Privacy Policy — Clipwright
App: Clipwright — trim, split and shrink videos on your phone.
Package: com.binarydata.clipwright
Effective date: 2026-10-18 (version 1.1.0 and later)
Last updated: 2026-10-18
Published by: Joseph Hagan, publishing as Binary Data Technology
Business address: 33 Gates Ave, Springfield, MA 01118-2302, United States
Contact: support@binarydatatechnology.com
The short version
Your videos never leave your phone. Clipwright reads the videos you choose, processes them on your device, and keeps the results on your device unless you save or share them yourself. We have no account system and no server, and we never receive your videos or your edit settings.
From version 1.1.0, Clipwright is free with ads. The ads are provided by Google AdMob, which uses the internet and collects some device data to show and measure ads, as described in section 3. If you subscribe to Remove ads through Google Play, no ads are requested and the advertising SDK is not started. We do not use analytics or tracking of our own, and we do not sell your personal information.
1. What Clipwright stores on your phone
| Data | Where it lives | Does it leave your phone? |
|---|---|---|
| A reference to each video you choose, plus the details read from it (length, dimensions, format, frame rate, data rate, file size) | Local database inside the app's private storage | No |
| Your edit settings for each clip (trim range, split points, crop shape, resolution, quality, size limit, audio choice) | Local database | No |
| Exported video clips | The app's own private storage, until you save or share them | Only where you send them |
| A record of past exports (length, frame size, measured file size) | Local database | No |
| Preferences (theme, default quality), how many exports you have started, and whether Google Play last confirmed a Remove ads subscription | Local settings file | No |
| Backup files you create | Wherever you choose in the system file picker | Only where you save them |
Your original video is never modified, moved or deleted. Clipwright opens the file you selected for reading only, and writes its results to separate new files.
2. What we, the developer, receive
Nothing that identifies you. We have no server and no analytics, so we never receive your videos, your edit settings, your name, email address or contacts. We see only the aggregated, anonymous reports that Google provides to every developer: Google Play installation and crash statistics (if you allow your device to share them with developers) and AdMob earnings and ad-performance totals.
3. Advertising (free version)
The free version shows a banner at the bottom of the screen and, occasionally, a full-screen ad just after you start an export (never on your first export, and at most once every few minutes). These ads are served by Google AdMob, operated by Google LLC. To serve, measure and protect ads against fraud, the Google Mobile Ads SDK in Clipwright may collect and send to Google:
- Device identifiers — the Android advertising ID and app-set ID;
- Approximate location, derived from your IP address;
- App interactions with ads, such as impressions and taps;
- Diagnostics, such as ad-load performance and crash information related to the SDK;
- basic device information, such as model, operating system version and language.
Google processes this information under its own privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy, and explains how it uses data from apps that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Data sent to Google is encrypted in transit.
Consent. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, or in a US state with an applicable privacy law, Clipwright shows Google's consent or opt-out message before any ad is requested, and asks again whenever the law requires. You can change your choice at any time in Settings → Privacy choices for ads. If you do not consent to personalised ads, Google may still show non-personalised or limited ads, which use less data.
Your controls. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of ads personalisation, in your phone's settings (Settings → Privacy → Ads on most Android phones). Subscribing to Remove ads stops all ad requests from Clipwright.
4. The Remove ads subscription
Remove ads is a yearly, auto-renewing subscription sold and processed entirely by Google Play. Your payment details go to Google, never to us, and Google Play's privacy policy applies to the purchase. The app asks Google Play, on your device, whether your Google account holds an active subscription and keeps only a yes/no copy of the answer locally. We do not store your payment details, purchase receipts or order numbers. You can see, cancel or get help with the subscription in the Google Play app under Payments and subscriptions.
5. Permissions
- Internet and network state. Used only to load ads and to talk to Google Play about the subscription. Videos are never uploaded.
- Advertising ID (AD_ID). Added by the Google Mobile Ads SDK for the purposes in section 3.
- Billing. Lets Google Play show its purchase screen.
- Notifications (POST_NOTIFICATIONS). Optional, asked for once, used only to show export progress and completion. Exports run either way.
- Foreground service. Lets an export you started keep running when you switch to another app. No data collection and no prompt.
- Wake lock. Used by the ads SDK's background work scheduler. It shows no prompt.
Clipwright does not request storage, location (GPS), contacts, camera or microphone permissions. Videos are chosen through the Android system file picker, which grants access to only the single file you select.
6. Android backup and device transfer
Android may include Clipwright's settings and its list of clips and edit settings in your Google account backup or a device-to-device transfer, according to your phone's own backup settings. Exported video files are excluded from that backup and from device transfer. This backup is controlled by Android and Google, and you can turn it off in your phone's settings.
7. Sharing and saving
Your videos leave the app only when you act: Share and Share all hand exported clips to the app you pick; Save to gallery and Save all to gallery copy them into your Movies folder; Save a copy writes one to a location you choose; Play in another app opens one in a video player you already have. The receiving app's own privacy policy then applies.
8. Backup files you create
Save a backup in Settings writes a file containing your clip list and edit settings, to a location you pick. Video is never included in a backup, and Clipwright does not upload it anywhere.
9. Retention and deletion
- On your phone: delete one export in Results, remove a clip from the home screen (your video file itself is not deleted), use Settings → Delete all finished exports, or uninstall Clipwright to remove all of its private storage.
- Advertising data: held by Google under its own retention policies. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings and manage your Google data at myaccount.google.com.
- We hold nothing about you to delete. If you have a question, email us.
10. Children
Clipwright is a general-purpose utility for adults and is not directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
11. Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, UK GDPR or US state privacy laws) you may have rights to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of personal information, and to opt out of targeted advertising. Because we do not hold personal information about you, most of these requests are answered by the controls above or by Google; we will help with any request you send us, free of charge.
12. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be published on this page with a new "Last updated" date, and material changes will be noted in the app's release notes on Google Play. The previous version applied to Clipwright 1.0.0, which had no ads, no subscription and no internet access.
13. Contact
Questions about this policy or about your data: support@binarydatatechnology.com.