You decide what leaves your device.
This notice covers ClipBid on iPhone and Mac, the upload service, price offers, clip sales, and payouts.
Controller
The Intelligence Company GmbH[Registered street and house number]
[Postcode and city], Germany
theintelligencecompany@gmx.de
Data we process
Account data
On iPhone, when you sign in with Apple, we receive an Apple account identifier and, where Apple provides them, your name and email address. We also store an internal account identifier and authentication information.
The current Mac private beta uses a development sign in based on a seller name. This development flow is not suitable for a public launch and must be replaced with production authentication before release.
Video and optional audio
ClipBid processes the video you choose to upload. On iPhone, microphone audio can be removed before upload. On Mac, microphone narration is optional and removable, but the current beta screen recorder also captures system audio. The Mac behavior must be changed if all audio is intended to be contributor controlled.
Video or audio may contain people, homes, screens, voices, objects, or other personal information visible or audible in the recording.
Recording and security data
We process technical recording details such as timestamps, duration, resolution, frame rate, file size, hashes, capture identifiers, and privacy mask coverage. Depending on the device and settings, optional motion or interaction signals may accompany a recording.
On supported iPhones, capture may also include a secondary camera video, depth information, and device or headphone motion signals. These files are uploaded with the primary recording when available.
On Mac, optional input capture can include mouse positions, clicks, scrolling, keyboard key codes, and modifier keys. These signals can be sensitive even when they are not submitted as a text dataset. Leave this setting off whenever it is not needed.
On Mac, a recording also notes which applications were in the foreground while it ran, including the application name and how long it was active. Applications you exclude from recording are also excluded from this list. This application usage information is uploaded with the input sidecar and can be removed before upload with the same control.
Offers, contracts, and payouts
We store price offers and, when you sell, the sale contract version and acceptance record, seller name, acceptance time, IP address, user agent, payout amounts, currency, status, and Stripe account references. Stripe receives the identity and payment information needed to set up and send payouts. ClipBid does not store your bank account details.
What happens on your device
Your recordings remain local until you choose to upload them. You can review the recording first. On iPhone, you can apply face redaction and remove microphone audio. On Mac, you can exclude selected apps, apply privacy blur, and remove microphone narration.
These controls process the recording on your device. ClipBid uploads the version you select. Privacy tools reduce risk but cannot guarantee that every sensitive detail is detected, so you should always review the result.
Why we use the data
- To authenticate your account and operate ClipBid.
- To receive, secure, review, and assess a submitted recording.
- To generate a price offer and let you decide whether to sell.
- To document an accepted sale and use acquired clips for robotics and machine learning work in line with the accepted agreement.
- To prevent fraud, duplicates, abuse, unlawful material, and security incidents.
- To process payouts, accounting records, taxes, and legal claims.
Processing needed to create an account, provide an offer, complete a sale, and pay you is based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. Compliance records are processed under Article 6(1)(c) GDPR where a legal obligation applies. Security, fraud prevention, service reliability, and the defence of legal claims are based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Automated price offers
ClipBid uses automated analysis of the submitted recording and associated technical capture data to generate a purchase offer for that clip. You are never required to accept it. You may decline the offer, explain your point of view, or request human review by email.
Service providers and recipients
We use providers for hosting and API delivery, database services, media storage, automated analysis, Apple sign in, email, and payouts. The current system uses Vercel, Neon, Backblaze B2, Modal, Apple, Stripe, and GMX for these functions.
Providers receive only the categories needed for their role. A sold clip may be made available to research or commercial data buyers in line with the clip sale agreement you accept. Unsold clips are not sold to buyers.
Some providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where required, transfers must rely on an applicable adequacy decision, certification, or standard contractual clauses under Chapter V GDPR.
Retention and deletion
The current service schedules database linked unsold media for deletion after seven days by default. You can also delete a database linked unsold clip from your account. Local recordings remain on your device until you remove them through the app or operating system.
The beta still needs a verified deletion process for interrupted or duplicate uploads that can leave media without a database record. The analysis service can also retain derived mathematical representations of submitted clips after the media is deleted. These gaps must be resolved and assigned clear retention periods before launch.
Sold clips and their sale records are retained for as long as needed to exercise the acquired rights, provide the dataset, meet accounting or legal obligations, and resolve claims. Account, payout, and security records are kept only while needed for the relevant purpose and any mandatory statutory period.
You may request account deletion by email. A public app must also provide an in app way to start account deletion. We may need to keep limited contract, payout, fraud, or compliance records after account closure. Continued use after a completed sale is permitted only where a valid legal basis and applicable law allow it. Mandatory data protection rights remain unaffected.
Your choices and rights
Who can contribute
ClipBid is for adults. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account, accept an offer, or receive a payout. Selling a clip is a contract, and payout onboarding has its own age requirements.
Audio is optional. Uploading is optional. Accepting an offer is optional. You should not upload footage that you do not have the right to provide, confidential information, or recordings of children or other people unless you have a valid legal basis.
Subject to the conditions in data protection law, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or portability of your personal data. You may object to processing based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. You may also complain to a competent data protection supervisory authority.
Personal data about people visible or audible in a recording is obtained from the contributor, not directly from each person depicted. It may be processed for clip assessment and, after an accepted sale, robotics and machine learning use or disclosure to buyers. The legal basis, notice duties, and safeguards for third party data must be assessed for each launch use case.
If you appear in a ClipBid recording submitted by someone else, contact us with enough information to locate the recording. We will assess your request and the rights of everyone involved.
Send a ClipBid privacy request