Privacy policy

YT Outlier (“we”) is a YouTube competitor-intelligence tool. This policy explains what we collect and why. It is written for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (India) and similar regimes.

What we collect

• Account: an account is required to use YT Outlier. We collect your email address, name, and password (stored only as a secure hash) — or, if you sign in with Google, your Google email, name, and profile picture.
• Marketing preference: whether you ticked “Email me product updates and offers”, and when.
• Usage: channels you raid, saved in your browser and, when signed in, on our servers.
• Payment: if you buy Pro, checkout and billing are run by Whop (whop.com), our payment processor. Whop collects your payment details and billing information; we never see or store card numbers. We receive your subscription status (plan, renewal date, Whop membership id) so we can switch Pro on and off.
• YouTube: we fetch public channel and video pages. We do not access your YouTube account.
• Browser extension: see “Browser extension” below. It sends us the id or handle of the YouTube channel or video you are looking at, and of the channels shown on the page.
• Site analytics: which pages of ytoutlier.online are visited, the referring site (for example X, Facebook or Google search), campaign tags (utm_*), country, browser, OS and device type. See “Analytics” below.

Analytics

• Vercel Web Analytics: our hosting provider counts page views on ytoutlier.online. It is cookieless — it sets no cookies and does not track you across sites. Visitors are counted with a hash of the request that is discarded within 24 hours, and we only see aggregated numbers (pages, referrers, countries, devices). Query strings are stripped except campaign tags, and admin pages are excluded.
• First-party visit stats: our own server counts anonymous page views (page, referring site, campaign tags, country, device type). No third parties, no tracking cookies, and your IP address is never stored.
• We do not currently use Google Analytics or any advertising trackers on the site.
• The browser extension contains no analytics (see below).

AI providers

To write AI reports and playbooks (titles, hooks, scripts, topic ideas), we send public channel and video data — titles, descriptions, view counts, upload dates and similar statistics for the channel you raid — to our AI providers: xAI (Grok API) and Google (Gemini API), used as a fallback. We do not send your email, password or payment details. These providers process the data to return a response, under their API terms.

Browser extension

The optional YT Outlier extension for Chrome and Brave adds a stats strip to YouTube channel and video pages and small badges (outlier multiplier and views per hour) to video thumbnails. It only runs on youtube.com and ytoutlier.online.

• What it reads from YouTube pages: the address of the page (channel handle or id, or video id); on video pages, the view count and “x weeks ago” text shown under the video; and, for each video thumbnail visible on a YouTube page (channel, home, search, recommendations), the video id, the displayed view count and upload-age text, and the handle, id or name of its channel as displayed. That text is read from the page in your browser, only for items on screen. It does not read comments, your watch or search history, your subscriptions, your YouTube or Google account, or YouTube cookies.
• What it sends to our servers (ytoutlier.online): channel handles/ids, video ids (and the displayed view count of the video you are watching), together with your YT Outlier login (your session cookie, or a sign-in token you can revoke by disconnecting it in the extension), so we can return the outlier score, channel median, earnings estimate and similar channels and apply your free or Pro plan. Displayed view counts and upload-age text from thumbnails are used in your browser to compute badges and are not sent. Lookups are batched and limited in number. We keep only a per-account request counter used for rate limits; we do not build a history of the pages you visit. Our hosting provider (Vercel) keeps standard request logs.
• What it stores on your device (in the extension’s storage): the optional sign-in token, whether you minimised the strip, and a cache of channel median-view numbers returned by our servers (kept for up to 24 hours, or 7 days for the video-to-channel mapping) so the same channel is not looked up repeatedly. Disconnecting the token or removing the extension deletes them.
• It contains no advertising, analytics or tracking code, loads no remote code, and we do not sell or share this data. Everything else in this policy applies to your account.

Why

To create and secure your account, run the product, save your raids, take payment for Pro, and prevent abuse (for example, rate limits per account). We use your email for account and service messages (sign-in, security, billing).

Marketing emails

Only if you opt in — the box is unticked by default at sign-up — we also use your email to send product updates and offers. You can unsubscribe at any time by unticking the option on your Account page, using the unsubscribe link in any marketing email, or emailing us to ask; we will stop promptly. Opting out does not affect your account.

Sharing

Hosting and cookieless site analytics (Vercel), database (Neon), sign-in (Google, if you use it), AI providers (xAI and Google Gemini — public channel data only), email delivery, and Whop (payments), only as needed to provide the service. No sale of personal data. No YouTube partnership — we read public pages the same way a browser does.

Your rights

You can access, correct, or delete your account. Email hello@ytoutlier.online. We keep account data while the account is open, then delete it on request except where tax or fraud law requires a hold.

Contact

Data fiduciary: the operator of YT Outlier. Email hello@ytoutlier.online. If you are in India you may also write to the Data Protection Board of India after we have had a chance to fix the issue.