Your Google app and privacy

What the app is

Stream Manager is a free, open source desktop app that runs on your own Windows PC. To connect it to your YouTube channel, its setup guide walks you through creating a Google Cloud OAuth app in your own Google account, and you are asked to name it something like "Stream Manager" and to paste this page in as its privacy policy link.

That app is yours. It lives in your Google Cloud account, it was created by you, and it is used by nobody but you, to connect your copy of Stream Manager to your own channel. It is not operated by me or by anyone else, and no other person can sign in through it.

The reason for this slightly unusual setup is that it removes the middleman. A shared app would mean every user's channel access flowing through credentials someone else controls, on a quota everyone competes for. With your own app, the connection is between your PC and Google, and there is no third party in it at all.

What the app is allowed to do

When you sign in, Google asks you to grant a single permission, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube, which covers managing your YouTube account. Stream Manager uses it to read your videos and broadcasts and to write back the details you choose to publish: titles, descriptions, tags, thumbnails, privacy settings, and scheduled broadcasts for Stream Relay.

Nothing is written to your channel unless you ask for it. The app does not post, comment, upload videos, or change anything on a schedule of its own.

Where your data goes

Nowhere except Google. Stream Manager runs entirely on your PC and talks to Google's own APIs directly. The sign-in itself completes on your machine: Google redirects to a local address on your own computer rather than to any website.

This website operates no server. It is static files, it has no database, and it receives nothing from the app. I cannot see your credentials, your channel, or your videos, and there is no account system through which anyone could. Whatever the app fetches from YouTube, such as video details, thumbnails, and statistics, stays on your machine.

What is stored, and where

Your OAuth client ID and secret, and the access and refresh tokens Google issues when you sign in, are stored in Stream Manager's settings folder in your Windows AppData directory, encrypted at rest using Windows' own data protection. That encryption is tied to your Windows user account, so another account on the same machine cannot read them, and copying the folder to a different computer leaves them unusable rather than portable. On a system where Windows reports encryption as unavailable, the app saves them as it did before rather than refusing to work.

Nothing leaves that PC either way. Disconnecting YouTube in the app's Integrations page deletes the stored tokens, and deleting the app's settings folder removes everything it has kept. You can also revoke the app's access from Google's side at any time, which is covered below.

Revoking access

You can withdraw the app's access to your channel at any time from your Google account permissions page, independently of Stream Manager. Because the Google Cloud app is yours, you can also delete it outright in the Google Cloud console, which permanently ends any possibility of it being used.

YouTube API Services

Stream Manager uses YouTube API Services to read and update your channel. By using it you are also agreeing to the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google's handling of the data it receives is covered by the Google Privacy Policy. Stream Manager's use of information received from Google APIs follows Google's Limited Use requirements: the data is used only to provide the features you asked for, and it is never sold, transferred, or used for advertising.

This website

Separately from the app, stream-manager.app uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views. It does not use cookies, does not fingerprint visitors, and collects no personal information. It has no connection to the app, your Google app, or your channel.