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Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 30, 2026

This policy explains what personal data is collected when you use subkickcaption.com and the Subkick Caption plugin, why, and what your rights are.

1. Data controller

Robin Carayol — [email protected].

2. Data collected

  • Email address — if you join our mailing list, receive a license, or start a subscription (to redirect you to checkout and email you the link).
  • License data — device fingerprint (hashed hardware identifier), plugin version, operating system, country and IP address, recorded during license checks (anti-sharing security).
  • Transcribed audio — when you start a transcription, your sequence's audio is sent to our transcription provider (Gladia) to be converted into text. This audio is not retained after transcription.
  • Anonymous analytics — aggregated visit statistics via Cloudflare Web Analytics, without cookies and without an identifiable IP address. Arrivals via a campaign or affiliate link are counted in aggregate (campaign code, page, country), without cookies or IP address.
  • Arrival source — when a free license is created, the site your first visit came from (e.g. a search engine) and the first page you viewed are linked to the license, for acquisition statistics. No cookies, no IP address.
  • Referral source — if you arrive via an affiliate link, a referral identifier is kept to credit the partner if you subscribe.

3. Purposes & legal bases

  • Send you news if you've signed up (mailing list) — consent.
  • Issue and validate licenses, send you a key-recovery code — performance of the license agreement.
  • Transcribe the audio you submit into text (the software's core feature) — performance of the contract.
  • Protect the software against sharing / fraud and improve the product — legitimate interest.

4. Retention

Mailing-list emails are kept until you unsubscribe. License data is kept for the lifetime of the license. Verification logs are kept for security purposes for a limited time, then deleted.

5. Processors & transfers

We rely on providers acting as processors:

  • Cloudflare — hosting, storage (databases, files) and analytics.
  • Resend — sending transactional emails (recovery codes). Processed in the EU region.
  • Lemon Squeezy — subscription payment, billing and VAT (Merchant of Record) and affiliate program.
  • Gladia — automatic (AI) transcription of the audio you submit. The audio is not retained after transcription.

Some providers may process data outside the European Union; such transfers are covered by appropriate safeguards (standard contractual clauses).

6. Cookies

This site does not use advertising or tracking cookies. Analytics is cookieless. Strictly necessary local storage is used to remember your access — and, where applicable, the referral identifier from an affiliate link (to credit the partner); a functional use that does not require consent.

7. Your rights

Under the GDPR, you have the right to access, rectify, erase, object to and port your data. To exercise them, write to [email protected]. You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority (CNIL, cnil.fr).