Privacy policy

What we process

We retrieve public video metadata and a limited sample of top-level comments through YouTube API Services. This includes comment text, IDs, author display names and like counts. We analyze comments, not the video's audio, imagery, watch time or retention.

We use a browser identifier in local storage and a hashed network identifier to limit requests and prevent abuse. Your browser also remembers your light or dark theme. Infrastructure providers may process IP addresses and technical request logs to operate the service.

Analysis providers and sharing

If AI analysis is enabled, the public video title and a bounded sample of public comment text with temporary numeric references are sent to the configured OpenAI or Microsoft Azure OpenAI service to produce a report. Author display names and raw YouTube comment IDs are not included as separate model-input fields. Basic analysis may instead use local rules. Each new report identifies which method produced its takeaways. We do not use the comments to train our own shared models.

Preprocessing removes obvious links, mentions and email addresses from model input, but it cannot guarantee that public comment text contains no personal information. Suggestions are automated interpretations, not facts about every viewer.

A successful analysis can create a shareable report containing public video details, comment excerpts and recommendations. Anyone with its link can view it without signing in. Treat that link as public; do not submit confidential information.

Feedback and retention

Feedback, usefulness ratings and any optional email address are stored privately for product improvement, support and requested beta invitations. They are not displayed on your report.

Public reports expire after 30 days. Expired reports and their associated feedback are removed by scheduled cleanup. General feedback and anonymous request records are also removed after 30 days. Hosting backups and provider logs may have separate retention periods.

AI briefs may be reused for the same comment sample for up to 24 hours to avoid duplicate processing. The cache contains bounded AI output and references, not a second complete copy of the fetched comments. Expired cache entries are removed by scheduled cleanup.

To request deletion or ask a privacy question, use our contact form. Include the report link if relevant, but no passwords. Providing an email lets us reply.

Optional website analytics

Google Analytics is off unless it is configured for our production website and you explicitly choose “Allow analytics”. Rejecting is just as easy and does not affect the analyzer. Global Privacy Control keeps analytics off, even after a previous opt-in. Use “Analytics settings” on any page to change your choice.

If you opt in, we measure page views for the analyzer landing page, fictional example, privacy policy and terms. Page names and addresses come from a fixed list; raw query strings, fragments and referrers are not sent. Approved launch links can also supply a campaign source (such as Instagram), medium (such as social) and campaign name from a fixed list. These labels identify a campaign, not a recipient or creator. Google can associate eligible visits with the same pseudonymous browser session. All other query parameters and unrecognized campaign values are discarded. We do not send video links, IDs or titles, report links or contents, comments, account IDs, our abuse-prevention browser identifier, email addresses, or feedback text to Google Analytics. On the public analyzer we also count analysis starts, successful completions, failures and successful feedback submissions, without their contents or error messages. No analytics is loaded on shared reports, feedback, sign-in or connected-workspace pages.

After opt-in, Google Analytics runs on eligible public pages and uses first-party analytics cookies (_ga and a property-specific _ga_… cookie) containing pseudonymous browser and session identifiers. They are configured to expire after 30 days without extending that expiry on each page view. New cookies can be created after expiry if your permission remains allowed. Advertising consent, personalization and Google signals remain off. Google also receives technical connection data such as your IP address and browser information. This is not anonymous browsing. See Google's Privacy Policy.

The tag is not isolated from the page. Our integration disables automatic pageviews. Before enabling analytics, we require automatic form/outbound tracking and other enhanced measurement to be switched off in Google. Our own events use only fixed page details, approved campaign labels and the four event names above.

We store your analytics choice in local storage until you change it or clear browser data. If storage is unavailable, the choice lasts for this page session. Revoking consent disables collection, clears this integration's analytics cookies and reloads the page to remove the running tag. This reload may discard unsaved analysis results or feedback. Navigation to another page also uses a full page load after analytics is activated, so private and report pages do not inherit the tag. Revocation cannot recall data already sent. The Google Analytics property is intended to use the shortest available event-data retention period (two months).

YouTube and private beta

Your use of this service is also subject to the YouTube Terms of Service. See Google's Privacy Policy. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.

Connected-channel tools are invitation-only and require separate Google consent. The free analyzer cannot post to your channel. You can revoke granted access in Google account permissions. Contact us to request deletion of connected-channel data.