Privacy policy

The short version

• You don't need an account to download carousels or videos up to 100 MB.
• Signing in with Google is optional. It saves your download history and is required for videos over 100 MB.
• Files we prepare for you are deleted from our server about 15 minutes later, and never kept longer than 30 minutes.
• We don't sell your data and we don't use advertising cookies.

What we collect when you use CarouselStats

• What you asked for: the post links or TikTok usernames you enter, whether it worked, how many slides or how large a video was, and whether the result came from cache.
• Your IP address, as seen by our hosting provider (Cloudflare).
• Approximate location derived from your IP by Cloudflare: country, region, city, time zone and network (ASN). We do not use GPS or precise location.
• Device information from your browser's user agent: device type, browser and operating system.
• How you arrived: the referring website and the first page you landed on.
• Interactions such as whether a feedback prompt was shown or clicked.

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics (cookie-less) and Google Analytics for Firebase, which may use cookies or similar identifiers to count visits and see which features are used.

If you sign in (optional)

Sign-in uses Google through Firebase Authentication, a Google service. Google shares your account ID, name, email address and profile picture with us so we can show who is signed in. We store your download history in our database, linked to that account ID: the link or username you entered, the type of download, the platform, the creator's username, the post ID, the number of slides, the post title, a thumbnail link, and the time. We do not get your Google password.

Your history is kept until you ask us to delete it. You can sign out at any time; downloading keeps working without an account.

Downloaded files

To give you slides, ZIPs and videos, our server fetches the public post and prepares the files. They are deleted automatically about 15 minutes after they are prepared, and at most 30 minutes later; when you leave the page or finish a ZIP we may delete them sooner. For profile analysis we keep the post statistics (not the files) so a post can be fetched again when you click download.

Why

• To run the service: fetching the posts you ask for, preparing downloads and showing stats.
• To prevent abuse: rate limits per IP address and size limits protect the service and the platforms we fetch from.
• To understand usage and improve the product (for example which features people use and where they come from).

Retention

• Raw IP addresses are deleted after 90 days by an automatic daily job.
• The rest of the usage records (without IP) are kept for up to about 13 months, then deleted.
• Prepared download files: about 15 minutes, never more than 30 minutes.
• Download history of signed-in users: until you ask us to delete it.

Sharing

We do not sell or share this data. It is processed by our infrastructure providers (Cloudflare, Google Firebase and our own server) only to operate the service.

Content you download

CarouselStats fetches publicly available posts at your request. You are responsible for respecting the creator's rights when you reuse their content.

Your choices and contact

To ask about your data or request deletion, including your download history, reach us through the contact page. If you are not signed in, include the approximate date and time of your visit so we can find the records.