What PodSnips knows about you

You can use PodSnips without an account

Searching podcasts, reading transcripts, making a snippet and sharing it all work without signing in. If you never sign in, PodSnips never learns your name or email.

Signing in is optional, and only uses Google. When you do, we store your name, email address and profile picture as Google provides them, so your snippets belong to you across devices. We never see your Google password.

What we store when you make a snippet

• The episode, the start and end times, and the transcript text of the part you chose.
• Whether you marked it private, and your account if you were signed in.
• A count of how many times it has been viewed and liked — numbers only, not who.
• The MP4 we render for it, and the image used for link previews.

A public snippet is readable by anyone with the link, and its preview image is fetched by whichever service you paste it into. A private snippet is visible only to the account that made it — including its MP4, which is refused to everyone else.

Cookies

Two, and neither follows you anywhere. One remembers that you liked a particular snippet, so the heart stays filled when you come back. One keeps you signed in, if you signed in.

Our analytics sets no cookies at all — see below — so there is no consent banner on this site, because there is nothing to consent to.

Analytics

We count visits with PostHog, configured to store nothing on your device: no cookies, no local storage, no identifier that persists between visits. PostHog counts visitors using a privacy-preserving hash calculated on its own servers, and we have turned off profiles entirely, so nothing links a visit to a person.

We do not record your screen, and we do not capture your clicks. Three things are sent: which page was viewed, that a copy button was pressed (which button, never what was copied), and that the explainer video was played. If your browser sends Do Not Track, we send nothing.

We also collect page-loading speed — how long the page took to become usable, and whether it jumped about while loading. These are timings and measurements only: no text from the page, nothing about what you clicked, and nothing that identifies you. We use them to find pages that are slow.

Other companies that see something

PodSnips is small and leans on specialists. Each of these receives only what it needs to do its job:

These handle episode audio and transcript text, which is podcast content rather than anything about you. The exception is Google, which handles your sign-in, and PostHog, which sees the page you are on and your IP address — it uses the IP to compute the hash and to work out roughly which country you are in, and we never see it.

Pages built from a YouTube video embed YouTube’s own player, which means YouTube sees that you loaded it. We use the no-cookie version, so YouTube sets no tracking cookie unless you actually press play. Nothing on those pages is sent to YouTube by us.

Private feeds

If you subscribe PodSnips to a private podcast feed, the feed URL and any username and password are encrypted before they are written to disk (AES-256-GCM). Episodes from a private feed are never exposed through the public API or the MCP server, not even to an agent holding your link.

Server logs

Our web server keeps ordinary access logs — IP address, the page requested, the time — for about two weeks, then deletes them. They exist to debug problems and to see when something is attacking the site, which is most of what is in them.

Anonymous use of the MCP server stores your IP address alongside transcription requests, so that one caller cannot exhaust the shared daily budget. It is used for that and nothing else.

What we do not do

• We do not sell anything about you, to anyone.
• We do not run advertising, and there are no ad trackers on this site.
• We do not record your screen or your keystrokes.
• We do not email you unless you asked us to.

Deleting things

You can delete any snippet you made, which removes its transcript text, its MP4 and its preview image. To delete your account and everything attached to it, email the address below and we will do it by hand — there are few enough of us that this is honest rather than a form that goes nowhere.

Asking us something

Write to privacy@podsnips.com. If this page is unclear or looks wrong, that is worth telling us too.