RadarPrivacy Policy
1. Who operates Radar
Radar ("the application") is a personal tool operated by Nelson Molina ("I", "me") to research content niches for my own YouTube channels. It is not a company product and it is not offered, sold or licensed to third parties. Access is restricted behind a login.
2. Use of YouTube API Services
Radar uses the YouTube API Services to read publicly available information about YouTube channels and videos. By using Radar you are also bound by the YouTube Terms of Service, and the data obtained from YouTube is subject to the Google Privacy Policy.
3. What data is accessed
Only public data returned by the YouTube Data API v3 and YouTube's public channel feeds:
- Public channel information: name, description, country, thumbnail, subscriber, view and video counts.
- Public video information: title, publish date, duration, thumbnail, and view, like and comment counts.
Radar does not use OAuth, does not request access to anyone's YouTube account, and does not access private data, comments' content, or any personal information of YouTube users or viewers.
4. How the data is used
The data is used only to compute growth and performance indicators shown in a private dashboard, to help me decide which topics to create content about. It is never sold, rented or disclosed to third parties, and it is not used for advertising.
AI classification (service provider). To classify a channel's format and whether it is "faceless", Radar may send that channel's public title, description, recent video titles and public thumbnail images to Anthropic's Claude API, which acts only as a processing service for this request. No personal data is sent, and the result is used only inside Radar.
Channel strategy (service provider). To analyse the owner's competitors and help plan videos, Radar may also send to Anthropic's Claude API the public titles and thumbnails of those competitors' videos, the text of public top-level comments on their most successful videos (without author names or identifiers), and the public captions/transcripts of some of those videos. Comments and transcripts are kept at most 30 days, like the rest of the YouTube data, and are used only to produce the owner's analysis inside Radar.
Radar computes its own indicators from this data (opportunity and growth scores, revenue estimates). They are clearly labeled in the application as metrics calculated by Radar and are not provided by YouTube.
5. Storage and deletion
- Data is stored on a private server that I operate.
- Statistics are refreshed regularly; any API data that has not been refreshed within 30 days is deleted automatically.
- Short-term view history used for "views per hour" is kept for 7 days.
6. Information about users of Radar
Radar's only users are me and reviewers I grant temporary access to. The login uses a single session cookie that is strictly necessary to keep you signed in; no analytics, tracking or advertising cookies are used, and no information is shared with third parties.
7. Revoking access
Radar does not connect to any user's Google or YouTube account, so there is no access to revoke. For reference, Google account permissions can always be reviewed at the Google security settings page.
8. Changes and contact
This policy may be updated; the date above shows the latest version. For any question about this policy or the data Radar processes, contact Nelson Molina at [email protected].