Privacy

Firgie is an invite-only beta for people 18 and over who live in the United States. Features, limits and availability may change, and uploads may be paused at any time.

Your uploads

Your file is used to compute fingerprints and a file hash. The uploaded file itself is deleted right after analysis, and always within 24 hours, unless the law requires us to keep it.
Checking never adds your video to the registry. The file is deleted within 24 hours, and its file hash and result are deleted 30 days after the check expires.
To register, Firgie keeps a private reduced-resolution copy (about 480p, with audio). A Firgie reviewer watches it once to check it against our content rules. It's deleted if the video isn't registered within 72 hours; if it is registered, it's kept so the registry can be re-checked as matching improves. It's never shown publicly.
Before a video can be registered, a Firgie reviewer watches the private copy once to check it against our content rules. Apart from that review, and from handling a report or a legal request about it, the copy isn't viewed by anyone, and it's never shown publicly.
If a registration is taken down, its private copy is deleted after the 30-day appeal period, unless the law requires us to keep it.
Kept copies are used only to re-check the registry when matching improves, for the safety review, and for handling reports and takedowns. They are never used to train or evaluate AI models without your consent.

What is public

A registration's public record shows its ID, your display name, the registered time, its status, the full SHA-256 hash of the uploaded file and the signed receipt, plus any publication links you add. Anyone in the world can see it. The file hash reveals nothing about the video to someone who doesn't have the file, but anyone holding an identical file can confirm it was registered. Your display name is part of the signed receipt and can't be changed later. The video itself is never shown publicly.

Account and technical data

Email address: used to sign you in and to contact you about reviews and reports. It isn't shown publicly.
IP addresses: we don't store them as is. They are turned into a keyed one-way code straight away and used for rate limits and abuse prevention; some of these codes are kept in our records.
Logs: our servers log requests without IP addresses or message contents, and keep logs for at most 30 days.
Cookies: only two, both strictly necessary: firgie_session keeps you signed in (30 days, or until you sign out), and firgie_claim_… ties an upload to your browser until it's registered or expires (at most 24 hours). No tracking or advertising cookies.

What we don't do

No third-party analytics, tracking pixels or advertising.
We don't sell or share your personal data.
We never visit, fetch or preview publication links.

Who processes data for us

Firgie uses outside providers for hosting, the database, file storage and email. They process data only on our behalf. We'll name them here once they are chosen.

Legal holds

If we suspect that content is illegal, or the law requires it, we may keep that content and related account information for longer than stated above, restrict access to it, and report it to the appropriate authorities. We won't delete it while the law requires us to preserve it.

Your requests

Email support@firgie.com from your account's address to ask what we hold about you, to correct your email, or to close your account. We confirm requests with that address and answer within 30 days.
Display names can't be corrected, because they are part of the signed receipt.
Closing your account signs you out everywhere, removes your email and publication links, and deletes your private copies. Your registrations are withheld from public view by default, or kept public if you ask. The signed facts of each registration stay in our records so the registry's history stays verifiable.
Deleted data can remain in backups until those backups expire.

Contact

Privacy questions: support@firgie.com. Reports about content or records: abuse@firgie.com (see Reporting).