Privacy Policy — ReelCap

ReelCap (“the extension”) is a screen recorder that runs inside your web browser. Recording, compositing and encoding always happen on your own device: the free recording path never sends a single network request, and no video, audio or camera data ever reaches our servers. Pro features are unlocked with an optional account on reelcap.xeviora.com — that account is the only part of ReelCap that talks to a server, and everything it exchanges is listed below.

Data we collect

No recording data, ever. ReelCap does not collect, store on any server, transmit, share, or sell your recordings, microphone audio, camera video, or browsing history. Every recording you make is captured, composited, and encoded locally on your own device, and settings stay in the standard extension storage on your machine. There is no analytics and no telemetry. If you choose to create an account, we hold your email address and your Pro entitlement — nothing else, and never anything you record. See Accounts, Pro features and payments below.

Accounts, Pro features and payments

Pro features — click auto-zoom, MP4 export and GIF export — are computed entirely in your browser too: every frame is encoded on your own machine and no video ever reaches a server. What they do need is an account, so the extension has to ask our site who you are:

• If you never sign in, the extension makes no network requests at all. The first request only ever follows an explicit action from you — opening the sign-in page or restoring a purchase.
• Once you are signed in, the extension sends your site cookie to https://reelcap.xeviora.com/api/ext/entitlement and receives back your email address, your plan, its expiry date, and how many of your free Pro exports remain. That answer is cached locally for 24 hours.
• When a Pro feature uses one of your free Pro exports, the extension reports a count and nothing else to https://reelcap.xeviora.com/api/ext/quota/consume, so the balance stays right across your devices. No recording, no page URL and no page content is ever included.
• Your account lives on reelcap.xeviora.com. Payments are handled by Paddle, our merchant of record — we never see or store your card details.

Permissions and why they are needed

• tabCapture — Captures the rendered video (and optional audio) of the active tab you choose to record. It only starts on an explicit action by you.
• offscreen — Runs an offscreen document, the only MV3 context allowed to use getUserMedia and MediaRecorder, to grab the stream, mix audio, composite the canvas, and encode the WEBM file.
• activeTab — Grants one-time access to the current tab only when you start a recording, so its stream can be captured.
• scripting — Injects the self-drawn cursor and click-ripple overlay into the page being recorded on demand. ReelCap does not run a persistent content script.
• tabs — Reads the active tab's title/URL to name the recording and route the finished clip to the local preview page.
• storage — Persists your settings and the recording state so an in-progress recording survives the service worker being recycled.
• unlimitedStorage — Lets long recordings be buffered locally without hitting the small default storage quota.
• downloads — Saves the finished WEBM video to your Downloads folder.
• Host access (<all_urls>) — Required so the highlighted cursor and click ripples can be drawn on whatever page you record. Access happens only when you start a recording.

Microphone and camera are not requested in the manifest. They are granted at runtime through the browser's standard getUserMedia prompt, only if you enable them, and the streams are mixed/composited locally and never transmitted.

Remote code

ReelCap does not load or execute any remote code. All JavaScript and WebAssembly are bundled in the extension package.

Changes

If this policy changes, the “Last updated” date above will change accordingly. The current version is published at: https://xeviora.com/reelcap-privacy

Contact

Questions? Contact support@xeviora.com