Privacy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 13, 2026

Who we are

Jeriathan is a macOS application made by Jeriathan Inc., a Delaware corporation ("we," "us," "our"). This policy explains what Jeriathan does with your footage, your connected accounts, and the services it uses. It applies to the Jeriathan app and to this website, including your Jeriathan account and the beta application form. Questions go to [email protected].

The short version

  • Jeriathan runs on your own Mac. Your footage stays on your drives, and a finished video leaves your Mac only when you post it.
  • It sends transcripts, script text, and still frames to AI services to make editing decisions. If you pay with Jeriathan credits, those requests pass through our server on the way. We do not keep them.
  • It connects to your YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, and LinkedIn accounts only when you sign in, only through the official APIs, and only to do what you ask.
  • Sign-in tokens for those platforms live in the macOS Keychain on your Mac, and we never receive them. The one exception is X: if you link X, its tokens are kept on our server, encrypted, so we can post for you.
  • Your Jeriathan account is free. We keep its email address and credit history. Stripe handles payments, and we never see your card number.
  • Jeriathan sends us usage stats only if you turn on Share my stats: daily counts of what you make with it, never your videos or your words. Turning it off deletes them.
  • We do not sell your data, and we do not use it to train AI models.
  • If you press E in the app to send us a report, it holds your words. A picture of the app and your timeline's details go with it only if you say yes.
  • You can disconnect any account at any time from the platform's own permissions page (X: from your account page). A Disconnect button inside the app is coming.
  • If you apply for the beta, we keep your application so we can review it. We send you marketing email only if you tick the box that asks for it.

What Jeriathan processes

  • Your media and scripts. Video, audio, scripts, transcripts, and still frames from the projects you open. These are read from and written to folders on your computer and drives.
  • Account connections. When you sign in to a platform, Jeriathan receives an access token for that platform. Tokens are stored in the macOS Keychain on your Mac, protected by your login. Jeriathan Inc. does not receive, store, or have access to them, except for X, which is linked through your Jeriathan account (see below).
  • Platform data about your own accounts. Your channel's video list and metadata, your videos' analytics, your Page and Instagram posts, your ad campaigns and their results, and basic profile facts such as your TikTok follower count. This data is fetched on your instruction and kept on your Mac.
  • Diagnostics. Jeriathan writes log files on your Mac so problems can be diagnosed. It does not send usage analytics or telemetry to Jeriathan Inc., except the daily counts described under Share my stats, and only if you turn that on, and a report you choose to send us (see Reports you send us).

Your Jeriathan account and credits

Your Jeriathan account is free, and you sign in to it at jeriathan.com with Google. Prepaid credits pay for AI features and X posts. Our server runs on Cloudflare and keeps only what that needs:

  • Your account. Your email address and your Google account ID. We ask Google only for your basic profile and email address (openid, email, profile), use them only to sign you in, and do not store your name or photo.
  • Your devices. The name of each Mac you link, and when it was linked and last used. Sign-in tokens are stored only as hashes. Signing in on the website sets a cookie that keeps you signed in. We use no advertising or tracking cookies.
  • Your credits. Each top-up, refund, and charge, with its Stripe payment ID. Payments are processed by Stripe, which receives your card details under the Stripe Privacy Policy. We never see or store your card number.
  • Your AI usage. For each AI call paid with credits, the server keeps the model's name, the token counts, the price and the time, so your balance is right and we can check our providers' bills. It never keeps the request or the reply.
  • Your X connection, if you link X: your X user ID, username, and tokens, stored encrypted (see the X section below).
  • Your stats, only if you turn on Share my stats (see the next section).
  • Abuse limits. To stop abuse, the server counts requests from each IP address over short time windows.

When you use credits, the app's AI requests travel through our server straight to the model's company (Anthropic, Google or Alibaba Cloud, listed below) on Jeriathan's own account there, tagged with your account ID where the provider takes one so misuse can be traced to one account. Our server passes them along and does not store what is in them.

Share my stats (only if you say yes)

After you sign in, Jeriathan asks once whether you want to share your stats with us. It is off unless you say yes, and saying no changes nothing about what Jeriathan does for you.

  • Why we ask. We want to find the creators who make the most with Jeriathan, so we can ask them what to build next. We may email you about that at your account's email address.
  • What the app sends. While sharing is on, Jeriathan counts, for each day: videos exported, posts sent to a platform, editing-button runs, messages to Ask Jeri, and minutes spent editing with Jeriathan open in front. It sends those numbers to our server while the app is open, with your account and the date.
  • What it never sends. Your videos, footage, audio, scripts, transcripts, captions, titles, file or project names, or anything you type. Only the numbers above.
  • Who sees them. Only Jeriathan Inc. We do not publish them, sell them, share them, or use them for advertising.
  • Where they are kept. On our server at Cloudflare, with your Jeriathan account, counted separately for each Mac you link so they add up. We also keep a record of each time you said yes or no, the version of the wording you saw, and where you answered (the app or this website).
  • Seeing and stopping it. Your account page shows what we hold from the last 30 days. Turn sharing off in the app under Help ▸ Share My Stats, or on your account page. Turning it off deletes every count we hold, and the app stops counting. You can turn it back on at any time.

