PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Creator Terminal ("we", "the site") shows public YouTube channel and video statistics as a live dashboard. This page explains what data moves through the site and what we do with it. We'd rather under-collect than explain ourselves later.

What we don't collect

No account, no login, no email, no payment details today — there is nothing to sign up for yet.
No tracking cookies, no ad cookies, no cross-site tracking pixels. The site currently runs no advertising.
No personal data about you as a visitor is stored anywhere in our database.

What we do collect

Channel handles you search. When you type an @handle and hit LOAD, it's sent to our server so we can fetch that channel's public data from the official YouTube Data API. We don't tie searches to you individually.
Snapshot history. Every channel searched here gets its public subscriber/view counts (and per-video view/like counts for watched channels) saved on a timer, keyed by the YouTube channel or video ID — never by visitor. This is what powers the growth sparklines and velocity curves.
Standard server logs. Like virtually any web server, ours briefly logs request paths and IP addresses for abuse prevention and to protect the site's shared YouTube API quota. These logs are not sold, shared, or used for tracking, and are kept only as long as needed for that purpose.

Third-party services

YouTube Data API (Google). All channel/video data is fetched server-side using our API key — your browser never talks to YouTube's API directly. See Google's Privacy Policy for how Google handles that request on our end.
Google Fonts. Your browser loads a stylesheet directly from fonts.googleapis.com to render the site's typeface. That's a direct request from your browser to Google, governed by Google's own privacy terms.

Advertising

The site does not currently show ads. If that changes, this policy will be updated first to disclose exactly which ad network is used and what cookies/identifiers it sets, with a new "last updated" date above so you can tell something changed.

Your data, your rights

Since we don't hold accounts or personal profiles, there's generally nothing tied to you to export or delete. If you believe a search you ran was logged in a way that concerns you, contact us and we'll look into it.

Changes to this policy

We'll update the date above whenever this changes materially. Continued use of the site after an update means you've accepted the revised policy.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [dev@creatorterminal.co]