Privacy policy

The web app at /app saves everything in your browser's storage (IndexedDB) on your computer:

• The videos from your Watch Later: each video's ID, title, channel name, channel picture, length and thumbnail.
• Your folders, which folder each video is in, and which videos you tossed.
• Your settings, including your Gemini API key if you add one.

This stays on your computer. Clearing site data for DockYT deletes it, so Settings lets you save a backup file. The backup is a file on your computer, and DockYT doesn't upload it anywhere.

YouTube doesn't let apps read Watch Later, so the DockYT extension reads it from the page in your browser.

• It runs only on your Watch Later page on youtube.com and on DockYT's own site. It doesn't read any other page.
• On the Watch Later page it reads the same video details listed above. To show channel pictures, it also loads each channel's page on youtube.com in the background.
• It keeps the list in the extension's storage on your computer and hands it to the DockYT tab in the same browser. It doesn't send it to any server.
• It only reads. It never adds, removes or changes anything on your YouTube account.

DockYT uses what the extension reads only to show and sort your videos. It never sells it, shares it or uses it for anything else, which is what the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy requires, including its Limited Use rules.

Pairing a phone is optional. When you scan the pairing code, your devices share a secret key that only they have. Each change is locked with that key (AES-256-GCM) on your device before it leaves.

• DockYT's sync server, which runs on Cloudflare, stores the locked changes and passes them to your other devices. It can't read your videos, folders or device names.
• It does see when each change was made, a random ID for each device, and the network details any server sees, such as your IP address.
• The locked changes stay on the server so a device that was offline can catch up. Choosing Unpair all devices in Settings deletes them.

When you share a YouTube link to DockYT on Android, the phone sends the video's ID to the sync server, which looks up the title and channel from YouTube's public oEmbed service. Nothing else is sent.

Auto-organize is optional and uses a Gemini API key that you create and add. When you run it, your browser sends video titles, channel names and folder names straight to Google's Gemini API. DockYT's servers aren't involved.

Google's Gemini API terms apply to what you send. On the free tier, Google may use it to improve its products. If you never add a key, Google sees none of it.

These services receive your IP address and the usual request details when your browser loads something from them:

• Vercel hosts the website and the app, and counts visits as described below.
• Google Fonts serves the fonts.
• YouTube serves the thumbnails and channel pictures, and plays videos you open.
• Cloudflare runs the sync server, if you pair a phone.

DockYT uses Vercel Web Analytics to count visits to each page. It sets no cookies and doesn't follow you to other sites.

• Each visit records the page's path, the site you came from, your country, and your browser, operating system and type of device.
• DockYT strips everything after the path before a visit is sent, so pairing codes and shared links never reach it. It never sees your videos, folders or settings.
• To tell visitors apart, Vercel uses a value made from your request that it throws away after a day. It doesn't keep your IP address.

The browser's local storage also remembers a few display choices, such as your theme and how each folder is sorted. DockYT sets no cookies and shows no ads.

If this policy changes, the new version goes on this page with a new date. DockYT is an independent project, not affiliated with YouTube or Google.