Privacy Policy

We have written this to be read, not to be survived. If anything here is unclear, write to us and we will fix the wording.

Who we are

Solar Sailer is made by Little Bang, 8963 Complex Dr., Suite B, San Diego, CA 92123. You can reach us at operations@proko.com.

The short version

• Your video files stay on your computer. Solar Sailer reads them where they already live. It does not copy your footage, your project or its caches anywhere off your machine.
• Some things derived from your footage do leave when you use a feature that needs an AI service: an audio track for transcription, transcript text, small sample frames, short audio excerpts, and cropped faces. Which of those depends on which features you use. The list further down is exact.
• Those go straight from your computer to that AI company, on your own account with them. They do not pass through us. We never receive your footage, your audio, your transcripts or your projects.
• Solar Sailer does send us crash reports and anonymous usage counts. You can switch both off. Neither ever contains your media, your transcripts or the contents of any file.
• This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics.

What stays on your computer

All of this is written to your own drive and is never transmitted to us or to anyone else:

• Your video, audio and image files.
• Your project file, which holds the timeline, your cuts, markers and settings.
• Working files Solar Sailer generates as you edit: audio conforms, preview proxies, waveforms, thumbnails and poster frames. They live in a cache folder you can move or clear at any time.
• Transcripts and analysis results, stored beside your project.
• Diagnostic logs, written once per session into Solar Sailer's application data folder. These do contain your project and file names. There is no feature that uploads them. If we ever ask you for a log to chase a bug, you will be sending it to us deliberately, by hand.
• Your API keys, encrypted at rest using Windows' own credential protection.

What leaves your computer

Solar Sailer contacts an outside service only when a feature needs it. Below is every one of them.

Features that use your own AI accounts

These run on API keys you supply. The data travels from your computer directly to that provider. It never touches our servers, and we never see it or hold a copy. Once it arrives, that provider's own privacy terms and retention rules apply, not ours.

Transcription

A speech quality audio track extracted from your clip, in mono. The picture is stripped out first and is never sent.

AssemblyAI

Transcript review, Rough Cut, retake detection

The text of your transcript.

OpenAI or Google, depending on the feature

Automatic clip labelling

A handful of still frames sampled through each clip, shrunk to 384 pixels on the long edge. For audio files, a few short excerpts instead. This runs on import unless you switch it off.

Google

Character and face recognition

Cropped images of faces from your footage.

Google

The AI editing agent

Whatever the agent reads to answer you, which is typically your timeline structure, clip and file names, and transcript text.

Anthropic, through the Claude Code tool on your machine, signed in with your own account

Automatic clip labelling is on by default. When you import media, Solar Sailer samples a few frames and sends them to Google to work out what each clip is. Those frames are small and few, so this is not the same as uploading your video, but they are pictures out of your footage and you should know it happens. You can switch it off in Preferences before you import.

We set no retention instructions on your behalf. When your audio goes to AssemblyAI or your transcript goes to OpenAI, how long they keep it is governed by your account with them, not by anything Solar Sailer asks for. If retention matters to you, set it on your own provider account.

What Solar Sailer sends to us

Crash reports

The technical detail of an error: what went wrong, where in the code, your operating system version and the Solar Sailer version. Handled by Sentry on our behalf.

On by default. Preferences, Diagnostics

Anonymous usage counts

That the app launched, that a project was opened or created, that a processing module was started and which one, that an agent command ran and which one. Handled by PostHog on our behalf.

On by default. Preferences, Diagnostics

What these deliberately do not contain: your media, your transcripts, the contents of any file, your project names, or your file paths. We strip your username and file paths out of crash reports before they are sent, and usage events carry only the counts described above, never the name of anything you are working on. There is no account to attach them to, so we do not build a profile of you.

One honest caveat. Crash reports come from deep inside the program, and in rare cases a line of the technical trace can still carry your Windows username. We scrub for it, and we would rather tell you it is possible than claim it never happens.

Update checks

The installed app asks our update server whether a newer version exists. That request tells us an app version and, like any web request, carries your IP address. It contains nothing about you or your work, and an update is never installed without you choosing to download it.

Paying for Solar Sailer

Solar Sailer is not on sale yet. When subscriptions open, payments will be handled by Stripe. Stripe collects your card details directly and we never see or store a full card number. What reaches us is the information needed to run a subscription: your email address, your billing country for tax, and whether your subscription is active.

Subscriptions are planned to include AI use without your own API keys. When that ships, some of the AI features listed above will be able to run on our accounts with those providers instead of yours, and we will keep a usage record for your subscription, measured in minutes of footage processed, to run your plan's included allowance. Using your own keys will remain supported. Today, none of that exists: every AI feature runs on keys you supply, exactly as described above.

We will update this page when any of that goes live, rather than leaving you to discover it.

What we do not do

• We do not sell your data. There is very little to sell, because we do not hold your work.
• We run no advertising, no social media pixels and no third party trackers, in the app or on this site.
• Solar Sailer has no user accounts today, so there is no profile of you to build.
• We do not record your screen or your editing sessions.

This website

solarsailer.com sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and runs no analytics. Fonts and images are served from this site, so nothing on the page calls out to Google, to a CDN or to a tracker. Your visit is not measured.

If you join the waiting list you give us your email address and, optionally, three one click answers about how you work: whether you film long form video, roughly how much footage you shoot a month, and which machine you use. We use it only to tell you when Solar Sailer is available and to understand who is waiting. We do not sell it or pass it on. Ask us and we will delete it.

Your choices

• Switch off crash reports and usage analytics. Preferences, Diagnostics. Takes effect at the next launch.
• Switch off automatic clip labelling. Preferences, before you import. Nothing goes to Google for labelling once it is off.
• Do not use the AI features. Transcription, Rough Cut, retakes, face recognition and the agent all run only when you ask for them. Solar Sailer is a working editor without them, and used that way it makes no outbound connection except the update check.
• Remove your API keys. Preferences, API Keys. With no keys, the AI features cannot send anything anywhere.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted. In practice we hold very little: an email address if you joined the waiting list, plus crash and usage records that are not tied to your identity. Write to operations@proko.com and we will act on any such request.

Children

Solar Sailer is a professional tool and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes to this policy

If we change what Solar Sailer collects, we change this page and the date at the top. When a change is significant, such as a new service receiving your data or a new category of information, we will say so here rather than quietly editing a line.

Contact

operations@proko.com
Little Bang, 8963 Complex Dr., Suite B, San Diego, CA 92123.