Alfred Privacy Policy for Youtube Publishing

Last Updated February 18, 2021

Alfred´s Privacy Policy for YouTube Publishing describes how the Alfred application collects, uses, and shares your personal data when registering YouTube accounts in Alfred and when publishing content to YouTube.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE APPLICATION FOR YOUTUBE ACCOUNT REGISTERING AND PUBLISHING TO YOUTUBE.

When mentioned in this document, Alfred means the Alfred Application installed and used by you.

WHAT INFORMATION DOES ALFRED COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

Alfred application must have authentication and authorization credentials to be able to use the YouTube Data API. This API allows Alfred application to publish your videos to your selected channels.

Google APIs use the OAuth 2.0 protocol for authentication and authorization credentials.

YouTube account registration in Alfred:

In order to publish a video, you first need to register your YouTube account in Alfred. When registering an YouTube account, Alfred sends its own Client ID and Client Secret tokens, previously generated for Alfred by Google. We then receive from YouTube the Access and Refresh tokens, specific for your account, that grants Alfred access to the YouTube Data API and your YouTube account. This request requires an authentication step done in a Google web page opened automatically by Alfred where you log in with your Google account. After logging in, you are asked whether you are willing to grant one or more permissions that Alfred is requesting. This process is called user consent.

If you grant at least one permission, the Google Authorization Server sends to Alfred an access token, a refresh token that Alfred can use to obtain a new access token and a list of scopes of access granted by that token.

These are the only account-specific information that Alfred stores in its database and can only be used by Alfred, as they are validated by Google/YouTube for the Alfred application only.

If you do not grant the permission, the server returns an error, your YouTube account is not registered in Alfred and no Access and Refresh tokens are received and stored.

When directly entering information to be identified during the log in with the Google account or when adding any other information once logged, you are bound by the YouTube Terms of Service, Google Privacy Policy, and API Services Terms of Service.

You may now publish your videos on YouTube directly from Alfred.

Publishing content to your YouTube account from Alfred:

In Alfred, the publish to YouTube Window allows for inserting the title, description and keywords as metadata for the video. In this pane, you can also choose the recording date and if it will be transcoded to other format before being uploaded.

At the Configurations Pane in the same window, you also define the privacy, made for children, embedded and license options used by YouTube.

Alfred then uses the insert.video YouTube Data API request to send the video and its metadata.

The process is finished when we receive the video’s link at YouTube, which is stored for each uploaded video.

Alfred does not delete or alter content on your YouTube account. Even content published by Alfred.

HOW DOES ALFRED USE AND PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?

As stated in the aforementioned section, Alfred does not store any private customer data when publishing videos to YouTube channels. The only user related data stored by Alfred on computers that belong to you are access tokens received from Google and the respective YouTube links for the published videos.

DOES ALFRED SHARE DATA WITH THIRD PARTIES?

Alfred does not share any information with third parties.

DOES ALFRED USE COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

Alfred application does not use cookies or any other similar technologies.

HOW CAN USERS CONTROL THEIR DATA?

Access tokens may be deleted by deleting the associated YouTube account from Alfred.

YouTube links for the published videos may be deleted by deleting the respective videos in Alfred.

Furthermore, the user rights to access, correct, amend or delete the data are bound by the privacy policies of any Third-Party Services that have been accessed through Alfred.

Alfred shall not be responsible for any of the data collected or for the privacy practices of any such Third-Party Services.

HOW WILL ALFRED NOTIFY USERS OF POLICY CHANGES?

From time to time the Privacy Policy may need to be revised or updated to adapt to applicable legislations or to new rules and regulations. Depending on the significance of the update, Alfred may take a more prominent action to inform you (including email notification of Privacy Policy changes).