Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

We collect information that you provide directly, information created when you use the Service, information read from YouTube Studio or YouTube APIs when you ask us to, and limited technical data needed to operate and secure the Service.

2. Information You Provide

• Account details: name, email address, and a password hash (for email registration) or a Google sign-in marker (for Google login).
• Profile data you choose to add, such as an avatar image and optional brand or channel style notes.
• Optional image-generation API keys that you paste in your profile (stored encrypted). You may remove them at any time.
• Content you submit for optimization: video URL, title, description, tags, transcript text, target audience, tone, video type, competitor titles, and similar inputs.
• Messages you send through the contact or feedback form (email and message body).
• Plan and credit-related preferences shown in your account (plan type, monthly limits, usage counters).

3. Information Collected Through the Chrome Extension

When you use the Chrome extension on YouTube Studio, the extension can read fields from the open Studio page (such as title, description, tags, page URL, and video ID) and send them to our servers when you run an analysis or apply results.

The extension stores your session token, UI language, and theme preferences in Chrome extension storage so you stay signed in. It may also read our session cookie on youtio.com to sync login after Google sign-in.

The extension does not scrape unrelated browsing history. It operates on YouTube Studio pages you open and calls our API and YouTube transcript endpoints as needed for the features you trigger.

4. Google and YouTube Data

Google Sign-In uses OAuth scopes limited to openid, email, and profile. We receive your Google account email, name, and subject identifier as provided by Google’s userinfo endpoint to create or sign you into a Youtio account.

Separately, when you connect a YouTube channel (“Connect channel”), we request YouTube read-only access (youtube.readonly) plus basic profile scope. We store channel identifiers and metadata such as channel name, channel URL, thumbnail URL, subscriber count, and video count, together with OAuth access and refresh tokens.

Access and refresh tokens for connected channels are encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM) before storage in our database. Login session JWTs are stored in an HttpOnly cookie on the website and, for the extension, also in Chrome storage after cookie sync.

Video title, description, tags, transcript, and Studio field values are processed when you request generation or automation. They are used only to provide the features you request (optimization, applying metadata, usage accounting).

We do not sell Google or YouTube user data. We do not use Google user data for advertising. We do not use Google user data for unrelated purposes.

We design the product so Google/YouTube data is processed by automated systems. Authorized operators may access account or log records when needed for support, security, abuse prevention, or legal compliance—not for advertising.

You can remove a connected YouTube channel from Youtio (channel delete in the product). That deletes the stored channel row and encrypted tokens, and we attempt to revoke the OAuth token with Google. You can also revoke Youtio’s access in your Google Account permissions at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Our use of information received from Google APIs complies with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements, for the scopes we request.

5. How We Use Information

• Provide accounts, authentication, and plan/credit enforcement.
• Generate and return AI suggestions and apply them when you ask.
• Sync and display connected YouTube channels you authorize.
• Operate rate limits, prevent abuse, and diagnose failures.
• Respond to contact/feedback messages.
• Improve reliability and user experience of the Service (without selling personal data).

6. Artificial Intelligence Processing

When you run a generation, we send relevant inputs (for example title, description, transcript excerpts, tags, tone, language, and channel style notes) to third-party AI providers so they can return suggestions.

Text generation currently uses OpenAI and/or Google Gemini, selected by our server configuration. Thumbnail image generation may use OpenAI, Google Gemini, and/or fal.ai—either via Youtio’s configured server keys or via an encrypted API key you supply.

We do not operate our own foundation model trained on your private video content. Whether a third-party provider uses API inputs to improve their models is governed by that provider’s terms and settings; we do not independently verify each provider’s training practices for every request.

Generated outputs (titles, descriptions, tags, keywords, hashtags, thumbnail ideas/prompts/images, scores where enabled) may be stored in your account history so you can review them later.

7. Third-Party Service Providers

We use infrastructure and AI vendors to run the Service. The table lists providers used to operate the product. Paid plans may currently be activated by our support team; when automated card checkout becomes available, this Policy will be updated.

8. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We share data with the providers above only as needed to run the Service. We do not sell personal information.

We may disclose information if required by law, to protect rights and safety, or in connection with a merger or asset transfer (with notice where required).

Paid plans may currently be activated under early access by our support team. We do not collect card details through automated checkout at this stage. When card payments are enabled, billing data will be processed by the chosen provider under its privacy policy and this Policy will be updated.

9. Data Retention

• Account profile data is retained while your account remains open.
• Connected YouTube channel records and encrypted tokens are retained until you disconnect the channel or delete your account.
• Generation history, usage logs, templates, favorites, and similar product records are retained while your account is active so features work (history, limits, support).
• After you delete your account through the in-product Delete Account flow, we permanently delete your user profile, connected channels and tokens, generations, and related account-owned records from the application database as part of that request.
• Limited server or security logs held by our hosting provider may persist for a short operational period according to that provider’s systems and are not used to rebuild your account.
• If we are legally required to keep a record (for example a billing dispute or abuse investigation), we retain only what is necessary for that purpose.

10. Data Security

We use HTTPS in production, HttpOnly session cookies for web login, password hashing for email accounts, encryption for stored YouTube OAuth tokens and optional user image API keys, and server-side authorization for paid features and credits.

No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure. Please protect your account credentials and revoke Google access if you suspect misuse.

11. Cookies and Local Storage

• Website: HttpOnly authentication cookie (session JWT) and a short-lived Google OAuth state cookie during sign-in.
• Website browser storage: language preference (for example youtioLang) and similar UI preferences—not used as the source of truth for plan entitlements.
• Chrome extension: chrome.storage.local for session token, UI language, and theme; chrome.cookies to read our site session cookie for login sync.
• We do not use third-party advertising cookies in the product as shipped.

12. Chrome Extension Permissions

The store build of the extension requests only the permissions required for its features:

• storage — save login session and extension preferences.
• cookies — sync the Youtio web session cookie after Google login.
• activeTab & scripting — inject/communicate with YouTube Studio on the active tab to read and apply metadata.
• sidePanel — show the Youtio panel beside Studio.
• Host access to studio.youtube.com — content script and Studio automation.
• Host access to youtube.com — fetch public timedtext/transcript data when you analyze a video.
• Host access to ytimg / ggpht thumbnail hosts — display or handle thumbnail images shown in Studio.
• Host access to youtio.com — call Youtio APIs for auth, generation, and account data.

13. User Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or export personal data, or to object to certain processing. You can update profile information in the dashboard, disconnect YouTube channels, remove optional API keys, and delete your account.

You may also email info@youtio.com to request access or deletion. We may need to verify that the request comes from the account owner.

14. Account and Data Deletion

You can delete your account from Dashboard → Profile → Delete Account, or from the Chrome extension Account tab. Deletion asks for explicit confirmation, removes connected YouTube channels and stored tokens, deletes your profile and related product data as described above, signs you out, and cannot be undone.

You can also request deletion by emailing info@youtio.com from the address on your account. See also https://youtio.com/data-deletion.

15. International Data Transfers

Our application is hosted on Vercel and stores data in a Supabase-hosted PostgreSQL database. AI providers process prompts on their infrastructure. This may involve processing outside your country. By using the Service you understand that such transfers are necessary to operate Youtio.

16. Children’s Privacy

Youtio is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age required in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child created an account, contact us and we will delete it.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Policy when the product or legal requirements change. The “Last Updated” date at the top will change. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised Policy for future use of the Service.

18. Contact Information

Privacy and data requests: info@youtio.com

Website: https://youtio.com

Contact form: https://youtio.com/contact