Privacy Policy

Last Updated: November 4, 2026

Road to Ramen LLC ("we") runs SummaryBee's website, web app and browser extension, and is responsible for the personal data described here. Questions go to support@summarybee.com.

What we collect

Your account: your name, email address, profile picture and a hash of your password, or what Google sends if you sign in with Google (name, email address, picture and sign-in tokens), plus what two-factor authentication or passkeys need to verify you.
Sign-ins: the IP address and browser of each session, to protect your account.
Your use: for each summary and question, the video's ID, the time and how much AI it used, to count your plan's limits. To write a summary or answer, we send the video's ID, title, channel and transcript, and your question, to an AI model. We don't store transcripts, questions or answers. Summaries are stored without being linked to you, and shared with others who summarize the same video.
Channel searches: when you search for a YouTube channel or open a channel's link, your search terms or the link pass through our server to YouTube. We don't save them, but our hosting provider's request logs may include them.
Your own AI key: if you use your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or OpenRouter key, we store it encrypted, with the model you chose and when it last worked, and show only its last 4 characters. Delete it any time in Settings › AI model.
Billing: your plan and Stripe's customer and subscription IDs. Stripe handles your card; we never see it.
Support: emails you send us.
Error reports: your account's ID, browser and the page you were on, when something breaks.

We use cookies only to keep you signed in and remember your settings, and don't use analytics or advertising trackers. We don't track you across other websites, so we don't respond to Do Not Track signals. Sign-in forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to tell people from bots.

We use this data to provide the Service (performance of our contract with you), to keep it secure and working (our legitimate interests) and to keep billing records (a legal obligation).

The browser extension

The extension runs only on youtube.com and SummaryBee's own sites. On a YouTube video, it reads the video's ID, title, channel, chapters and transcript, and sends them to us only when you summarize the video or ask about it. It doesn't read your YouTube account, watch history or other websites. It keeps your sign-in status, name, email address, picture and language on your device. SummaryBee's use of information received from the extension adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

We don't sell your data. We share it only with the providers that run the Service for us: Cloudflare (hosting, bot protection), Neon (database), Vercel and the AI model providers it routes to (summaries and answers; with your own key, the provider you chose instead, under your account with them and its terms), Stripe (payments), Resend (email), Sentry (error reports) and Google (Google sign-in, support email, and YouTube for channel searches), and when the law requires it. They process data in the United States and elsewhere, under the EU's Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

How long we keep it

We keep your data until you delete your account, except billing records, which we keep as long as tax law requires. Sessions are deleted a day after they end, activity records after 365 days, emails we send within 30 days and error reports within 90 days.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can access, correct, export or delete your data, and object to or restrict how we use it. You can edit your profile and delete your account in the app's account settings; for anything else, write to us. You can also complain to your data protection authority.

SummaryBee isn't meant for children under 13 (16 in the European Economic Area).

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