Privacy policy

Addis Vids is run from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is responsible for your data under Ethiopia's Personal Data Protection Proclamation (1321/2024). Contact: support@addisvids.com or +251 963 453 433. This policy covers https://www.addisvids.com and everything under it. You must be 18 or older to use the site.

What we collect

• Account — your email address, or the email from your Google account if you sign in with Google. Passwords are handled by our sign-in provider and are never stored by us in readable form.
• Profile — the name and photo on your profile page. If you sign in with Google we start with your Google name and photo; you can change or remove them at any time.
• Generations — the prompts you write, the images and videos you upload as inputs, and the media the models return. Every generation is kept with its prompt.
• Voice input and the prompt coach — if you use them: the audio you record, the transcript, and the coach's suggested rewrite of your prompt.
• Payments — the amount, the transfer screenshot you upload, and any message you add. The screenshot is a bank or telebirr receipt, so it usually shows your name, your account or phone number and the amount.
• Phone — the phone number and Telegram account ID you share with our Telegram bot, for the free credits or from your profile page. We keep them so one number gets one trial.
• Technical — your IP address, browser and device details when you claim the free trial and when you do something that changes your account (a purchase, a publish, a delete), plus a browser fingerprint on the trial claim so one person cannot claim it twice.
• Feedback and support — ratings and comments you leave in the app, and what you send through the contact form (name, email, phone, message).
• Analytics — page-view statistics through Google Analytics.

Why we use it

• To run your account, your credit balance and the generations you ask for — this is the service you signed up for.
• To check your payment and add the credits you bought.
• To stop one person claiming the free trial many times.
• To enforce our content rules: an AI moderation agent reads new prompts and flags adult or sexual content, and a person decides before any account is blocked. You can appeal once.
• To answer you when you contact us, and to see which parts of the site people use.
• We do not train our own models on your data, and we do not sell it or share it for advertising.

Who it is sent to

Everything below is outside Ethiopia. We send data abroad because it is the only way to run the generation you asked for and to host the site.

• AI providers — your prompt and input files go to the company behind the model you picked: fal.ai, Google, OpenAI, xAI, Runway or Lightricks (all United States, Lightricks in Israel), or to GPU servers we rent for our in-house model. Voice recordings and prompt-coach requests go to Google.
• Hosting — Supabase stores your account and generation records, Cloudflare stores your files, and Vercel serves the site.
• Google Analytics for page-view statistics.
• Telegram — the app sends us a message when you buy credits (with your email) or use the contact form (with what you wrote), so we can respond quickly. The free-trial phone check also happens in a Telegram chat with our bot.

What other people can see

• Your generations are private by default. Nothing appears on Explore unless you publish it, and publishing shows the prompt too.
• Your name and photo stay private unless you switch on "Show my name and photo on Explore" on your profile page. Then they appear next to the videos you publish and on their share links. Switch it off and they disappear within a few minutes. Your email and phone number are never shown.
• A share link is unlisted: only people with the link can open it, and you can remove the link at any time.
• Your files live at a direct web address. Private means not listed — someone who already has the direct link to a file can still open it. We are working on locking files down further.
• Prompts are read by our AI moderation agent and by us. Payment screenshots are seen only by us.

How long we keep it

• Your account, generations, prompts, uploads, payment records, voice recordings and transcripts: until you ask us to delete your account.
• Deleting a generation removes it from your gallery, from Explore and from share links, but the file stays in our storage until your account is deleted.
• Deleting an uploaded video removes the file straight away.
• Trial-claim records, including the trial phone number, and the log of account actions: kept for as long as your account exists.
• Analytics: kept by Google Analytics under its own retention settings.

Your rights

You can ask to see the data we hold about you, correct it, get a copy of it, object to how we use it, or have your account and everything in it deleted. Email support@addisvids.com. Deletion is done by hand and we finish it within 30 days. You can also complain to the Ethiopian Communications Authority.

• Unpublish anything you put on Explore, and remove any share link, yourself from your gallery.
• Delete individual uploads and hide individual generations at any time.
• Block cookies in your browser — but you will not be able to sign in, because signing in works through a cookie.

Cookies

We set a sign-in cookie so you stay logged in, a cookie that remembers your language, and Google Analytics sets its own cookies for page-view counts. That is all.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS. Database access rules stop one account from reading another's records, payment screenshots and voice recordings sit in private storage, and changes to your account are written to a log. If your data is exposed in a breach, we will tell you and the Ethiopian Communications Authority within 72 hours.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes we update the date at the top of this page.