Who can see your videos, characters and universes
What other people can see, where each privacy setting is, and what the Privacy Policy says about your content.
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Your videos, characters and universes each have their own rule for who can see them. This guide shows where each setting is, and what the Privacy Policy says about your content.
Videos
On a paid plan, a new video starts as Only me: only you can watch it. To change that:
- Open My Videos and select Share on a finished video.
- At the bottom of the window, select the current setting, for example Only me.
- Choose Only me, Anyone with the link or Public. See Share your video.
Every plan on the Pricing page has the three choices. An account with no paid plan, or with the older Starter plan, has only Public. Videos made on the old free plan are public. See What a free account includes.
If your plan ends, a private video stays private. But a new export of that video with no paid plan can make it public.
What Public means
With Anyone with the link, only people who have the link can watch. A Public video can also appear on LongStories pages:
- The feed.
- The page of the universe you made it in, under Made in this universe. A video you make in another person's universe uses your own setting.
- Your profile page, when your profile is public. The switch is Profile Visibility in Settings. With Private Profile, your username is not shown publicly.
- A channel. A video on a channel is public. See Make a channel for your videos.
Characters
A character has no privacy setting. On your Characters page, only you see your characters. Other people see a character when:
- It is in a video that they can watch.
- You added it to the Cast of a public universe. The universe's page then shows its name and picture, and people who make a video in that universe can use it. They cannot edit it.
To stop the second, remove the character from the Cast or make the universe private.
Universes
A new universe is Public unless you choose Private under Who can see it when you create it. Anyone can find a public universe on Universes, open its page and make videos in it. Only you and LongStories admins can open a private universe. A private universe needs a paid plan.
To make a universe private:
- Open Universes and select Edit Universe on your universe's card.
- Select Settings, then Permissions.
- Under Universe Visibility, select Private.
- Select Save.
The universe's page then shows Private: only you can see this page. For what a public universe's page shows and hides, see Use universes and consistent characters.
Your photos and your content
The Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy say this:
- You keep ownership of the text, images, audio and video that you upload.
- LongStories uses your content to create, edit, store and deliver your videos. To do that, it can send your prompts, scripts, uploaded media and results to the companies that provide its AI, rendering and storage.
- Contractors who review generated videos work under confidentiality terms.
- LongStories does not sell or rent your personal data.
- Your content is kept while your account is active, unless you delete it. See Delete your account.
- About AI training, the policy has only two statements. Data that LongStories gets from Google when you connect YouTube is not used to train general AI. Data from a connected TikTok, Facebook or Instagram account is not used to train AI.
For a privacy request, contact support.