TCG Machine

Privacy

Who this is from

This site and the TCG Machine app are from TCG Digital. Contact: hello@tcgmachine.app.

What stays on your PC

TCG Machine runs on your Windows PC and works from your own MKV and MP4 recordings. Finding highlights, cutting clips, rendering and the review screen all happen on your machine. Your recordings and finished clips are not uploaded to TCG Machine.

What the AI service receives

Titles, descriptions and clip scoring use an AI service, under a licence with a monthly allowance. That is the one part that leaves your PC. Each request sends text only:

  • The transcript of the moments the app flagged, with timings
  • The champion you are playing
  • The display name, region and rank bracket you set in the app, so titles are written for your channel
  • The name of the session folder
  • Your licence key, so the allowance can be counted

No video, no audio and no screenshots are sent. Requests go through a TCG Machine server and on to Claude, made by Anthropic.

Licence key and crash reports

When you enter your licence key, the app checks it once with a TCG Machine server and saves the result on your PC. It does not check again each time you open the app. After that, your key travels with each AI request, so the allowance can be counted. The app does not send crash reports or usage analytics.

Update check

The app asks downloads.tcgmachine.app for a small version file at start, sending nothing about the user beyond the normal web request.

What the TCG Machine server keeps about your key

For each beta licence key, the server keeps:

  • A tester ID that is not your name or email
  • An optional label, such as your streaming handle, that you confirm when you are invited
  • Your monthly allowance, how many sessions you have used this month, and when it resets
  • The name of each session folder you have sent an AI request for
  • When the key was first accepted when you entered it, and when it was last used
  • A count of how many feedback messages you sent recently, never their text
  • Token counts, which are the size of each AI request and reply

The server does not store the text of your requests or replies. If a beta key is revoked, the server stops accepting it and keeps the usage history. I have not yet published a retention period for this data. To ask about it, email hello@tcgmachine.app.

Feedback you send from the app

The app has a Send feedback panel. If you use it, TCG Machine sends your message, the category you pick and your tester ID to a TCG Machine server, which emails it to me. The server adds your handle label from your licence record so I know who it is from. If you tick the box to include your setup log, the log is sent too, with folder paths and Windows usernames removed, and you see a preview first. The server removes paths, usernames, email addresses and your key from the log again before it is emailed. Nothing is sent until you press Send. Feedback stays in my email inbox. I have not yet published a retention period for it. To ask about it, email hello@tcgmachine.app.

Posting to YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok

When you schedule a YouTube post, the clip you approved is sent to YouTube Shorts on the account you connected. Facebook and Instagram open Meta Business Suite so you finish those posts there. TikTok is a manual upload. What those platforms do with a post once it is published is covered by their own privacy policies.

How long things are kept

The beta list is kept until you ask for your row to be deleted. I have not yet published a retention period for AI requests, because it depends on the AI provider's terms. When I have a figure I will put it here.

This website’s form

The beta form asks for your email, name or streaming handle, GPU model, main game, where you stream, a link to your channel, and consent to be emailed about the beta. We then email you a 6-digit code to confirm the address is yours. Older signups may also hold an operating system, facecam answer and weekly stream hours.

Submitting the form saves those details in a Cloudflare database used only for this beta list. What is stored: your email, name or streaming handle, GPU model, main game, streaming platform, channel link, the exact consent sentence, the time you consented, a status such as pending, when your email was confirmed, a scrambled (hashed) copy of the current code so it can be checked, a random unsubscribe key, a simplified copy of your email (lowercase, with dots and plus tags removed for Gmail, used so one person gets one key), an automatic tester ID starting with A, whether a key has been issued, and the time the key was issued. Every beta email has a one-click unsubscribe link; using it marks your row unsubscribed and no more beta emails are sent. The same email is only stored once. A separate count is kept for the internet connection the signup came from, to limit spam, and signups past a set limit are refused. To ask for that row to be deleted, email hello@tcgmachine.app.

Automatic beta keys

When you confirm your email with the 6-digit code, the system may issue you a beta licence key straight away, without me reading your signup. A signup with no channel link is not issued a key automatically; I look at it myself first. The key is shown on the confirmation page. The email I send does not contain the key. It contains a private link that shows the key on a page of this site, so the key is not left sitting in your inbox. The link works for 7 days and can be opened up to 3 times, and the page can email you a new link if it runs out. To make that work, the signup record keeps a scrambled copy (a hash) of the link, when it expires, how many times it was opened, and when a new link was last requested. The key itself is not stored in the signup record. The licence server then keeps what it keeps for every beta key, listed above, with an automatic tester ID that starts with A and is not your name or email. Your signup row records that ID and the time the key was issued. There is a limit on how many keys are issued, so you may be put on a waiting list and emailed when a key is ready. If you unsubscribe, no key is issued and no more emails are sent. I have not yet published a retention period for these records. To ask about them, or to ask for them to be deleted, email hello@tcgmachine.app.

Beta check-in emails

If you asked me directly to try the beta, I may add you to that database myself when I send your invite, marked as a direct invite, without you filling in the form. The invite email tells you about the check-ins below. If I invite you to test, your row in that database also records your tester ID, the time you were invited, and the time each check-in email was sent. An automatic system sends those emails: a check-in about 3 days after you first use the app, another about 14 days after, and a nudge if you have not started 3 days after your invite. They are short, fixed messages that ask how the beta is going. To know when one is due, the system reads only your tester ID, whether your key is still active, and the time of your first AI session from the licence server. It does not read your licence key or what you sent. Every check-in has the one-click unsubscribe link, and if you unsubscribe or your key is revoked, no more are sent. You can reply to any of them and the reply comes to me.

The system also emails me a daily summary of what it sent. The summary lists tester IDs only, not names or email addresses. I have not yet published a retention period for these records. To ask about them, or to ask for them to be deleted, email hello@tcgmachine.app.

Bot check on the beta form

The beta form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to tell people from bots. When you submit the form, your browser sends Cloudflare a small check and some signals about your browser and connection, and Cloudflare tells the signup system whether it passed. The signup system does not store the check result or the check token. Cloudflare's own privacy policy covers what Cloudflare does with the signals.

Cookies

This site does not use analytics, and TCG Machine does not set its own cookies. The beta form loads Cloudflare Turnstile. Cloudflare's documentation says that check relies on cookies and local storage in your browser.

Tablif Town badge

The Home and About pages show a Tablif Town badge. The picture is loaded from tablif.com, so that visit can send tablif.com your IP address, browser details and the fact that you opened that page. Tablif's own privacy policy covers what they keep. This site still does not use analytics.