We understand the importance of safeguarding your privacy when you interact with our services that use the YouTube API. This section details how we responsibly collect, store, and use user information obtained through the YouTube API.
Types of User Information Collected
- Basic Profile Information: This includes your YouTube channel name, profile picture, and publicly visible data as permitted by your YouTube privacy settings.
- Content Engagement Information: We might collect information like video views, likes, comments, and playlist interactions relevant to services provided by our application.
- Other Relevant Activity: Depending on our application’s functions, we might also collect subscription data, watch history, or search patterns within the scope of what the YouTube API provides.
How We Use Collected Information
- Improving our Services: Data is used to personalize your experience, provide better recommendations, and enhance how our application integrates with YouTube.
- Analytics: We aggregate and analyze data (without personal identifiers) to understand how users engage with our services and the YouTube platform.
- Feature Provision: Information may be necessary for the core functionality of our application. For example, if our service involves saving playlists, we need access to that data.
Data Storage and Security
- Security Measures: We take your data security seriously and implement appropriate measures to protect it from unauthorized access or disclosure.
- Data Retention: We only store information for as long as necessary to provide our services or fulfill legal obligations. Afterwards, it is securely deleted.
Third-Party Sharing
- Limited Circumstances: We do not sell your information to third parties. However, we may need to share limited data in certain cases, such as:
- Service providers who assist in the operation of our application.
- Compliance with legal requests or to protect the rights and safety of ourselves or others.
Your Rights and Control
- Transparency: You have the right to request details about the specific information we collect and how it is used.
- Revoking Access: You can revoke our application’s access to your YouTube Data through your Google security settings (https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions).
Updates and Contact Information
We reserve the right to update this privacy policy. You will be notified of significant changes. If you have questions about our YouTube API data practices, please contact us at: [email protected] or submit your message on our contact form.
Last updated: 29 February 2024
