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Who owns Data Second, how we use other people’s trademarks, what this site collects and the terms for using it.

Ownership & trademarks

This website, the Data Second show, its name, logo and artwork, the hosts’ names and likenesses, and all original video, audio and text are © Orph Labs AI, Inc. All rights reserved.

Data Second™, HipBits™ and their logos are trademarks of Orph Labs AI, Inc. and may not be used without permission. HipBits is a product of Orph Labs AI, Inc., and Data Second is a HipBits show.

Third-party trademarks

Product names, brand names, logos and product images shown on the site and in the show are trademarks and/or copyrights of their respective manufacturers, retailers and owners. Data Second is an independent publication and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by any of them unless an episode says so.

Commentary, news reporting and fair use

Data Second reports on and comments about third-party devices, software, services and retailers. Where the show uses clips, stills or quotations, it uses small portions for news reporting, commentary, criticism and review, which we believe is fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107.

If you hold the rights to something we used and want it removed, send a request through our contact form (choose Legal) with the page or episode, the material, and why you are asking. We review every request and take material down where it is warranted.

Prices, rumors and accuracy

Prices and deals are checked when each episode is made and shown with an “as of” date; retailers change prices often, so always check the price at the store before you buy. Buy now, wait and skip are the hosts’ opinions, not guarantees. Rumors and leaks are labelled and marked “Unconfirmed by the maker”; nothing is confirmed until the manufacturer announces it. Data Second is for entertainment and information. It may be wrong or out of date, and it is not professional or purchasing advice. The site and the show are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind.

AI disclosure

The hosts, Kiera and Nieves, are AI-generated characters, not real people. Their faces, voices and photos are synthetic. Scripts are written and fact-checked by the production team, and AI tools are used to produce the video and voice.

Privacy

Contact form and tips. The contact form asks what your message is about (partnerships, legal or a tip) and for your message. Partnership and legal messages also ask for your name and email, and optionally a company and a link. Tips ask for a one-line headline, at least one source link and the details; your name and email are optional, and a tip sent without them arrives as “Anonymous”. When you send a tip, our server visits each source link once to check that the page exists. We store each message in our database (hosted by Supabase) together with the address of the page you sent it from, and email it to the HipBits team at info@orphmedia.com through Resend, our email provider. We use your name and email only to reply to you, and we never publish who sent a tip.

Analytics. We use Google Analytics and Metricool to count visits and see which pages and episodes people watch. They set cookies or similar identifiers and collect information such as pages viewed, referring site, approximate location, device and browser, which Google and Metricool process for us.

Video and social. Episodes and Shorts play in YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player (youtube-nocookie.com). YouTube (Google) does not set tracking cookies until you play a video; once you do, it may collect information about your device and viewing under Google’s privacy policy. When the site shows our latest Instagram posts, those images and videos load from Meta’s servers, which receive your IP address and browser details.

Your Call poll. When you vote, your choice is remembered in your own browser (local storage) and counted on our server. To allow one vote per person, the server keeps a one-way hash made from your IP address and browser details, not the address itself.

Hosting. The site is hosted on Vercel, which processes standard request data such as your IP address to serve pages and keep the site secure. There are no ads on this site.

We do not sell or rent personal information. To see or delete a message or tip you sent, use the contact form, choose Legal and Privacy, and tell us the email you used or roughly when you sent it. This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Terms of use

You are welcome to watch, read and share links to Data Second for your personal, non-commercial use. Please don’t scrape the site, re-upload or redistribute our videos, artwork or text, or present our content or hosts as your own or as endorsing anything. Links to third-party sites are provided for reference and are not endorsements. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York. We may update these terms and this page at any time; the date below shows the latest version.

Contact and takedown notices (DMCA)

Send questions, privacy requests and copyright notices through our contact form (choose Legal). A copyright takedown notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) must include:

  • your physical or electronic signature, as the owner or someone authorized to act for the owner;
  • the copyrighted work you say is infringed;
  • the material you want removed, with enough detail to find it (the page or episode URL and, for video, the timestamp);
  • your contact information: address, phone number and email;
  • a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent or the law;
  • a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act for the owner.

Last updated: October 19, 2026.