1. Controller
Richi AI
Owner: Yves-Marcel Richel
Homburger Landstr. 851
60437 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Email: info@richi.solutions
Website: https://www.richi.solutions
2. Data protection contact
For all data protection inquiries, please contact:
Email: info@richi.solutions
3. Use of artificial intelligence and automation
Inkyo's core function is AI-supported video analysis. The video you provide by link or upload is processed using artificial intelligence (AI) and automated workflow systems to produce a Viral Score, per-dimension ratings and improvement suggestions.
This involves, among other things:
- AI-supported video and content analysis
- Automated workflows orchestrating the analysis (including n8n)
- Comparison against a corpus of publicly discovered viral videos
- Data analysis and optimization of platform performance
AI systems are used exclusively to provide and improve the service. No fully automated decision-making with legal or similarly significant effects on users takes place (Article 22 GDPR).
4. Categories of processed data
Depending on how you interact with our website, we may collect the following data:
- Account data (email address for registration and sign-in)
- Videos you provide (via public link or file upload) and the analysis results generated from them (Viral Score, per-dimension ratings, recommendations)
- Technical and usage data (IP address, browser type, device, operating system, pages visited)
- Communication data (messages submitted via forms or email)
5. Legal basis of processing
Processing is based on the following legal bases under the GDPR:
- Article 6(1)(a) - Consent
- Article 6(1)(b) - Performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures
- Article 6(1)(f) - Legitimate interest (e.g. analysis, automation and optimization)
6. Hosting and technical infrastructure
Our website is hosted by Vercel; for technical reasons this involves processing visitors' IP addresses. For the backend, database, authentication and file storage we use Supabase. These providers operate under GDPR-compliant data processing agreements and provide appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR.
7. Third-party service providers
To provide, analyse and improve our services, we use third-party platforms:
- Vercel (website hosting; processes visitor IP addresses)
- Supabase (database, authentication, file storage, edge functions)
- Google (AI analysis via Gemini)
- Railway (hosting of our self-operated analysis workflows)
- Apify (retrieval of public TikTok/Instagram video data for the analysis corpus)
- Resend (transactional email delivery)
All integrations are GDPR-compliant and limited to the necessary processing operations.
8. Cookies and tracking
This website uses cookies to ensure technical functionality and to improve the user experience. Users can manage or withdraw their consent at any time via the cookie settings or their browser settings. Cookies are stored on the basis of legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or explicit consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
9. Data storage and security
All data is stored only for as long as necessary for the intended purpose or as required by law. We use SSL/TLS encryption and take comprehensive organisational and technical measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, manipulation or loss.
10. International data transfers
Some third-party providers may process data outside the EU/EEA. In such cases, data is transferred only where appropriate safeguards (e.g. standard contractual clauses) exist pursuant to Articles 46-49 GDPR.
11. Your rights
You have the right to:
- Access your personal data (Art. 15 GDPR)
- Rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR)
- Erasure of data ("right to be forgotten") (Art. 17 GDPR)
- Restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
- Object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR)
- Data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
- Lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
Supervisory authority (Frankfurt am Main):
The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HBDI)
Postfach 3163, 65021 Wiesbaden, Germany
https://datenschutz.hessen.de
12. Video analysis (Viral Check)
Inkyo's core function is the analysis of a video you provide. Inkyo does not connect to your social media accounts and stores no OAuth tokens.
Providing a link
If you provide a public video URL (e.g. TikTok or Instagram), we process that URL to retrieve the publicly accessible video for analysis.
Providing an upload
If you upload a video file, it is stored temporarily in a private storage bucket, used exclusively to perform the analysis, and automatically deleted immediately afterwards. We do not permanently store your uploaded video file.
Analysis results
The results generated from the analysis (Viral Score, per-dimension ratings and recommendations) may be stored in association with your account so your checks can be shown to you. They are not sold to third parties. The service providers listed in section 7 are used to generate the results.
13. Research corpus of public videos
To build a benchmark for the coaching recommendations, we maintain a research corpus of publicly accessible TikTok and Instagram videos. The persons covered (creators) are third parties and not necessarily Inkyo users.
Sources. The corpus is populated in two ways: through automated, periodic discovery of public videos, and through users submitting a public video for analysis or explicitly contributing it as a reference video. In both cases, only publicly accessible material is processed.
What is stored. For each video we store only publicly available minimal data: the platform and the technical video identifier, public metrics (e.g. views, likes, comments, shares, follower count at the time of capture), hashtags, language, duration and music identifier, plus an automatically generated analysis of the public video written in our own words. Not stored: the video file, full transcripts, the video URL, the creator's handle or name, and the caption. Once the one-time metric maturation is complete, the video identifier is additionally replaced by a cryptographic one-way hash; from that point on, a corpus entry can no longer be resolved to the video or creator it refers to. No link is stored to the person who submitted or contributed a video.
Purpose. Building and maintaining a comparison corpus against which user-submitted videos are scored and coaching recommendations are generated. No decision is made about the creator; their video serves solely as a reference data point.
Legal basis. Legitimate interest in providing and improving the analysis service (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). As the data originates from public sources and individually notifying every creator would be disproportionate (Art. 14(5)(b) GDPR), this notice serves as the compensating measure.
Retention. Corpus entries are kept only as long as they are required for the benchmark. If a video is no longer publicly available on the platform, the entry is marked stale and removed as part of a regular, automated deletion run.
Objection and erasure. Affected creators can object to the processing at any time and request removal of their content at info@richi.solutions. Please include the links of the videos concerned: since we store neither URLs nor handles, we can locate entries only via the video identifier derivable from a link (including its hashed form). We remove the videos concerned together with their analysis from the corpus and, via a suppression list, prevent re-ingestion of the reported videos and of future videos from the same account.
14. Data deletion
You can have the data we store about you deleted at any time:
- Uploaded videos: deleted automatically immediately after the analysis. No action is required on your part.
- Full account deletion: you can delete your entire Inkyo account in the profile settings. Alternatively, contact us at info@richi.solutions. Your account and the associated analysis results will be removed.
Deletion requests are processed promptly, usually within 24 hours.
15. Updates to this policy
We may update this privacy policy to reflect new legal or technological developments. The current version is always available on this page.