Last updated: November 2026
Short version: your footage never leaves your device. If you create an account, we store your name, email address and profile photo so you can sign in. If you use the contact form, we receive your message and use it only to reply. If you write in the Feedback box, you sign in with Google and we receive what you type together with your name and email, so that we can answer you. We count page visits anonymously — no cookies, no personal data, and no IP address in the counts.
Nova Clip is a client-side editor. Video, audio and image files you open are decoded, previewed, edited and exported inside your browser. They are never uploaded to our servers or to anyone else's. The same goes for Nova Animate, Nova Studio, Nova Audio and Nova Forms: your drawings, photos, signatures, papers, PDF files (and the password you type to open one), audio files and recordings stay on your device.
To make the editor usable, a few things are saved locally using your browser's localStorage. This data never leaves your device and you can clear it at any time from your browser settings.
| Item | What it contains |
|---|---|
| Project autosave | Your edit decisions: clip order and trims, text overlays, stickers, markers, effects and color grades. It does not contain the media files themselves. |
| Export presets | Resolution, format and quality settings you chose to save. |
| Kept signature | Only if you tick Keep it on this device for next time in Sign PDF (Nova Forms): a picture of your signature, saved in this browser so you can use it again. It is never sent to us. You can remove it in Sign PDF at any time, or by clearing your browser’s site data. |
| Visit counter | Today's date, so the anonymous visitor count adds each browser only once per day. It contains nothing that identifies you. |
| Visit marker | A mark kept only until you close the tab (in sessionStorage), so that the first page you open is counted as the start of a visit and the pages after it are not counted as new visits. It contains nothing that identifies you. |
| Tool counter | Today's date, so the anonymous count of people who used a tool adds each browser only once per day. It contains nothing that identifies you. |
| Place counter | Today's date, so the anonymous count of countries and states adds each browser only once per day, and the time of the last ask, so that two tabs do not ask at the same moment. It contains nothing that identifies you, and not the place itself. |
| Problem reports | Today's date and the short names of the problems this browser has already reported today, so each problem is counted only once a day per browser. It contains nothing that identifies you. |
| Feedback card | When you last tapped a face on the feedback card, when you last closed it, and which of its questions you have been shown or have answered, so that it comes at most once a week, comes back later if you close it, and does not ask the same question twice. It contains nothing that identifies you. |
| Feedback box | The times of your last messages from the Feedback box (so that no more than three are sent in an hour), and when the “Something went wrong?” bar was last shown (so that it comes at most once in ten minutes). What you write is not kept in your browser. If you are signed in, it also keeps how many replies of ours you have not read yet, and when it last looked for them, so that a dot can show on your account. |
| Announcement | A copy of the site announcement for a few minutes, and whether you closed it, so a closed announcement stays closed until it changes. |
| What’s new (Nova Animate) | Which “What’s new” card you have opened, and whether you have made a character move, so the New labels go away. It contains nothing that identifies you. |
| Your 3D video (Nova Animate 3D) | The choices you made (the character, its moves and how long each lasts, the place, the camera and the shape of the video), so the page opens as you left it. It contains no picture, video, voice or face: a voice you record or choose, and a face you record, stay in the memory of the page and are gone when you close it. The video itself is made on your device and is only kept if you download it. |
| Link to your 3D video (Nova Animate 3D) | If you tap Share a link, the page makes a web address that holds the choices of your video: the character, the colour of its clothes, the place, the camera, the shape of the video and the moves with their lengths. It is only shown to you, on that sheet: nothing keeps it, and it goes only where you send it (to a friend, for example). It contains no picture, video, voice or face. The part of the address after the # sign is never sent to a server when the address is opened, so we do not receive it. |
| QR code generator | The colours, the size, the level of error correction and the last kind of QR code you chose (a link, Wi-Fi, UPI and so on), so the page opens as you left it. What you type in the boxes (a link, a Wi-Fi password, a UPI ID, a phone number, a message) is never saved: it is in the memory of the page only while the page is open, and it is never sent anywhere. |
| Resume maker | What you write in the boxes (your name, phone, email, city, jobs, courses, skills and the rest), the template, colour and size of letters you chose, and the photo, if you add one for the Photo CV (a small picture, cut to the shape of a passport photo on your device). It is kept in this browser only, on this phone or computer, so the page opens as you left it. It is never sent to us or to anyone else, and the PDF is made on your device. The Delete my data button on the page removes all of it at once, and so does clearing the site data of your browser. |
| Project files | If you use Save project, a .nova.json file is downloaded to your computer. We never see it. |
The voice-over tool in Nova Clip, the voice recorder in Nova Animate, the Voice tab of Nova Animate 3D and the voice recorder in Nova Audio ask for microphone access only when you start a recording. The recorded audio is kept in your browser (as a clip on your timeline, in your animation, or in the Nova Audio editor until you save it) and is not transmitted anywhere. In Nova Animate 3D the voice (recorded or chosen from a file) is kept in the memory of the page only while the page is open: it is not saved and not sent anywhere, and it is in a video only if you make one with it.
