Privacy Policy
1. What Vypusk Desk is
Vypusk Desk is a personal, non-commercial software tool run by one individual developer on his own computer. It uploads his own videos to his own YouTube channels. It is not offered to the public and has no other users. This policy explains what Google user data Vypusk Desk accesses, how it uses, stores and shares that data, and how access can be revoked.
2. YouTube API Services
Vypusk Desk uses YouTube API Services. By using Vypusk Desk you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's own collection and use of data is described in the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).
3. Google user data that Vypusk Desk accesses
Vypusk Desk asks for one permission (OAuth scope),
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl, which manages the authorized YouTube channel. It
requests this scope because uploading captions and posting a comment are accepted only with it; the same scope
covers uploads, thumbnails and playlists. With it, Vypusk Desk performs only these operations on the authorized
channel:
- Read: the channel's ID and name; the channel's playlists (names and IDs); the channel's own recent uploads (video IDs and titles); the status and basic details (such as title, privacy status and scheduled publication time) of the channel's own videos; the list of YouTube video categories.
- Write: upload a video with its title, description, tags, category, privacy status and scheduled publication time; set its thumbnail; upload its caption track; create a playlist and add the video to it; post one comment under the video.
Vypusk Desk does not delete or edit existing videos, does not read comments, subscribers, messages, analytics or any data of other channels or of viewers, and does not access any other Google service.
4. How the data is used
The data is used only to carry out the uploads that the developer starts himself: to publish each video with its prepared details, to check that the same title is not uploaded twice, and to record on his computer whether each video was uploaded and when it is scheduled to appear. It is not used for advertising, profiling, selling, lending decisions or any other purpose.
5. Where the data is stored
- The access key that Google issues after authorization (the OAuth token) is stored only on the developer's own computer, in a local file readable only by his user account. It is never uploaded to any server, website or third party.
- The channel's ID and name, the IDs, titles and publication status of the uploaded videos, and a local count of API requests per day are stored in local files on the same computer.
- Vypusk Desk has no server or online database of its own. This website does not receive any of this data.
The locally stored data is kept only for the purposes in section 4. Stored YouTube API data is refreshed from YouTube or deleted within 30 days. Deleting the local files removes it; deleting it does not change anything on YouTube.
6. Sharing
Google user data is not sold, rented, shared with or transferred to any third party, and is not used for ads. Data travels only between the developer's computer and Google's YouTube API, over encrypted HTTPS connections. No person other than the developer has access to it.
Vypusk Desk's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
7. Viewers and visitors of this website
Vypusk Desk collects nothing from people who watch the videos. This website has no accounts, forms, cookies, scripts, analytics or trackers. The hosting provider of this website may keep standard technical request logs under its own policy; this site itself collects nothing.
8. Revoking access and deleting data
- Vypusk Desk has a built-in
revokecommand. It revokes the channel's access at Google and immediately deletes the access key and the stored YouTube API data for that channel from the developer's computer. - Access can also be revoked at any time on the Google account permissions page (Google security settings): https://myaccount.google.com/permissions. After that the stored access key no longer works, and Vypusk Desk deletes that channel's access key and stored YouTube API data the next time it runs and finds that the access has been revoked.
- Stored YouTube API data is refreshed from YouTube or deleted within 30 days (section 5).
- Deletion of the locally stored data can also be requested at the contact address in section 11; it is deleted within 7 days of the request. Deleting it does not delete videos or other content on YouTube.
9. Security
The access key and the app's Google client credentials are kept confidential on the developer's computer, in files readable only by his user account, and are never published or sent anywhere except to Google during authorization.
10. Changes to this policy
If Vypusk Desk starts using Google user data in a new way, this policy is updated first, the date above changes, and access is authorized again before the new use.
11. Contact
Questions or complaints about privacy, and requests to delete stored data, go to the developer contact e-mail address that Google shows for Vypusk Desk on its Google sign-in (consent) screen; click the app name on that screen to see it.