Privacy Policy

App: Video Editor & Maker – CutMint (Android package com.cutmint.app)
Effective date: 5 November 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how CutMint (“CutMint”, “the app”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, shares and protects information when you use the CutMint video and photo editing app, its template feed and its related online services and web pages (together, the “Service”). It also explains the choices and rights you have. Please read it together with our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines.

Contents

1. Who we are
2. Your media stays on your device
3. Templates you publish
4. Information we collect
5. Device permissions
6. How we use information
7. Legal bases
8. Third-party services
9. How we share information
10. Advertising and notifications
11. Purchases and subscriptions
12. Data retention
13. Account and data deletion
14. Security
15. International transfers
16. Children’s privacy
17. Your rights
18. Changes to this policy
19. Contact and grievances

1. Who we are

CutMint is a mobile video and photo editor and template community published on Google Play by Tushar Pansuriya, Ramgadh Plot, Bhesan, Gujarat, India. For the purposes of data protection laws, we are the controller (in India, the “Data Fiduciary”) of the personal information described in this policy. You can reach us at tusharpansuriya12@gmail.com.

2. Your media stays on your device

CutMint processes your content locally on your phone, unless you publish a template (see section 2a):

• Photos and videos you choose with the system photo or file picker are copied into the app’s private storage on your device so they can be edited. The app cannot see any other files.
• Voice-overs recorded with the microphone are saved only inside your project on your device.
• Projects, drafts and exports are stored on your device. Finished videos and photos are saved to your gallery only when you tap save or export.
• Background removal and body effects use Google ML Kit, which runs entirely on your device. Images and video frames are not sent to Google or to us.
• QR code scanning uses the camera, or a picture you choose, and reads the code on your device. Camera images are not saved or sent anywhere. Only the CutMint link found in the code is opened.
• Templates you use are downloaded to the app’s private storage and filled with your own clips on your device. The videos you make from them are not sent to us.

Apart from templates you publish, we do not upload, view, analyse, sell or share your photos, videos, audio, recordings or projects. If you share an exported video to another app (for example, a social network), that app’s own privacy policy applies.

About Google Play’s Data safety section: it lists photos, videos, voice recordings and music files because the app accesses the files you choose in order to edit them, and uploads some of them when you publish a template. Access happens only when you add media, record or publish.

2a. Templates you publish

Publishing is optional and needs a signed-in account with a username, and confirmation that you are at least 18. When you publish a template:

• What is uploaded: the template's design (its cuts, effects, texts and timing), the photos, video clips and sounds it uses that other users do not replace, a preview video made from your project, a cover picture, and the title, description, category and tags you enter. Clips you mark as replaceable are not uploaded.
• What we remove: before anything is shown, our servers re-encode the media and remove hidden information in the files, such as location (GPS) and camera details. Sounds are cut to the part the template plays.
• Who sees it: everyone. Published templates appear in the app's feed, Discover pages and search, on your public profile with your username, name, photo and bio, and on a public web page reached through the template's link or QR code. Public pages can be found by search engines, and anyone can copy, screenshot or share what is public; we cannot control copies made outside CutMint.
• People who use it: when someone uses your template, the app downloads its files (including the photos, clips and sounds you did not mark as replaceable) to their phone, and they can make and share their own videos with it. Deleting your template stops new downloads, but cannot delete copies already on other people's phones or videos they already made.
• Review: templates may be checked by our team before or after they appear, and anyone can report a template. We may remove templates and suspend accounts that break our Community Guidelines or the law.
• Where it is kept: uploads first go to private Cloudflare R2 storage, then the published files are served from Cloudflare R2 and Cloudflare's network. Details about the template are kept in our database hosted on Railway.
• How long: until you delete the template or your account, as described in section 11.

3. Information we collect

3.1 Information you give us

• Google account details (optional): if you choose to sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address, profile photo and a unique account ID through Google Sign-In and Firebase Authentication. Your Google name and photo are shown on your public profile; you can change the name and bio in the app.
• Your public profile: the username you choose, and the display name and bio you write.
• Templates you publish and their media, as described in section 2a.
• Confirmations: when you first publish, that you accepted the Terms, confirmed you are at least 18, and confirmed you have the rights to what you publish, and when.
• Reports you make about templates or accounts, and what you wrote in them. We do not tell the person you reported who reported them, unless the law requires us to.
• Messages to us: if you email us or send feedback, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to include.

