# Privacy — EditWithChat

> What EditWithChat does with your data, in plain English.

Canonical: https://editwithchat.com/privacy
Last updated: 2026-11-06

Last updated: 6 November 2026. A plain-English summary of what EditWithChat does with your data.

## Your videos stay on your Mac

EditWithChat has no server that receives your footage. Importing, cutting, transcription, captions, B-roll, rendering and exporting all run on your Mac.

## What goes to Claude

The editor is powered by Claude, through your own Claude Code login or your own Anthropic API key. To make editing decisions, Claude receives your chat messages, the transcript of your footage and the still frames it chooses to look at. That traffic goes directly from your Mac to Anthropic under your own account and is governed by Anthropic’s terms and privacy policy. EditWithChat never sees it.

## What EditWithChat sends over the network

- **License activation** — once, when you activate or deactivate: your license key and a name for this Mac, sent to our payment provider, Dodo Payments.
- **Tool downloads** — only when you click Install in Studio Setup, from an approved list of sources (GitHub, nodejs.org, PyPI, npm, Hugging Face). Every file is checksum-verified.
- **Updates** — the app checks our public release page on GitHub for new versions and downloads them. Nothing about you or your videos is sent. You can turn this off in Settings → General.

The app has no analytics and no telemetry. Crash reports are never sent unless you opt in. We don’t sell your data.

## This website

This site uses DataBull, a lightweight analytics script, to count page views and see which sites send us visitors. It doesn’t see anything inside the app or your videos — the app itself has no analytics. Purchases are handled by Dodo Payments, whose privacy policy applies at checkout.

## Contact

Questions? Email [support@editwithchat.com](mailto:support@editwithchat.com).

## Related
- [Home](https://editwithchat.com/)
- [Support](https://editwithchat.com/support)
- [Changelog](https://editwithchat.com/changelog)
- [Terms](https://editwithchat.com/terms)
- [Refund policy](https://editwithchat.com/refund)
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