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Terms for creators whose videos we use

Version 2026-11-10, 11 November 2026.

This page sets out how Overheard, run by Abyl Applications Limited (registered in England and Wales, company number 09519157), uses YouTube videos, what you can expect from us if one of yours is in Overheard, and how to give permission or opt out. For the short version, see For creators.

1. How your videos appear

Only through YouTube’s own embedded player, using YouTube’s official tools, and only for videos you’ve made public and allowed to be embedded. Your ads run, your views count, and YouTube’s logo, links and controls stay visible. We never draw over the player, hide its branding, or play it out of sight.
Every video shows your channel name with a link to your channel, “Watch on YouTube”, and your video description as you wrote it, credited to you, with its links left working.
Learners can watch every video for free. What they pay us for is our own learning features, never your video.
We don’t use videos marked Made for Kids.

2. What we make from your videos, and what we keep

To write listening questions, we give the video’s public YouTube link to Google’s Gemini, under Google’s and YouTube’s terms. We never download, copy or store your video or its audio.
From that we make our own learning material: questions about what’s said, English translations, word lists and example sentences (voiced by our own text-to-speech, not your voice).
While we check the questions, we keep a full transcript. When the check is finished, we delete it, unless you’ve given us written permission to keep it. After that we keep only single short lines: the line that answers each question, and the lines where key words are said. Learners see one line at a time, after they’ve answered, credited to you.
We get your video’s details (title, channel name, length, description) from YouTube’s Data API and refresh them every day. Anything we can’t refresh for 30 days is deleted, and a video that becomes private, deleted, not embeddable or Made for Kids disappears from Overheard.

3. Giving permission (optional)

You don’t need to do anything for your public, embeddable videos to be used as above. If you’re happy to go further, we record your written permission (the date, who gave it and what it covers) against your channel. Permission can let us:

keep full transcripts after review, so we can add more questions later;
feature your channel (a “Featured creator” badge and a place higher up the catalogue).

You can change or withdraw your permission at any time by emailing hello@overheard.it.com. We act on it within 5 working days, including deleting full transcripts it covered.

4. Opting out

Don’t want your videos in Overheard? Use the form on For creators or email hello@overheard.it.com. Once we’ve checked the channel is yours, we remove all your videos within 5 working days, delete everything we hold about them (details, transcript lines and questions), and add your channel to a list that stops it ever being added again. If you change your mind later, tell us.

5. Your rights stay yours

Nothing here transfers any rights in your videos to us. YouTube’s terms and your choices on YouTube (public, private, embedding allowed or not) always come first. If you think we’ve used your content in a way these terms don’t allow, email hello@overheard.it.com and we’ll put it right.

6. Earning from Overheard

We also offer a partner programme: you give your viewers free months of Overheard through your own link, and earn a share of what they pay. It’s separate from whether we use your videos. See the terms for creator partners.

7. Contact

Abyl Applications Limited (registered in England and Wales, company number 09519157), Taudinn, Tunstall, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 7QL, United Kingdom. Email: hello@overheard.it.com.