Privacy policy

1. Scope

Travel Channels is a personal app operated for its owner’s YouTube channel, 3 Clues: Guess the Country, and Instagram Creator account, Not Rendered. Its tools run on the owner’s computer. They use YouTube Data API v3 and Instagram API with Instagram Login.

This website provides information about that app. It offers no public account registration, media submission or credential-entry form. The owner authorizes account access through the official Google and Instagram sign-in and consent screens.

2. Information the tools use

• Connected account information: the authorized account or channel ID, title, handle or username, account type and related identifiers needed to confirm the correct account.
• Approved upload information: the owner’s finished video file and its approved title, description, tags, audience and visibility settings for a YouTube upload.
• Post records: video or media IDs, URLs, captions, upload and publication times, and matching information for Reels the owner posts manually.
• Aggregate performance readings: available views, reach, likes, comment counts, shares, saves and watch-time metrics, with the time each reading was collected. Unavailable metrics remain unknown.
• Connection credentials: OAuth client credentials and access or refresh tokens needed for the authorized functions. The tools do not collect the owner’s Google or Instagram password.

The workflow reads statistics about the owner’s posts. It does not collect a public viewer directory, individual viewer identities, or the text of viewers’ comments.

3. Why information is used and where it goes

Account information is used to verify the intended channel, perform authorized actions and match posts to local records. Approved original videos and their metadata are sent to YouTube using the visibility approved by the owner. Uploads approved as public are made available to YouTube viewers. The app reads media and statistics from the connected platforms so the owner can review their channel’s performance.

Instagram Reels are posted by the owner in Instagram. The active Instagram connection is used for profile, media and insights access; API publishing remains switched off.

Travel Channels does not sell account data or use it to serve advertising. Google API information is used for the owner’s disclosed channel workflow and remains subject to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including applicable Limited Use requirements.

Google and Meta process information sent to their services under their own terms and privacy policies. See the Google Privacy Policy and Instagram Privacy Policy.

4. Storage and retention

The tools save channel records and performance readings locally on the owner’s computer. Connection credentials are stored in files protected by Windows account encryption and access controls, outside the workspace and its channel backups. Original media, approved exports and locally authored plans are separate from credentials.

The owner controls local retention for ongoing channel work, subject to the platforms’ data rules and continued authorization. Historical statistics and other API-derived records must be refreshed, checked or removed as required by those rules. This policy does not describe an automatic retention or deletion service.

Copies the owner deliberately gives to an AI assistant or another service are also subject to that service’s retention practices. The owner should avoid sharing credentials and unnecessary private material.

5. Removing access and requesting deletion

The owner can remove Google authorization through Google Account permissions. Instagram authorization can be removed through Instagram’s Apps and Websites controls. Removing permission prevents further authorized API use once the platform applies the change.

The owner can ask the local tools operator to disconnect an account or delete its API-derived records and protected credentials. That process is performed through the local tools; this website has no account dashboard or deletion button. Requests and revoked access must be handled within the applicable platform deadlines.

Revoking a connection does not itself erase the owner’s original footage, finished exports or posts already published on a platform. Those are managed separately by the owner. Removal of API-derived account records and statistics is a separate part of the local deletion process.

6. Visiting this website

This site adds no advertising or visitor-analytics scripts. Its hosting provider may process normal connection information, such as an IP address, browser details, request time and requested page, to deliver and protect the website. The provider’s own privacy practices apply to that processing.

Links to YouTube, Instagram, Google and other external services open services governed by their own policies.

7. Contact and updates

For questions about account data, disconnection or local record deletion, contact the app owner using the support email shown on the Travel Channels Google consent screen. The owner can also make these requests directly to the operator of their local tools.

Changes to the workflow’s data practices will be reflected on this page. The date above identifies the current version of this policy.