What leaves your computer

Kime is made by By CSK (ABN 15 792 348 524), a registered business name of Christo Skevofylakas, in Victoria, Australia. "We" and "us" below mean By CSK.

This policy covers the website at kime.video, the Kime app for Windows and Mac, and Kime AI, the AI service for people with a Kime AI pass. We are a small business and may not be bound by the Australian Privacy Principles, but we follow them anyway.

In the app, your video never leaves your computer. Kime finds the moments, makes the cuts, clips and stills, and listens for speech on your own machine.

• The web trial at kime.video/try is the exception: there you upload a clip to us, our server makes the highlight, and the clip and highlight are deleted within a day.
• We have no accounts, no analytics, no cookies and no telemetry.
• Something leaves your computer only when you use a feature that needs the internet: AI, a video link, stock footage, posting to a platform you connected, a download, or a check for updates. Each is described below.
• With AI on, Kime sends the words it heard and, for a highlight cut, a few small still frames. Never the audio or the video.
• If you use a Kime AI pass, our server keeps how much each pass has spent. It does not keep what was sent or what came back.

kime.video is a set of static pages with no sign-in and no database.

• Cookies and analytics: none. Nothing counts or tracks your visit.
• Hosting: the site is served by Vercel, which keeps standard server logs, including IP addresses, for a short time. We don't look at them.
• Fonts: typefaces load from Google Fonts, so Google receives the request and your IP address. It sets no cookies.
• Downloads: installers are served from Cloudflare, which also keeps standard logs.
• Email: if you write to us, we have your address and whatever you sent.
• Feedback files: Settings → Share what Kime learned saves a file on your computer for you to read and, if you choose, email to us. It holds your ratings and the reasons you ticked, your keep-or-drop answers and marks, the times and scores of those moments, the settings each cut was made with, and a scrambled fingerprint of each video instead of its name. It holds no video, audio, file names, folders or words from your videos. Nothing is sent unless you send it.

kime.video/try lets you try Kime without installing it. Unlike the app, it works on our server, so the video you choose is uploaded to us.

• What we receive: the video file you upload, what you chose in Set up (what to make, and how long), and your IP address with each request. The file's name stays in your browser.
• What we do with it: Kime makes what you asked for (a highlight, stills, or clips with captions) the same way the app does, with no AI service involved. For clips, the speech is turned into text on the same server, to find and caption them. Nobody watches your clip, and it isn't used for anything else, including training.
• Where: on Cloudflare's servers. The clip is stored in Cloudflare R2 and processed in a Cloudflare container.
• How long: the clip you uploaded is deleted as soon as Kime has made what you asked for. That, in turn, is deleted within a day, or straight away if you press Delete this project now.
• The daily limit: to allow three trials a day, we keep a scrambled form of your IP address (never the address itself) and when each trial started, for two days.
• Your browser keeps the list on Your projects: each project's id and the name of the file. That is all the pages store, it is not a cookie, and it never leaves your browser except as the id that asks for a project.

Only upload video you have the right to use.

Everything Kime makes and learns stays on your computer: your videos, cuts, clips, stills, transcripts, the people and dogs it recognises, your library and your settings. The app sends no usage statistics, crash reports or telemetry of any kind.

Keys you add in Settings (your own AI key, a Kime AI pass, stock-footage keys) are kept in your computer's own secure store: Credential Manager on Windows, Keychain on Mac.

These features reach the internet, and only when you use them:

• AI (optional) - the words Kime heard and, for a highlight cut, a few small still frames. To your AI provider, or to our server and then our AI provider (see AI below).
• Paste a video link - the link, to fetch the video. To the site the link points to.
• Stock footage (B-roll) - search words, using your own key. To Pixabay or Pexels.
• Speech and recognition add-ons - a download request. To Hugging Face and GitHub.
• Check for updates - a request for the latest version number. To kime.video, then Cloudflare for the installer.
• Post - the clip and the words you wrote, once you've connected that platform and press Post. To TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, your Facebook Page or LinkedIn, straight from your computer.

Each request also carries your IP address, as any internet request does.

AI is optional. With it off, everything happens on your computer and nothing is sent.

With it on, Kime sends text and small images, never audio or video:

• Finding clips: the words Kime heard in the video, with their times.
• A highlight cut: those words and a few small still frames from the moments being judged.
• B-roll ideas and translated captions: the words of that one clip.

