Privacy
What we keep, and who sees it.
SermonRecap is run by an individual, not a company. This page describes what actually happens to your data in the code that runs the site, and it is meant to be read rather than agreed to. Last updated 20 August 2026.
The short version
Recaps are reachable by anyone holding their link. Your notes are not. We never see your card. Nothing is sold, and nothing is used to train a model.
What we collect
A sermon you bring. If you paste a YouTube link we fetch the video’s transcript and its public details — title, channel, publish date. If you upload audio or video, we store the file itself. Either way we keep the transcript we produce and the summary, key points, questions and applications generated from it.
An account, if you make one. Your email address, and a password if you set one. You can use the whole site without an account.
What you write and how you file it. Private notes on a recap, your own titles for sermons, the shelves you create, and which shelf a sermon sits on.
A record of a gift. If you donate, we store Stripe’s identifiers for the payment, the amount, currency and status. We never receive your card number — that goes to Stripe directly and never touches this server.
Your IP address, briefly. Used to cap how many sermons an anonymous visitor can run in a day. It is written to a temporary file that is discarded when the server instance recycles.
Who else processes it
Running this site means handing parts of your data to other companies. Each one is listed here because you deserve to know whose hands it passes through:
- Vercel — hosting; sees every request to the site.
- Supabase — the database, sign-in, and storage for uploaded media.
- Supadata — fetches transcripts for YouTube links.
- Groq — transcribes uploaded audio and video. A different provider can be configured; whoever it is, they receive the recording.
- Anthropic — receives the transcript and writes the recap.
- Stripe — takes payments and holds your card details.
- Trigger.dev — runs the transcription and analysis in the background.
- Resend — delivers the message you send from the contact page.
We don’t sell your data, and we don’t share it with anyone beyond the list above except where the law requires it.
Who can see a recap
This is the part worth reading twice. A recap can be opened by anyone who has its link. There is no sign-in check on a recap page. The address contains a random identifier, so it isn’t guessable and it isn’t listed anywhere — but a link, once shared or pasted somewhere public, works for whoever finds it, permanently, until the recap is deleted.
Treat a recap link the way you’d treat an unlisted video. Your private notes are different: they are only shown to you, unless you deliberately create a share link for them, and revoking that link closes it again.
If you upload a recording of a sermon, remember that the transcript of it is served alongside the recap under the same rule.
How long it's kept
Recaps and their transcripts are kept until they’re deleted. Removing a recap from your library takes it off your shelves but keeps your notes and filing, so re-saving restores them — it is not a deletion. To have the underlying recap, transcript and any uploaded media erased, ask, and it will be.
Donation records are kept as a financial record even if you close your account, because they happened. Stripe keeps its own copy under its own policy.
What you can ask for
Write to carterprice2+sermonrecap@gmail.com or use the contact form and ask for a copy of what’s held about you, a correction, the deletion of your account and its contents, or the removal of a specific recap. No particular wording is needed. Expect a reply within a few days, from a person.
Children
SermonRecap isn’t built or intended for children under 13, and accounts aren’t knowingly created for them. If you believe a child has made one, write and it will be removed.
Changes
If this page changes in a way that affects what happens to data already collected, the date above changes with it. Small corrections and clarifications may be made without notice.