Google user data and YouTube

Jeriathan uses YouTube API Services. When you sign in with Google, you are also agreeing to the Google Privacy Policy. Jeriathan asks for these permissions and uses them for these purposes only:

  • Upload YouTube videos (youtube.upload): to upload the videos you export from Jeriathan to your channel, with the title and description you choose. Jeriathan posts them as public videos.
  • View your YouTube account (youtube.readonly): to read your channel's name and subscriber count, so you can see which channel Jeriathan posts to and so the editor's Home screen can show your subscribers.
  • View YouTube Analytics reports (yt-analytics.readonly) and View monetary YouTube Analytics reports (yt-analytics-monetary.readonly): to read your own channel's views and estimated revenue for the last 30 days and show them to you on the editor's Home screen, as YouTube reports them, so you can see what your videos earn. Jeriathan asks YouTube for these numbers at most once every 30 minutes.

Jeriathan does not ask for permission to edit or delete your videos, comments, or captions.

How this data is stored. Data fetched from YouTube is stored only on your Mac, in Jeriathan's project and cache folders. Your channel's numbers are kept in one small file there; your sign-in token is never written to it, and none of it is sent to our servers. Jeriathan refreshes or deletes cached YouTube data within 30 days, and deletes the numbers when you disconnect YouTube. You can delete the cache at any time by removing those folders.

How this data is shared. Jeriathan does not share your YouTube data with Jeriathan Inc. or with advertisers. If you enable performance-based suggestions, Jeriathan may send a summary of your own videos' performance to the AI services listed below, solely to generate editing suggestions for you. It does not use YouTube data to train or improve AI models, and it does not sell it.

Limited Use. Jeriathan's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Revoking access. You can remove Jeriathan's access to your Google Account at any time from the Google security settings page. A Disconnect button inside Jeriathan is coming. Revoking access does not delete videos you already uploaded to your channel.

Signing in to jeriathan.com with Google is separate from YouTube. It asks only for your basic profile and email address, which we use to identify your Jeriathan account and for nothing else.

Facebook, Instagram, and Meta ads

When you connect a Meta account, Jeriathan uses the Facebook Graph API and Marketing API. Depending on what you enable, it may ask to see the Pages you manage, publish videos to the Pages and Instagram accounts you choose, read engagement on those posts and your own Instagram account's views over the last 30 days and follower count (shown to you on the editor's Home screen), and create, manage, and read the results of ad campaigns in your own ad account. Jeriathan acts only on your instruction. It does not spend money without a campaign you set up, and ad spend is billed by Meta to your ad account, not through Jeriathan.

Your use of Meta platforms is also governed by the Meta Privacy Policy. You can remove Jeriathan's access from Facebook Settings, Business Integrations.

TikTok

When you connect TikTok, Jeriathan uses TikTok Login Kit to see which account you connected: your username and basic profile, and your account's follower, like, and video counts (user.info.basic, user.info.profile, user.info.stats). It uses the Content Posting API (video.upload) to send the videos you choose to your TikTok inbox as drafts, only when you press Export and Post. You add the caption and post them yourself in the TikTok app; Jeriathan does not post to TikTok for you. Your TikTok token is stored in the macOS Keychain on your Mac. Your use of TikTok is also governed by the TikTok Privacy Policy. You can remove Jeriathan's access in the TikTok app under Settings and privacy, Security and permissions, Manage app permissions.

X

X is linked through your Jeriathan account, because X charges each post to our app. When you link X at jeriathan.com, X asks you to let Jeriathan read your profile, post for you, and upload media (tweet.read, tweet.write, users.read, media.write, offline.access). Our server stores your X user ID, username, and tokens, encrypted. When you post to X, the finished video and its text pass through our server to X, and the server does not keep the video. Jeriathan posts only when you press Export and Post, and each post is charged to your credits. Your use of X is also governed by the X Privacy Policy. You can disconnect X on your account page, which deletes the tokens from our server and revokes them at X, or remove Jeriathan in X under Settings and privacy, Security and account access, Apps and sessions.

LinkedIn

When you connect LinkedIn, Jeriathan signs in with LinkedIn (openid, profile) to read your name and member ID, so it can show which account is connected, and asks to post for you (w_member_social). It posts only the videos you choose, with their text, publicly to your own LinkedIn profile, and only when you press Export and Post. It does not read your connections, messages, or post statistics, and it never posts to company pages. Your LinkedIn token is stored in the macOS Keychain on your Mac. Your use of LinkedIn is also governed by the LinkedIn Privacy Policy. You can remove Jeriathan's access in LinkedIn under Settings, Data privacy, Permitted services.

