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ViralBurst — Privacy Statement

Last updated: July 26, 2026

ViralBurst is designed to run entirely on your own computer. This

statement explains what that means in practice.

License activation and verification

The first time you run ViralBurst, and at most once every 24 hours

after that, it checks your license key with our payment processor

(Polar) to confirm it's still active — typically a sub-second

check, and skipped entirely on launches within 24 hours of the last

one. This sends only your license key and a randomly-generated

installation identifier; no other data is included. If this check

can't reach the internet, ViralBurst continues working normally — it

only requires a successful check after an extended stretch (10 days)

with no connection at all, so brief periods offline don't interrupt

your work.

Outside of this check, ViralBurst works entirely offline, the same as

described everywhere else in this statement.

What ViralBurst does with your files

Video files you provide, and everything generated from them (clips,

transcripts, subtitles), are processed and stored **only on your own

device**. ViralBurst does not upload your videos, transcripts, or output

files anywhere. ViralBurst servers never see or have access to

this content.

YouTube URLs

If you paste a YouTube URL instead of a local file, ViralBurst uses the

open-source tool yt-dlp to download that video directly from YouTube to

your own computer. That request goes to YouTube, not to us — we don't

see which URLs you enter or what you download. Your use of this feature

is subject to YouTube's own terms and privacy practices.

Transcription

Speech-to-text transcription happens locally on your computer using the

faster-whisper library and OpenAI's Whisper model weights, downloaded

once to your machine on first use. Your audio and video are never sent

to a server (ours, OpenAI's, or anyone else's) for transcription.

Checking for updates

ViralBurst never checks for updates automatically. If you click "Check

for Updates" in Settings, it sends a request to viralburst.app with

your current version number (so we know what to compare against) and

gets back the latest available version. No other information is sent

-- no license key, no installation identifier, nothing about your

usage. If you don't click that button, this never happens at all.

What ViralBurst does send over the network

(via your system's package manager or winget), the Whisper model

weights (via Hugging Face), and -- only if you turn on AI Highlights

or AI Captions and choose to download a model -- that model's own

file, also via Hugging Face. All standard software installation,

fetched directly by your own machine from those projects' own servers.

libraries are downloaded from PyPI, the same way.

only happens if you click the button yourself.

analytics or telemetry of any kind.

AI Highlights and AI Captions (experimental)

These AI features are highly experimental and may not work as

intended -- results can be inconsistent, low-quality, or wrong.

That said, they're completely safe to test: nothing about using

them can damage your files, your computer, or your original video,

worst case is a bad or empty result. There is no customer support

for AI features at this time.

If you turn on AI Highlights (finding highlight-worthy moments) or AI

Captions/Hashtags/Titles (suggested post text for your clips), a small

language model runs 100% locally on your own computer to read your

video's transcript. To be explicit about what that means:

Your transcript is never sent anywhere -- this works the same way

local transcription already does. Neither feature downloads a model

automatically: you choose and download one yourself from Settings,

and that download (from Hugging Face) is the only network activity

involved. Using either feature afterward involves no network activity

at all.

Data we collect

None. ViralBurst has no account system, no server component, and no

mechanism to send us information about you or your usage.

Changes to this statement

This statement is kept up to date with what the app actually does --

if a future version changes any of this, the statement will be

updated to reflect it before that version is released.

Contact

Questions about this statement can be directed to viralburstai@gmail.com.