Privacy Policy
Effective July 15, 2026
This policy explains how Mars Voyage LLC handles information in Awesome IPTV and its Meridian caption service. It applies to the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac apps and to merid.live.
What stays on your device
Your playlist URLs, provider usernames and passwords, favorites, profiles, and viewing library are stored by the app on your device. Sensitive playlist credentials are stored in Apple Keychain. Awesome IPTV connects to sources you choose; it does not upload those credentials or your complete playlist to Meridian.
Information used by Meridian
Cloud captions and translation
Cloud processing is off until you consent. If you request generated captions, the app sends short live-audio chunks to Meridian. If you request cloud translation for subtitle text, the app sends the subtitle text needed for that translation. Meridian routes the request to an enabled provider and returns caption text to the app.
Raw audio is processed as a live stream and is not stored in Meridian's database or diagnostic logs. Full source and translated caption text is not written to persistent Meridian diagnostics. A selected AI provider may process the request under the account terms listed on our AI Service Providers page.
App, purchase, and entitlement identifiers
The app creates a random app-instance identifier and uses Apple App Attest to help prevent abuse. Meridian verifies App Store transactions and may store hashed transaction, account, and device references, product identifiers, purchase state, AI usage balances, grants, reservations, and adjustments. These records support entitlement checks, synchronize credited AI Hours, prevent duplicate grants, meter AI Hours, and resolve support requests.
Operational and diagnostic information
When diagnostics are allowed, Meridian records route decisions, selected provider, language and confidence, timestamps, latency, result counts, failure reasons, freshness, and estimated provider cost. These events do not contain raw audio, full caption text, playlist credentials, stream URLs, or usernames. We do not intentionally add IP addresses to caption diagnostic events. Our hosting providers necessarily process network addresses to deliver and secure requests.
Website information
This public site does not use advertising, analytics, tracking pixels, or cookies. The protected admin site is for authorized Meridian operators and uses its own authentication and security records.
How information is used
- Provide playback-related captions, translation, purchases, balances, and support.
- Choose and recover between providers, measure quality, and control cost.
- Secure the service, prevent fraud, and comply with legal obligations.
- Diagnose failures without building advertising profiles or selling personal information.
We do not sell personal information, use it for cross-app tracking, or serve targeted advertising.
Sharing
We share only what is needed with Apple for purchases and platform trust, Google Cloud for hosting, and an enabled caption or translation provider for a request you initiate. WorkOS authenticates authorized Meridian administrators and does not receive consumer caption content. Provider handling is also governed by each provider's terms and configured privacy controls; the current provider catalog is published on this site.
Retention and deletion
Raw audio and complete caption text are not retained in Meridian's persistent diagnostics. Structured caption diagnostics are kept in a dedicated logging bucket for 24 hours. Limited admin session summaries are normally retained for seven days. Trust, security, purchase, ledger, and support records are kept only as long as needed to provide the service, prevent fraud, meet accounting obligations, and resolve disputes.
You can withdraw consent at any time in Awesome IPTV Settings. Turning cloud processing off stops new audio or subtitle text from being sent. You can request access, correction, or deletion of eligible Meridian records by emailing privacy@merid.live. We may retain records that law, payment integrity, or security requires us to keep.
Children, transfers, and security
Awesome IPTV is not directed to children under 13. Meridian processing may occur in the United States and other locations where our service providers operate. We use encryption in transit, least-privilege cloud identities, secret storage, pseudonymous identifiers, bounded retention, and audited administrative access. No system can guarantee absolute security.
Changes and contact
We may update this policy as the product or law changes. When a material cloud-processing policy changes, the app can require consent again before sending new content. Questions may be sent to privacy@merid.live or support@merid.live.