Privacy Policy for VidTube Studio
Last Updated: October 23, 2025
Welcome to VidTube Studio ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our website (`vidtubestudio.com`) and services (collectively, the "Service"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect via the Service includes:
- Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name and email address, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Service.
- Payment Data: Data necessary to process your payment if you make a purchase, such as your payment instrument details. All payment data is handled securely by our third-party payment processor (e.g., Stripe). We do not store your full payment instrument details. Please review the payment processor's privacy policy.
- Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Service, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you view.
- Google User Data (YouTube Integration): If you choose to connect your YouTube channel to VidTube Studio using Google OAuth, we will request access to specific data from your Google Account via the YouTube Data API v3 and YouTube Analytics API. This includes:
- Your YouTube channel's basic profile information.
- Permissions to view and manage your YouTube videos, ratings, comments, and captions (e.g., fetching video lists, updating video metadata like titles and descriptions generated by our tools).
- Permissions to view your YouTube Analytics data (e.g., video views, watch time, audience demographics) to provide performance insights within our tools like the VidRank AI Analyzer.
2. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you to:
- Create and manage your account.
- Process your payments and refunds.
- Email you regarding your account or order.
- Provide Core Service Functionality: Use connected YouTube data (video details, analytics) to power our tools (e.g., fetching video lists for selection, retrieving performance data for analysis, updating metadata upon your request).
- Generate AI Content & Analysis: Send necessary data (like video titles, descriptions, performance metrics, competitor data) to our AI service provider (e.g., Google Gemini) solely for the purpose of generating content (titles, descriptions, tags, scripts) or analysis reports as requested by you within our tools.
- Improve our website and services.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Service.
3. Disclosure of Your Information (Data Sharing)
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If required by law, subpoena, or other legal process, or if we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing (e.g., Stripe), data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and AI processing (e.g., Google Gemini for generating content/analysis). These third parties are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes we specify.
- Google User Data Sharing: We do not share your Google user data (obtained via YouTube APIs) with any third parties other than as necessary to provide the core functionality you explicitly request within VidTube Studio (e.g., sending relevant text/metrics to our AI provider for analysis) or as required by law. We comply with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Your Google data is not used for advertising purposes.
4. Data Retention and Deletion
- Account Data: We retain your personal data (name, email) as long as your VidTube Studio account remains active.
- Google User Data: We retain your connected YouTube channel data (including API tokens and fetched analytics/video details) only as long as your YouTube channel remains connected to your VidTube Studio account or as long as your account is active.
- Deletion Request: You can disconnect your YouTube channel at any time from your VidTube Studio profile settings, which will stop further access to your YouTube data. You can request the deletion of your entire VidTube Studio account and associated data by contacting us at `support@vidtubestudio.com`. Upon receiving a deletion request, we will remove your personal data and associated Google user data from our active systems within 30 days, unless retention is required for legal or legitimate business purposes (e.g., transaction records).
5. Data Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the information you provide, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against misuse.
6. Policy for Children
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under 13, please contact us.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
VidTube Studio
Email: support@vidtubestudio.com