Last updated: November 1, 2026
This policy explains what the Spotify and YouTube Transcript Extractor browser extension (“the extension”) and its online service (“the service”) collect, why, and what you can do about it. The extension is free and is made by Antradus AI (“we”, “us”). Contact: [email protected].
What the extension does
When you click Get transcript, the extension reads the transcript and episode details from the Spotify or YouTube page, inside your own browser, and shows them so you can name the speakers, copy the text or export it. The transcript stays in your browser unless you click the red Write … from this transcript box (below). To hold each account to fair use, the extension tells our service the platform, the video or episode ID, and its length — nothing else, apart from a message you choose to send us (below). No artificial intelligence processes your transcripts. The extension does not read other websites, and it does nothing on Spotify or YouTube until you ask.
Information we collect
| Information | Why | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
| Your Google account name, email and account ID, from “Sign in with Google” | To create your account and apply the daily fair-use limit to it, and to know who we are answering when you write to us. Your email address is also used to send you our newsletter, but only if you chose to receive it | While your account exists |
| Your newsletter answer: yes or no, when you gave it, and which version of the question you answered | To send the newsletter only to people who asked for it, and to be able to show that they did | While your account exists |
| Usage records: the platform, the video or episode ID, its length, and the time | To apply the daily fair-use limit, investigate misuse of the service, and understand how the extension is used | While your account exists |
| Messages you send us from the box under the red button: the text you type, the name you type (optional), your account email, the extension version and the time | To read and answer your bug reports, feature requests and thanks | While your account exists, or until you ask us to delete them |
| Short-lived counters keyed to your account ID or to a one-way hash of your IP address | To apply the daily limit and to rate-limit sign-in attempts. We never store your IP address itself | Up to 2 days |
| Technical logs kept by our hosting provider: request metadata and error details | To keep the service running and diagnose faults | At most 7 days |
We do not store transcripts on our servers (except one you send to Antradus Podcast yourself), download audio, run AI on your transcripts, track your browsing, show you ads, or sell personal information.
Retention is enforced automatically: a scheduled job runs daily and erases data once its period has passed.
Stored only on your device
The extension keeps these in your browser’s local storage, and removes them when you uninstall it:
- your sign-in session;
- the last transcript you opened, with the speaker names you typed;
- a random ID for this browser, made the first time you click the red Write … from this transcript box and sent only with it.
Earlier versions
Versions before 1.1.0 offered a free trial, paid plans and AI speaker names, and kept records for them: a free-trial record (normalised email address, a random installation ID, a hashed IP address and network number), AI speaker results, and purchase records. The service no longer collects any of these, and deletes what remains automatically.
Writing from a transcript (Antradus Podcast)
Antradus Podcast (podcast.antradusai.com) is our article service. It uses the same account as the extension. Two things connect them, and both happen only when you ask:
- When you click the red Write … from this transcript box, the extension sends the transcript on screen to Antradus Podcast and opens it there, signed in. What it sends:
- the episode’s link, title, show name and description;
- the chapter headings;
- the timed lines with their speakers;
- the speaker names you typed;
- a random ID for this browser, used to give one free article per browser.
Antradus Podcast also records a one-way hash of your IP address and your network’s number, so the free article is limited to one per network. The hash is erased after 90 days.
- When you ask Antradus Podcast to read an episode and the extension is installed, the website asks the extension to read that one transcript in your browser, exactly as the Get transcript button does. The extension accepts this request only from podcast.antradusai.com, and the transcript goes to that page.
What Antradus Podcast does with a transcript, and how long it keeps it, is set out in its own privacy policy at podcast.antradusai.com/privacy. Nothing is sent if you never click that box.
The newsletter
After you first sign in, the extension asks whether you would like the Antradus AI newsletter. Both answers give you the whole extension. We send the newsletter only if you answer Yes.
- You can unsubscribe with the link in any issue, or choose Unsubscribe from the newsletter in the extension’s ⋯ menu. We take you off the list before the next issue.
- We deliver the newsletter through an email-sending service that acts on our behalf. It receives your email address only if you subscribed.
Service providers we use
| Provider | Role | Data involved |
|---|---|---|
| Sign-in | Your Google account name, email, ID and sign-in token | |
| Cloudflare | Hosting of our service, database and logs, and of Antradus Podcast | All service data above, and a transcript you send to Antradus Podcast |
| Our email-sending service | Delivering the newsletter, to subscribers only | Your email address, and the delivery and unsubscribe records for the newsletter |
Chrome Web Store User Data Policy
The use of information received through Google sign-in and the Chrome extension APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. Data is used to provide the extension, and your email address is used for the newsletter only when you ask for it. It is never used for advertising or sold.
Your choices and rights
- Delete your data. Email [email protected] from the address you signed in with, and we will delete your account, your newsletter subscription, your usage records and your messages within 30 days.
- Access or correct your data. Email us.
- Change your newsletter answer at any time from the ⋯ menu, or unsubscribe from any issue.
- Stop using the service. Sign out and uninstall the extension.
- EU/UK residents. We process your account and usage data to provide the service you asked for (our contract with you), and for our legitimate interests in keeping it working and fairly used — applying the daily limit, rate-limiting abuse, investigating misuse of the service, and enforcing our Terms. We send the newsletter on the basis of your consent, which you can withdraw at any time without it affecting the extension. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests, and you may complain to your data protection authority.
- California residents. We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Children
The extension is not intended for children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If we change this policy we will update the date above. We will notify signed-in users in the extension of material changes.
Contact
[email protected] · Antradus AI