AI services Jeriathan uses

Jeriathan sends parts of your project to AI service providers to do its editing work. These providers process the data to return a result and, under their API terms, do not use it to train their models. What they receive: transcripts, script text, still frames and short excerpts of your clips, editing metadata, the notes you write to teach Jeriathan and the list built from them, and, if you enable it, summaries of your videos' performance. They do not receive your sign-in tokens. If you pay with Jeriathan credits, these requests go through our server on the way, as described above.

  • Anthropic (Claude models): editing decisions, script parsing, and the in-app assistant when it runs on Claude. Anthropic privacy policy.
  • Google (Gemini models): vision checks on frames, such as confirming an insert shows what the script asked for. Google privacy policy.
  • Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Qwen models, Singapore): the in-app assistant's default model when you pay with Jeriathan credits. Alibaba Cloud privacy policy.
  • AssemblyAI: transcription with speaker labels and word timing. AssemblyAI privacy policy.

Speech transcription can also run entirely on your Mac. The list of providers may change; when it does, we update this page.

Applying for the beta

When you apply at jeriathan.com/apply, we collect what you enter: your name, email address, the channel links you give us, and your answers, along with the time you applied and the IP address the application came from, which we use to stop spam. We use your application to review it and to contact you about the beta.

  • Where it goes. Your application passes through Cloudflare, which hosts this site, to a computer Jeriathan Inc. runs, where it is stored. A copy is emailed to our inbox through Amazon SES. It is not sent anywhere else, except for the review steps below.
  • How we review it. To sort applications, we look up public information about the channels you link, such as follower, subscriber and post counts and recent public posts, using each platform's official tools. We may also send your answers and that public information to Anthropic (Claude), an AI service, to help sort applications by how well they fit the beta. Anthropic processes it under its commercial terms and does not use it to train its models. A person makes every final decision.
  • Bot protection. The form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to check that a person is sending it. To do that, Turnstile processes information about your browser and connection under Cloudflare's privacy policy.
  • Marketing email, only if you ask. The marketing box is optional, starts unticked, and has no effect on your application. If you tick it, we add your email address to our Jeriathan mailing list and record when you agreed and the wording you agreed to. We send that email ourselves, through Amazon SES. Every message has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect immediately.
  • How long we keep it. Only as long as we need it to run the beta. Email us at any time and we will delete your application, take you off the mailing list, or both.

Notes you write to teach Jeriathan

Press E in the app to write a note about a clip or a moment in your cut: what you changed and why, or what you want Jeriathan to do differently. Your notes teach your own Jeriathan. Everyone runs the same software; what you teach it is your own data, and nobody else's Jeriathan changes because of it.

  • What a note is. Your words, with the clip's name and where it sat on your timeline when you wrote it. A note never includes your video or audio files.
  • Where your notes and your list live. Your notes stay in your project folder on your Mac, in plain text, and they are yours. The short list of standing preferences Jeriathan builds from them is stored on your Mac too, under your Jeriathan account, so two accounts on one Mac never mix. Help ▸ What Jeriathan Learned shows every rule and the notes behind it; you can edit or delete a rule.
  • Your list is sealed. The list file on your Mac is encrypted. The key that opens it is made and kept on our server under your account and sent to your Mac only while you are signed in; your Mac keeps it in memory and never writes it down. Sealing stops the list being read or copied into another product. It is not a lock on your own notes, which stay yours, readable, in your project folder. Without an internet connection the app cannot open the list, and an editing run simply works without it.
  • Your words are yours to take. Export my notes… in the same window writes the notes Jeriathan learned from — your words, with the project, clip and time of each — and the answers you typed, as a plain text file, at any time. The list itself is not part of the export.
  • Forget everything. Help ▸ What Jeriathan Learned ▸ Forget everything deletes the list from your Mac and deletes the key on our server, so a sealed copy left on a backup can never be opened again. Your notes in each project folder stay.
  • What passes through our server. To turn new notes into that list, and during an editing run that uses it, the app sends the text of your notes and your list through our server to a model company, Anthropic, or Google as the backup, the same way other AI requests travel when you use credits. Our server passes them along and does not keep them. It stores no copy of your notes or your list; of all this, the key is the only thing it keeps.
  • Sharing with Reid, only if you turn it on. Help ▸ Share My Notes with Reid is off unless you turn it on. While it is on, each new note you write is also sent to Reid Olson through the same channel as reports (see "Reports you send us"), marked as a note. Your "Include my timeline" answer decides whether the timeline and a picture come along, exactly as it does for a report. Turn it off at any time and nothing more is sent. What was already sent is deleted on request, like any report.
  • What it can and cannot do. Your list changes Jeriathan's taste: which takes and inserts it picks and how it reads your notes. It cannot add an ability the app does not have. For that, press Shift+E and give feedback.

