Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

At AnimG, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and use our services, and tell you about your privacy rights.

2. Data We Collect

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, including:

• Identity Data: Including username, email address, and other profile information you provide through Google authentication.
• Technical Data: Including IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, and device information.
• Usage Data: Including information about how you use our website and services, such as animation generation requests, library browsing, and rendering history.
• Content Data: Including text descriptions, generated Manim code, rendered animations, animation metadata (titles, descriptions, tags), and other content you create using our services. This data is stored on our servers and associated with your account.
• Chat Data: Including chat conversations, message history, chat titles, and conversation context used for AI-powered animation generation. Chat data is stored to enable you to manage multiple conversations and continue previous animation creation sessions.
• Animation Data: Including animation specifications, generated code, rendered video files, thumbnails, status information, quality settings, and error history. This data is stored to enable you to access, manage, and download your animations. When you publish an animation, it becomes publicly visible and accessible to anyone visiting our Explore page.
• Subscription and Payment Data: Including subscription plan information, payment method details (processed securely through Stripe), billing history, subscription status, and locale-based pricing information. We do not store full credit card numbers; payment processing is handled by Stripe.
• Authentication Data: Including Firebase authentication tokens and session information to secure your account and protect our services.

3. How We Use Your Data

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our AI-powered animation generation service
• To process and render your mathematical animations using Manim
• To store and manage your animation data, allowing you to access, view, and download your animations at any time
• To store and manage your chat conversations and message history, enabling you to continue previous animation creation sessions and manage multiple animation projects
• To display published animations on our public Explore page and to provide the curated Library feature, making AnimG-maintained educational content discoverable and viewable by all users.
• To manage your subscription, process payments, and provide access to plan-specific features
• To improve and personalize your experience with our code generation and rendering features
• To develop new features and enhance our animation capabilities
• To communicate with you about service updates, improvements, and subscription-related matters
• To provide customer support for animation generation, rendering issues, and subscription management
• To ensure the security of our services and protect against unauthorized access
• To comply with legal obligations and maintain service quality

4. Published Animations and Public Content

When you choose to publish an animation, it becomes publicly visible on our Explore page. Published animations can be viewed, accessed, and shared by anyone visiting our website, even without an account. The following information from published animations is made publicly available:

• Animation title, description, and tags
• Rendered video content
• Creator information (display name and profile photo, if available)
• Creation date

You can unpublish an animation at any time through your account, which will remove it from public view. However, note that previously shared links to published animations may remain accessible until cached content expires.

We do not share your email address, account details, or other private information when you publish an animation. Only the information listed above is made publicly visible.

5. Data Sharing and Transfers

We may share your personal data with:

• Service providers who help us deliver our services, including:
  • Firebase for authentication and data storage (including your animation data)
  • Stripe for secure payment processing and subscription management
  • AI service providers (including OpenAI and OpenRouter) for AI-powered code generation
  • Cloud providers for video rendering and storage
• Professional advisers including lawyers, auditors, and insurers
• Regulatory authorities when required by law

We implement appropriate safeguards to ensure your data is protected when transferred internationally.

6. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees and third parties who have a business need to know.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal or reporting requirements.

Your animation data (including descriptions, code, and rendered videos) is stored on our servers and associated with your account. Your chat data (including conversations and message history) is also stored and associated with your account. This data is retained while your account is active and for a reasonable period after account termination to allow for account recovery. You may request deletion of your animation data and chat data at any time, subject to our data retention policies and legal obligations.

Subscription and payment data is retained as required by law and for accounting purposes. Payment information processed through Stripe is subject to Stripe's data retention policies.

8. Your Legal Rights

Depending on your location, you may have various rights regarding your personal data, including:

• The right to access your personal data
• The right to request correction of your personal data
• The right to request deletion of your personal data
• The right to object to processing of your personal data
• The right to request restriction of processing your personal data
• The right to data portability

9. Cookies and Authentication

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Additionally, we use Firebase Authentication to secure your account and protect our services. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

10. Children's Privacy

Our services are not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If we learn we have collected personal data from a child under 16, we will delete that information.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at animg@voycrew.com.