Privacy policy

Who we are

FridayRespawn is a YouTube channel about games, movies, tech and AI. fridayrespawn.com is its community site. For anything about your data, write to contact@fridayrespawn.com. This address is also our grievance contact under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

What we collect

• Your Google account basics, when you sign in with Google: your name, email address and profile picture, plus Google's account ID for you. We ask Google only for openid, email and profile. We never see your password, and we don't get access to your Gmail, contacts, Drive or YouTube account through sign-in.
• Your review submission: the YouTube link (video ID and URL) you send us, the video's public title from YouTube, the name you want to be credited as, and the date and time you sent it. If you record on our site, we also note that it was recorded here and its length. If you use the optional upload feature, we store the video ID, the title it was uploaded with, and the visibility YouTube reports for it (for example “Unlisted”).
• Optional social links: the Instagram and/or Facebook profile links you choose to give us. They are optional. We save them to your profile so they are filled in next time.
• Your consent record: which version of the permission text you agreed to, the exact text, the time you agreed, and whether you chose to be added as a collaborator.
• Receipt email status: whether your receipt email was sent, and any error code from our email provider. We don't keep a copy of the email itself.
• Technical data: our hosting provider processes standard request data such as IP address and browser type to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. We use a small rate-limit counter tied to your account to prevent spam.

We never store your video. Your video stays on your own YouTube channel. We only store its link. We don't use advertising or analytics cookies.

Recording in your browser

• If you choose “Record now”, your browser asks for permission to use your camera and microphone. Recording happens entirely on your device. Nothing is recorded until you press the record button.
• Your recording never touches our servers. It is kept only in your browser's own storage on your device, so you don't lose it if the page reloads. It is removed when you send your review, when you tap “Start over” or “Retake”, or after 7 days, whichever comes first. You can also clear it by clearing this site's data in your browser.
• From there, the video goes only where you send it: saved to your phone, or uploaded directly from your device to your own YouTube channel if you use the optional upload feature below.

Why we use it

• To sign you in and know that a review is really yours.
• To review submissions and, if yours is picked, to feature it in FridayRespawn videos and credit you.
• To tag you or invite you as a collaborator on our posts, if you asked us to and gave a social link.
• To email you a receipt of what you sent and agreed to, and to contact you if your review is featured.
• To keep the site secure and prevent abuse.

We rely on your consent, which you give when you sign in and when you tick the permission box on a submission. Usage permission, the collaborator option and social links are separate choices. We don't sell your data, and we don't use it for advertising.

Google sign-in and YouTube API Services

fridayrespawn.com uses Google sign-in. We also offer an optional feature (currently available to a limited group of testers) that uploads your review video to your own YouTube channel as Unlisted, using YouTube API Services. Signing in never gives us this permission. We ask Google for it separately, only at the moment you tap the upload button, and you can say no and save the video and paste a link instead.

What the upload permission is used for. The permission is Google's “Manage your YouTube videos: upload” access (youtube.upload). We use it only to upload the one review you recorded, from your device straight to YouTube, as Unlisted, with the title shown to you before you upload. YouTube then tells your browser the new video's ID and visibility, which we save with your review. We don't use it to read, change or delete any of your other videos, and we don't use it for anything else.

• By using a feature that uses YouTube API Services, you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service.
• Google's handling of your data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
• If you use the upload feature, the access token Google gives your browser stays in the page's memory for that upload only (it expires after about an hour). It is never saved on your device, never sent to or stored on our servers, and we don't receive a refresh token. We store only the resulting video ID, link, title and visibility.
• You can remove FridayRespawn's access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Limited Use disclosure. fridayrespawn.com's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We use Google user data only to provide the features you see on this site, we don't transfer it to others except as needed to run those features or to comply with the law, we don't use it for advertising, and no human reads it except with your permission, for security, or to comply with the law.

Who we share it with

We use these service providers (processors) to run the site. They process data only on our instructions:

• Vercel: website hosting.
• Neon: database hosting.
• Zoho (ZeptoMail): sending receipt emails. Zoho Mail also hosts our contact inbox.
• Google: sign-in, and YouTube for the videos you choose to share.

If your review is featured, the parts covered by your permission (your video, the name you gave and, if you chose, your social handle) will be public in FridayRespawn's videos and posts on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

Where your data is stored

Our database and servers are in Singapore (Neon and Vercel, Asia Pacific region). Our email provider may process data in India. By using the site you understand that your data is transferred to and stored outside India, in line with applicable law.

How long we keep it

• Your account and profile: until you delete them.
• Reviews and their consent records: until you ask us to delete them, or 24 months after the review drive closes, whichever comes first. We may keep a consent record longer if we need it to show that a published video was used with permission.
• Rate-limit counters: about 2 days.
• Deletion log: when we delete your data we keep a record that contains no personal data (only a one-way hash and counts) to prove the request was handled.

Your rights and choices

• Access or correct your data: write to contact@fridayrespawn.com.
• Withdraw a review or delete your data: see Data deletion. Withdrawing consent doesn't affect videos already published before you withdrew.
• Social links are optional. You can leave them blank or ask us to remove them.
• Revoke Google access at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
• If you're unhappy with how we handled a request, write to our grievance contact at contact@fridayrespawn.com. You may also be able to complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Children

To send a review you must be 18 or older, or have your parent or guardian's agreement. We don't knowingly collect data from children without that agreement. If you believe a child has sent us a review without it, write to contact@fridayrespawn.com and we will delete it.

Security

We use HTTPS everywhere, keep access to the admin area limited to the channel team, store no passwords or Google tokens, and log only technical IDs and error codes, not your email or name.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. If a change affects what you agreed to on a submission, we will ask again before using your data in the new way.

Contact

Questions, requests or complaints: contact@fridayrespawn.com.