The Copy my face button on the Voice tab of Nova Animate 3D asks for camera access only when you tap it. The camera is let go when you turn it off, leave the Voice tab, hide or close the page, or make a video. Your face is looked at on your device, by a face finder that runs in your browser: no picture of the camera is saved, uploaded or sent anywhere. What is kept is the performance you record, in the memory of the page only while the page is open: for every thirtieth of a second, how open the mouth was, how shut the eyes were and how the head was turned, as numbers and not as pictures. It is in a video only if you make one with it. The first time you use it, your browser downloads the face finder (a program and a model file, about 8 MB, from the servers named in section 6); those servers see that your browser asked for the files, not your face.
The Use my location button of the Location kind in the QR code generator asks for the location of your device only when you tap it. Your browser reads it and puts it, as two numbers, into the box on the page, so that you can make a QR code with a pin on the map. It is not saved and not sent to us or to anyone else, and it is in a QR code only if you make one. You can type a place instead.
If you use the contact form, we receive your name, email address, subject and message. The form is delivered to our inbox through EmailJS, an email delivery service, and also stored in our database (Google Firebase Firestore) so no message is lost. We use this information only to answer your message. We do not sell it, share it for marketing, or add you to a mailing list.
You can edit without an account; a free account is needed to export a video. If you create one, sign-in is handled by Firebase Authentication, a Google service. We store:
If you use email sign-up, your password is handled by Firebase and is never visible to us. If you sign in with Google, Google shares your name, email address and profile photo with us. Your signed-in session is stored in your browser. This profile is kept in our Firestore database so we can see who has signed up.
Deleting your account: sign in, open the Account page and tap Delete account twice. This deletes your sign-in account and your profile straight away. If you can't sign in, email team@novaclip.tech from the address on your account and we will delete it within 30 days. The messages you wrote to us in the Feedback box, and our replies, are not deleted with your account: email us and we will delete them too.
The Android app: the Nova Clip app on Google Play opens this same editor in Chrome on your phone. It collects nothing of its own: everything on this page applies to it the same way. Your videos stay on your phone.
