How Avid Ready To protects your data

This section applies to all extensions in the Avid Ready To family of AI extensions for Media Composer, including Ready To Play.

Where processing happens. Avid Ready To runs as a local server on your computer. Your media, prompts and generated results are exchanged only between your computer and Google Cloud APIs inside a Google Cloud project that belongs to your Google account. Avid operates no servers in this flow and never receives your media, prompts, results, or Google credentials.

Google account data we access. With your consent we read your email address and name (to show who is signed in), your Google Cloud billing accounts (to let you choose which to bill), and we create and configure a Google Cloud project in your account. We do not read Gmail, Drive, Calendar, contacts or any other Google service.

How credentials are stored. The OAuth access and refresh tokens Google issues are held only in the memory of the local Avid Ready To server process, in a server-side session that is not readable by the extension's web page. They are never written to disk, never logged, and are discarded when you sign out or the server stops. If you sign in with an API key instead, the key is held in server memory for the session and is never written to disk by Avid Ready To. The only Google-related value stored on disk is the ID of the Google Cloud project that was created for you (project-settings.json), which is not a secret.

How media is handled. Clips you analyze or use as references are exported to a temporary folder on your computer, uploaded directly from your computer to Google Cloud over TLS (HTTPS), and the temporary copies are deleted after processing. Generated results are downloaded directly from Google Cloud to your computer.

Transport security. All communication with Google uses HTTPS/TLS 1.2 or higher. The local server listens only on localhost and is not reachable from other machines.

Your control. You can sign out at any time, which clears the stored credentials. You can revoke Avid Ready To's access to your Google account at any time at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions. You can delete the Google Cloud project Avid Ready To created from the Google Cloud Console, which removes all data Google retained for it.

Google’s handling of your data. Your use of Google Cloud and Gemini is governed by the Google Cloud Terms of Service and Google's Privacy Policy. Avid Ready To's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy (https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-policy), including the Limited Use requirements.

Retention. Avid Ready To retains no user data after you sign out other than the project ID noted above and your in-app settings.