Privacy Policy
Whyarium Studio Tools ("the tool") is a private, internal tool that the owner of the YouTube channel Whyarium and its sister channel Whyarium Life uses to run those channels. It has a single user, the channel owner. It is not offered to the public, has no sign-ups and no external users. This policy explains what data the tool accesses, why, how long it is kept, and how access can be revoked.
YouTube API Services
The tool uses YouTube API Services (the YouTube Data API v3, the YouTube Analytics API and the YouTube Reporting API). By using the tool you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's handling of data is described in the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).
What the tool accesses
1. The owner's own channels, with the owner's permission (OAuth 2.0). The owner signs in once with Google and grants these scopes, for the owner's own channels only:
| Scope | Used for |
|---|---|
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly | Reading YouTube Analytics and Reporting data (views, watch time, retention, traffic sources, audience) for the owner's own videos. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly | Reading the owner's own channel, videos, playlists and comments. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl | Applying titles, descriptions, tags, captions, playlists, the channel banner, watermark and channel sections to the owner's own videos and channels, and posting replies to comments on the owner's videos, each approved by the owner before it is sent. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.upload | Setting custom thumbnails on the owner's own videos. Video files themselves are uploaded by hand in YouTube Studio; the tool never uploads videos. |
2. Public YouTube data, without sign-in. For topic research the tool reads public information about roughly 200 public science and education channels: channel and video metadata, public statistics (view, like and comment counts) and the top public comments on some videos. It does not use the YouTube search endpoint. It never accesses private data of any other channel or of any viewer.
The tool does not collect names, email addresses, contact details or any other personal information from viewers, and it uses no cookies or tracking on viewers. The only cookie on this website is the owner's login cookie for the private dashboard.
How the data is used
- To show the owner how the owner's own videos perform, on a private dashboard that requires a login.
- To decide which educational film to make next, by comparing how public videos performed against their channel's usual views and reading what viewers ask in top comments.
- To apply metadata (titles, descriptions, thumbnails, captions, playlists) to videos the owner uploaded in YouTube Studio.
- To draft replies to viewers' comments on the owner's videos. Drafts are prepared with an AI writing assistant acting for the owner; nothing is posted until the owner has reviewed and approved it.
Data is not used for advertising, profiling of individuals, or any purpose other than running the owner's channels.
Storage and retention
- Public statistics and public data of other channels (view, like and comment counts, video metadata and comment text) are deleted or refreshed from the API within 30 days of being retrieved.
- The owner's own channel analytics are kept for the owner's own reporting for as long as the owner keeps the tool authorised. The owner can delete them at any time.
- OAuth tokens are stored only on the owner's own computer, are never committed to source control and are never shared.
- Data is stored on the owner's own computer and in the owner's private, access-controlled accounts (a private source repository and the private dashboard hosting), which act only as storage and hosting for the owner.
No sharing, no selling
No YouTube data is sold, rented, shared with third parties or shown publicly. The dashboard is private and protected by a login; only the owner can see it. There are no advertisers, partners or other users.
How to revoke access
Access granted to the tool can be revoked at any time on the Google security settings page: https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions. After revocation the tool can no longer read or change anything on that account. To ask for stored data to be deleted, contact the address below.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is published on this page with a new date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: rokabytedev@gmail.com