Nova Clip does not set cookies, run advertising or use third-party trackers. To see how the site is used, each page view adds one to anonymous daily counters: which page was opened, where the visit came from (the domain of the site that linked to it, the name that a link was given with, such as ?utm_source=newsletter at the end of it, or the app it was opened in: Facebook, Instagram or TikTok), whether the device is a phone or a computer, and the date. The first page of a visit also adds one to the count of visits, which is how we can say how many visits show no source at all. Once a day per browser we also add one to the counts for the browser name (such as Chrome), the operating system (such as Android) and the language setting (such as Hindi). Once a day per browser we also add one to the count for the country and for the state that the visit comes from. To know them, the page asks the small service of ours that runs on Cloudflare (section 6): it works the country and the state out from the IP address of that request, answers with those two names and nothing else, and does not store or log the address. We keep only the count, never the address. The country is nearly always right (a VPN shows the country of the VPN); the state is a good guess, not a fact. The editor also counts exports — format, export mode and video length, never file names or content — and failed exports by error type, so we can fix bugs. The apps also count which tool gave a result (for example Compress PDF, MP3 cutter, Passport photo, a character move in Nova Animate, a QR code made (only its kind, such as Wi-Fi or UPI, never what it holds), a resume PDF given out (only its template, such as Classic or Photo CV, never what is in it), or a link to a 3D video that was made or opened) and, once a day per browser, that a tool was used, so we can see which tools people need. They never count or keep the file, its name or what is in it. When something goes wrong in the apps (a script error, a file of the site that does not load, a tool that cannot finish, or a message that says something failed), a count is added for that problem, once a day per browser, so we can find and fix it. It holds only the page, a place in our own code or the step of the tool, the kind of error (for example TypeError) and the kind of browser (for example Android Chrome), never the file, its name or size, anything you typed, or the text of the error. We do not store IP addresses or anything that identifies you. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, nothing is counted and that service is not asked.
Feedback card. After a tool gives you a result, a small card may ask “How was it?” (five faces, one tap), then one or two questions with buttons: what went wrong, or what to improve, and which new tool or improvement you would like. It comes at most once a week; a cross closes it, and it comes back after a minute, then later and later if you keep closing it. Each tap is stored as its own small record: the face, the tool and the page, whether you use a phone or a computer, the button you tapped, and, for an export in Nova Clip, how it was made (format, fast or standard, and the length of the video). Nothing is typed, and no name, email, account, file or number is attached, so the record cannot be traced to you. A record is made only when you tap. The questions at the end are written by us in the admin dashboard and can be read by anyone. After a good face the card may offer to share the site on WhatsApp: the button opens WhatsApp with a message and a link to the page you are on. We receive nothing from that; a visit that comes through the link is only added to the anonymous counts of where visits came from (tagged wa_share).
Feedback box. From the Feedback link at the bottom of a page, or from the menu of an app, you can write to us. To send a message you sign in with Google when you tap Send; if you are signed in already, nothing more is asked. Signing in creates a free account, as on the sign-in page, which you can delete on the Account page. The message is stored in our database with the name and email address of your Google sign-in, its sign-in id, the name of the page and whether you use a phone or a computer, so that we know who wrote and can answer. We do not receive your password, your contacts or anything else from your Google account, and no file or address of the page is sent. A browser sends at most three messages an hour and a person at most ten a day. Our reply is stored with your message and shown to you on your Account page, under Your messages. While you are signed in, your browser looks for new replies when a page has been open for a moment (at most every six hours, and when you open the box), and a red dot, a small bar or a line in the box tells you when there is one; only you and we can read your messages and replies. Google does not allow its sign-in inside the browser of some other apps (such as Instagram); the box then says so and offers to copy the link, so that you can open it in Chrome or Safari. When you open the box, your browser loads Google’s sign-in code, so Google receives your IP address then. If a tool has just shown a message that says something failed, a small bar may offer Tell us what happened (at most once in ten minutes; a cross closes it). If you open the box from it, the message also carries a short code that stands for the fixed words of that message, never your files or the words of the error. Nothing is sent until you tap Send.
If you sign in, Firebase keeps your session in your browser's storage so you stay signed in; Google may set its own cookies during Google sign-in.
Contact-form emails are kept only as long as needed to handle your request and any follow-up, and messages from the Feedback box (with our replies) only as long as needed to read them and act on them. Account data is kept until you delete your account. Anonymous daily counters contain no personal data and are kept to show trends over time. You can ask us to delete your messages at any time.
You can ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email us and we will respond within 30 days.
Nova Clip is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
If we change how we handle data, we will update this page and the date at the top.
Privacy questions or requests: team@novaclip.tech, or use the contact form.