Last updated: July 26, 2026
ViralBurst is designed to run entirely on your own computer. This
statement explains what that means in practice.
The first time you run ViralBurst, it verifies your license key with
our payment processor (Lemon Squeezy) — a one-time check that requires
an internet connection. This sends only your license key and a
randomly-generated installation identifier; no other data is included.
After this first check, ViralBurst works entirely offline, the same as
described everywhere else in this statement.
Video files you provide, and everything generated from them (clips,
transcripts, subtitles), are processed and stored **only on your own
device**. ViralBurst does not upload your videos, transcripts, or output
files anywhere. ViralBurst servers never see or have access to
this content.
If you paste a YouTube URL instead of a local file, ViralBurst uses the
open-source tool yt-dlp to download that video directly from YouTube to
your own computer. That request goes to YouTube, not to us — we don't
see which URLs you enter or what you download. Your use of this feature
is subject to YouTube's own terms and privacy practices.
Speech-to-text transcription happens locally on your computer using the
faster-whisper library and OpenAI's Whisper model weights, downloaded
once to your machine on first use. Your audio and video are never sent
to a server (ours, OpenAI's, or anyone else's) for transcription.
(via your system's package manager or winget), and the Whisper model
weights (via Hugging Face) — all standard software installation,
fetched directly by your own machine from those projects' own servers.
libraries are downloaded from PyPI, the same way.
updates automatically, and does not include analytics or telemetry of
any kind.
None. ViralBurst has no account system, no server component, and no
mechanism to send us information about you or your usage.
If this changes in a future version (for example, if an update-check
feature is ever added), this statement will be updated to reflect it
before that version is released.
Questions about this statement can be directed to viralburstai@gmail.com.