You deserve clear answers before trusting anyone with your archive.
ClosedCast is built for preservation, ownership, privacy, and long-term accessibility. These answers explain exactly how your archive is protected, who owns it, how exports work, and what happens if you ever decide to leave.
Everything your community should know before preserving what matters.
Search, filter, and open answers below. The language is intentionally plain because trust grows when customers do not have to guess.
ClosedCast is a private streaming archive built to preserve meaningful videos. Families, churches, teams, educators, and organizations use ClosedCast to organize, protect, and share video collections that matter.
ClosedCast was created because meaningful videos are easier to create than ever before but harder than ever to preserve, organize, and revisit.
ClosedCast was founded in 2026 as a new company with new rules for a new era of digital memory, private archives, and long-term video preservation.
ClosedCast is for families, churches, schools, teams, coaches, nonprofits, associations, membership organizations, and anyone who wants a private streaming archive.
ClosedCast is built for archives, not algorithms. The focus is preservation, organization, privacy, and long-term accessibility.
No. ClosedCast does not operate as a social network.
It means the platform prioritizes preservation, organization, and controlled access rather than feeds, recommendations, and engagement metrics.
Archives preserve stories, teachings, memories, experiences, and institutional knowledge that would otherwise become difficult to find over time.
You do. Customers retain ownership of all videos, recordings, images, metadata, and other content uploaded to ClosedCast.
No. ClosedCast does not claim ownership of customer content.
No. ClosedCast does not sell, license, monetize, or profit from customer content ever.
No. Customer information is not sold.
No. ClosedCast does not place advertisements on customer content.
No. Content is only shared through permissions and sharing options authorized by the archive owner.
Yes. Customers can download their videos.
Yes. Customers can export archive metadata.
Yes. ClosedCast provides self-service export tools. Additional assistance is available upon request.
No. ClosedCast maintains a free egress policy.
Yes. Customers can export videos and archive metadata.
No. Archive portability is a core principle of ClosedCast.
Archive data is retained for 180 days, allowing customers to download videos and export metadata.
Archive data is retained for 180 days after cancellation.
Customers would be able to download their videos and export archive data. Your archive belongs to you.
Yes. ClosedCast is designed around private archives and controlled access.
No. Archive owners determine who can access their content.
Yes. Archive owners control permissions and sharing.
Yes. Customer content and archive data are protected using encrypted storage systems.
Yes. All traffic is encrypted using HTTPS.
Yes. ClosedCast uses authenticated access controls and secure delivery systems.
No. ClosedCast is not an advertising platform.
Only when reasonably necessary to enforce policies, investigate abuse, comply with legal requirements, or protect the platform and its users.
Moderation helps enforce platform policies, protect users, and address illegal or harmful activity.
Yes. Customers are responsible for the content they upload, publish, share, and distribute.
Yes. You own your data, control your data, and are responsible for your data.
Yes. ClosedCast performs nightly backups of video content and archive metadata.
Backups are performed nightly.
Yes. Backups are stored separately from production infrastructure.
Separate storage helps protect archives and supports recovery if production systems fail.
Backups are retained indefinitely for active customers.
Archive data and backups are retained for 180 days following cancellation.
Yes. Recovery procedures and restoration-ready platform copies are maintained.
Backup and recovery procedures are used to restore services and archive data.
No technology platform can guarantee protection from every possible event.
Videos preserve voices, stories, memories, teachings, and history that often cannot be recreated once lost.
Customers should always be able to retrieve and preserve their content independently.
ClosedCast combines ownership, privacy, backups, portability, Roku access, and long-term archive accessibility.
Yes. ClosedCast offers a free plan.
A free account with no uploaded videos will never incur storage-related charges.
No. Viewers never pay to watch authorized content.
No. ClosedCast does not impose viewer limits.
No. Pricing is not based on viewer counts.
Costs are based on resources consumed by videos uploaded to your archive.
ClosedCast is designed to encourage access and engagement with your archive rather than restrict viewing.
Yes. Roku access is included with every plan, including the free plan.
Yes. ClosedCast includes a dedicated Roku experience.
Yes. Authorized viewers can access archive content through Roku.
Yes. ClosedCast supports streaming through modern web browsers.
No. Content can be streamed directly.
Yes. The platform is designed to be straightforward and easy to use.
Yes. ClosedCast is designed for viewing on the largest screen in the home.
Yes. Churches can make archive content available through Roku.
Meaningful videos are often best experienced together. Television viewing encourages shared experiences and replayability.
Families use ClosedCast to preserve memories, milestones, vacations, celebrations, interviews, and family history.
Yes. ClosedCast provides a long-term home for family recordings.
Yes. Archive owners control sharing permissions.
Yes. ClosedCast helps keep family history accessible and organized over time.
The ability to preserve, organize, and revisit the moments that define a family's story.
Churches and organizations use ClosedCast to preserve sermons, teachings, training, events, interviews, institutional knowledge, and organizational history.
Yes. Organizations can create organized collections for training, education, onboarding, and knowledge preservation.
Organizations change over time. Preserving knowledge, context, history, and experience helps maintain continuity for future leaders and members.
The videos that matter deserve a better home.
Start with the recordings people already ask for: sermons, family milestones, training, events, interviews, lessons, or memories that are too important to leave scattered.