Privacy Policy

3.3 Google and YouTube User Data

SceneSteller uses YouTube API Services to let you connect your YouTube channel and publish videos to it. By using SceneSteller's YouTube features, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's use of your information is governed by the Google Privacy Policy.

Connecting your YouTube channel to SceneSteller is optional. When you connect, Google asks you to authorize access to your YouTube account. SceneSteller receives authorization credentials and reads your channel ID, channel name, and channel thumbnail to identify and display the channel you connected. We store the connection's granted permissions, credential expiry information, and encrypted access and refresh tokens so we can carry out publishing you request, including publishing you schedule.

When you choose to publish, SceneSteller sends your selected video, title, description, tags, visibility setting, and applicable synthetic-content disclosure to YouTube. We may also send the video's custom thumbnail and a separate subtitle track created from your SceneSteller captions. We retain the resulting video ID, video link, and upload-stage status to show the outcome of your publishing request. Google's youtube.force-ssl permission also permits broader YouTube account management; SceneSteller uses it only to identify the connected channel, upload the videos you publish through SceneSteller, set their thumbnail, and add subtitle tracks, and does not use it to delete videos, edit your other videos, manage playlists, or read your viewing history.

We use Google user data only to provide these clearly disclosed, user-facing channel connection and publishing features. We do not sell Google user data, use it for personalized advertising or retargeting, determine creditworthiness or lending eligibility, or use it to develop, train, or improve AI or machine-learning models. Google user data obtained through your YouTube authorization is not sent to our AI-generation providers.

We transfer Google user data only as necessary to provide or improve these user-facing features with your consent, for security purposes, to comply with applicable law, or as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets after obtaining your explicit prior consent. Our service providers may process this data only for the permitted purposes and subject to appropriate confidentiality and security protections. Human access is limited to cases where you affirmatively agree to access to specific data, access is necessary for security or legal compliance, or the data is aggregated and anonymized and used for internal operations as permitted by applicable law and Google's policy.

SceneSteller's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

You can disconnect YouTube in SceneSteller at any time. Disconnecting marks the connection as revoked in SceneSteller and stops SceneSteller from starting new uploads with that connection, including scheduled uploads; an upload that is already in progress may still finish. When you disconnect, SceneSteller deletes the encrypted access and refresh tokens we stored for that connection and attempts to revoke the token with Google. Revocation with Google is best-effort, so if it does not complete, Google may continue to list SceneSteller as having access until you revoke it in your Google Account. To request deletion of Google user data stored by SceneSteller, contact privacy@scenesteller.com. In addition to these options, you can revoke SceneSteller's access to your data at any time through your Google Account permissions page at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions. Removing a connection or requesting deletion from SceneSteller does not delete videos already uploaded to YouTube; you control those videos through YouTube.