Your footage. Your machine. Your data.

Last updated: July 2026

The short version

ORDO has no footage library and doesn't store your video files anywhere but your own drive. When a clip is classified, only the individual frames needed for that classification are sent out — never the full file, never your archive, never stored server-side afterward. Full details below.

What ORDO does with your footage

ORDO does not import or copy your footage into any internal library. It works directly on the video files already on your computer or an external drive, tagging each clip and moving it into the bucket (folder) you've defined — in place, on your own storage.

When you run a sort, ORDO extracts a small number of still frames from each clip locally on your machine, in order to classify what the clip contains. Those frames — not the original video file — are sent to our classification service for analysis.

What gets sent off your machine, and what doesn't

Sent: a handful of still frames (images) sampled from each clip, used only to determine tags and bucket placement.
Sent: your device ID and account token, to authenticate the request and enforce your plan's usage limits.
Never sent: your original video files, your full footage archive, or any files outside the folder you explicitly select to sort.
Never stored server-side: the sampled frames are used to generate a classification result and are not retained afterward.

How classification works under the hood

Frame classification is powered by Anthropic's Claude models, accessed through Anthropic's commercial API. Under Anthropic's commercial terms, data sent through the API is not used to train future models by default. ORDO does not opt into any data-sharing or model-training program with Anthropic, and does not pool or share classification data across ORDO users.

What's stored where

On your machine: your video files (always), the tags and metadata ORDO writes into each file, your category/bucket definitions, and your local sort history.
On our servers: your account information (email, plan tier, usage counts) needed to run your subscription — no footage, no frames, no classification results.

Tags and metadata

When ORDO classifies a clip, it writes the resulting tags directly into that file's own metadata (and as macOS Finder tags), so the tags travel with the file wherever it goes — copied to another drive, dragged into an editing project, shared with someone else. Any existing metadata your camera wrote (creation date, camera model, GPS location, etc.) is preserved, not overwritten, in this process.

Account data

Creating an ORDO account requires an email address and password. We use this to authenticate you and manage your subscription. We do not sell or share account data with third parties for advertising or marketing purposes.

Your choices

You can delete your account at any time from Settings, which removes your account data from our servers.
Deleting your ORDO account does not affect footage already sorted on your own drive — that footage and its embedded tags remain exactly where they are, since ORDO never held a copy in the first place.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that affects how your data is handled, we'll update this page and note the change date at the top.

Questions

Reach out at sam@ordo.video with any questions about this policy or how your data is handled.