Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 16, 2026

What YouChannelBrains does

YouChannelBrains builds searchable, citable indexes from publicly available YouTube content (titles, descriptions, and transcripts) and lets you ask questions answered from that material. We process public content; we do not access private videos or your YouTube account.

Data we collect

• Account data — your email and profile basics, handled by our authentication provider (Clerk). We never see or store your password.
• Billing data — subscriptions are processed by Stripe. Your card number never touches our servers.
• Usage data — the brains you create, the questions you ask, saved insights, and technical logs needed to run and improve the service.
• Public YouTube content — metadata and transcripts of the videos you point us at, stored so your brains stay fast and consistent.

How we use it

To operate the product: build your brains, answer your questions, enforce plan limits, and provide support. Generating an answer sends your question and the retrieved transcript excerpts to our AI provider (Anthropic) and indexes transcript text through an embeddings provider (OpenAI). We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use your private questions to train models.

Sub-processors

We rely on the following third parties to run the service. Each processes only what its role requires:

• Clerk — authentication and account identity.
• Anthropic — generating cited answers and article outputs from your questions and retrieved excerpts.
• OpenAI — text embeddings used to index and search transcript content.
• Stripe — subscription billing and payment details (active once paid plans launch).
• Meta / WhatsApp — if you connect a brain to WhatsApp, your phone number and the messages you exchange are processed through the WhatsApp Business Platform.
• Railway — hosting and where your data is stored.
• Webshare — network routing used only to fetch public content; it does not store your personal data.

International transfers

Some of these providers process data outside the EU/EEA. Where that happens, transfers rely on the appropriate safeguards (such as the providers’ Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent mechanisms).

How long we keep it

We keep your account, brains, questions, and saved insights for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we delete the associated data (including any WhatsApp or Telegram links) within 30 days, except where we must retain limited records for legal or billing obligations. Operational logs are kept only as long as needed to run and secure the service.

Your rights

You are in control of your data, directly and without emailing us. From your data & account page you can download everything we hold about you as a JSON file (access & portability) and permanently delete your account and associated data (erasure) — no support ticket, no waiting. You can also still reach us at support@youchannelbrains.com. EU/EEA users have the full rights provided by the GDPR (access, rectification, erasure, portability, objection); we answer any emailed request within 30 days.

Cookies & analytics

We use essential cookies to run the app: your session (authentication), your preferences (e.g. theme), and billing. These are always on because the product cannot function without them. With your explicit consent — via the banner shown on first visit — we also use privacy-friendly product analytics to understand which features help and where people get stuck. You can decline and the app works exactly the same. We never use advertising trackers and we never sell your data.

Changes & contact

We may update this policy as the product evolves; material changes will be announced on this page. Questions: support@youchannelbrains.com.