VidVela checks supported Facebook video and Reel links and helps prepare available MP4 downloads. This Privacy Policy explains the information involved in using the service and the privacy choices available to users.
Information you submit
When you use VidVela, the downloader receives the Facebook video or Reel URL you submit. That URL may identify a video, its creator, or other information included in the link.
Submit only links to content you own or are authorized to download. Do not enter passwords, private account credentials, or unrelated personal information in the downloader field.
When available from the source, VidVela also processes video metadata such as the title, description, uploader name, duration, available formats, and thumbnail. Some of this information may relate to other people.
If you contact us by email, we may receive the contact information, message content, and supporting details you choose to provide. Please do not email passwords, API keys, access tokens, temporary private media links, or unnecessary sensitive information.
How we use information
VidVela sends submitted video links through its WordPress integration to a configured video-processing API. The API checks available source formats and helps prepare eligible MP4 downloads.
Video metadata is used to display available download options. Session identifiers and processing-job references help authorize status checks, thumbnails, playback, and downloads.
The downloader also uses IP-derived identifiers and request counters for rate limiting and abuse prevention. These technical identifiers support security and service reliability and should not necessarily be considered anonymous.
You do not need a VidVela account to use the public downloader. VidVela does not ask you to provide your Facebook password or Facebook login cookies.
If you select the Paste button, your browser may ask for clipboard access. You can paste a link manually instead.
Cookies and browser information
VidVela uses first-party cookies to support downloader sessions and download-related functionality.
A short-lived session cookie helps associate requests with the correct browser session and restrict access to prepared media. A separate short-lived download-status cookie helps the interface detect whether a download response has started.
Disabling or blocking these cookies may prevent video preparation, thumbnails, playback, or downloads from functioning correctly.
WordPress may also use cookies for administrative functions such as user sign-in. These functions are separate from the anonymous downloader sessions.
Your browser settings control cookie permissions and where downloaded files are saved on your device.
Video delivery and temporary processing
VidVela uses server-side processing and media relay functionality to deliver supported videos to your browser.
The custom WordPress media relay passes video data from the processing API to your browser without creating a permanent MP4 library within that WordPress plugin. Thumbnail processing also uses a controlled relay rather than maintaining a public image library.
Temporary processing records may include submitted video links, selected qualities, session-related identifiers, thumbnail permissions, and API job references.
Prepared media links and access permissions can expire. Expiration does not necessarily mean that all related technical records, server logs, caches, or backups have been deleted.
Downloading a video to your device does not remove the original video from Facebook or another source platform.
Technical records and third-party services
Web servers, hosting systems, and related infrastructure may record technical information such as IP addresses, request paths, request times, response status codes, and browser information.
Some request paths may contain temporary processing references. The types of records generated and their retention depend on the configuration of the systems involved.
The VidVela processing API communicates with Facebook and its media delivery services to check and retrieve supported video content. These systems receive the network and request information necessary to process those connections.
VidVela uses WordPress media relay routes to serve supported video and thumbnail content without exposing the private processing API credential through the browser interface.
Depending on browser compatibility features, WordPress may request certain external resources, such as emoji assets from WordPress.org infrastructure.
If you follow a link to another website, that website’s own privacy practices may apply.
Storage and retention
VidVela uses temporary session and processing records to manage downloads, authorize media access, and keep the service functioning.
Different systems, including WordPress, the processing API, web servers, hosting providers, and backups, may have different retention practices.
Session expiration and permanent deletion are not necessarily the same. Some technical records may remain in logs, caches, or backups according to the applicable system configuration.
Closing your browser, canceling a request, or completing a download does not necessarily erase all related processing records.
Downloaded files saved on your own device are controlled by you and your browser settings.
Security and your choices
VidVela uses server-side API credentials and session permission checks to help protect its processing and media relay functionality.
Although these measures are intended to reduce certain risks, no internet service or storage system can guarantee complete security.
You can choose not to submit a video link, manage cookies and permissions through your browser, and delete downloaded files from your device.
Blocking cookies or required network requests may limit or prevent some downloader functions.
Privacy questions and requests
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or concerns about information associated with your use of VidVela, contact us at vidvela@gmail.com.
Please describe your concern and provide only the information reasonably necessary to help us understand the request.
Do not send passwords, session tokens, API credentials, temporary signed media URLs, or unnecessary personal information.
We may need additional information to understand a request and determine what action is available or required under applicable law.
The downloader URL field is not a privacy-request or support channel.
Children’s privacy
Do not submit private information about children or use VidVela to obtain content without appropriate authorization.
Parents or guardians with concerns about information submitted through VidVela may contact vidvela@gmail.com.
When contacting us about a child, provide enough information to explain the concern without sharing unnecessary personal details.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
VidVela may update this Privacy Policy as the service, its technology, and its information practices change.
The current version of this policy will be made available on this page.