Privacy policy
Effective
Sightnote is run by Siddhant Dubey (Bengaluru, India). This page says what we collect, why, and what you can do about it. Contact: [email protected].
What we collect
- Account: your phone number; your email address if you sign up with email or sign in with Google; your name if you sign in with Google; and, if you set a password, a one-way scrambled form of it (we cannot read your password). If you connect Sightnote to another app, such as ChatGPT or Claude, which apps you connected, what you let them do, and when they last used it.
- Your videos and notes: the links you submit, the files you upload, the notes we generate, your flashcard progress and your reading progress. If you share notes, anyone with the link can open a preview of them. The page does not show your name, phone number or email.
- Payments: your plan and your payment records. Card and UPI details are handled by Razorpay; we never see or store them.
- Technical: basic logs (time, request and device type) to keep the service running and safe.
Why we use it
We use your data only to run Sightnote: sign you in, make your notes, bill you, prevent abuse and answer support requests. We do not sell your data and we do not show ads.
Who processes it for us
- Google Gemini analyses the video.
- Sarvam transcribes the audio of uploaded videos.
- Twilio sends sign-in codes.
- Resend sends our emails (sign-in codes, password notices, notes-ready messages and receipts).
- Razorpay handles payments.
- Notion receives notes only if you connect it.
- DigitalOcean (Bangalore) and Cloudflare host the service and store files.
Sharing and search engines
Search engines such as Google are asked not to list your shared notes, unless you turn on "Let search engines show these notes" for that link. It is off until you turn it on. You can turn it off at any time, or stop sharing the link. When you turn it off, we ask search engines to remove the page; this can take a few days and depends on them. When you stop sharing, the page stops working for everyone.
Apps you connect
You can connect Sightnote to AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude. You sign in to Sightnote and choose Allow. The app then gets a key that lets it act for you, only for what the consent screen showed: read your library and notes and, if you allowed it, start notes for a YouTube video using your hours. We never see your password for that app, and it never sees your Sightnote password. What you ask that app, and what it does with the notes we send it, is covered by that app's own privacy policy, not ours. You can disconnect an app at any time in Settings → Connected apps, and it loses access straight away.
Cookies
We use only the cookies needed to keep you signed in and to protect your account. We use no tracking or advertising cookies.
How long we keep it
- Uploaded video files: deleted 24 hours after processing.
- Your account: until you delete it. After deletion, your data is erased within 30 days. Payment records are kept as long as the law requires.
- Email sign-in codes are deleted when used, or within a day after they expire. Your email and password are erased when you delete your account.
- Connection records are deleted when you delete your account. When you disconnect an app, its keys stop working at once and are deleted within 7 days.
- After you delete your account, we keep only a one-way fingerprint of your phone number (not the number itself), so the free hours can't be claimed twice.
Your rights
You can see and download your notes in the app and delete your account in Settings. You can turn search listing off, or stop sharing, from the share screen of the video at any time. For anything else (access, correction, deletion or a complaint), write to [email protected]. We reply within 24 hours.
Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app.