Privacy policy

Kadr opens the videos, photos and music you add to a project, and the photos you open in the photo editor, and works with them right on your computer. Projects (.kadr, .kadrimg), exported MP4, GIF and MP3 files and pictures are saved where you choose. A project file contains the paths of your media files, and a photo project contains the layers. Kadr does not upload them, copy them anywhere else or send them to the developer. While exporting, it uses temporary files in the Windows temp folder and deletes them afterwards.

• In the Windows registry, under HKCU\Software\PegasoHlib\Kadr: settings (theme, text size, language, automatic download of updates, AI on the graphics card), the paths of up to 20 recent projects, the last folders you used, the window position and, if you enter one, your ElevenLabs API key, encrypted with Windows DPAPI so that only your Windows user on this PC can decrypt it;
• in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Kadr: the autosave of the open video project (for recovery after a crash; photo projects are not autosaved), a cache of frame thumbnails and audio waveforms, small preview pictures of your recent projects, the AI models once downloaded, and the last downloaded installer.

Older versions of the app used the folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\PegasoCut; Kadr moves it to the new place by itself.

The installer installs Kadr for your Windows user only, needs no administrator rights and writes only to your own user area. If you tick the option, it also registers .kadr and .kadrimg files for your user. Kadr declares no special permissions and has no device identifier: nothing in its file names is derived from your PC.

Kadr reads a small file, pegasohlib.github.io/kadr/update.json, 30 seconds after it starts and then every 6 hours while it runs. This check cannot be turned off. The setting “Install updates automatically” controls only the download: when it is on (the default) and a newer version exists, the installer is downloaded from GitHub (github.com) in the background and installed when you close Kadr. Before installing, Kadr checks it against a digital signature, so a forged update is not installed.

These requests carry no personal data. Like any website, GitHub, as the host, receives your IP address and the standard request data, and the GitHub Privacy Statement applies.

GitHub also counts how many times each file has been downloaded. It is only a number, with nothing about who downloaded it; the website shows it as an approximate number of downloads.

Background removal runs right on your computer, with the BiRefNet AI model (MIT license). The model file, about 115 MB, is downloaded once from GitHub; as with updates, GitHub receives your IP address and the standard request data. Your photos are never sent anywhere: not to GitHub, not to the developer and not to anyone else.

Quality enhancement (×2 or ×4 in the photo editor, and AI upscaling when you export a video in 4K) also runs right on your computer, with Real-ESRGAN AI models (BSD-3 license). Each model file, 2–5 MB, is downloaded once from GitHub the first time you use it, in the same way. Your photos, videos and their frames stay on your computer. Kadr turns off the telemetry of ONNX Runtime, the engine that runs these models.

The setting “AI on the graphics card” is on by default. Then background removal and AI upscaling run on your graphics card through Microsoft DirectML, a component made by Microsoft, which is not open source. Your photos and videos are still processed only on your computer.

Under Microsoft’s license terms, DirectML may collect diagnostic data and send it to Microsoft according to your Windows diagnostic data settings; the Microsoft Privacy Statement applies. If you don’t want this, turn off GPU use in Kadr’s Settings → AI, and AI then runs only on the processor.

Auto-subtitles are optional and work only with your own ElevenLabs API key. Only when you start them, the audio of the chosen clip (converted to mono, 16 kHz MP3) is sent to ElevenLabs, which turns speech into text and sends the subtitles back. This is done with your key, under your ElevenLabs account, and the ElevenLabs Privacy Policy applies. The developer receives nothing. Without a key, or if you never start auto-subtitles, nothing is sent to ElevenLabs. Importing and exporting .srt files works offline.

• no accounts and no servers of its own;
• no analytics, no ads, no tracking and no telemetry of its own;
• no uploading of your videos, photos, projects or exports;
• no selling or sharing of any data.

Uninstall Kadr in Windows Settings → Apps. The uninstaller removes the program and the file associations, but it does not remove the registry key HKCU\Software\PegasoHlib\Kadr (settings, recent project paths and the encrypted ElevenLabs key) or the folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\Kadr (autosave, cache, previews, models, the last installer).

To remove them too, delete that folder, and delete the registry key in the Registry Editor (regedit). If you only wish to forget the ElevenLabs key, you can also clear it in Kadr’s Settings. Your own videos, photos, projects and exported files stay where you saved them until you delete them.

If the app starts doing something new with data, this page will be updated first, with a new date at the top.

Who is responsible. PegasoHlib, a private individual who develops these apps, is responsible for the data described here. Contact: support@pegasohlib.com.

Why data is used, and on what legal basis.

Running the app

Contract: needed to provide what you asked for (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b))

Auto-subtitles through ElevenLabs

Consent: you can turn it off at any time (Art. 6(1)(a))

Update checks and safety

Legitimate interest: keeping the app safe and up to date (Art. 6(1)(f))

An e-mail you send

Legitimate interest: answering you (Art. 6(1)(f))

Who receives it, and transfers outside the EU. GitHub (update checks, updates and AI models) and, only if you use them, ElevenLabs (auto-subtitles). Microsoft may receive diagnostic data from DirectML under your Windows settings. E-mail you send passes through Cloudflare and is kept in a Gmail mailbox by Google, and Anthropic may process it when an AI assistant helps read it. Some of these companies are based in the United States or other countries outside the EU. Those transfers rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where the company takes part in it, or on the company’s standard contractual clauses.

How long it is kept. Data in the app stays until you delete it or remove the app. Copies in your own cloud storage stay until you delete them. E-mails you send are kept until the matter is closed, and for no more than 2 years.

Your rights. You can ask for access to your data, correction, deletion, restriction, a copy to take elsewhere (portability), and you can object to processing or withdraw consent at any time. Write to the address above. You’ll get an answer within one month. Most of the data is only on your device, so you can usually do this yourself in the app.

Complaints. You can complain to the data protection authority of your country.

Age. You need to be at least 15 to use the app on your own. If you are younger, ask a parent or guardian to agree first.

Language. Translations of this policy are made with the help of AI. If a translation differs from the English text, the version more favourable to you applies.

Questions about privacy: support@pegasohlib.com.