3.2 Information collected automatically

3.3 Information we do not collect

We do not collect your contacts, call logs, SMS, precise or background location, calendar, health or financial information. We never receive your card or bank details: payments are handled entirely by Google Play. We do not use your photos, videos or recordings to train artificial intelligence models.

4. Device permissions

You can change permissions at any time in your device’s Settings → Apps → CutMint → Permissions.

5. How we use information

• To provide, operate and maintain the app, the template feed and publishing.
• To let you sign in, and to show your public profile and templates.
• To suggest templates based on what you and similar users watch and use, and to show popular and new templates.
• To review, moderate and remove content, handle reports and appeals, and enforce our Terms and Community Guidelines.
• To provide Premium features, verify purchases and restore them on a new device.
• To show ads to users of the free version, including rewarded ads that unlock premium items for a limited time.
• To understand how the app is used, measure performance, find and fix crashes and errors, and improve features.
• To detect, prevent and respond to fraud, spam, fake activity, abuse, security incidents and illegal content.
• To send announcements and news about your own templates, if you turn on notifications.
• To answer your questions, support requests and complaints.
• To comply with legal obligations, respond to lawful requests and protect our rights and the safety of others.

Our template suggestions are made automatically, but they never have legal or similarly significant effects on you. Decisions to remove content or suspend an account are taken or checked by a person, except that a template may be hidden automatically while reports about it are checked.

6. Legal bases for processing

Where laws such as India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 or the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) apply, we rely on:

• Consent: for optional sign-in, publishing, notifications, microphone and camera access and, where required by law, personalised advertising. You may withdraw consent at any time (for example, by signing out, turning notifications off or deleting your account); this does not affect processing done before.
• Contract: to provide the app, your account and the Premium features you buy.
• Legitimate uses and interests: for analytics, recommendations, security, fraud prevention, moderation and improving the app, balanced against your rights.
• Legal obligation: to keep purchase and tax records, preserve information about illegal content, and respond to lawful requests.

7. Third-party services

The app uses the following service providers. They process data according to their own privacy policies:

8. How we share information

We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising except through Google AdMob as described in section 9. We share information only:

• publicly, when you choose to: your profile and the templates you publish (section 2a);
• with the service providers listed above, who process it on our behalf or as independent controllers to provide their services;
• with a person who sent us a copyright notice about your template, limited to what is needed to handle it (for example, that it was removed);
• when required by law, a court order, or a lawful request from a government or law-enforcement agency, including under India’s Information Technology Act, 2000 and its rules;
• to report child sexual abuse material and other serious crimes to the authorities;
• to protect the rights, property or safety of our users, the public or CutMint, and to prevent fraud or abuse;
• in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, in which case this policy will continue to apply to your information, and we will notify you of any change.

9. Advertising and notifications

The free version of CutMint shows ads from Google AdMob, including interstitial ads and optional rewarded ads that unlock a premium template or effect for a limited time. AdMob may use your advertising ID, IP address and device information to show ads, measure their performance and prevent fraud. Depending on your settings and region, ads may be personalised or non-personalised.

• Opt out of personalised ads or delete your advertising ID: Android Settings → Google → Ads (or Settings → Privacy → Ads).
• Manage Google ad personalisation: adssettings.google.com.
• Remove ads entirely: subscribe to CutMint Premium.

Notifications

Push notifications are off until you turn them on in the app’s Settings and allow them on your device. When they are on, your device subscribes to CutMint’s announcement topic through Firebase Cloud Messaging. If you are also signed in, we store your device’s notification token with your account so we can tell you about your own templates (for example, that one was approved, rejected or removed). The token is deleted from our servers when you turn notifications off, sign out or delete your account. You can turn notifications off at any time in the app’s Settings or in your device’s Settings → Apps → CutMint → Notifications.

The app also checks our server for announcements and update notices when it opens. This check sends only your platform (for example, Android).

