Trust & Privacy

What DistillCast does

You add podcast (or YouTube) sources to your account. For new episodes, DistillCast downloads the audio, transcribes it, generates a written summary, and produces a short spoken-audio digest of that summary. The digests are delivered to you by email and on a private podcast feed only you can reach.

Your digests are private to you

Every digest is strictly private to the account that created it. There is no public catalog and no cross-user access. Your private feed is protected by an unguessable token in its URL — anyone without that link gets nothing. We don't sell your data or share your library with third parties.

What we store, and where

To produce and serve your digests we store, scoped to your account:

• your source list, and the transcripts and summaries generated from those episodes;
• the generated digest audio (TTS) and any episode artwork;
• your account email and basic usage records needed to run the service.

These artifacts are per-user and private; they are not published or made available to other users.

Retention & deleting your account

Your library stays available while your account is active. You can export everything at any time from Account → Data. When you close your account, we remove your digests, transcripts, summaries, and generated audio. To request deletion, email us at the address below and we'll remove your data.

Copyright & takedown

DistillCast creates derivative summaries and spoken-audio digests of third-party podcasts for the personal, private use of the user who requested them. Nothing is redistributed publicly. We respect rightsholders: if you own or represent a show and want it excluded, we'll remove it.

To report a copyright concern or request a takedown, email support@distillcast.com with the show and episode details. We process takedown requests manually and remove flagged content on request.

Summary accuracy

Digests are produced by automated transcription and AI summarization. They can contain errors, omissions, or misattributions and are not a substitute for the original episode. Treat a digest as a convenience, not an authoritative record.

Private beta

DistillCast is in invite-only private beta and is not charging during this period. A counsel-reviewed Terms of Service and a formal DMCA process will be published before any paid or public launch.