Privacy Policy for Cam2You

This Privacy Policy describes how Cam2You ("the App"), made by TIE-Games ("we", "us", "our"), handles information when you use it on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iOS. By using the App you agree to the practices described here.

1. Summary

• You don't create an account with us. We run no servers that receive your videos or your data.
• Your videos and everything the App stores stay on your device, except the videos and details you choose to upload to YouTube.
• The App contains no analytics, no advertising and no automatic crash reporting.
• We never sell, share or transfer your data.

2. YouTube API Services

Cam2You uses YouTube API Services to upload your videos to your YouTube channel. By connecting a YouTube channel to the App, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's handling of your data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.

3. Google user data

3.1 What the App accesses

When you connect your channel, the App asks for access to your YouTube account through Google sign-in (the scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube). With that access it handles:

• Your channel's ID and name, to show which channel is connected and to upload to it;
• the videos and playlists the App creates for you: their IDs, links, titles, processing status and privacy (public, unlisted or private);
• sign-in tokens issued by Google, which let the App upload on your behalf without asking you to sign in every time.

3.2 How the App uses it

Only to provide the features you use:

• uploading the videos you select, with the title, description and privacy you set;
• creating playlists and adding your uploaded videos to them in the order you arranged;
• checking whether YouTube has processed each upload and which privacy it has, so the App can show the result and notice failed or restricted uploads;
• deleting a video from YouTube only when you request it and confirm it (for example, to replace a copy that YouTube keeps private).

The App does not use Google user data for advertising, does not sell it, does not use it to build profiles, and does not use it to develop or train artificial intelligence or machine learning models. No person at TIE-Games can see it.

3.3 Where it is stored

On your device only. Sign-in tokens are kept in the operating system's secure storage (Windows Data Protection, Android Keystore, the macOS and iOS Keychain, or on Linux the desktop's keyring, such as GNOME Keyring or KWallet). On a Linux computer without a usable keyring they are kept in memory only, until the App closes. Your channel's name and the records of your uploads are kept in the App's local database; upload records are refreshed from YouTube or deleted at least every 30 days.

3.4 Sharing

Google user data travels only between your device and Google. We do not share or transfer it to anyone, including ourselves.

4. Your videos

The App reads videos from your camera, memory cards, folders and your phone's gallery to list and preview them. It reads the recording date and the camera's GPS position from the video files, on your device, to sort videos and suggest names and places; place names come from a database built into the App. When you cut or join videos, the App creates the new video temporarily on your device and deletes it after the upload. Auto-edit (Pro) looks at the picture, sound and speech of the videos you select and edits them into one, entirely on your device. Music suggests text prompts that you can copy into an AI music service yourself; the App sends nothing to such services, and uses the music files you choose only on your device. Nothing is uploaded unless you choose it. Videos you upload become content on YouTube under the privacy you choose and YouTube's terms.

5. Location

For a video without a GPS position, the App may ask your device for its current location to suggest where the video was recorded. The location is used on your device only; it is neither stored nor sent anywhere. You can refuse this permission; the App then leaves such places empty.

If you turn on online place lookup (off by default), the App sends the coordinates of your videos to the configured geocoding service, such as OpenStreetMap Nominatim, to look up place names.

6. Cameras and networks

The App uses Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and your local network to find and control your GoPro and to copy videos from it, and it asks for the matching permissions (on Android: nearby devices and videos/media). Connection details for your camera, such as its Wi-Fi name and password, are kept in the device's secure storage and are used only to connect to the camera.

Network shares (SMB and FTP) you add are opened only from your device, with the user name and password you enter; the password is kept in the device's secure storage. PeerLink sends videos directly between your own devices on your local network, encrypted, after you pair them; nothing passes through us. While PeerLink's page is open, your device announces itself on the local network under a random name (such as "cam2you-4k7p"), never your name or the device's name. The App uses the camera only to scan a pairing QR code; the picture stays on your device.

7. Other connections

• Updates: on Windows, macOS and Linux when installed from our releases, and on Android when installed from our website (the version from Google Play is updated by Google Play and looks for nothing itself), the App looks for new versions of itself at most once a day and when you check for updates, by reading the list of releases and their update information from GitHub (api.github.com and github.com), and it downloads the versions you choose to install from GitHub. These requests carry no data about you or your videos; like any website visit, they reveal your IP address to GitHub.
• Speech recognition model: Auto-edit hears speech in your videos to cut pauses and keep sentences whole. Its model (574 MB) is downloaded from Hugging Face (huggingface.co) only when you choose Download in the App's settings; the request carries no data about you or your videos and, like any website visit, reveals your IP address to Hugging Face. The speech is recognised on your device and is not sent anywhere.
• Purchases: Cam2You Pro is a one-time purchase. On Android it is bought through Google Play and on iOS through the App Store; Google or Apple handle the payment under their own terms and privacy policies, and the App only asks the store whether Pro is owned on your store account. On Windows, macOS and Linux, Pro is a licence key sold on tie-games.com by Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record, which handles the payment under its own terms and privacy policy and shares your name, email address and order details with us so we can deliver the key and help with it. When you enter a licence key, the App sends the key and a name for the computer (such as "Cam2You on Windows") to Lemon Squeezy (api.lemonsqueezy.com) to activate it, checks it with Lemon Squeezy about every 30 days, and gives the activation back when you choose Deactivate on this device. The key is kept in the device's secure storage. We receive no payment card details.
• Pro trial: the 30 days of Pro you can try for free are counted on your device, from a start date the App keeps in its settings and secure storage; nothing about the trial is sent to us. On iOS the trial starts when you take the free 30-day Trial item in the App Store, which Apple handles like a purchase.

8. Logs and crashes

Logs and crash reports the App writes stay on your device, with tokens, passwords and exact coordinates removed. They are never sent automatically; you decide whether to send one to us.

9. Keeping and deleting your data

• Disconnect (Settings → Connected Accounts) revokes the App's access to your channel and deletes that channel's data from the App.
• You can also revoke access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. The App checks each connected channel daily while it runs, and deletes the channel's data within 7 days of noticing that access was revoked.
• Uninstalling the App, or removing its app data, deletes everything the App stored. Your videos are never deleted by this.
• Videos on YouTube stay there until you delete them on YouTube (or in the App, after confirming).

10. Children

The App is not directed to children under 13 (under 16 in the European Union). Connecting a channel requires a Google account and a YouTube channel under their terms.

11. Your rights

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and similar laws you have the right to access, correct and delete your personal data. Because the App keeps your data on your device, you can see and delete it there at any time. We do not hold personal data about you unless you email us or buy a desktop licence key; we keep your email only as long as needed to answer, and the order details of a licence key as long as tax law and support require. You may lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.

12. Security

The App connects to Google over encrypted connections (HTTPS) and keeps secrets in the operating system's secure storage. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but we design the App to keep your data on your device and out of reach of others.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy. The current version is always at this address, and material changes are reflected in the "Last updated" date above.

14. Contact us

Email: tie.games.info@gmail.com
Developer: TIE-Games, Dresden, Germany
Website: https://tie-games.com/cam2you/