Effective Date: November 30, 2022
This Privacy Policy describes the policies and procedures of Tube Corp. (“TUBE”, “we” or “us”) for the collection, use, security and disclosure of your personal information about you when You use the Service. This Privacy Policy also tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You. Finally, it also describes your choices regarding use, access, deletion, and correction of your personal information.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.
For the purposes for GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.
Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User as you are the individual using the Service.
This Privacy Policy explains how TUBE treats the personal information it gathers when you use or access https://y.tube (the “Site”), the services, features, content or applications offered by TUBE (collectively with the Site, the “Services”), or when you view or interact with a TUBE link (either our y.tube links or one of our branded domains). This Privacy Policy also covers TUBE’s treatment of any information about you that TUBE’s customers share with TUBE.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of other businesses that TUBE does not own or control, including other companies’ websites, services and applications (“Third Party Services”) that you can access through the Services or to individuals that TUBE does not manage or employ. We cannot take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of Third Parties Services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any Third Party Service you access or use through y.tube
Personal Data
When You Register for a TUBE Account, we may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. We collect personal information from you, such as your name, phone number, email address, and sign-in information (mainly password). If you create an Account using your login information from a third-party account, such as Google or Facebook, we will access and collect the personal information about you that the third-party account provides (which is based on your privacy settings with the third-party account), so that you can log into your Account with us.
We use your contact information to send you information about our Services and communicate with you about your Account, your activities on our Site and Services and policy changes. TUBE reserves the right to contact you when we believe it is necessary, such as for administrative and account management purposes.
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, the type of devise you use (PC, Mobil, etc), your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your device, operating system, the Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Information We Collect in Data collection events
TUBE may collect personal information about you from the following sources, as described in this Privacy Policy, when you (i) register for the Site and the Services, through your user account with TUBE, including registering through a third-party social networking service (your “Account”); (ii) use the Services; or (iii) view or interact with a TUBE link (either our y.tube links or one of our branded domains or of the branded domain of a user) on a third-party website (iv) tracking cookies.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
Session Cookies
These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Functionality Cookies
These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
Performance Cookies
These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
TUBE cookies also allow TUBE to track when you have clicked on a TUBE Link. Each click of a TUBE Link is tracked using a unique identifier assigned to you in one or more cookies stored by your web browser and associated with TUBE. We may associate the unique identifier in our cookies with the other information we automatically collect when you use the Services, as described above, including your IP address, TUBE Links you click, TUBE Links you create, and information with your Account if you have one.
When You Register for a TUBE Account
You will receive a confirmation email when you open an account with us. We use this confirmation to verify your identity, make sure the account is not being created by a robot and improve our customer service. Some features of the Services allow registered users to provide their own content to the Services, such as written descriptions of URLs, comments, images and video. Unless you request deletion of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, all content submitted by you to the Services may be retained by TUBE, even after you terminate your Account and may continue to be shared by third parties, as described in this Privacy Policy.
When You Create a TUBE Link
The main feature of y.tube’s Services is the ability to create shortened uniform resource locators (URLs) of individual videos (“TUBE Links” or “Vlinks”). Users can create y.TUBE Links with random characters without registering for an account. When you create a TUBE account, links can be personalized to various degrees. TUBE collects and stores both the original URL and the shortened URL and, if you are logged in to your Account, we will associate that information with your Account. TUBE also collects and stores your IP address, your geolocation data (which we derive from your IP address), the time and date on which you shortened the original URL, and if you share a TUBE Link on a social networking platform, the name of the platform and your username on that platform.
When You Interact With a TUBE Link
TUBE automatically collects personal information about the interaction (such as clicks or views) with every TUBE Link created through the Services (either our y.tube links or one of our branded domains) on a third-party website. This information includes, but is not limited to: (i) the IP address and location derived from the IP address; (ii) internet or other electronic network activity information like the referring websites or services; (iii) the time and date of each access; (iv) device settings, such as browser type, operating system, and language; (v) cookies, as described below, and mobile advertising identifiers and (v) information about sharing of the TUBE Link on Third Party Services (collectively, “TUBE Link Metrics”). As described in this policy, we use TUBE Link Metrics to provide the Services, to understand and analyze how our Services are used and to identify trends, and to detect, deter and prevent malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity. We also share some of that information with users as statistics of the Link. Please see the “Information We May Share” section of this Privacy Policy for a description of how we may share information we collect when you create, view or interact with TUBE Links.
