CreatorVibe is an editorial discovery platform for Indian creators. This page explains what data we collect from YouTube’s public APIs, how we use it, how long we keep it, and what choices creators and visitors have. We aim for plain-language disclosure — if anything here is unclear, email hello@creatorvibe.in and we’ll clarify.
1. Summary
- We use the public YouTube Data API v3 to fetch publicly-visible channel and video information about creators we rank.
- We never access private data, never sign in as creators or viewers, and never ask viewers of this site for their YouTube login.
- Raw API data is automatically deleted after 30 days. Only aggregated / derived signals (rankings, scores) are retained long-term.
- We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube, Google, or Alphabet.
2. What YouTube data we collect
Via the YouTube Data API v3, we access publicly-available information about the creators we have chosen to feature on CreatorVibe. Specifically:
- Channel data: channel ID, name, handle, public description, thumbnail URL, subscriber count, total view count, total video count, country.
- Video data: video ID, title, public description, thumbnail URL, duration, published date, view / like / comment counts.
- Public comments: the most-relevant top-level comments on each video, used purely for aggregate sentiment analysis (described below).
All of this is information that any logged-out visitor to YouTube can already see. We do not access private analytics, watch time, demographics, revenue, owner-only fields, or anything behind a YouTube account login.
3. How we use the data
- Rankings: channel and video metrics feed our weekly leaderboard. See our Methodology page for the full breakdown.
- Audience Love score: a sample of public comments per video is sent to Google’s Gemini AI service for aggregate sentiment analysis. We store the aggregate result (e.g. “68 / 100 audience love” and a short summary sentence), not the raw comments long-term.
- Editorial summaries: a creator’s public description and the same public-comment sample are used to generate a short AI-written profile summary (the “About” paragraph). These are clearly tagged as AI-summarised content where displayed.
- Search: we generate vector embeddings of the above so visitors can search semantically (e.g. “authentic finance creators”).
We do not train AI models on YouTube content. We use Google’s Gemini as an inference service only — we send a prompt with the data, it returns a response, and that’s the end of the round-trip. No model weights are updated on the YouTube data we send.
4. Data retention — the 30-day rule
Per YouTube API Services Terms of Service §III.E.4(e), raw YouTube data must be refreshed or deleted at least every 30 days. We implement this in code:
- Daily refresh: the channel and video data for every active creator on CreatorVibe is re-fetched from the YouTube API once per day.
- 30-day prune: raw point-in-time snapshots (channel_snapshots, video_snapshots, video_comments) older than 30 days are automatically deleted by an scheduled job.
- Derived data is permanent: aggregate rankings, audience-love scores, sentiment summaries, and other derived signals are retained indefinitely. These are anonymised aggregations, not raw YouTube data.
- Inactive creators: if a creator stops being featured on CreatorVibe, their stored raw data is deleted within 30 days.
5. Third parties we share data with
- Google Gemini (Generative Language API): we send public comment samples and creator descriptions to Gemini for sentiment + summary generation. Subject to Google’s Privacy Policy.
- Supabase: our database provider stores the data described above. EU/US hosted, encrypted at rest.
- Vercel: our hosting and CDN provider serves the public website. Standard server logs (IP, user-agent, requested URL) are retained per Vercel’s defaults.
- Vercel Analytics: aggregate, cookie-less analytics on page-view counts. No personal data collected.
We do not sell, rent, or share creator data with advertisers, data brokers, or any third party outside the operational processors above.
6. Visitor data on creatorvibe.in
We collect minimal data about visitors to this website:
- Analytics: aggregate, cookie-less page-view data via Vercel Analytics. We see counts and broad geography (country level), not individual identities.
- Server logs: standard request logs (IP address, user agent, requested URL, timestamp) retained briefly for security and abuse prevention.
- No cookies, no fingerprinting, no cross-site tracking. If you email us at hello@creatorvibe.in your email and message are kept only as long as needed to respond.
7. Your choices as a creator
If you’re a creator featured on CreatorVibe, you can:
- Request removal. Email us at hello@creatorvibe.in from an address linked to your YouTube channel (or include your channel handle + a verification step). We’ll remove your profile and stored data within 7 days.
- Request correction. Same email. Tell us what’s wrong; we’ll review and respond.
- Claim your profile (coming soon). A self-serve flow to verify channel ownership, update your profile, and unlock additional analytics is on our roadmap.
8. Reference: YouTube and Google policies
Because we use the YouTube Data API, the following also apply:
9. Children
CreatorVibe is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you’re a parent or guardian and believe your child has interacted with our service, email hello@creatorvibe.in and we’ll address it.
10. Changes to this policy
If our practices change, we’ll update this page and the effective date at the top. Material changes will also be summarised at the top of the page for at least 30 days.
11. Contact
Questions, removal requests, or anything else: hello@creatorvibe.in.