Privacy Policy

Effective October 10, 2026 · Applies to the Insightube Chrome extension and insightube.com

The short version

Transcripts are read in your browser. When you ask for an AI summary or translation, the video's title and transcript are sent to our server and our AI provider to produce it, and are not stored afterwards.
If you sign in, we keep your Google account ID, your email address, your plan, and how many summaries you used this week.
Your saved summaries and settings stay in your own browser.
Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see your card number.
We don't sell your data, show ads, or use tracking or analytics tools.

1. Who we are

Insightube is a Chrome extension that shows YouTube transcripts and creates AI summaries, insights, speaker viewpoints and translations. It is operated by FREEOCLOCK LIMITED, Hong Kong ("we", "us"). Questions about this policy go to support@insightube.com.

2. What we collect

Data	When	Why
Video title and transcript text	Only when you click Summarize or Translate	To create the summary or translation. Passed through our server to our AI provider and not stored by us.
Google account ID and email address	When you sign in with Google	To identify your account, apply your plan, and contact you about billing or support.
Plan and subscription status	When you subscribe to Pro	To unlock Pro features. Includes the Stripe customer and subscription IDs, renewal date and plan interval.
Usage counts	Each AI summary you request	To apply the free limit (3 a week) and fair-use limits. We store a number per week or day, not what you summarized.
A random installation ID and your IP address	With each AI request	To limit abuse (requests per minute). Used for rate limiting only and not stored in our database.

We do not collect your YouTube watch history, browsing history, the pages you visit, or the contents of other tabs. The extension only runs on YouTube pages.

3. What stays on your device

These are kept in your browser's extension storage and are not sent to us:

Saved summaries (your History), including any translations you made. Up to 500 are kept; the oldest are removed first.
Settings such as preferred transcript languages, translation language and summary language. Chrome may sync these between your own devices if you use Chrome sync.
Your sign-in session, a signed token that lets the extension talk to our server as you.

Removing the extension deletes this data from your browser.

4. How we use it

To provide summaries, insights, speaker viewpoints and translations you ask for.
To run your account, apply free and Pro limits, and process subscriptions.
To prevent abuse and keep the service running.
To answer your support requests.

We don't use your data for advertising, profiling, or to train AI models.

We share data only with the service providers needed to run Insightube:

OpenRouter, which routes the video title and transcript to the AI model that writes your summary or translation. We do not send your email or account details. See OpenRouter's privacy policy.
Stripe, which processes Pro payments and stores your payment details. See Stripe's privacy policy.
Google, which provides sign-in. See Google's privacy policy.
Cloudflare, which hosts our server and database. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.

We may disclose data if the law requires it. We never sell personal data.

6. Google user data

When you sign in, Insightube asks Google only for your basic profile identifier and email address (the openid and email scopes). We use them only to create and identify your Insightube account. We don't access your Gmail, Drive, YouTube account or any other Google data.

Insightube's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. The same applies to the Chrome Web Store Limited Use policy: we don't transfer this data to others except as described in section 5, don't use it for advertising, and don't allow people to read it except with your permission, for security, or where the law requires.

7. How long we keep it

Transcripts and AI output: not stored on our server after the response is sent.
Account and plan: while your account exists. Ask us to delete it at any time.
Usage counts: kept while your account exists, and deleted with it.
Billing records: kept by Stripe as required for tax and accounting.

8. Your choices and rights

Use transcripts without an account. Signing in is only needed for AI features.
Sign out at any time in the extension's settings.
Cancel your subscription in Settings → Manage subscription.
Ask for a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion of your account by emailing support@insightube.com from the address you signed in with. We reply within 30 days.

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act or Hong Kong's Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance), you may have further rights, including to object to processing or complain to your local data protection authority.

9. Security

Data travels over HTTPS. Sign-in sessions are signed tokens, payment details stay with Stripe, and access to our server's secret keys is restricted. No system is perfectly secure, and we will tell affected users promptly if a breach affects their data.

10. Children

Insightube is not intended for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has signed up, contact us and we'll delete the account.

11. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. For significant changes we'll also tell signed-in users in the extension before they take effect.

12. Contact

Email support@insightube.com.