TUBE may use third-party APIs and software development kits (“SDKs”) to provide certain functions in our Services.
Some features of the Services allow you to share your content and TUBE Links through your accounts with Third Party Services such as YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and Vimeo. If you choose to connect TUBE to such Third Party Services, we may collect information related to your use of those Third Party Services, such as authentication tokens that allow us to connect to your Third Party Service accounts. We will ask you for permission before you authorize our collection of this information. We will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us. We may also collect information about how you are using the Services to interact with those connected Third Party Services. Note that Third Party Services may have the ability to restrict the information that is provided to us based on your privacy settings of that account.
is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Our third-party partners may use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags or similar technologies in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by TUBE only and does not cover the use of cookies by any Third Party Services. TUBE does not control when or how third parties place cookies on your computer, such as when you visit a website through a TUBE Link.
Google Analytics
Email Marketing
We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
Note Regarding Children
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we learn that we have collected personal information of a child under 13 (or older as required by applicable law), we will take steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible.
How We Use Information
We use the personal information we collect for a variety of administrative and business purposes to: operate our Site and provide the Services, process and complete any transactions, verify individual identity,respond to inquiries, questions and comments and provide customer and technical support, provide access to certain functionalities of our Services, personalize and improve the Services and develop new products and services, communicate with our current and prospective customers concerning our services, measure interest and engagement in our Site and Services, monitor and analyze usage and trends of the Site and Services, provide services to our customers to allow them to understand how you interact with our Services and to help detect, deter and prevent malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity, comply with any legal obligations, and enforce our terms and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
Usage Across Devices
We may use the information we collect to make inferences that a unique individual has created or interacted with TUBE links on different devices so that we can detect, deter and prevent malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity and analyze how users use our Services. For example, if you created a TUBE link on a computer connected to your residential WiFi network, and you soon thereafter clicked on a TUBE link on a mobile device connected to the same WiFi network, we may infer that a single individual created and clicked on the TUBE links because both events were associated with the same IP address in the same time period.
Other Legitimate Interests
We also may use personal information to pursue legitimate interests, such as direct marketing, research (including marketing research), network and information security, prevention of fraudulent, malicious and unlawful activities, or any other purpose disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information or allowed by law.
Information We Share
The Services are designed to help you share information with others. In addition, we provide Services to our Customers that use TUBE Link Metrics. As a result, the following categories of personal information generated through your use of the Services are shared publicly or with the following categories of third parties for the business purposes described below.
TUBE Links You Create
Much of your activity on and through the Services is public by default. For example, when you create a TUBE Link, the original URLs you have shortened and the corresponding TUBE Links are publicly available.
Information We Share With Customers
We may share the personal information we collect as described in this Privacy Policy with our customers. When you create a TUBE Link of one of our customer’s sites, the customer may be able to view the unshortened original URL, the date and time the TUBE Link was created, the location where it was created as derived from your IP address, and aggregated information about clicks and views of the TUBE Links, including the number of times the TUBE Link was shared, whether or not it was viewed, comparison of that TUBE Link’s performance to that of all TUBE Links pointing to the same content, whether others are sharing a TUBE Link to the same content, geographic regions where the content is being viewed, and identification of social networks on which the TUBE Links appear. In addition, we may share TUBE Link Metrics with customers to help them detect, deter and prevent malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity.
Information You Elect to Share
When creating a TUBE Link, you can share that TUBE Link through Third Party Services. Any information that you elect to distribute through Third Party Services, such as a social network post you create, may then become accessible to users of those services. You can also access other Third Party Services through the Services, for example by reviewing you are human with a captcha. We recommend that you review the terms of services and privacy policies of such Third Party Services that you access through the Services since TUBE does not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Services.
Information Shared with Service Providers
We may employ and contract with third parties to perform certain tasks on our behalf and under our direction (our “Service Providers”). We may need to share information about you with our Service Providers in order to fulfill certain business purposes, like providing our product with research and analytics on user behavior and providing advertising products and services to users, processing payments, and providing email marketing and support services. Our agreements with these Service Providers authorize them to use your information only as necessary to provide services to us. Transfers to subsequent third parties are covered by our agreements with our service providers.
