KitCutPrivacy

Privacy policy

Last updated 29 October 2026

KitCut (kitcut.ai) is made and run by Botmakers LLC ("we"), which is responsible for your data. It makes short animated films from an idea you give it. This page says what we collect to do that, what we use it for, who else handles it, and how to have it removed. Questions go to [email protected].

What we collect

  • Your account. Your email address. If you sign in with Google, also your name, profile picture and Google account ID. We never see a password.
  • What you ask for. The idea you type, the pictures and voice notes you add, and the look and length you choose.
  • The films. Everything made for your film: the script, narration, music, pictures and the finished video.
  • Your plan. Your plan, credits and subscription status. Payments are handled by Stripe; we never see or store your card number.
  • How you found us. On your first visit a cookie (kc_src, 90 days) notes the site or link that sent you and the first page you saw. It is kept with your account when you sign up.
  • Our ads on Google and Bing. If you came by clicking one of our ads on Google or on Bing (Microsoft Advertising), the link carries a click id that Google or Microsoft made for that click, and the same cookie keeps it. If you then sign up, we send that ad network the click id and the time you signed up, and later the time a free trial started and the amount of a payment, so we can tell which of our ads bring people who make an account and who pay. We send nothing else: not your email address, your name or anything about your films.
  • Our ads on Facebook and Instagram. If you came from a link on Facebook or Instagram, such as one of our ads there, the link carries a click id (fbclid) that Meta made, and the same cookie keeps it. On the made-for-you pages (kitcut.ai/made-for-you) we may switch on the Meta Pixel, Meta's script for advertisers: it tells Meta that the page was viewed and, if you send the enquiry form, that an enquiry was sent, so we can tell which of our ads bring enquiries. It never sends what you type into the form. Meta may set its own cookies (_fbp, _fbc) and uses what it receives under its own privacy policy. No other page of ours loads it. If you came from such a link and then make an account, we also send Meta, from our own servers, the click id, when the link was opened, your browser's name and version (its user agent) and the page you landed on, with the time you signed up, and later the time a free trial started and the amount of a payment, so we can tell which of our ads bring people who make an account and who pay. We send nothing else: not your email address, your name, your IP address or anything about your films.
  • An enquiry for a film made for you. What you send through the form on the made-for-you pages: your name, email address, who the film is about, the story and the budget you pick, kept with how you found us (the cookie above) and roughly where you are. We use it only to reply to you and to make your film, and delete it when you ask. The photos you later send for the film are used only to make it; to draw the characters they are sent to the image model that draws them (see "Who else handles it").
  • Roughly where you are. The city, region, country and time zone your connection comes from, as our network provider reads it from your IP address, kept with your account when you sign up, sign in or ask for a film. We do not keep your IP address itself, except the one your account was made from (see the next points).
  • Sign-in. A cookie (kc_session) keeps you signed in.
  • Invitations. When someone opens an invite link, we record that it was opened, how it was shared (for example X or WhatsApp) and the site that sent them, but not who they are. A cookie (kc_ref, 30 days) remembers whose link it was. If you then sign up, your account is linked to the person who invited you: they see your first name (or a shortened email address), when you joined, and whether you have made a film or subscribed, and nothing else about you or your films.
  • A browser id. A cookie (kc_dev, two years) holds a random id for your browser. It is used to tell a person from someone they invite, so that nobody can invite themselves, to notice a second account made in the same browser, and to remember the films you liked on KitCut TV when you are not signed in.
  • Your time zone, and the network you signed up through. A cookie (kc_tz, 30 days) holds the time zone your device's clock is set to, for example Europe/Kyiv. When an account is made, that time zone and the country you sign up from decide whether its free credits come back every month (see Plans and credits); both are kept with the account. At that moment only, your IP address is also sent to IPinfo, which tells us which network provider it belongs to. We also compare it, on our own servers and without sending it anywhere, with public lists of VPN, Tor and hosting company addresses: we make no new account through one of those (iCloud Private Relay is accepted). We keep the provider's name and number, and, to look into misuse of free film, the IP address the account was made from, its country and what that check said.
  • One account per person. Free film is once per person, so a new account is compared with the ones we have: by its email address (another spelling of the same mailbox opens the same account), by the browser id above, by a scrambled form of the IP address it signed in from (kept with the account; we cannot read the address back from it), and by its name. An account that looks like a second account of the same person is marked as one, and its account page says so. We make no accounts for temporary email inboxes, and no new accounts at private or forwarding email services; to tell a temporary inbox, we look up the mail servers of the address's domain.
  • Likes. When you like a film on KitCut TV, we keep which film, your account (or, signed out, your browser id), when, and a scrambled form of your IP address that only caps how many films one address can like in a day. Other people see only how many likes a film has.
  • How KitCut TV is used. Counts for each day, not tied to you: how many browsers opened it, how many films were watched and for how long, swipes, likes and shares, and which site sent the visit. Your browser id is used only to count each browser once a day.
  • YouTube, if you connect it. See "YouTube" below.
  • AI assistants, if you connect one. See "Assistants" below.
  • News emails. Whether a news email from us was opened (a tiny picture in it loads when it is) and which of its links to kitcut.ai were followed, so we can tell what people find useful.
  • A film from a template. What you write and attach to make a film from a template (the prompt, and pictures such as a logo or people's photos) is stored with the film, as for any film, and the film shows what it uses. Until you press the button, it is kept only in your browser.

