HOW THIS SITE IS BUILT, NOT A POLICY

Why this counts as private — and what that doesn't mean

Offcut has no server, no database, and nothing on the back end watching what you upload — because there's no back end at all. It's a static page: HTML, CSS and JavaScript, sent to your browser once, running from there.

That's the entire basis for calling it private. There is no code on this site that sends your video anywhere. You don't have to take that on faith either: open your browser's network tab while you cut something, and you'll see nothing carrying your file out.

THE DISTINCTION This is an architecture, not a promise. Offcut isn't asking you to trust a privacy policy about what a company does with your data, because there's no company on the other end handling it. That's a different, narrower thing than a guarantee of privacy — it just means this particular site has nothing built into it to leak your file.

What's outside our control

A browser extension, a work device with monitoring installed, a shared or public computer, your network administrator — any of these can see what happens on your end regardless of how this site is built. Offcut has no way to know about, or protect you from, any of that.

What the exported file is

When you cut a clip, the result exists as a temporary file in your browser's memory, offered to you as a download. Once you close the tab without saving it, it's gone — Offcut keeps no copy, because it has nowhere to keep one.

In short

Nothing to upload to. Nothing to store it. No account, no analytics reading your files. That's what "private" means here — a fact about how the page works, not a policy we're asking you to believe.