Privacy Policy

Youtop can be browsed without an account. We collect as little as we can, and we do not sell personal information.

Server logs: like most websites, our hosting provider processes IP addresses and request details to deliver pages and to protect the service from abuse.

Preferences: your chosen language and colour theme are stored in your own browser (a cookie named youtop_locale and a local storage entry named youtop_theme). They are not used for tracking.

Forms: if you send a correction, removal or claim request we store what you type, including any name and email address you provide, so that we can respond. Form submissions are rate limited using your IP address, which is held in memory briefly and not written to our database.

Administrators: staff who sign in to the admin area receive a session cookie that is used only for authentication.

Youtop uses YouTube API Services to display channel and video information. Videos are played with YouTube's embedded player in privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). When you play a video, or follow a link to YouTube, YouTube and Google process data under the Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. By using Youtop you also agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms.

Youtop does not request access to your Google account. Phase-two creator claiming will use Google sign-in with the narrowest scope that can verify channel ownership; this policy will be updated before that feature launches, including how to revoke access at https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions.

Creator pages show public channel metadata supplied by the YouTube API and editorial text based on cited public sources. Creators can ask for corrections or removal at any time.

Data obtained from the YouTube API is refreshed or deleted within thirty days, as YouTube's developer policies require. Requests you submit are kept for as long as needed to handle them and to keep a record of the decision.

You can ask for a copy of, a correction to, or the deletion of personal information we hold about you by writing to the contact address published on this site before launch. Depending on where you live you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR or CCPA.

We will post changes to this policy on this page and update the date above.