Our pages load no advertising trackers, except the Meta Pixel on the made-for-you pages once it is switched on (see "Our ads on Facebook and Instagram" above), and we do not sell or rent personal information.

What we use it for

  • To make your films, show them to you, and let you share and publish them.
  • To run your account, credits and subscription, and to send you sign-in links.
  • To keep the service working and safe, and to understand which places bring us visitors.
  • To run invitations: to credit the right people, and to stop people from inviting themselves.
  • To keep free film to once per person: to notice a second account of someone who already has one.
  • To send you news about KitCut now and then, such as a new look. Every news email has an Unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing stops only news.

What is public

Every film has its own page at kitcut.ai. Anyone with a film's link can watch it and read the idea it was made from, which becomes the film's title on that page, and can follow it while it is being made. Films made on kitcut.ai can also appear in the gallery on the home page and in search engines. Films made through an assistant are link-only unless you ask for them to be public: they stay out of the gallery and search engines. The pictures and voice notes you add are never shown; only what ends up in the film is. To take a film out of the gallery, switch it to link-only on your account page, or ask your assistant to.

Who made a film. A film's share page and your creator page (kitcut.ai/creator/@your-handle) show your public name and photo: the name and photo you set on your account page, or else the ones Google gave us when you signed in with Google. They never show your email address. This is on for every account until you turn it off under "Public profile" on your account page; then your films say "Made with KitCut" and your creator page is gone. Pages already visited show the change within an hour, and search engines may take longer to catch up.

Who else handles it

We use these services to run KitCut. Each gets only what it needs for its part:

  • Anthropic (Claude) writes and animates your film from your idea, pictures and voice notes. When you publish to YouTube, it also suggests the video's title, description and tags, from the film and from your channel's latest videos (see "YouTube" below).
  • Google (Gemini) reads the narration aloud and writes out your voice notes as text.
  • ElevenLabs reads aloud a narration line that Gemini will not read. It receives only that line's text.
  • Image model providers paint scenes for the painted look and cut-out pictures for the collage look, from descriptions Claude writes. For a person you add to a film, OpenAI's image model (through OpenRouter) receives that person's photo, to draw them as a character from it.
  • Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising receive the click id and the times and amounts described in "Our ads on Google and Bing" above, for an account made after clicking one of their ads. Meta (Facebook and Instagram) receives, through the Meta Pixel on the made-for-you pages once it is switched on, that a page was viewed and that an enquiry was sent, and, for an account made after opening one of its links, the click id, the browser's user agent, the landing page and the times and amounts described in "Our ads on Facebook and Instagram" above.
  • Stripe takes payments. Twilio SendGrid sends our emails. IPinfo names the network a new account signs up through. Vercel hosts the site, MongoDB Atlas stores account records, Cloudflare stores and serves the finished films and carries the traffic to kitcut.ai and to the machine that makes the films, and Microsoft Azure runs that machine and keeps the copies of films made before 7 October 2026.
  • Google handles "Continue with Google" sign-in, and YouTube receives the films you choose to publish.

YouTube

KitCut can publish your finished films to YouTube channels you connect. KitCut uses YouTube API Services, and by connecting a channel you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's handling of your data is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.

