Lecture Capture
Privacy policy
Lecture Capture does not collect, transmit, sell or share any of your data. Everything it saves goes to a folder or .zip file on your own computer, and nowhere else. There is no account, no server and no analytics.
What the extension reads
When you start an archive, Lecture Capture reads your own course materials from the Canvas, Panopto and Mediasite sites you are already signed in to: your course list, files, pages, announcements, and lecture transcripts. It reads them inside your open Canvas, Panopto and Mediasite tabs, using requests to those same sites, with the sign-in you already have. It never asks for, sees or stores your password.
It only reads sites you allow. Access to Canvas (instructure.com) and Panopto (panopto.com) is requested when you click Allow access, and access to your school's Mediasite site is requested for that one site when you first add lectures from it, and you can remove it at any time from Chrome's extension settings.
Where your data goes
- Files are written to the folder you choose, or to one .zip download. Both are on your computer.
- Nothing is sent to the developer, to any server, or to any third party. The extension makes no network requests other than reading from your Canvas, Panopto and Mediasite sites.
- Videos are never downloaded.
What the extension stores in Chrome
- The archive queue (which items are done, waiting or failed), so a stopped archive can resume where it left off. Kept in Chrome's local extension storage.
- A one-line summary of the last archive (when it ran and how many items it saved), shown in the toolbar popup. Kept in Chrome's local extension storage.
- A reference to the folder you chose, so Chrome can ask to reconnect to it next time. Kept in the extension's local IndexedDB. It holds the folder's handle, not its contents.
This information stays on your computer and is removed when you uninstall the extension.
What the extension does not do
- No analytics, tracking, advertising or fingerprinting.
- No remote code. Everything the extension runs ships inside it.
- No sale or transfer of data, and no use of data for anything other than saving your course materials for you.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date. A change that would send any data off your computer would be described here before it shipped.