Reports you send us

If something goes wrong, or you wish Jeriathan could do something it can't, press Shift+E in the app and tell us. Your feedback goes to Reid Olson, who makes Jeriathan. Nothing is sent until you click Send.

  • What every report holds. Your words, your Jeriathan account, when you sent it, and which versions of Jeriathan and macOS you were using.
  • Your timeline, only if you say yes. The report asks first. If you tick the box, it also sends a picture of the Jeriathan window as it looked when you pressed E, and details of the timeline you had open: its tracks and clips (names, positions, effects and settings), what you had selected, where the playhead was, your last few edits, and your Mac's model and memory. It never sends your video or audio files. If the box is unticked, none of this leaves your Mac. The app remembers your answer, and you can change it on any report.
  • What we use it for. Only to understand what happened and to make Jeriathan better. We do not sell it, share it with advertisers, or use it to train AI models.
  • Where it goes. A report waits on our server at Cloudflare only until it reaches us, and is then deleted from it. We keep it on a computer we run, and it is emailed to our inbox through Amazon SES so we see it quickly. If your Mac is offline, the report waits on your Mac and sends when you are back online.
  • How long we keep it. As long as it helps us fix the problem or improve the app. Email us and we will delete any report you sent, with its picture and timeline details.
  • How we read it. Feedback reaches Reid as soon as it arrives. Notes you chose to share, and all feedback, are also read once a day in one summary, grouped by theme and ordered by how many different people said the same thing, so what many people run into is seen first.

If you tick “Include diagnostics”, the report also carries the app’s own recent log lines, the setup status, version numbers and the ids of recent posting jobs. The app removes file paths under your user folder, tokens, media file names and transcript text before you see it, and shows you the exact text before anything is sent. It is used only to fix what went wrong.

What we never do

  • We do not sell or rent your data.
  • We do not show you ads or share your data with advertisers.
  • We do not use your footage, transcripts, or platform data to train AI models.
  • We do not post, upload, or spend on your behalf without an action you took in the app.

Keeping and deleting your data

Most of what Jeriathan uses stays on your Mac, so you are in control of it:

  • Projects and caches: delete the project folder and Jeriathan's cache folders next to it.
  • Connected accounts: remove Jeriathan on the platform's permissions page linked above (its access stops at once), and delete the token from your Mac's Keychain as the data deletion page shows. A Disconnect button inside Jeriathan is coming.
  • Your Jeriathan account: disconnect X or sign out on your account page at any time. Email us and we will delete your account, your linked devices, your X connection, your stats, and your AI key. We keep the record of payments and credits for as long as tax and accounting law requires.
  • Your stats: turn off Share my stats in the app or on your account page and we delete them at once. While sharing is on, we keep them for as long as you have your account.
  • Platform data: data Jeriathan fetched from a platform is deleted when you delete the cache, and is refreshed or deleted within 30 days regardless.
  • Reports you sent us: email us and we will delete them, with their pictures and timeline details.
  • Beta applications and the mailing list: email us and we will delete your application and remove your address from the list. The unsubscribe link in any marketing email stops that email immediately.

If you have emailed us for support, we keep that correspondence only as long as needed to help you. To ask us to delete anything we hold, email [email protected] and we will confirm when it is done.

Step-by-step instructions, the exact commands, and the response times we hold ourselves to are on our Data Deletion page.

Security

Platform tokens are stored in the macOS Keychain on your Mac. On our server, your AI key and X tokens are encrypted (AES-256-GCM), and sign-in tokens are kept only as hashes. All connections to platforms, AI services, and our server use HTTPS. Editing happens on your own computer. No method of storage or transmission is perfectly secure, so keep your Mac and its login protected.

Children

Jeriathan is a professional tool intended for people 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

Where data is processed

Jeriathan Inc. is based in the United States, and beta applications and our mailing list are stored there, as are the reports you send us. Jeriathan accounts and the stats you choose to share are stored with Cloudflare, which also holds a report until it reaches us, and payments are handled by Stripe. They, the AI service providers, and the platforms above may process data in the United States or other countries where they operate.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict the use of your personal data, and to withdraw consent. Because Jeriathan keeps most of your data on your own computer, you can exercise most of these directly. For anything we hold, such as your account, credits, stats, X connection, reports, or beta application, email us and we will respond promptly. You can withdraw your consent to sharing stats yourself, at any time, by turning it off. EU, UK, and EEA residents may also complain to their local data protection authority. California residents have their rights under the CCPA and CPRA; we do not sell or share personal information.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy we will post the new version here with a new "last updated" date. Material changes will be announced inside the app before they take effect.

Contact

Jeriathan Inc., [email protected].