1. About This Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how UniK Video Studio collects, uses, stores, and discloses information in connection with this website and its video access and submission features. It applies to visitors, viewers, and people who submit videos or communicate with the website operator.
By using the website, you acknowledge that information may be handled as described here. If you do not agree with these practices, please do not use the website or submit information through it. This policy should be read together with the website's Terms of Service.
2. Information We Collect and How We Use It
Depending on how you use the website, information may include email addresses used for verification or submissions; IP addresses and approximate IP-based location; browser and device details; session identifiers; verification and access events; video submission details and files; and records of video views and administrative or security activity.
We use information for purposes that include:
- Check file type, format, video structure, duration, and duplicate content.
- Scan submitted videos for malicious software and support administrator approval decisions.
- Display, organize, and stream approved videos according to their public or private designation.
- Maintain security logs, prevent abuse, enforce rate limits, and investigate suspicious activity.
- Understand video activity and operate, troubleshoot, maintain, and improve the website.
- Respond to requests, complaints, legal obligations, and safety concerns.
3. Home Videos, People Shown, and Sensitive Moments
UniK is intended to help people share and preserve home videos, family memories, personal moments, and other video stories. Videos may contain identifiable people, faces, voices, children, family gatherings, private homes, personal conversations, or other personal information. The video and its contents may reveal information about people other than the person who uploads it.
People who submit videos are responsible for having the rights and permissions needed to share them. Please do not submit a video showing someone in a private or sensitive situation unless you have the necessary authority and permissions. UniK does not independently verify the consent of every person shown in a submitted video.
If you appear in a video and have a concern about its publication, or you are a parent, guardian, or authorized representative raising a concern for someone else, contact the website operator using the contact information published on the website. Provide enough detail to identify the video and explain your concern so it can be reviewed.
4. Video Submission, Scanning, and Approval
Submitted videos may be stored outside the public website directory while they are processed and reviewed. The system may validate file extensions and content types, inspect video structure and duration, calculate a SHA-256 hash to help identify duplicates, and perform antivirus scanning.
The website's administrator approval process requires a fresh successful ClamAV antivirus scan before a submission can be approved. A submission may be rejected or held if a threat is detected, the scan fails, or the required scanner is unavailable. A video is not published merely because it was uploaded or received by the website; it must complete the applicable review and approval process.
After approval, the administrator assigns the video's category and public or private status. Public videos may be viewed by visitors who complete the public access process. Private videos are stored separately and are intended for viewers who satisfy the private access requirements and have been approved.
5. Public and Private Viewing
Public videos are made available through the website's public viewing process. Private videos are intended to be available only to viewers authorized through a separate private access process, which may require a password and a one-time code sent to an approved email address.
Access controls are designed to restrict viewing, but they cannot guarantee that an authorized viewer will not record a screen, make a copy by other means, or share information about a video. Consider this limitation before submitting personal or sensitive material.
6. IP Addresses and Approximate Location
We may use IP addresses for security, access logging, rate limiting, and website administration. The website may send an IP address to the third-party service ipwho.is to estimate a general geographic area, such as a city, region, or country. This is an approximate IP-based estimate, not GPS tracking, and it may be inaccurate. The provider may process the IP address under its own privacy practices.
7. Cookies and Session Technologies
We use session cookies and related technologies to maintain sessions, remember successful verification, and support protected website features. These technologies are necessary for certain parts of the website to function. Disabling cookies may prevent access to some features.
8. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information. We may disclose information as reasonably needed in these circumstances:
- Service providers: To hosting, server, email-delivery, security, and IP-location providers that help operate the website.
- Website administration: To the website operator or authorized administrators for access management, video review, moderation, security, and support.
- Legal and safety reasons: When we believe disclosure is required by law or is reasonably necessary to respond to valid legal process, address suspected unlawful activity, protect a person, enforce website terms, or protect the website and its legal rights.
- With your direction: When you ask us to share information or otherwise direct us to do so.
We do not provide a submitter's private contact details to other visitors as a feature of the video-sharing service. Public video content itself may be viewed by visitors when approved and published as public.
9. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for website operation, video hosting, security, moderation, recordkeeping, and legal purposes. Different types of information may be kept for different periods.
Under current practices, certain website access logs are automatically deleted after 180 days, and certain temporary verification or rate-limit records are cleaned up sooner. This 180-day period does not apply to every type of record. Video-view records, submission records, email addresses, uploaded videos, administrator records, and backups may be retained for different periods. We do not currently promise a fixed automatic deletion period for all videos or submission records. Rejected videos may be moved to a separate rejected-submissions storage area. Approved videos may remain stored until removed by the administrator or as part of website operations.
You may contact the website operator to request review or removal of a video or personal information. We may retain limited information where needed for security, dispute resolution, backups, or legal obligations, as permitted by law.
10. Security
We use technical and administrative safeguards intended to protect information. These may include password hashing, temporary verification codes, session controls, restricted administrative access, file validation, antivirus scanning as part of approval, rate limiting, and server security measures. No website, network, email system, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
11. California Privacy Information and Your Choices
Depending on the nature and scale of the website's activities and whether applicable legal thresholds are met, California privacy laws may provide eligible California residents with rights concerning personal information, such as the right to know or access certain information, request correction or deletion, and receive information about certain disclosures. Other privacy laws may provide rights based on where you live.
We do not sell personal information. If you wish to make a privacy request or ask a question about information associated with you or a video, contact the website operator using the contact information published on the website. We may need to verify your identity or authority before responding. Some information may be retained where an exception or legal obligation applies. We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.
12. Children's Privacy
The website is not directed to children under 13, and children should not submit information or videos through the website themselves. An adult who submits a video containing a child is responsible for having the legal authority and permissions required to share it. If you believe a child has provided personal information directly or that a video involving a child raises a safety or privacy concern, contact the website operator promptly using the contact information published on the website.
13. Third-Party Services and Links
The website may rely on third-party services, including hosting, email delivery, antivirus software, and IP-based location services. Those providers may process information under their own privacy policies, terms, and applicable agreements. The website may also contain links to independent third-party websites, which have their own privacy practices.
14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the website, its features, or applicable requirements. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Please review this page periodically.
15. Contact and Privacy Requests
For privacy questions, access or deletion requests, concerns about a person appearing in a video, or other requests involving personal information, contact the UniK Video Studio website operator using the contact information published on this website. Please identify the relevant video or information as clearly as possible. Do not include passwords or one-time verification codes in your request.
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