Captivateby Axtevi

Privacy

Captivate is a tool for writing and presenting talks. This page describes what it stores, what leaves it, and who else processes it. Last updated 1 September 2026.

What is stored

  • Your account. The email address you sign up with and the name you choose to be called. Your password is checked against the policy on the way past and handed straight to Supabase, which is what stores it; Captivate keeps no copy of it and cannot recover it.
  • What you write. Presentations, movements, scenes, the narrative map, speaker notes and lecture notes.
  • What you upload or generate. Images and video you add to a deck, and recordings you make, including any transcript produced from them.
  • What AI you used. For each AI request: the prompt, which model answered, how many tokens it cost and whether it succeeded. This is what enforces plan limits, so it is kept for as long as the account exists.
  • Billing state, if you subscribe: the identifiers Stripe uses for your customer and subscription records. Card details are handled by Stripe and never reach Captivate.

What leaves Captivate

Only what a feature needs, only when you use that feature. Nothing here is sent for advertising, and none of these processors is asked to identify you.

  • Anthropic — the text you ask AI to work from, when you generate or rewrite anything.
  • OpenAI — the description you type, when you generate an image; your microphone audio while Live Director is listening; the lines of a podcast script, when you record an episode; and a recording’s audio, when you ask for notes from a recording that has no transcript.
  • Pexels — your search terms, when you search stock photography.
  • Stripe — your email and billing details, if you subscribe.
  • Supabase and Vercel — the database, file storage and hosting the application runs on.

A reference file you attach so AI can work from your own material is read in your browser and is not uploaded; only the text extracted from it is sent, and only as part of the prompt.

Who can see your work

Your decks are private to your account. The database enforces that per row rather than in application code, so a bug in a page cannot expose another account’s work.

One thing you can choose to make reachable: a share link, which lets anyone holding the URL open that one deck until you revoke it. It is not listed in search — Captivate asks crawlers not to index it, because who sees a share link is your decision and not a search engine’s. Speaker notes and lecture notes are never included in it.

A handout is not a share link. It is a printable version of your own deck and it needs your account: anyone else opening that URL is sent to sign in. Sharing one means sharing the file you print from it, which is then outside Captivate.

Notes from a recording can be shared the same way: a link anyone holding it can read until you stop sharing. It carries the notes and your deck’s title and colours — not the recording, its transcript or your scenes — and is not listed in search either.

Deleting things

You can delete a presentation, a recording or an uploaded file at any time from the application.

You can download everything you have made from Settings: every presentation with its movements, moments and scenes, your notes and folders, as one file. Uploads and recordings are listed in it and download one at a time from where they live.

You can delete your whole account from Settings. That removes, at once, your presentations, notes, recordings, uploaded files, profile and usage records. If you subscribe, cancel the subscription first from Manage billing: the account cannot be deleted while a subscription would keep charging, because afterwards there would be no way left to sign in and stop it.

Three things outlast it. Stripe keeps its own record of payments it took, under its own rules. A Live Director audio connection is kept as a record that it was opened and closed, with your account removed from it. And a change the operator made to your account, such as a granted plan, stays in their log under the account’s former id.

Getting in touch

Questions about any of this can go to support@mail.axtevi.com.