Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 21, 2026
This policy covers the Rhino Bots website (https://bots.rhinodyne.com) and RhinoDyne Publisher (the "API Client"), both operated by RhinoDyne LLC ("RhinoDyne", "we"). RhinoDyne Publisher is our in-house upload and captions pipeline for our own YouTube channel, Rhino Bots (@RhinoBots). It is not offered, sold or distributed to anyone, it has no third-party users, and it acts only on our own channel.
Use of YouTube API Services
RhinoDyne Publisher uses YouTube API Services. We use them only to manage our own channel: uploading our own videos; setting their titles, descriptions, thumbnails, publish schedules and localized titles and descriptions; adding caption tracks; checking our videos' processing and privacy status; moderating and replying to comments on our own videos; and reading aggregate, read-only YouTube Analytics API reports for our own channel (views, average view duration and subscribers gained per video) to measure how our videos perform. These analytics are channel-level and video-level totals only: they contain no data about individual viewers, and we do not request revenue data or any Google data outside YouTube. The API Client does not access any other channel.
By using the API Client you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service; see also our Terms of Use. Google's handling of your data is described in the Google Privacy Policy: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.
Information we access, collect and store
- Our own channel data: records about our own videos, such as video IDs, upload times, caption tracks, and processing and privacy status, and aggregate analytics for our own videos (views, average view duration and subscribers gained). These analytics do not identify any viewer.
- Viewer data: when we moderate comments on our own videos, the YouTube API returns the comment and its author's public profile details (display name, channel ID and profile image link). We store only the comment ID, video ID, the author's public display name, the comment's publish time and up to 500 characters of the comment text. We use automated rules to hold for review or reject comments on our own videos, and we may post replies. We do not ban commenters through the API.
- Our own replies: the text of replies we post and the IDs of the threads we replied to.
- Authorization token: the OAuth token our channel owner granted to the API Client, used only for the actions above.
- Emails you send us: if you email us, we receive your email address, name (if you include it) and message, and use them only to reply and to handle your request.
We never ask for, collect or store YouTube or Google login credentials.
How we use, process and share information
We use this information only to operate and moderate our own channel and to measure how our own videos perform. We do not sell, resell or rent YouTube API data or personal information, and we do not share it with third parties except the service providers described below, which act only on our instructions. We do not use it for advertising, and we do not combine it with other data, except that our internal performance report shows YouTube's numbers for our own videos next to our own store and affiliate click counts, which are labelled as our own data, not YouTube's.
RhinoDyne is run largely by automated AI agents. Comment data, records and aggregate analytics about our own videos, and our authorization token are processed and stored by those agents on the cloud computing workspace and secret store of the AI-agent service provider we use, only to operate our channel. Our service providers act only on our instructions; we do not allow them to sell or use the data for their own purposes.
Cookies, tracking and Do Not Track
These web pages run no scripts and set no cookies, and the API Client places nothing on your device or browser. We do not allow third parties to serve content or advertisements through them.
Our website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare processes visitors' IP addresses and request data to deliver and secure the site; see Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.
Affiliate links: Some links on our site and in our videos, posts and listings are affiliate links (for example, to Make). They carry a referral code. If you click one, the other company may set its own cookies on its website to record that you came from us, and may tell us that a sign-up or purchase came through our link so it can pay us a commission. That happens on the other company's website under its own privacy policy; our pages still run no scripts and set no cookies. To avoid it, go to the company's website directly instead of using our link, or block or delete cookies in your browser settings.
Do Not Track: we do not track visitors over time or across other websites, so we do not respond differently to browser Do Not Track signals. We do not allow other parties to collect personal information about your online activities over time or across websites through our site. Affiliate links, described above, only take you to another company's website, where that company's own policy applies.
Retention and deletion
- We keep YouTube API data only as long as needed for the purposes above. A daily job deletes stored comment records and records of our replies once they are 29 days old. Records about our own videos, including their aggregate analytics, are refreshed from YouTube or deleted at least every 30 days.
- If our channel owner revokes the API Client's access, then once we confirm the revocation we delete all stored comment data and records of our replies, and delete the YouTube IDs, YouTube-derived status data and analytics in records about our own videos, as soon as possible and within 7 days.
How to ask us to delete your data
To ask us to delete data we hold about you, email rhinodyne+privacy@mail.grokbot.com with a link to your comment. We will delete it, and any record of our reply to it, as soon as possible and within 7 days. Deleting data we store does not delete anything on YouTube. To remove your comment from YouTube itself, delete it on YouTube.
Revoking access
Our channel owner can revoke the API Client's access at any time through the Google security settings page: https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions. Viewers and commenters never grant this tool access to their Google accounts.
Children
Our website and channel are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
We will post any change on this page and update the effective date before the change takes effect.
Contact
Questions or complaints about this policy or our privacy practices, and privacy or deletion requests: rhinodyne+privacy@mail.grokbot.com. General contact: rhinodyne@mail.grokbot.com
RhinoDyne LLC