Information Disclosed Pursuant to Business Transfers
We may transfer and/or provide information about our users in connection with an acquisition, sale of company assets, or other situation where user information would be transferred as one of our business assets. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our website.
In such a case, the acquirer of TUBE may continue to use your information as set forth in this policy or as otherwise allowed by law.
Information Disclosed for the Protection of TUBE and Others
TUBE may access, read, preserve, and disclose any information it collects when it has a good faith belief that doing so is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with a law, regulation, or compulsory legal request, including process from a governmental law enforcement or national security agency, (ii) enforce the Privacy Policy or Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations hereof, (iii) detect, deter, prevent or otherwise address malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity, (iv) respond to user support requests, or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of TUBE, its users and the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for protection from malicious, fraudulent or unlawful activity.
Information We Share With Your Consent
We will share information about you when you direct or otherwise instruct us to do so, such as when you share TUBE Links or content with others through the Services, if you intentionally use or direct us or the Services to interact with third parties, or if we notify you that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide such information (like sharing/posting it with a third-party Service).
Retention
We retain the personal information we receive as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our Services or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable legal obligations.
Information Security
Your Account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You can help prevent unauthorized access to your Account by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your Account.
TUBE endeavors to protect the information it collects about its users using reasonable security processes and controls, however, despite these efforts, no security measure is perfect or impenetrable and TUBE does not guarantee or warrant that such measures will prevent unauthorized access to the information about you that is stored by TUBE. In the event we experience a breach of security, we will promptly notify you if your personal information has been compromised, in accordance with applicable law. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at support@your.tube.
You don’t need an Account to create TUBE Links, and you can use many of the features of the Services without registering, thereby limiting the type of information that is collected about you individually. If you have a TUBE Account, you may access, correct, or request deletion of your personal information by logging into your Account. Once logged in to your account, you will be able to view a history of the URLs you have shortened and the metrics pages for those URLs. You can request a complete copy of the personal information we store about your account by clicking the button to request a report in your Account Settings. For more information on how to request access to your information, please see our help article.
You can delete your Account at any time through your Account settings page. If you delete your Account, you will no longer be able to access or use the Services and all the content you have created will be deleted, except for the links, which will continue to function for all of our users to ensure their rights to access a link. However these links cannot be accessed again nor the information they generate. TUBE Links that you have created and shared cannot be deleted or disabled (even if your Account is deleted), and any shortening and sharing activity that has already occurred on your Account also cannot be deleted.
If you have an Account but are unable to access it, you can contact us at support@your.tube. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, you have the right to ask that your personal data be corrected, updated, or erased.
For all other requests to exercise any of your rights, you may contact us as indicated in the “help window” that appears at the lower right of y.tube. Once we receive your request, we will ask that you verify your identity such as by authenticating through your account. If you do not have a TUBE account, TUBE has no way of identifying you or verifying that you created or clicked on a TUBE link.
California Residents
If you are a California Resident, you may request, subject to any applicable exceptions, access to and deletion of your information or more information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information. You may submit a verifiable request to know and exercise any of your other rights as described in the “Choice and Access” section above. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights and choices.
The categories of personal information that we have collected in the preceding 12 months and their sources are provided in the “Information We Collect” section above. Our business purposes for collecting personal information are described in the “How We Use Information” section above.
TUBE does not sell your personal information to third parties for money or other valuable consideration. TUBE does permit third parties to collect the information described above through our Service and discloses such information with third parties for business purposes as described in this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to providing advertising on our Service and elsewhere based on users’ online activities over time and across different sites, services, and devices. The categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information are provided in the “Information We Share” section above.
Supervisory Authority
If you are located in the European Economic Area, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe our Processing of your Personal Information violates applicable law.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
TUBE may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes in the way we collect or use information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Services or sending you an email, and we will indicate when those changes will become effective. You are agreeing to be bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when you use the Services after those changes become effective.
Questions?
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy using the Services, please send us a detailed message to: support@your.tube. We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.
You may also contact us at 1379 Northwyck Court, McLean, Va. 22102 or call 1 (781) DOT TUBE