Privacy policy

Last updated 6 November 2026

This policy covers the Storied Brands uploader, a private tool that the owner of the YouTube channel Storied Brands uses to publish and manage that channel, and this website. "We" and "the owner" mean the person who runs the Storied Brands channel.

In short

• The tool uses YouTube API Services. Only the channel owner signs in to it.
• It works only on the Storied Brands channel: it uploads and schedules the channel's videos, reads the channel's comments and statistics, and replies to viewers.
• What it stores stays on the owner's computer. We run no server and no database for it.
• Some of the data is read by Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic, which runs the channel's automation. Details below.
• We never sell data or use it for advertising. This website uses no cookies and no trackers.

YouTube API Services

The Storied Brands uploader uses YouTube API Services. By using it, you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service. How Google handles data is explained in the Google Privacy Policy.

Who signs in

Only the channel owner. Sign-in happens on Google's own page, in the owner's web browser, so the tool never sees or stores a Google password. Google then gives the tool sign-in tokens. There are two: one for publishing and comments, and a separate read-only one for statistics.

What the tool can access, and why

When the owner signs in, Google asks for these permissions:

"Manage your YouTube videos"

youtube.upload

"See, edit, and permanently delete your YouTube videos, ratings, comments and captions"

youtube.force-ssl

"View your YouTube account"

youtube.readonly

"View YouTube Analytics reports for your YouTube content"

yt-analytics.readonly (the read-only statistics sign-in, together with youtube.readonly)

The tool uses them only for the following.

Changes it makes on the Storied Brands channel

• Uploads the channel's own videos and Shorts with their title, description, tags and language, always as private videos first.
• Sets the thumbnail of each long video and adds its English captions.
• Adds a video to one of the channel's own playlists.
• Sets the time a video goes public, or switches it back to private if one of its checks fails.
• Posts short replies to viewers' comments on the channel's videos, and one "watch next" comment under each new long video.

What it reads

• The signed-in channel's ID and name, to make sure the right channel is signed in.
• The channel's uploads, playlists and captions, and the status of its videos (processing, privacy, publish time), to avoid duplicates and to check every upload.
• Comments on the channel's videos, including comments that YouTube holds for review or marks as likely spam, with each commenter's public display name and channel ID.
• The channel's YouTube Analytics reports: views, engaged views, watch time, average view duration and percentage viewed, audience retention, subscribers gained, likes, comments, shares, traffic sources, search terms, playback locations and countries. It also sets up the channel's daily "reach" report in the YouTube Reporting API and downloads it, for thumbnail impressions and click-through rate. It reads the channel's subscriber count too.
• The public title and channel name of other videos that appear in those reports, for example videos that ours are suggested next to.

What it never does

• It never deletes anything: no videos, comments, captions or playlists.
• Through YouTube's API it never moderates, rates or likes anything, and it never changes channel settings. Pinning a comment and liking viewers' comments are done separately in YouTube Studio, in the owner's own browser, not through this tool.
• It does not look up who the channel's subscribers are, and it gets no viewer's email address or viewing history. YouTube Analytics reports give totals, not data about individual viewers.
• It asks for no access to any other part of the owner's Google account, such as Gmail or Drive.

Separately, without any sign-in, the channel's research tools read public YouTube information (such as public video titles and view counts) with an API key, to help choose topics.

If you comment on a Storied Brands video

The tool reads your comment as YouTube shows it to the channel: its text, your public display name and channel ID, its like count and its time. This is used to give the owner a daily digest of comments, to note topic ideas that viewers suggest (as short phrases, without names), to decide which comments get a reply, and to post those replies. We do not try to find out anything else about you.

Where the data is kept

Only on the owner's computer, as files in the channel's working folder: the two sign-in tokens, copies of comments, the replies that were sent, statistics, and the automation's reports and logs. We run no server, database or cloud storage for this tool. Requests go straight from the owner's computer to Google over encrypted connections (HTTPS).

How long it is kept

• Comment text and commenter names: 30 days after a comment is stored, the tool replaces its text, the commenter's name, profile picture link and channel ID with "[expired]" in its stored copies: the comment files, the reply logs, and the reply drafting files and their records. What stays after that has no text and no name: the comment's YouTube ID, its thread and video, its dates and like count, its YouTube review status and the tool's own labels for it, lists of the comment IDs that were already answered or liked, the replies we posted (any @name in them is replaced too), and the short topic phrases noted from requests. These are kept with no end date.
• Reports on the owner's computer: the daily report of the YouTube Studio task can name a comment that was liked or hearted there, with the commenter's display name and the first words of the comment. These daily reports are kept, with no end date. The automation's run logs, which can hold the same lines, are moved to the computer's Recycle Bin after 60 days. Claude's own session records on that computer are deleted automatically after 30 days.
• Channel statistics: kept for as long as the owner needs them to plan videos, as YouTube's rules allow for a channel's own reports. The tool renews its sign-in each time it runs, so if access is taken away, it stops.
• Sign-in tokens: until the owner removes the tool's access or deletes them.

Who else sees the data

• Google and YouTube receive what each request needs: the videos, thumbnails, captions and replies being published, and the requests for comments and reports.
• Anthropic (Claude). The channel's automation is run by Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic, working on the owner's computer. Claude reads some of the data above to do its jobs: the text of recent comments (without the commenter's name), to draft short replies; the commenter's public display name and the first words of a comment, to find in YouTube Studio the friendly comments it likes for the owner; and the channel's statistics, the notes made from them and short topic phrases from comments, to plan future videos. Claude is a cloud service, so what it reads is sent to Anthropic to be processed, under Anthropic's own terms and privacy policy. The Claude account that runs this automation has Anthropic's model-training setting ("Help improve Claude") switched off. The Claude run that drafts replies cannot post anything: it only writes drafts, and the tool checks every draft against fixed rules before posting it, and posts only a few a day.
• Nobody else. We do not sell, rent or trade the data, and we do not use it for advertising.

Google API Services User Data Policy

The Storied Brands uploader's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. In plain words: data from Google is used only to run the Storied Brands channel as described on this page, it is shared only as described here, it is never sold or used for advertising, and people read it only to run the channel, with the owner's agreement.

Your choices

The channel owner

• Remove the tool's access at any time on the Google security settings page: security.google.com/settings/security/permissions. After that, the tool can no longer reach YouTube, and the data it stored will be deleted within 30 days.
• Delete the sign-in token files in the channel's folder, which signs the tool out.

Viewers

• You can edit or delete your comment on YouTube at any time. The tool's stored copies of its text are replaced with "[expired]" 30 days after it stored them; How long it is kept lists what stays.
• You can ask us to delete anything we hold about you (see Contact). We will do it within 7 days. Deleting our copies does not delete anything on YouTube.

Cookies and your device

This website uses no cookies, no scripts, no analytics and no trackers, and it has no forms. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which may keep basic technical logs (such as IP addresses) to deliver and protect the site; see Cloudflare's privacy policy. We do not use those logs.

The tool runs only on the owner's computer and keeps its files there. It places nothing on viewers' devices.

Advertising

The tool and this website show no ads, and no one else serves content through them. YouTube may show ads on videos under its own policies.

Changes to this policy

If what the tool does with data changes, we update this page first and change the date at the top.

Contact

For a question about privacy, a complaint, or a request to delete data, please email us at the business email address shown on our YouTube channel page, in the channel's details. YouTube may ask you to sign in before it shows the address.