Privacy Policy

We collect account information such as your name, email address, authentication details, plan details, billing records, and product activity needed to operate VidHunters. We also process the public YouTube channel and video information needed to provide competitor research, outlier detection, trend analysis, and script-generation features.

VidHunters stores and accesses limited information on your device through essential first-party cookies and browser storage. We use these technologies to keep the service secure and working, not for advertising or cross-site behavioural tracking.

• Authentication cookies. Supabase authentication session cookies keep you signed in and protect authenticated requests. Without them, you cannot use account features.
• Security and account-flow cookies. VidHunters uses a short-lived OAuth state cookie while you connect YouTube to prevent request forgery, and a short-lived password recovery cookie while you reset a password. When beta access is enabled, an essential beta-access cookie remembers that access decision.
• Local and session storage. We store transient product state such as a selected source video or script brief, unread in-app notifications, a pending checkout or top-up reference, and scan-progress state. This lets the interface continue a request, show its completion state, and avoid losing context during normal navigation. Session storage is normally cleared when the browser session ends; local storage remains until it is cleared by the browser or the product removes it after the related flow ends.

We do not use advertising cookies, sell device-derived information, or allow third parties to serve advertising content through VidHunters. You can control cookies and browser storage through your browser settings. Blocking or deleting essential cookies or storage may sign you out, end an in-progress connection or checkout flow, or prevent some account features from working.

VidHunters uses YouTube API Services. If you choose to connect your own YouTube channel, we request the YouTube read-only permission to retrieve your channel ID, channel name, handle, description, thumbnail, subscriber count, and video count. We use those details to connect your workspace to your channel and provide creator-specific analysis and suggestions. VidHunters does not use this permission to publish, edit, delete, comment on, or otherwise modify YouTube content or account settings. Our use of information received from YouTube API Services is also subject to Google's Privacy Policy.

During a channel connection, VidHunters uses the OAuth access token only to retrieve the connected channel details described above. VidHunters does not store OAuth access tokens or refresh tokens after that connection flow completes. We retain connected-channel details, workspace records, generated scripts, and product records while your account or shared workspace remains active, unless they are deleted sooner or you request deletion. We refresh or remove stored YouTube data as required for the service and applicable YouTube API Services requirements.

For this section, Google user data means the connected-channel information VidHunters receives through Google and YouTube API Services. We do not sell, rent, or disclose Google user data to advertisers, data brokers, information resellers, or other parties for their independent use. We share, transfer, or disclose Google user data only in the following limited situations:

• Authorised workspace members. If a workspace owner grants another VidHunters user viewer or editor access, that member can see the workspace's connected-channel details, public YouTube research, competitors, signals, generated scripts, and member identity details needed to use the shared workspace. Access ends when the owner removes that member or the workspace is otherwise closed.
• Service providers acting on our behalf. We use Supabase for authentication and database infrastructure, Vercel for application hosting, OpenAI for a user-requested AI feature, Resend for product emails, Polar for billing, and TranscriptAPI for public YouTube video and transcript retrieval. Each provider receives only the information needed for its role and is permitted to process it only to provide services to VidHunters, not for its own advertising, sale, or generalised AI/ML training.
• Legal, safety, and rights protection. We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is required by law, legal process, or government request, or is necessary to protect the security, rights, property, or safety of VidHunters, our users, or others.
• Corporate transaction. If VidHunters is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganisation, bankruptcy, or sale of assets, information may be transferred to the relevant successor or counterparty as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

We do not share OAuth access tokens or refresh tokens because VidHunters does not retain them after the connection flow. We also do not use Google user data to serve personalised advertising, determine creditworthiness, or train VidHunters' or a third party's generalised AI or machine-learning models.

We use information to create and secure your account, deliver competitor research workflows, calculate outlier and trend signals, generate scripts and content ideas, provide billing, improve product quality, and communicate important updates. We do not sell personal information or use Google user data to train VidHunters' own AI models.

VidHunters uses service providers for authentication, hosting, billing, email delivery, analytics, and AI-powered product features. When you use an AI feature, relevant feature inputs—such as connected-channel context, public YouTube video information, or instructions you provide—may be processed by an AI service provider to return the requested result. Providers process information only as needed to provide their services to us.

VidHunters may analyse publicly available YouTube channel and video information to identify competitor signals and opportunities. Public data does not become private merely because it is displayed in VidHunters. You are responsible for using insights and generated outputs in compliance with applicable law and platform rules.

We use reasonable technical and organisational safeguards, including managed authentication and access controls, to protect information. No system can be guaranteed completely secure.

You can remove a connected channel in VidHunters Settings. You can also revoke VidHunters' Google access through your Google Account permissions. You may request access to, correction of, export of, or deletion of your account information by contacting us at team@vidhunters.com. We may retain limited records where needed for security, fraud prevention, legal obligations, dispute resolution, or billing administration.

We may update this policy as VidHunters evolves. We will post the revised version here and update the “Last updated” date when we make material changes.