Privacy Policy
Effective date:
Comment Gate is a personal tool, built by one developer, that drafts AI-suggested replies to comments on one YouTube channel for the owner to review. This page explains what data it touches, why, and what happens to it.
Who this is about
This policy is about people who leave comments on the channel owner's YouTube videos. If that's you, you are not a user of Comment Gate and you never interact with it directly — it operates on the owner's behalf, in the background.
What is collected
Comment Gate reads the following through the official YouTube Data API v3:
- Comment text
- Commenter display name and YouTube channel ID
- Comment timestamps, like counts, and which video or thread the comment belongs to
- Public metadata (title, description, publish date) for the owner's own videos
Nothing is collected from visitors to this website. There's no analytics, no cookies, no tracking pixels, and no advertising here.
Why it's collected
Solely so the channel owner can read and reply to comments on their own channel. It's not used for anything else. Comment data is never sold, never shared for advertising, and never used to build profiles of commenters.
Where it goes
- It's stored in Cloudflare D1, a database inside the owner's own Cloudflare account.
- The text of a comment is sent to Google Gemini to draft a suggested reply. Only that individual comment and a small amount of relevant context are sent — never other commenters' data, and never the whole database. Comment Gate uses a paid Gemini tier specifically so that submitted content is not used to train Google's models.
- A notification that a reply is waiting for approval may be sent to the owner privately, through Telegram.
- No other third party receives any of it.
How long it's kept
Comment records are kept for 90 days by default. After that, the fields that identify who left the comment — display name and channel ID — are automatically deleted. Comment Gate also keeps an audit record of replies the owner has posted, for accountability, but that record does not retain commenter identifiers in readable form.
Google API disclosure
Comment Gate's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. The only scope it requests is youtube.force-ssl, and it is used only to read comments on, and post replies to, the authorising user's own channel.
Your rights and removal
Deleting a comment on YouTube removes it at the source. You can also email utkarshishu2627@gmail.com to ask that your data be removed from the owner's copy, and it will be deleted.
Security
The credential Comment Gate uses to access YouTube is encrypted at rest with AES-GCM. The encryption key is held separately from the database, so a copy of the database on its own does not yield a usable credential.
Changes to this policy
This policy may change as Comment Gate develops. The effective date at the top of this page always reflects the current version.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to utkarshishu2627@gmail.com.