Privacy Policy
This page explains how I, Leo, handle data in connection with chufftuff.com and a private automation tool that uploads videos to my own YouTube channel, "Chufftuff", using YouTube API Services. I am a private individual, not a company. This is a personal project that I alone built and operate; the automation tool has no other users and is not sold, licensed, or distributed to anyone else.
1. Who operates this
I am Leo, a private individual. I personally operate chufftuff.com and the automation tool described here. There is no company, agency, or team behind it — just me.
2. What the application does, and exactly what data it accesses
The automation tool uses the YouTube Data API v3 to interact only with my own YouTube channel. Specifically:
youtube.upload — used exclusively to upload videos that I have
produced myself to my own channel (via videos.insert, resumable upload). The
tool never uploads, edits, or deletes videos on any channel other than my own.
youtube.readonly — used only to call channels.list
with mine=true, solely to confirm that the stored OAuth token is still valid
and points to the correct channel before attempting an upload.
No data belonging to any other user or channel is ever requested, read, stored, or processed. The application performs no automated interactions with other channels or users of any kind — no automated comments, subscriptions, likes, or messages.
3. Who uses this application
There is exactly one user: myself, the operator and owner of the "Chufftuff" channel. The tool has no public interface and is not published, sold, or licensed to anyone else; no other person's Google or YouTube account is ever connected to it.
4. How data is stored
The OAuth refresh and access tokens issued by Google are stored locally only, on my own private server. They are never uploaded to any third-party or cloud storage service, and never shared with, sold to, or disclosed to any third party. They are used solely to authenticate calls to the YouTube Data API v3 on my own behalf, for my own channel.
5. Data retention and how to revoke access
Because the only data processed is my own channel's data under my own OAuth grant, I am also the only person who could revoke that access. It can be revoked at any time via Google's own account permissions page: security.google.com/settings/security/permissions. Deleting the locally stored token file immediately and completely stops the application's access to YouTube API Services; no further data is retained once the token is deleted.
6. Google's Privacy Policy
Because this application uses Google APIs, its use of information received from those APIs adheres to the Google Privacy Policy.
7. YouTube Terms of Service
Use of YouTube API Services through this application is bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. By using YouTube API Services through this application, I (the operator) agree to be bound by those terms.
8. A note on commercial activity
This policy describes a private automation tool with no other users, not sold or licensed to anyone — that is a statement about the tool, not about the channel. It does not claim that the "Chufftuff" YouTube channel or its content is non-commercial: the channel may, now or in the future, take part in programs such as the YouTube Partner Program and earn revenue from its content. Those two things are separate.
9. Contact
Questions about this Privacy Policy or the data described above can be sent to me via Discord: chufftuff.
Deutsche Kurzfassung
Diese Seite gilt für chufftuff.com und ein privates Automatisierungs-Werkzeug, das eigene Videos über YouTube API Services auf meinen eigenen YouTube-Kanal "Chufftuff" hochlädt. Ich, Leo, bin eine Privatperson, keine Firma; das Werkzeug hat keine anderen Nutzer und wird an niemanden verkauft oder weitergegeben.
Genutzte Scopes: youtube.upload ausschließlich zum Hochladen eigener,
selbst produzierter Videos auf meinen eigenen Kanal. youtube.readonly nur
für channels.list (mine=true), um vor einem Upload zu prüfen,
ob der gespeicherte Token noch gültig ist und auf den richtigen Kanal zeigt. Es werden
keine Daten anderer Kanäle oder Nutzer gelesen, gespeichert oder verarbeitet, und es gibt
keine automatisierten Interaktionen mit fremden Kanälen (keine automatischen Kommentare,
Abonnements oder Likes).
Speicherung: Die OAuth-Tokens liegen ausschließlich lokal auf meinem eigenen privaten Server, nie in einem Cloud-Dienst, und werden nie an Dritte weitergegeben oder verkauft.
Widerruf: Da ich selbst die einzige Person bin, deren Daten verarbeitet werden, kann ich den Zugriff jederzeit über Googles Berechtigungsseite widerrufen; das Löschen der lokal gespeicherten Token-Datei stoppt den Zugriff sofort.
Es gilt zusätzlich die Google-Datenschutzerklärung und die YouTube-Nutzungsbedingungen. Hinweis: Das Werkzeug ist privat und ohne weitere Nutzer — das sagt nichts darüber aus, ob der Kanal selbst (z. B. über das YouTube Partner Program) Einnahmen erzielt.
Kontakt: über Discord – chufftuff.