Asks for a perpetual or irrevocable licence to content you upload
The terms of service of CapCut (version served in DE), archived on 2026-11-10, contains this sentence: "By submitting User Content via the Services, you grant to the Company and its affiliates a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, perpetual and worldwide license to use your User Content.".
Says it may share information with advertising or marketing partners
The privacy policy of CapCut (version served in DE), archived on 2026-11-10, contains this sentence: "We use the Information You Provide, Automatically Collected Information, and Information From Other Sources, and share such information with our measurement and advertising partners, to measure and understand the effectiveness of advertising served on the Services, and help our advertisers determine how effective their ads have been.".
Says it may share information with advertising or marketing partners
The privacy policy of CapCut (version served in DE), archived on 2026-11-10, contains this sentence: "We use the Information You Provide and Automatically Collected Information, and share such information with advertising partners to provide you with non-personalised advertising.".
What we checked in each of the six areas, and what we found there. Not a score: an empty area means not tested yet; "their words" means we quote their documents below but have not tested it. Planet is a seventh row of measured facts from the same first look: what the homepage weighs before any tap, and a CO2e range with its method.
28 kB from domains on EasyList or EasyPrivacy: clarity.ms (28 kB, EasyPrivacy)
no video playing on its own
First look at www.capcut.com from Germany on 2026-11-09, no click, scroll or consent choice, 16 s · source · SHA-256 b37bca89c002…
Their climate claims
Green claims and their support
No environmental claim found in: homepage (2026-11-09), App Store description (2026-11-09), Google Play description (2026-11-09), help article (cancel) (2026-11-09).
No sustainability report or page found at: links on the homepage https://www.capcut.com/de-de/ (2026-11-09).
SBTi companies data (downloaded 2026-11-09): not looked up; no confirmed legal entity for this app yet.
How CapCut's own help pages say you can reach a person, quoted as written on the date given. We did not contact them. Not tested by us; not a score.
Their support team (channel not named): “📍 If you need guidance on cancellations, billing, or submitting a refund appeal, please contact our support team for assistance.” Cancel article · 2026-11-09 · source · SHA-256 13a302299f7d…
Pages read: “What Happens If I Forget to Cancel My Subscription?” (Cancel article · 2026-11-09 · source · SHA-256 13a302299f7d…)
What the stores and its help centre say
The company's own declarations, copied as shown on the date given, with a link to the source and the hash of our archived copy. Not tested by us; not a score.
Google Play Data safety page: not read: the site's robots.txt or the site itself refused our reader, and we never get around a refusal. 2026-11-09 · source
Cancelling, per its help centre: “What Happens If I Forget to Cancel My Subscription?”. 3 steps in its longest listed path.
What an independent analysis of the published app file lists for CapCut (Android version 20.0.0, report of 2026-10-30). A permission says what the app can ask the phone for, not what it does with it. A newer version may differ.
“Fact: TikTok’s parent company ByteDance Ltd. was founded by Chinese entrepreneurs, but today, roughly sixty percent of the company is beneficially owned by global institutional investors such as Carlyle Group, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group.”
“An additional twenty percent of the company is owned by ByteDance employees around the world, including Australians.”
“The remaining twenty percent is owned by the company's founder, who is a private individual and is not part of any state or government entity.”
स्थिति: यह कंपनी का अपने ही पेज पर दिया गया बयान है। यह किसी नियामक के पास दाखिल दस्तावेज़ नहीं है और कंपनी के बाहर किसी ने इन हिस्सों की पुष्टि नहीं की है। कंपनी ऐसी कोई रिपोर्ट प्रकाशित नहीं करती जिससे इन्हें जाँचा जा सके।
The Truth About TikTok: Separating Fact from Fiction. - Newsroom | TikTok · source · SHA-256 34098acfb37e…
लॉबिंग: कंपनी खुद क्या बताती है
US LOBBYING DISCLOSURE ACT · 2026-10-20 · THE MAKER OF CAPCUT
BYTEDANCE INC. reports spending $910,000 in three months on lobbying the US government (Jul 2026 to Sep 2026).
