Privacy

2outube turns public video URLs into readable transcripts. There are no ads, no data sales, no cross-site tracking pixels, and no third-party ad tech. This page lists everything the service processes, where it goes, and how long it stays.

What we process when you open a transcript

• The video URL or ID you request. For a video nobody has opened before, the video ID is sent to one of our transcript suppliers — Supadata or TranscriptAPI — to fetch the public captions. Already-archived videos are served from our own store and no supplier is contacted.
• Standard request data (IP address, user agent) is processed by Cloudflare, which runs our infrastructure and the human-verification check (Turnstile) on brand-new videos.

What we store, and for how long

• Transcripts of public videos: cached for 30 days, and kept in a permanent public archive so the same video never costs a second fetch. Transcripts are of public captions and contain no account data. To have a video removed from the archive, email support@2outube.com.
• Abuse-prevention counters (free daily allowance, verification grace, rate limits), keyed by a random device id or IP: these expire automatically — from 5 minutes to 48 hours depending on the counter. They are never joined to a profile.
• A random device id in your browser's localStorage (no name, no email, not linked to any account) to meter the free daily allowance, and a first-visit referrer label in sessionStorage. Both stay on your device and are sent only to us.
• Analytics events (page views, transcript loads, feature use, purchase funnel) go to our self-hosted PostHog instance — first-party, never sold, never shared with ad networks. Events are retained until we delete them; write to the address below to have events tied to your device id deleted.

If you pay

Checkout runs entirely on Stripe. We never see your card number. We store your Stripe customer id and subscription/pass state so your access works, for as long as you have an active pass or subscription (plus normal accounting records).

If you give us your email

Only two features ask for an email: "email me this transcript" and channel-update subscriptions. The address is queued for up to 7 days for delivery, used to send exactly what you asked for, and every channel email carries a one-click unsubscribe. Buyers get a receipt and occasional product updates, also with unsubscribe.

AI agents (MCP)

Our MCP endpoint (/mcp) lets AI assistants read already-archived transcripts. It receives only the tool call — a video ID or search query — never your conversation. Tool usage is logged in aggregate (tool name, success/failure) without the query content.

Contact

Anything — removal requests, data questions, bugs: support@2outube.com.