Privacy

Who runs it

Clip Lab is run by the show’s own team, at cliplab.studio. To ask anything about this page, or to have something removed, write to the address on the show’s own website.

What it holds

• The show’s own episodes: a smaller copy of each camera’s picture, the whole sound of each camera and mic, a still from each camera, the transcript, and the clips, covers, music and words made from them, and the full episode made from them with its thumbnails. It never keeps the original camera and mic files themselves, even for a team that edits in Descript: they stay in the show’s Dropbox or Google Drive, and Clip Lab reads them there, bringing a file down only while a step needs it, and never changes them.
• The people in each episode: their faces, in the stills and in a picture beside each voice; a few seconds of each voice, so you can tell who is talking; their names; and what you write about a guest or what not to clip. It keeps where a face sits in the picture, to frame it. To pick covers whose expression fits each clip, Clip Lab notes moments when each person smiles or reacts, when their mouth moves, when they turn to the camera, and who is really talking, read from their own camera or, for someone without one, the wide camera. It keeps only those moments (who, when and how strongly), never the shape of a face or a picture of it, and framing never uses a face to tell who someone is.
• The hosts, only if the show turns on recognizing them: in Settings, then Show, a show can ask Clip Lab to recognize its hosts, so “Who’s talking?” opens with them filled in. Clip Lab then keeps one face print and one voice print of each host for every episode where someone confirmed who is talking: numbers read from their face and voice, not a picture or a recording. It never keeps any of a guest or of anyone else. Turning it off forgets all of them, taking a host off the show forgets theirs, and removing an episode forgets what was learned from it. For a show that leaves it off, Clip Lab keeps none and never uses a face to tell who someone is.
• The show’s past episodes, for a team that edits in Descript: each one’s transcript and the names of the people speaking in it, read from the projects you choose to bring in, so Clip Lab knows the show. No clip is made from them, and Remove takes one back out.
• Who is signed in: the email address of each person allowed to use Clip Lab, so it can tell them apart and let them back in.
• The accounts you connect: for Dropbox or Google Drive, where the recordings live, and for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook or LinkedIn, where clips are posted, the account name shown to you (for Facebook, the Page; for LinkedIn, the profile or Page) and the permission the service gave Clip Lab. That permission is stored encrypted, and is used for nothing but reading the recordings, posting the clips you ask it to post, and reading how they do.
• What you asked for: the notes, chat messages and choices you make in the app, so it can do the work and get better at it.

What it does not hold

No password for any connected app: connecting opens that app’s own sign-in page, and Clip Lab never sees what you type there. No payment details. Nothing about anyone who only watches the clips.

Why it holds it

To do the one job it is for: proposing clips from an episode, editing them, and posting the ones a person approves to the accounts that person connected. Nothing is sold, and nothing is used for advertising.

Who else sees it

Clip Lab uses a small number of services to do its work, and sends each one only what that part of the job needs:

• Google and Apple, when you choose to sign in with them. They tell Clip Lab your email address and name, and Clip Lab never sees your password there.
• Dropbox or Google Drive, where the recordings live. Clip Lab reads the camera and mic files there.
• Apple’s podcast directory, to find the show’s podcast by the name you type, which is all it is sent; then the podcast’s own feed, read where it is published, to suggest the show’s details.
• Descript, only for a team that edits there: Clip Lab reads the cuts in the project you pick, and the transcripts of the past episodes you choose to bring in.
• AssemblyAI, which writes the transcript from an episode’s sound, and the words you say to the chat. It is sent the episode’s sound and the names of the show, its hosts and its guests, so it spells them right. Clip Lab asks it to delete its copy of the transcript when the episode is removed.
• Anthropic’s Claude, which proposes clips and writes the words that go with them. It is sent the transcript, the show’s details, the guest’s name, the line about the guest, what you wrote under “Anything Clip Lab shouldn’t clip?”, your chat messages, and, to choose a cover, frames from the clip with the people in them.
• Epidemic Sound, which licenses the music.
• Google Fonts, which supplies the caption fonts. It is sent nothing from an episode.
• Supabase, which stores the data and the files.
• Vercel and Railway, which run the app.
• Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn, when you post a clip to them.

No one else is given any of it, except where the law requires it.

How long it is kept

An episode and everything made from it are kept until someone removes the episode from the Episodes page. Removing it takes its files and clips out of Clip Lab: its clips, covers and downloads, the full episode made from it and its thumbnails, its transcript, its copies of each camera and mic, and the voice samples and pictures of each person. Clip Lab also forgets what it learned of the hosts’ faces and voices from it. AssemblyAI is asked to delete its copy of the transcript too. The episode’s title is kept with the talk about it, so that talk can still be found, and so are the names and folders of its files, with the shared Dropbox link they came from where there was one, and, for a team that edits in Descript, its Descript project, so Clip Lab can say you removed it before if you go to bring it in again. The chat about it stays in your chat history. The recordings stay where they are, untouched: nothing in Dropbox or Google Drive is changed, and for a team that edits in Descript, the Descript project stays as it is, so the episode can be brought back in from there later, by hand. Clips already posted stay on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn, a full episode already on YouTube stays there, and lessons you saved stay with the show. Compilations that use its moments stay as they were made, marked “Uses a removed episode”, with those moments grayed out, and each can be made again from the moments still there. Clip Lab keeps the names of the files it already took from your folder, so the folder doesn’t make the episode again by itself. If you bring the episode back in from the same files, its moments come back in those compilations. A post still waiting to go out is canceled. A post that may still be posting can’t be called back from here: if it goes out, it stays on that app.

A connected account is forgotten the moment you press Disconnect, which also asks the app to withdraw the permission where it offers a way to. Instagram and Facebook offer none, so withdraw it there yourself (see below). Removing Clip Lab in Facebook’s own settings deletes what Clip Lab keeps of that permission at once.

Your choices

• Remove an episode, with its files and clips, from its menu on the Episodes page.
• Disconnect any account you connected at any time, in Settings, then Connections.
• Ask for a copy of what Clip Lab holds about you, or ask for it to be removed, by writing to the address on the show’s own website.
• Withdraw Clip Lab’s permission from inside Dropbox, Google, Apple, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook or LinkedIn itself, in that service’s own settings for connected apps.
• Have what Clip Lab keeps from Facebook or LinkedIn deleted, as Deleting your data says.

Keeping it safe

Only people on a short, named list can sign in, with email, Google or Apple. Files are reached through links that stop working after a short time. The permission each connected app gives is encrypted before it is stored, and is never shown on any screen.

Children

Clip Lab is a tool for the show’s own team and is not for children.

Changes

If this page changes, the new version appears here. Anyone who uses Clip Lab is told before a change that affects them.