Privacy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 10, 2026

This page says what VoiceRank collects, why, and which outside services handle it. It covers two groups: people who use the site, and people who appear in the index because they have been on a podcast. VoiceRank operates voicerank.app. For anything here, write to support@voicerank.app.

If you are listed on VoiceRank

VoiceRank indexes publicly available podcast appearances. A person page is built from episodes published on YouTube (titles, descriptions, captions and view counts) and, where available, a photo and affiliations from public reference sources such as Wikipedia and Wikidata. The index is built only from public sources.

Names, appearances and topics are extracted by automated analysis, including AI models, so a page can be wrong: an episode credited to the wrong person, two people merged into one, or a photo that belongs to someone else with the same name.

Corrections and removal. If a page about you is wrong, or you want it removed, write to support@voicerank.app with a link to the page. We review every request.

What we collect when you visit

  • Server request logs. For each page request our servers log the path (without the search text or other query string), your IP address, your browser’s user agent, and whether a few standard browser headers were present. If the link you followed carried campaign tags (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign), or your browser sent a referring site, the tags and the referring site’s host name are logged too. These logs sit in our hosting provider’s log stream, not in our database. We use them to keep the site up, to stop abusive traffic, and to count visits.
  • Rate limiting. Requests are counted per IP address and per user agent, in memory, for one minute at a time.
  • A visitor id. When a sign-up prompt is shown to you, the site stores a random id in your browser’s local storage and sends anonymous events to us: which prompt was shown or clicked, and on which page. The id is not tied to your name or email.
  • How you first arrived. On your first visit the site stores, in your browser’s local storage, the page you landed on, the referring site, any campaign tags in the link, and the time. If you later create an account, this is saved with your account once, so we can tell which links bring people in.
  • Other browser storage. Your light or dark theme choice, prompts you have dismissed, and a count of pages viewed in the current session are kept in your browser and are not sent to us.

We do not run advertising and we do not load third-party analytics or advertising scripts. Show artwork, episode thumbnails and some profile photos load directly from the services that host them (for example YouTube’s image servers), which receive your IP address the way any website you load an image from does.

What we collect when you have an account

  • Account details. Sign-up, sign-in and sessions are handled by Clerk. Clerk sets the cookies that keep you signed in. We receive and store your email address, your name and your profile image address.
  • What you make. Shortlists and their notes, alerts, and any show you claim.
  • Questions you ask. Each Transcript Q&A question is logged with your account, the scope you asked in and the opening of the answer. We use the log to apply the daily limit and to review abuse.
  • Plan and billing status. If you subscribe, we store your Stripe customer and subscription ids, the subscription’s status and its renewal date. We do not store card numbers.
  • Upgrade prompts. When a Pro feature prompt is shown to you or clicked, we record which feature and where, with your account.

Services that process data for us

  • Clerk for accounts and sign-in.
  • Stripe for payments. Card details go to Stripe and never reach our servers.
  • Resend for alert emails, sent to your account email address.
  • Google Gemini for Transcript Q&A. The text of your question is sent to Google’s Gemini API, with the transcript excerpts it is answered from, to produce the answer. Search text can be sent to Gemini too, so results can be matched by meaning as well as by name. Your name and email are not sent with either. Do not put private information in a question or a search.
  • Render for hosting. The site, its database and its logs run on Render in the United States.

Email you send to support@voicerank.app is handled by our email provider. We do not sell or rent your account information to anyone.

Where data is kept

VoiceRank is hosted in the United States. If you use it from elsewhere, your data is processed there.

We keep account data while your account exists. Server logs are kept for as long as our hosting provider retains them.

Your choices

  • See, correct or delete your data. Write to support@voicerank.app from your account email and tell us what you want: a copy of what is tied to your account, a correction, or deletion of the account.
  • Alert emails. Alerts are emails you set up yourself. Pause or delete one in Settings.
  • Browser storage. Clearing site data in your browser removes the visitor id, the first-visit record and the other keys described above.
  • Billing. Cancel or change a subscription from Manage billing in Settings. See the Terms of Service.

VoiceRank is built for adults working in and around podcasting. It is not meant for children.

Changes to this policy

When what we collect or who processes it changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top is updated.

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