ReplayFoundry analyzes, edits, captions, and renders files on your computer. Connecting YouTube, looking up a game online, and sending a support report are separate choices. We do not store your recordings in a cloud media library.
Information the app uses
Personal clip learning
The personal model learns on your PC from clip ratings, edits you accept, custom moments, and completed rendering or publishing actions. Local clip features, feedback, and learned model files stay in your Windows profile. Training uses your local clip features and choices, not your Google account details or YouTube audience data. It does not upload your recordings. You can pause learning or reset its saved examples and model in Settings.
Optional wording learning
When enabled, wording learning saves your edits, explicit approvals, optional correction notes, and the clip facts and transcript evidence used for the draft. It also retains references to the original recording and cut times for later local video review. When clip and wording learning are both enabled, completed montages can retain their cut order for future sequence review. These records and any trained writer stay on this PC; they are not uploaded or synced to an account.
Only the fields you edit or approve become wording targets. Clip ratings, renders, and publishing actions do not approve a title or description. Factual corrections require review, and separate recordings are reserved for model testing. A personal writer must pass independent quality checks before activation. You can disable collection or reset saved learning in Settings; a full uninstall removes the app's local data.
Files you choose
The app reads video, audio, thumbnail, project, and supporting files that you explicitly select or create. It may create local project state, bounded preview media, caches, rendered clips, captions, transcripts, metadata, and diagnostic records. Their local paths are controlled by the app's documented storage settings and your output choices.
Optional public game lookup
Public game lookup is off unless you choose it. After you confirm a game name and opt in, ReplayFoundry sends only that confirmed name to Wikimedia APIs, including Wikidata and Wikipedia, to find attributable game information. It does not send your recording, file path, transcript, creator notes, or local analysis. Licensed results and their attribution may be cached on your computer so the same game context can be reused locally.
YouTube information
YouTube network access is off by default. If you enable it and connect, ReplayFoundry uses Google OAuth and the YouTube Data API to read the connected channel identity, manageable playlists, and available categories; upload a finalized video and its metadata; optionally set a thumbnail and add the video to a playlist; schedule publication; and check whether a video identifier recorded in local publish history is still available to that account.
ReplayFoundry requests https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube because its optional playlist insertion workflow is not supported by the narrower upload-only scope. It does not use YouTube data for advertising, surveillance, credit decisions, generalized AI training, or sale.
Optional feedback and crash reports
Report delivery is separate from YouTube and off by default. A crash can save a bounded sanitized report to a local outbox, but the crash handler does not upload it. A report leaves your computer only after delivery is enabled and you review and send it. A submitted report contains a random report ID, report type, app version, UTC time, the summary and details shown for review, and any sanitized text diagnostic attachment you chose to include. Diagnostics are designed to exclude recordings, rendered media, titles, descriptions, transcripts, credentials, full local paths, account email addresses, and memory dumps.
Storage
- YouTube refresh credentials are stored for the current Windows user in Windows Credential Manager.
- Preferences, publish history, unsent reports, and local permissions are stored in the current user's application-data folders.
- Source media, rendered outputs, thumbnails, and durable projects remain in local storage.
- Reviewed reports you explicitly send are stored in ReplayFoundry's protected support database for up to 30 days. Their sanitized summary, details, and any diagnostic text attachments you selected are delivered through Cloudflare to ReplayFoundry's verified Google support mailbox; operational email records may be retained separately for security, delivery, and support follow-up.
- ReplayFoundry has no operator-hosted user-account or media database.
Network activity
The app communicates with Google only when you explicitly use a YouTube action such as Connect, Refresh, Check status, Upload, or Schedule. Google receives the authorization request and the video, thumbnail, and metadata you choose to publish. If you opt into public game lookup, Wikimedia receives only the confirmed game name. Approved runtime-pack installation and update checks may contact the documented ReplayFoundry download service when you initiate or permit them. A reviewed diagnostic report may be sent to the fixed ReplayFoundry support endpoint when enabled. The app does not silently substitute arbitrary network services.
Website cookies and analytics
ReplayFoundry.com does not install advertising, behavioral-analytics, or cross-site tracking scripts. The Cloudflare security edge may set a short-lived, strictly necessary bot-management cookie to distinguish legitimate requests from automated abuse. That cookie is used for website security, not advertising or creator profiling. Because the current website has no optional tracking cookies, it does not display a consent banner that would imply otherwise.
Sharing and sale
Expired Soda Studios LLC does not sell Google user data, diagnostics, transcripts, recordings, or personal information. Information is shared with Google to perform the YouTube actions you request and to deliver support mail; with Cloudflare only to receive, protect, store, and notify us about a report you explicitly send; with other infrastructure vendors only as necessary for the requested service; or when required by law.
Retention, access, and deletion
YouTube access remains until you disconnect, revoke access in your Google Account, or the credential expires or becomes invalid. Disconnect attempts Google revocation and removes the locally stored refresh credential. Local reports and project data remain until you delete them. Submitted support reports expire from the support database after 30 days; a short-lived keyed anti-abuse counter is retained for no longer than its one-hour rate window. The Settings area includes controls for relevant caches, reports, preferences, and local records. Use the report ID when requesting access to or deletion of an operator-held report. Details are on the Data deletion page.
If Expired Soda Studios LLC receives a valid request to delete Google user data it holds, it will complete the request as soon as practical and no later than 30 calendar days unless retention is legally required.
Security
Google authorization uses the system browser, a loopback redirect, random state, and PKCE. ReplayFoundry does not request your Google password. Its registered Desktop OAuth client is public application configuration rather than a confidential server credential, while each user's refresh credential is protected in Windows Credential Manager. Network requests use HTTPS. No security control is perfect; keep Windows and ReplayFoundry updated and protect your Windows account.
Children
ReplayFoundry is a general-audience creator tool and is not directed to children under 13. Creators are responsible for choosing the correct audience designation for each YouTube upload.
Google API Services disclosure
ReplayFoundry's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Use of YouTube features is also subject to the YouTube Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.
Changes and contact
Material changes will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Contact privacy@replayfoundry.com for privacy or deletion questions. Operator: Expired Soda Studios LLC, Kentucky, United States.