यह किस तरह का आँकड़ा है: This is the company's own quarterly report under US law. It covers everything the company does, not this app alone, and only what the law counts as lobbying.
Whole sentences copied exactly from CapCut's own documents, grouped by subject. Their words, not yet tested: this is quotation, not a finding, and no jury has looked at it. Each sentence links to the archived copy it came from.
MINIMUM AGE AND MINORS
"CapCut is not directed at and is not intended for children under the age of 13."
"If you believe that we have collected personal information from a child under the minimum age, please contact us using the contact information found in the “Contact Us” section below."
"In addition, if you are above this age threshold but are under 18 years old or the applicable age of majority in the jurisdiction you reside in, you may only access or use the Services with the consent of your parent or legal guardian."
"If you are 16 years of age or above but under the age of 18, you declare that you had the assistance of your parent or legal guardian to use the Services and to agree to these Terms."
"If you subscribe to the Premium Services under an automatic renewable arrangement, your subscription will automatically renew for an additional period equal in duration to your preceding subscription term, unless indicated otherwise on the Platform."
"If you do not want to continue to be charged on a recurring basis, you must cancel your subscription to the Premium Services through your Apple ID account, Google account and/or CapCut account (as applicable) before the end of the then-current subscription period."
"If the dispute is not settled by mediation within 30 days of the commencement of the mediation, or such further period as the parties shall agree in writing, the dispute shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration Rules of the DIFC- LCIA Arbitration Centre, which Rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference to this clause."
"Advertisers, analytics, and other partners share information with us about you and the actions you have taken outside of the Services, such as your activities on other websites and apps."
"We share the categories of personal information listed above with our service providers and business partners as necessary to help us perform business operations and for business purposes, including providing, supporting, and developing the Services, cloud hosting, content generation, content delivery, customer and technical support, content moderation, marketing, analytics, and online payment."
"We also retain information when necessary to comply with contractual and legal obligations; when we have a legitimate business interest to do so (such as improving and developing the Services, and enhancing their safety, security, and stability); and for the exercise or defense of legal claims."
"Please be aware that once you choose to delete your account, you will not be able to reactivate your account, retrieve any of your account data, or any of the content or information you have uploaded, created, edited, shared, received from other users or are otherwise associated with your account."
"This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process the personal information in connection with the CapCut mobile software application (“CapCut APP”), CapCut desktop software applications (“CapCut Desktop version”), and the official CapCut website (“CapCut Web”), and any other website, app, or platform that links to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”)."
"We may collect the content you create, import, upload, or generate through the Services, including associated metadata (such as when, and by whom the content was created)."
"We may process your personal data to contact you and require additional or complementary information related to the intents established in these Terms."
Screen recordings submitted to Abouit by users who stated they show cancelling or deleting their own account. Abouit did not record them and cannot verify who made them. Screens are counted by our published method. Submitted recordings are reported evidence: never a receipt, never part of a grade.
One request per person per day; nothing about you is stored.
Company response
none yet
What changed in its policies
CAPCUT · PRIVACY POLICY
BEFORE · CAPTURED 2026-09-27"See Google's security settings page to revoke your authorization for access to your data by the YouTube API Services."
AFTER · CAPTURED 2026-10-15"See Google’s security settings page to revoke your authorisation for access to your data by the YouTube API Services."
BEFORE · CAPTURED 2026-09-27"enforce our Terms of Service , Community Guidelines , and other conditions and policies that apply to you, and to protect the safety of our community and integrity of the Services, including by scanning, analyzing, and reviewing User Content;"
AFTER · CAPTURED 2026-10-15"• enforce our Terms of Service , Community Guidelines , and other terms, conditions and policies that apply to you, and to protect the safety of our community and integrity of the Services;"
रसीद: Asks for a perpetual or irrevocable licence to content you upload
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