Privacy

Last updated 29 October 2026. Plain-language version, written for the beta.

Skwirl is a small free beta run by one person, not a company. This page says exactly what happens to your data. If anything here isn't true, that's a bug.

What Skwirl stores

• The name you joined with, and a hashed copy of your access token (never the token itself).
• Your email, only if you gave one (when joining, or in the feedback card with the box ticked). It's used to send you a sign-in link when you ask for one, to reply to your feedback, and, if you ticked the box, for the odd big update. No newsletters, never shared.
• How the site is used, measured by Skwirl itself (no outside analytics or ad companies): which screens you open and buttons you tap, how long you stay, roughly where you came from (the referring site, country, device and browser type), and a random ID kept on your device to tell visits apart. Never what you type, search for, or save, and no IP addresses. Kept 180 days.
• If you tap "Notify me" for Skwirl Plus: the email you give (only with the box ticked), your country and the price you were shown, so we can tell you when it's ready. Nothing else, never shared.
• If you turn on notifications: the push address your browser gives us for this device (it can only be used to send notifications to it). Turn them off in your phone's or browser's settings and it stops working.
• If you connect Telegram: your chat ID, so the bot can save the links you send and message you (when a big import finishes, and 3 unused saves on Sundays unless you send /digest off). Disconnect any time with /stop.
• The links you save, any note you type with them, and when you saved them.
• The note Skwirl writes for each save: title, summary, next step, transcript, ingredients, and anything named in it (books, films, places).
• A small cover image for each save.
• What you do in the app: saving, searching, opening notes, ticking list items, and when an AI app you connected looks something up for you. This is how the owner can see whether the beta is working.
• Your own Groq key, if you add one. It's encrypted before it's stored.

How a save gets read

• Skwirl downloads the public post you shared from Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, X or TikTok.
• The audio is sent to Groq to be transcribed, and a few frames, the caption and top comments are sent to Groq's AI to write your note. Groq is a separate company with its own privacy policy.
• This happens on the owner's computer or on a GitHub-hosted build machine. Your downloaded video is deleted from that machine once your note is done. Only the note and the small cover image are kept.

Where it's kept, and who can see it

• Everything is stored on Cloudflare.
• In the app, only you can see your saves.
• The person who runs Skwirl can read the database, including your saves. Don't save anything you'd hate for them to see.
• If you connect an AI app (ChatGPT, Claude or another), it can read your saves and add new links after you tap Allow. What it does with them is covered by that company's own privacy policy (for example OpenAI's or Anthropic's). Resetting your sign-in link disconnects every AI app.
• No ads. Nothing is sold. Nothing is shared with anyone else.

Your controls

• Export: Set up → Your account → Export my notes. You get everything as one file.
• Delete: Set up → Your account → Delete my account. This permanently erases your saves, notes, cover images, list ticks and activity history. It can't be undone.
• Lost or leaked token: Set up → Your account → Reset my token. The old one stops working straight away.

Changes

If this changes in a way that matters, you'll be told in the app before it applies to you.