VidReign runs on your computer. Your scripts, your footage and your finished videos stay there. Our server checks your licence and counts your usage, and — only when you ask for it — writes scripts and AI pictures for you (section 4). This page lists exactly what we hold and where your words go, in the same words the software actually uses.
VidReign ("we", "us") is desktop software for producing video. This policy covers the software you install and the licence server it talks to. Questions about this policy: support@channelreign.com.
Phone / WhatsApp: +1 (505) 481-4452
Our licence server keeps one record per licence. That record contains the following and nothing else:
| Group | What is stored | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Purchase | Licence key, plan, the email address used at purchase, purchase reference, subscription reference, status, expiry date, created date | To know that your licence exists, which plan it is on, and to contact you about it |
| Refunds | If your licence is switched off: the date it was switched off and a short reason
code for it (for example refund, dispute, or
subscription_ended:failed_payment) |
So that a refund or chargeback switches your licence off at the right time, so a dispute we win can switch it back on, and so we can answer questions about it later |
| Devices | A one-way fingerprint of each computer you activate on, the computer name Windows reports, the list of registered devices, when a device was last removed, and when the licence was last seen online | To enforce the device limit of your plan, to allow only one free trial per computer, and to show you your own machines in the app |
| Usage counts | Minutes used this month, minutes used today, videos rendered, premium scripts generated, the start of the current billing month and day, per-render settlement records, and our own estimated cost of serving you | To apply your plan's limits and to show you your usage |
These are counts and identifiers. None of them is the content of your work.
The app contacts our server when you activate a licence, about once a day to re-check it, before and after each video it makes, and about once an hour to check for updates and policy changes. Each licence request carries your licence key, the device fingerprint and the computer name. The update and policy checks send only the app's version number.
When you press Write the script for me (premium script generation), the topic you type — with the film length and the niche you picked, and, if you set them, a short style instruction and the display name of the niche — is sent through our server to Anthropic, which runs the Claude model that writes the script. To give the writer facts, our server also looks the topic up on Wikipedia. We pass it through and return the result. We do not keep a copy. Anthropic's handling of that text is governed by their own terms and privacy policy.
Before we pass it on, an automatic check runs on that text. It is not a person and not a model: it looks only at the shape of what you sent — its length, and a fixed list of patterns that try to redirect the writer with instructions. It runs in memory, keeps no copy of your text, and records nothing about it except a count of how many requests were refused and which rule refused them. A refused request is not sent to the writer: for a documentary film VidReign asks you to paste your own script (or try again later), and the one-click video tools use VidReign's simpler writer on your own computer.
If you do not want your topic to go to our server or to Anthropic, paste your own script instead. The basic draft written without AI does not use our server or Anthropic either — but it still looks your topic up on Wikipedia (section 5).
When your plan includes AI background illustrations, the sentence of your script for a scene that has no photo — with the names of people removed — is sent through our server to fal.ai, which draws the picture. The same automatic check runs on that sentence first. We pass it through and return the picture; we do not keep a copy of the sentence. fal.ai's handling of it is governed by its own terms and privacy policy. If a picture cannot be made, the scene keeps its designed background. The finished picture comes back as a link to fal.ai's image server, and your computer downloads it from there.
To find facts, pictures, footage and music, the software asks these public sites directly from your computer — no account and no key. Each request carries only the words needed for that search: never your licence key, your computer name or your Windows user name. Like any website, each site sees your computer's internet address, and the software tells them it is VidReign. Each site has its own privacy policy.
The software can talk to the services below directly from your computer, using keys or accounts you provide. That traffic does not pass through our server, and we never see those keys or that content. Each service has its own privacy policy, which applies to what you send it.
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
config.json |
Your settings and any API keys you entered. Every secret in this file is encrypted with Windows DPAPI and can only be read by your own Windows user account on that machine. |
license.json |
A signed copy of your licence, so the app keeps working during a brief internet outage. |
data/ |
Your projects, channels, brand kits, transcripts and research. |
output/ |
The videos you produce. |
Nothing in this list is uploaded on its own. If you create a backup or a support bundle, the file is written to your own disk and it is your choice whether to send it anywhere. Support bundles deliberately exclude API keys and licence keys, and replace your Windows user name and home folder path with placeholders.
The licence record is kept for as long as your licence exists, and afterwards only as long as we need it for accounting and fraud prevention. Monthly usage counters reset at the start of each billing month.
You can ask us for a copy of the record we hold for your licence, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Deleting it ends the licence, because the record is the licence. Write to support@channelreign.com from the email address you used at purchase.
If we change what we store, we will change this page and update the date at the top.