Privacy — Private Video Translate

What the app processes

Private Video Translate consists of a Chrome extension and a local Mac companion. When you start Tab audio, Chrome captures audio from the selected tab, including other audible content in that tab. The microphone is not captured. The audio is passed to Apple’s speech recognition engine on your Mac; recognized text is translated locally with Apple’s translation engine.

In Video captions mode, the extension reads source subtitle text and timing from browser-exposed caption tracks or the YouTube caption integration. The text is passed to the local Mac companion for translation. The extension checks the selected tab’s URL and visible player to locate the video and choose the caption integration. It does not retain a browsing history. Selected languages, caption timing and connection status are used to control the session.

The extension and companion do not upload audio, recognized speech or subtitle text to a cloud translation service. This preview does not save audio recordings or caption transcripts to disk.

What remains on your device

Selected source and target languages and subtitle positioning are stored locally by the extension.
The Mac app stores connection preferences and native helper registration files on your Mac.
Audio buffers, recognized phrases, subtitle queues and translation caches are held in memory for the session. Stopping or ending the session releases that session state.
Apple’s language and speech models are installed and managed as system resources.

Removing the extension removes its local preferences. The Mac app’s Disconnect action removes the registrations it owns; removing the app may leave its stored macOS preferences. Downloaded Apple language models are managed separately through macOS.

When internet access is used

Your video website still delivers its video, audio and captions under its own privacy policy. The YouTube adapter may request caption data from YouTube. Apple language and speech model downloads need network access. These requests are separate from local speech recognition and translation.

The current preview has no payment, activation or application analytics integration. It does not send usage reports, caption contents or audio to an analytics service. Any future payment or activation system will need an updated privacy notice before it is introduced.

This download website

The supplied website files include no analytics scripts, advertising trackers, tracking cookies, forms or user accounts. Downloads do not require an email address.

Cloudflare provides website hosting and may process technical request information such as IP addresses, requested URLs, browser details and timestamps to deliver and protect the site. That is website traffic information, not the audio or subtitles processed by the app. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy. If you follow a link to Apple, Chrome or another service, that service’s own privacy practices apply.

If you contact support

If you email support, we receive your email address, message and any attachments you choose to send. We use that information to respond to your request and troubleshoot reported problems. The inbox uses Gmail, so Google also processes email delivery and storage under its privacy terms.

We do not sell support messages or use them for advertising. You can request deletion of your support correspondence, subject to any applicable recordkeeping requirements. Please contact the address below for privacy questions or deletion requests.

Contact and changes

Privacy and support contact: jt.tech.invest@gmail.com.

This notice will be updated if the product’s data handling changes. The current date and applicable preview version appear above. Private Video Translate is an independent product and is not affiliated with Apple or Google.