Where it goes depends on how you set AI up:

• Your own AI key: sent straight from your computer to your AI provider. It never passes through us. What the provider keeps is set by your agreement with them.
• A Kime AI pass: sent to our server (Kime AI, run on Cloudflare), which passes it to our AI provider, Anthropic (a US company), and returns the answer. Our server does not store what was sent or what came back, and request logging is switched off. Anthropic deletes what we send within 30 days; the exception is anything its safety systems flag as breaking its usage policy, which it can keep for up to 2 years. Under its terms for business customers, Anthropic does not train its models on what we send.

For each pass, our server keeps:

• a scrambled (hashed) copy of the pass, never the pass itself;
• the name it was issued to;
• each month's spending, number of requests and amount of text processed, so the monthly allowance can be enforced.

These are downloads to your computer, not uploads from it. The services see a request and your IP address, nothing about your videos.

• Speech add-on: about 460 MB from Hugging Face, the first time you turn on speech.
• Recognition models: small files from GitHub and Hugging Face, used to recognise people and dogs.
• Video links: the first time you paste a link, Kime downloads a free tool called yt-dlp from GitHub, then uses it to fetch that video from the site you named.
• Updates: Kime checks only when you press Check now in Settings. It asks kime.video for the newest version, and if you choose to update, downloads it from Cloudflare.

You can connect TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, a Facebook Page and LinkedIn in Settings → Posting, so Kime can post the clips you choose. You approve Kime on each platform's own page, and you can disconnect at any time.

• What Kime asks each platform for: permission to upload or post for you, and your name or handle, so Settings can show which account is connected. Nothing else: not your followers, messages, other posts or statistics.
• When you press Post: the clip and the words you wrote go from your computer straight to that platform. They don't pass through our server. TikTok gets the video as a draft in your inbox, which you finish and post in the TikTok app.
• Instagram and Facebook sign in through Facebook: you choose the Page, and for Instagram the professional account linked to it. Kime posts only to Pages, never to a personal Facebook profile.
• Your sign-ins are kept in your computer's secure store. To finish a sign-in, the platform hands it to our server, which passes it to Kime within seconds and deletes it then, or after 15 minutes at most. YouTube's and TikTok's sign-ins last a day or less, so Kime renews them through our server, which holds the secret that takes and keeps nothing.
• YouTube: Kime uses YouTube API Services to upload your Shorts. By connecting YouTube you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and the Google Privacy Policy covers what YouTube receives.
• X isn't connected: Kime opens X's page in your browser with the words you wrote placed in its address.

Once something is posted, the platform's own privacy policy covers it.

• In Kime: Settings → Posting → Disconnect removes that sign-in from your computer.
• On the platform: to remove Kime's access there too, use the platform's own settings: Google's third-party access page for YouTube, Facebook's Apps and websites settings for Instagram and Facebook, TikTok's Security and permissions → Apps settings, and LinkedIn's Data privacy → Permitted services.
• On our side: our server keeps nothing about your social accounts, so there's nothing there to delete. For Kime AI pass records or emails you've sent, write to privacy@kime.video and we'll delete them.

Overseas. Some of the services above are outside Australia: our AI provider, Vercel, Google (and YouTube), GitHub, Hugging Face, Meta (Instagram and Facebook), LinkedIn and TikTok are in or operate from the United States, Pixabay and Pexels are in Germany, and Cloudflare runs worldwide. Kime AI's records of passes are stored in Cloudflare's Oceania region. We choose established providers with their own privacy and security commitments.

Security. Everything Kime sends travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Passes are stored only in scrambled form, and your keys stay in your computer's secure store.

How long we keep things.

• Emails: as long as we need them to help you, and deleted on request.
• Web trial: the clip until the highlight is made; the highlight and stills for up to a day; the scrambled address and trial times for two days.
• Social sign-ins: on your computer until you disconnect; on our server for seconds, never more than 15 minutes.
• Kime AI pass records: while the pass is in use, and deleted within 12 months after it ends, or sooner on request.
• Everything on your computer is yours to keep or delete. On Windows, uninstalling Kime offers to remove its data folder too.

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Because we hold so little, the answer is usually short. We reply within 30 days.

Requests from authorities. If a government agency or the police ask us for information about someone, we check that the request is lawful, challenge it if it isn't, and give only the minimum the law requires. Because we hold so little, there is usually nothing to give.

Children. Kime is not made for children under 13, and we don't knowingly hold information about them.

Changes. If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. A change to what the app sends ships with the app version that makes it, and is listed in its release notes.

Contact. One person reads this address:

privacy@kime.video →

Complaints. Tell us first and we'll try to put it right. If you're not satisfied, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.