Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how VidDM handles information when you use the VidDM Chrome extension and website. VidDM is designed to record short videos locally in your browser, optionally generate local captions, and attach videos to direct messages only when you choose to attach them.

1. What VidDM Does

VidDM lets you record camera, screen, and screen plus camera videos from supported direct messages. The extension can also burn selected overlays into the recording, such as the VidDM watermark, call-to-action text, captions, or sender and recipient avatars, unless you hide or remove those overlays before attaching the video.

2. Local Recording

VidDM records and processes video in your browser. We do not upload recordings, audio, screenshots, generated captions, message text, or avatar images to a VidDM server. The finished video is attached to the current message composer through the local file input, and you decide whether to send it.

3. Local Caption Generation

If you choose to generate captions, VidDM transcribes the clean microphone track locally in the extension. The first caption generation may download Whisper model files from Hugging Face, and Chrome may cache those model files for faster future captions. Your recording audio and generated caption text are not sent to Hugging Face.

4. Information Stored By The Extension

VidDM uses chrome.storage.local to remember recorder preferences, overlay settings, and custom watermark images. This data stays in your browser unless you clear extension data or uninstall the extension.

5. Browser Permissions

VidDM uses browser media APIs for camera, microphone, and screen capture when you request those features. Chrome controls the permission prompts. VidDM also uses the Chrome storage permission to remember local preferences and narrowly scoped host permissions for first-use caption model downloads from Hugging Face.

6. Page Access

VidDM runs as a content script on supported messaging pages so it can add the recorder button to the message composer, read visible header avatars for optional overlay rendering, and attach the recorded video to the message file input.

7. No Sale Or Advertising Use

We do not sell user data, use recordings for advertising, or build browsing profiles.

8. Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to support@viddm.app.