting. The site runs no tracking scripts of its own.
• No history of what you downloaded. The service has no database of links, files or results, and does not keep a copy of anything you fetch.

2. Your IP address and the download queue

A download is expensive: it occupies the server for as long as the file is being fetched and muxed. To stop one visitor from consuming the machine, the download endpoint enforces a concurrency limit — currently two downloads at a time for the whole service, and one at a time per visitor.

To tell visitors apart it reads your IP address from the x-forwarded-for header (falling back to x-real-ip). That value is held only in the memory of the running server process, as a counter of how many downloads are in flight for it. It is never written to disk, never written to a database, never joined to anything else and never shared. The counter is deleted the moment your download slot is released.

This is a concurrency guard, not a quota: there is no daily or total download count, and nothing accumulates about you over time.

3. Temporary files

When you download, the file is assembled on the server first: the stream is fetched, the audio and video tracks are merged, and the finished file is then streamed back to your browser. It lives in a temporary directory, named with a random UUID, for exactly the duration of that request.

That directory is deleted when the response ends — including when you cancel the download, close the tab or lose your connection. No copy is archived, cached for later, indexed or made available to anyone else.

4. Server logs

Like any web server, ours keeps an access log for security and troubleshooting. It records the IP address making the request, the time, the URL requested, the response status and the browser user-agent string. These logs stay on the server, are rotated by the system, and are used for abuse investigation and capacity planning — not for advertising or profiling.

5. Advertising, cookies and consent

ClipVault is free, and ads pay for the bandwidth. When advertising is enabled, it is served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may set cookies or read device identifiers to select, cap and measure ads.

Where the law requires it, a consent message is shown before any advertising cookie is placed. That message is provided by Google Funding Choices, Google's consent-management tool, and it lets you accept or refuse personalised advertising and is where you can change your choice later.

How Google uses information from sites that use its services is documented here: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

How to refuse personalised ads — any of these works, and none of them stops the site from working:

• Pick "no" for personalised advertising in the consent message, or reopen it from the link that appears on the page after you have chosen.
• Turn off ad personalisation for your Google account at adssettings.google.com.
• Use the industry opt-out pages at optout.aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.com.
• Block third-party cookies in your browser settings.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share the request data described above with advertisers.

6. Children

The service is not directed at children under 13 and asks nobody for personal details, so there is nothing for a child to submit.

7. Your choices

Because nothing is stored about you, there is no profile to export, correct or delete. If you want to ask what is held about a specific request, write to the address below and include the date and time in UTC.

8. Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated when the service changes — for example if a new third-party service is added. The effective date at the top of this page is always the date of the current version, and continuing to use the site after a change means the updated policy applies.

9. Contact

Privacy questions: contact@useclipvault.com. Copyright complaints go through the DMCA process.