You will find below details about the terms and conditions you agree to by using YT Tracker for YouTubers. I invite you to fully read it and make sure you understand its content prior to signing up to YT Tracker for YouTubers.
YT Tracker for YouTubers for YouTube relies on data available via the YouTube API Services and like any application built relying on a public API, it is subject to change. I cannot guarantee that the Service will function or maintain the same level of service and functionality in the future as there are dependencies that could change and that I have to work with. That is applicable for both free and paid users.
Please read this section carefully since it limits the liability of YT Tracker for YouTubers. By signing up to use YT Tracker for YouTubers, your use of the app is at your own discretion and risk. YT Tracker for YouTubers makes no claims or promises with respect to the quality, the accuracy or reliability of the app, its security, or its content.
To use YT Tracker for YouTubers you have to log in with a Google account used to manage your YouTube channel. In order for you to access the features offered by YT Tracker for YouTubers you will need to grant some permissions for the app to access some of your YouTube data. These permissions are subject to change at any time while you use the app.
By using YT Tracker for YouTubers, you are agreeing to be bound to YouTube’s Terms of Service and Google’s Privacy Policy.
The purpose of these permissions is to enable the app to access some datasets specific to your YouTube channel needed to power features offered inside the app. For example, accessing your YouTube Analytics data allows the app to run some computations to display the number of subscribers you currently have and show you how far you are from hitting the requirements for monetization on YouTube.
By signing up to YT Tracker for YouTubers you authorize me to contact you via email. You might for instance receive a “Welcome email” after you first create an account on YT Tracker for YouTubers. We might also contact you directly via email if you send me a feedback or suggestion via the app or if you email us directly.
YT Tracker for YouTubers complies with Google API Services User Data Policy & Limited Use Requirements
TLDR: None of the data associated with your channel is transfered, shared or sold to any other businesses. Your estimated revenue data are only visible to you. They remain on your device and are deleted if you uninstall YT Tracker for YouTubers.
YT Tracker for YouTubers’s use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
YT Tracker is designed with a freemium business model that allows to generate revenues without having to sell your data or do anything creepy with it. The app only collects and processes some of your data to:
When you sign up to use YT Tracker for YouTubers, you register with the Google (Gmail) account that is used to managed your YouTube channel.
Once you do so, the following data are collected:
These data are collected to make the app experience possible and make sure you get the best possible support whenever you contact me. For example, I need your email address so you can directly contact me from the app and I can quickly email you back as soon as I receive you message(s).
The country code is just an indication for me to better understand where users are based. This can inform potential developments. For example localizing the app in Spanish could be considered if I suddenly see many users signing up from Mexico.
Your YouTube channel URL is useful to understand if your subscriber count is publicly available or not as this is a requirement to get the app to work properly.
Your Channel name is displayed in the app on several screens.
You will see your channel profile picture displayed in the app at different spots, please know that your photo is only stored locally on your device and is not uploaded to my servers. I only store the url to the photo (the one you already uploaded on YouTube) and the app loads your profile picture from there before saving it in your device’s cache (locally) so it loads faster next time you use the app.
Once you grant permissions for the app to access your YouTube data, the app is authorized to load data from your YouTube channel. Each feature inside the app requires a specific set of data. No data is used, collected or processed outside of the scope of the features offered in the app.
The data stored on my servers by default when you sign up are:
YT Tracker for YouTubers offers the ability to store video ideas that users have thought of and might want to publish later. These data are stored on a server and loaded to the app whenever needed. These data points aren’t accessible to anyone but the user who created them.
We may also collect information based on your usage of the app. This is always done with the sole purpose of improving the experience for YT Tracker for YouTubers’s users.
Examples: e.g. frequency and duration of usage, significant events and encountered errors if application has crashed etc. Some of this data is processed by Firebase Analytics (which tracks user engagement and major events happening inside the app to provide insights to developers) and Crashlytics (which provide crash reporting insights allowing developers to fix issues faced by users while they experience the app).
I am also relying on Google Analytics to capture website analytics for this webpage which sits on my personal website even though you are most likely reading it from within the app. When your are browsing my website, small files (known as “cookies”) are saved onto your device to collect analytics information about how users browse the site by our analytics service.
Internet address of your computer, tablet or phone is anonymised in the analytics service I use and these cookies are not used to identify you personally. You can opt-out of analytics cookies at any time.
YT Tracker for YouTubers uses Firebase, owned by Google, to store your data in a secure way. The tokens required to authorize the fetching of your data on YouTube’s servers are never leaving your device for safety reasons. They are not stored on our servers which protect you from seeing your channel harmed in case Firebase was to be hacked.
We may share some of the information collected, including personal information in the following cases:
Yes, at any time you can request your data and YT Tracker for YouTubers account to be deleted. There is an option in the Settings tab inside the app. This option will delete data required for the app to function properly while you are actively using it. This will be not affect your YouTube Channel data or videos but only the data stored on YT Tracker for YouTubers servers.
Once deleted, there is no recovery option available and if you wish to use YT Tracker for YouTubers again in the future, you will have to create a new account from scratch.
If you have any question related to this, please use the contact form inside YT Tracker for YouTubers to contact me.
When you sign in to YT Tracker for YouTubers, you allow YT Tracker for YouTubers to ‘read’ some of your channel analytics data. You may also revoke YT Tracker for YouTubers’s access to your Analytics data via the Settings tab at any time. This will log your channel out of the Service and you will need to re-sign in to use its features.
At any time, you can revoke the access & permissions granted to YT Tracker for YouTubers to read data via the YouTube API Services via the steps described on the following page: Google security settings.
If you have a question about this privacy and how your data are collected, used and stored when you use YT Tracker for YouTubers, please feel free to email me at mail.liilab@gmail.com with the subject line “Data question” and let me know how I can help you.
You data is used to:
Some ads can be shown for users, who are use YT Tracker for YouTubers on the free plan, and want to use a sub-set of features that aren’t related to your YouTube data. These features can be access by watching rewarded ads served by AdMob, owned by Google.
List of features:
If YT Tracker for YouTubers makes changes to Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy, these changes will be posted on the page in a timely manner. We reserve the right to modify these terms & conditions and/or privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently (at least on every app update). If you continue to use the Service after those changes are made, you agree to the above revised Policy.
In case of a business transaction in which a portion or all of YT Tracker for YouTubers business is acquired, we will notify you as described above in this paragraph.