  • What we get. Permission to upload videos to the channel you choose; to read that channel's name, handle and picture so you can tell your channels apart, its latest videos' titles, descriptions, tags, pictures, privacy, view counts and the times they were published or are scheduled for, the names of its playlists, and the status and statistics of the videos you published from KitCut or linked to your films; if you allow it, to read YouTube Analytics reports for those videos; and, if you allow it, to manage your videos, which KitCut uses only when you ask it to, and only for one of those videos: to set it to public, unlisted or private; to give it a day and time to go public, move it to another, or take it off the schedule; to change its title, description and tags to what you typed; and to add a video you publish from KitCut to the playlist of yours that you picked for it or for its project. We never delete a video or comment on one.
  • What we do with it. When you open Publish, we read the titles, descriptions and tags of the channel's latest few videos, so Claude can suggest a title, description and tags in your channel's own voice; they are used for that suggestion only and are not stored. When you choose to schedule a film, open a project's Schedule, change a scheduled video's date, or open the Studio page of a film that is not on YouTube yet, we read the channel's latest videos' titles, pictures, privacy, view counts and the times they were published or are scheduled for, to show you the channel's calendar and suggest a day that fits how often it publishes; the suggestion is KitCut's own, shown to you alone, and none of it is stored. When you open a video's title and description in the Studio, we read them and its tags from YouTube to show them to you, and change them there only when you press Save; of these we keep only the title. We upload a film only when you press Publish, with the title, description, tags and privacy setting you chose, and the thumbnail you picked (a still of your own film). When you link a video you uploaded yourself to one of your films, we read that video's title and status to check it is on your channel. After that, for the videos you published from KitCut or linked, only, we read about once an hour, and when you open the project, whether each is public, unlisted, private or removed, and its view, like and comment counts; and, if you allowed YouTube Analytics, its views, watch time, likes, comments and subscribers gained per day. We show these to you alone, in your Studio and in emails to you (when a video's status changes, and a weekly summary on Mondays, each of which you can turn off), as YouTube reports them. We read nothing else from your YouTube or Google account.
  • What we keep. The channel's ID, name, handle and picture, and the access token Google issues, encrypted. We also keep a record of each film you published: the video's ID, title and privacy, and which thumbnail you picked (a picture you upload to be a film's thumbnail is kept too, one for each film, until you replace it); its latest status and counts, and its daily YouTube Analytics numbers, while the channel stays connected (the connection is renewed with Google at every hourly read); and its status changes for 30 days.
  • Removing it. Disconnect a channel on your account page: we revoke the token with Google and delete it, together with the status, counts and daily numbers we read for that channel's videos. If you remove KitCut's access in your Google account's connections instead, we delete them the next time we try to read the channel, within the hour.

KitCut's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. We do not use Google user data for advertising, sell it, or use it to train AI models.

Assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Meta AI and others)

You can make films from inside an AI assistant by connecting KitCut to it (see how): by adding KitCut's address to the assistant yourself, or through the KitCut plugin in ChatGPT and Codex. You sign in to KitCut and say yes on our own page; the assistant never sees your KitCut sign-in.

  • What the assistant sends us. What it asks for on your behalf: the idea, the length and look, a template if you chose one, and any pictures, text files or voice notes you give it (as links or files, which we fetch and pass to the film like ones you upload). When you ask it to, it also tells us to stop a film, make it again, make it public or link-only, or forget a recurring character. We do not receive your conversation with the assistant, and we do not ask it for your location or anything else about you.
  • What it gets back. Only what it asks for about your own account: your films (each one's id, title, the idea it was made from, its look and length, where it stands and the studio's notes about it while it is made, the links to its page, its share page and its video files, how many views it has, whether it is public, and whether its credits were used or given back); your credit balance, the credits held for films being made, the longest film your account makes and the date your credits renew; your uploads waiting for a film (their kind and size, a text file's name, and the start of a voice note's words) and, when you ask for one, a link to a page for adding files, with the time it stops working; and your recurring characters (their names, what they are, and how many films each was in). It can also read what anyone can: KitCut's templates and the films in the public gallery (what each was made from, never who made it). It never gets your email address, your name, anything about payments, or anything from another person's account.
  • The KitCut plugin in ChatGPT and Codex does only what is listed above. KitCut's address added by yourself (kitcut.ai/mcp, in Claude, Grok and others) also gets the name of your plan and the public names of the people who made the templates, reaches your projects (their names, briefs, pictures, kept narration lines, drafts and episodes) and, for the YouTube channels you connected, what "YouTube" above describes, and can put a person in a film from a photo you give it, as on the site.
  • A film's pages are the same as any film's. The share page an assistant passes on shows your public name and photo, unless you turned that off (see "Who made a film" above).
  • What we keep. A record of each connection (the app, when it was made and last used, and whether it was made through the plugin) and the access tokens we issue it, stored only as one-way hashes. An access token lasts an hour; the token that renews it lasts 30 days from its last use. With each film we keep which app asked for it.
  • Films it makes are link-only unless you ask for them to be public.
  • Removing it. Disconnect the assistant under "Connected assistants" on your account page: its tokens stop working at once. The assistant's own maker (Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Meta or another) handles your conversation under its own privacy policy.

How long we keep it

  • Pictures and voice notes that never go into a film are deleted after 24 hours. Upload links expire after 30 minutes.
  • An assistant's connection is kept until you disconnect it; its tokens expire on their own when unused.
  • Your account, your films and what they were made from (including the pictures and voice notes a film used) are kept while you have an account.
  • Characters Claude keeps for your later films, and a project's pictures, are kept until you remove them or close your account. A character you tell us to forget is left out of new films from then on.
  • Payment records are kept as long as the law requires.

Your choices

You can ask us for a copy of your information, to correct it, or to delete your account and your films, by writing to [email protected] from the email on your account. We answer within 30 days. Cancelling a subscription is on your account page. To stop news emails, use the Unsubscribe link at the end of any of them.

Children

KitCut is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If we change this policy, we update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we tell account holders by email first.