Privacy Policy

What ClipTrack stores about you

You can use Anime Finder, Discover, search and every title page without an account, and nothing about you is stored when you do. If you create an account, ClipTrack stores:

• Your email address and an account identifier, held by Firebase Authentication (Google). Your password is handled by Firebase and never reaches ClipTrack's servers.
• Your Vault — the titles you track, their status (Watching, Plan to Watch, Completed), and when you added them.
• Your Saved Scenes — the anime, episode, timestamp and match confidence for each scene you save, the preview frame trace.moe returned for it, your optional note, and the date you saved it.

That is the complete list. There is no analytics, no advertising, no third-party tracking, and your data is never sold or shared with anyone beyond the services described below.

What happens to your screenshot

When you use Anime Finder, your screenshot is uploaded to ClipTrack and passed straight on to trace.moe, the service that performs the scene matching. That transfer is what makes the feature work.

ClipTrack does not keep it. It is held in memory for the length of a single request and is never written to disk, never saved in our database, never placed in cloud storage, and never attached to your account. Nothing about it survives the request — and deleting your account does not need to delete it, because there was never a copy to delete.

Once it reaches trace.moe it is governed by trace.moe, not by us. We make no claim about what they do with it or how long they keep it — that is their policy to state, not ours.

The preview frames shown beside a match come from trace.moe and are fetched by our server rather than your browser, so trace.moe never sees your IP address. Those frames — not your screenshot — are cached on our server as optimized images, which means a scene you searched for can leave a trace there until that cache is cleared.

Cookies

ClipTrack sets one cookie, and only once you sign in. It holds a session token that lets our server confirm you are signed in when you open your Vault, your Saved Scenes or your account page. It is marked HttpOnly, so page scripts cannot read it, and it expires after five days. Signing out removes it.

There are no advertising, analytics or tracking cookies, which is why ClipTrack has no cookie banner: there is nothing to ask you to consent to.

Third parties

ClipTrack talks to these services from its own servers. Except where noted, your browser never contacts them directly, so they do not see your IP address.

• TMDB — movie and TV information, artwork and streaming availability. Receives your search terms and the ids of titles you open. Artwork is loaded from TMDB's image servers through ClipTrack.
• MyAnimeList, via the Jikan API — anime information. Receives anime ids and search terms.
• trace.moe — scene matching. Receives the screenshot you upload, as described above.
• Firebase (Google) — accounts and data storage. Your browser does contact Firebase directly when you sign in and when your Vault or Saved Scenes load, because that is how Firebase works.

How long it is kept, and how to delete it

Your account, Vault and Saved Scenes are kept until you delete them. You can remove individual titles and scenes at any time, and you can delete your entire account from your account page.

Deleting your account deletes the whole ClipTrack account, not just your use of the website. The same account signs you in to the ClipTrack mobile app, and your Vault is shared between the two, so deleting removes your Vault from both and ends your mobile sign-in. Deletion is immediate and permanent: there is no recovery period, and we cannot restore any of it afterwards.

Deleting your account removes:

• your Firebase Authentication account, including your email address;
• your user record and everything stored under it — your Vault, your Saved Scenes, and any other content held against your account.

The one thing kept after deletion

So that we do not claim more than is true: after deletion ClipTrack retains one minimal deletion-security marker. It contains only your deleted account identifier and the date and time of deletion.

It contains no email address, no Vault data, no Saved Scenes, no screenshot data, no title data and no other profile or content information. It is not accessible to any browser or app — the database rules place it beyond every client — and it is not your content: it is a security record.

It exists for one reason. A device that was signed in before you deleted your account can hold a valid credential for up to about an hour afterwards, and without this marker that device could write your data back after the deletion had finished. The marker is what refuses those writes.

Changes

This page is updated whenever ClipTrack's behaviour changes, and the date at the top says when that last happened.