10. Purchases and subscriptions

Premium purchases and subscriptions are processed by Google Play. We and RevenueCat receive confirmation of the purchase, the product, its status and dates, but never your payment card or bank details. To manage or cancel a subscription, open Google Play → Profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions.

11. Data retention

12. Account and data deletion

You can delete your data at any time:

1. In the app: open the Me tab, tap Delete account and confirm. Your account is deleted immediately and the app’s access to your Google account is revoked.
2. Without the app: follow the steps on our account deletion page, or email tusharpansuriya12@gmail.com with the subject “Delete my CutMint account”, from (or mentioning) the email address of the Google account you used to sign in. We may ask you to confirm the request to protect your account.
3. What is deleted: your CutMint account and sign-in record (name, email address, profile photo and account ID), your public profile, the templates you published and their files, your likes, saves and blocks, your notification tokens, what the app learned about the templates you like, and the analytics data linked to your account ID.
4. What may be kept: a template that is under investigation because of a report is kept hidden until the report is handled; records described in section 11 (removed content, reports and moderation decisions, purchase records) for the period stated there; and anonymised or aggregated statistics that cannot identify you. Copies of your templates already downloaded to other people's phones, and videos they made with them, are outside our control.
5. Timeline: in-app deletion is immediate. Email requests are completed within 30 days and confirmed by email. Analytics data already collected is removed by Google Analytics within its retention period.

You can also sign out in the app at any time. Uninstalling the app removes all projects and media that CutMint stored on your device. To revoke CutMint’s access to your Google account, visit myaccount.google.com/connections.

13. Security

We protect information with appropriate technical and organisational measures:

• All data sent between the app, our services and our partners uses encrypted HTTPS (TLS) connections.
• Your media is processed on your device. Media you publish is uploaded through short-lived upload links into private storage, checked and re-encoded before it becomes public.
• Sign-in uses Google and Firebase. We never see your Google password.
• Requests from the app carry a Firebase App Check token, and rate limits block bots and abuse.
• Administrative access to our services is restricted and protected by secret keys, and moderation actions are logged.
• We collect the minimum data needed and work with established providers that maintain their own security programmes.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. If a personal data breach affects you, we will inform you and the relevant authorities, including the Data Protection Board of India and CERT-In where required, within the time the law requires.

14. International transfers

Our service providers may process information in countries other than yours, including India, the United States and countries in the European Union. Where required, these transfers are protected by appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses used by our providers. We do not transfer personal data to any country to which the Government of India has restricted transfers.

15. Children’s privacy

CutMint is a general-audience app and is not directed at children. You must be at least 13 to use it (or older where your country requires). If you are under 18, you may use the editor and watch templates only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. Signing in to publish templates or keep a public profile is only for people aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children without the consent the law requires, and ads in the app are not designed for children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided personal information or created an account, contact us at tusharpansuriya12@gmail.com and we will delete it promptly. See also our Child Safety Standards.

16. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• access a summary of the personal information we hold about you and receive a copy;
• correct, complete or update your information (you can edit your profile in the app);
• delete your information (see section 12);
• object to or restrict certain processing, including for personalised advertising;
• withdraw consent at any time, without affecting earlier processing;
• data portability;
• nominate another person to exercise your rights in case of death or incapacity (India);
• opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information (California). We do not sell personal information;
• have your grievance addressed by us, and then complain to the Data Protection Board of India, or your local data protection authority.

To exercise these rights, email tusharpansuriya12@gmail.com. We may need to confirm your identity first. We will respond within 30 days. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

17. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example when we add features or when laws change. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If the changes are significant, we will also notify you in the app before they take effect, and ask for your consent again where the law requires.

18. Contact and grievances

For questions, requests or complaints about this Privacy Policy or your data, including grievance redressal under Indian law, contact:

Grievance Officer
Name: Tushar Pansuriya
Address: Ramgadh Plot, Bhesan, Gujarat, India
Email: tusharpansuriya12@gmail.com (subject: “Grievance”)

We acknowledge requests within 24 hours and resolve them within 30 days (complaints about content are handled within the times in our Terms).