Effective date: 30 September 2026
1. Who we are
NextWatch AI is operated by Sidebrain. This policy covers nextwatchaitool.com, the NextWatch AI Chrome extension, the production backend, subscriptions and AI-credit purchases. Contact NextWatchAI@Gmail.com for privacy requests.
2. What the product does
NextWatch AI enhances YouTube with AI chat, summaries, research, conversational video search, scene and timestamp assistance, personalised recommendations, playback controls, volume boosting, AI Auto HD, 3D Glow Mode and a Cloudflare-powered Internet Speed Test that recommends a suitable YouTube quality.
3. Information handled
| Category | Examples | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Personally identifiable information | Subscriber email, account or installation identifiers, support correspondence | Restore purchases, verify access, provide support and secure the service |
| Financial and payment information | Plan, billing interval, transaction references, credit-pack status | Fulfil purchases, subscriptions, credits, refunds and billing support. Full card details remain with payment providers |
| Authentication information | ExtensionPay entitlement data, opaque sessions and verification tokens | Verify paid or authorised access |
| Personal communications | AI prompts, follow-ups, summaries, research requests and AI responses | Provide requested AI features |
| Location and technical request data | IP address, approximate region, locale, time zone, browser and extension version | Security, rate limits, localisation, reliability and provider routing |
| Web history and user activity | YouTube URLs, selected videos, creators, watch progress, skips, completions and feature events | Current-video tools, continuity, recommendations and product reliability |
| Website content | Titles, captions, transcripts, descriptions, timestamps and visible recommendation context | Answer questions, find moments, search and operate disclosed features |
| Speed-test data | Download, upload, ping, jitter, loaded latency, result time and quality recommendation | Show connection performance and recommend a YouTube quality |
Health information is not intentionally collected.
4. Cloudflare Internet Speed Test
speed.cloudflare.com. Cloudflare receives ordinary technical request information, including the IP address and network routing information needed to deliver the test. The test calculates download speed, upload speed, latency, jitter, loaded latency and connection stability.NextWatch AI uses the result to recommend an appropriate YouTube playback quality. Inside the extension, a result may be used as the AI Auto HD quality ceiling when the user enables or applies that feature. The website may store the latest result in browser localStorage; the extension may store recent results and settings in Chrome extension storage. Speed-test information is not used for personalised advertising.
5. Independent public diagnostic services
The public website provides browser speed tests, RPM earnings estimates, blockchain metrics and cybersecurity-source dashboards. Running a speed test sends measurement traffic to relevant test services, including Cloudflare as described above. Estimates may use inputs you enter and local browser storage where disclosed. The site does not currently provide the former image, PDF, creator-utility or article publishing features.
6. AI processing
When you request an AI feature, the prompt and only the relevant video, transcript, search or conversation context needed to respond may be sent to the production backend and OpenAI. Local playback controls and the speed test do not consume AI credits or require an AI prompt.
Network Detective on the website: Running the browser speed test does not automatically call an AI model. Once you choose to send a question in Ask AI, the website sends rounded download/upload/latency measurements and the text of your question and recent conversation turns to a Netlify serverless function, which forwards them to OpenAI to generate a response. This includes any personal information you choose to type into the chat, so please do not enter passwords, account details, addresses or other sensitive information. The function does not intentionally send your ISP name, precise location, account ID, public IP address or older saved test history as part of its AI input; hosting and security request logs may still exist. The OpenAI request uses store:false. Conversation turns are held in your browser tab during the session and can be cleared; the server function does not deliberately retain them. Diagnostic measurements and reports are saved locally by default. Shared report links include rounded measurement numbers in a URL fragment, which anyone with the link can read. Speed-test measurements and chat conversations are not automatically published as public research.
7. Local and server storage
The extension may store settings, recommendation memory, watch progress, conversation history preferences, entitlement cache, credit balance and speed-test state locally. The backend may store account, subscription, credit, security, usage and billing-fulfilment records. AI content is not intentionally written to the account-and-credit database unless a user-facing feature specifically requires saved history.
8. Analytics and website measurement
Privacy-filtered product events and website conversion or traffic measurements may be processed through Google services. These may include feature name, completion or failure status, extension version, coarse technical information and aggregate usage. Prompts, transcripts and complete video titles are not intentionally placed in analytics event parameters.
9. Advertising and Google AdSense
NextWatch AI may use Google AdSense and other approved advertising services on the public website. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies or similar technologies to serve and measure ads. Google advertising cookies can be used to show ads based on a visitor’s prior visits to this site or to other websites, subject to consent choices, applicable law and Google’s policies.
Visitors can manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Additional industry opt-out choices may be available through AboutAds or equivalent regional controls. Where required, consent controls are presented before advertising or measurement storage is enabled.
NextWatch AI does not intentionally send extension prompts, transcripts, private YouTube activity, uploaded creator-tool files or full payment-card details to advertising systems for personalized advertising. Public-site advertising and measurement are separate from the private inputs used by the extension and browser-local creator utilities.
10. Service providers
- OpenAI — AI responses, summaries, research and model processing.
- Cloudflare — user-initiated Internet Speed Test measurement traffic.
- ExtensionPay — subscription checkout, restoration and paid-status verification.
- Stripe — payment processing, authentication, fraud prevention and credit-pack transactions.
- Google — Chrome Web Store distribution, YouTube platform services, website/product measurement and public-site advertising where enabled.
- Render — API hosting, logs, security infrastructure and account/credit storage.
- Netlify — public website hosting, content delivery and request handling.
Providers may process information in other countries under their own terms, privacy policies and applicable safeguards.
11. How information is used
- Provide and personalise the disclosed YouTube, AI, speed-test, playback, audio and visual features.
- Answer prompts, summarise or research videos, locate scenes and search YouTube.
- Recommend and adapt video quality based on a speed test and live buffer conditions.
- Verify paid access, maintain credits, fulfil purchases and provide support.
- Secure the service, enforce limits, prevent fraud, diagnose failures and comply with law.
12. Data sharing and sale
We do not sell personal information. Information is transmitted only when reasonably necessary to provide the requested product, process payments, operate infrastructure, measure reliability, secure the service, comply with law or complete a business transfer. Extension data is not transferred for personalised advertising, creditworthiness or lending.
13. Retention
- Local website and extension data remains until cleared, overwritten through use or removed by uninstalling the extension.
- Account, subscription and credit records remain while needed for the service, purchased balances, accounting, disputes, fraud prevention and legal obligations.
- Analytics and infrastructure logs follow provider settings, security requirements and legal obligations.
- Speed-test profiles used by AI Auto HD expire operationally; recent result history may remain locally until cleared.
14. Security
We use HTTPS, server-side secret storage, restricted backend requests, opaque identifiers, signature verification, rate limits and duplicate-request protection. No system is completely secure; do not submit information you do not want processed by the selected feature.
15. Chrome Web Store Limited Use
16. Your choices and rights
- Do not use an AI feature if you do not want its prompt and relevant context transmitted.
- Do not run the speed test if you do not want measurement traffic sent to Cloudflare.
- Clear website localStorage, extension storage, product history or uninstall the extension at any time.
- Manage or cancel recurring billing through the available subscription controls.
- Depending on applicable law, request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or portability by contacting us.
17. Children
NextWatch AI is not directed to children under 13 or the higher minimum age required in a jurisdiction. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children below that age.
18. Changes and contact
We may update this policy when features, providers, legal requirements or data practices change. For privacy questions or requests, email NextWatchAI@Gmail.com. Do not send passwords, full payment-card numbers or private activation secrets.