Privacy
This note explains what we store when you use Viewershift, and why.
When you contact us
The contact form stores what you type into it (your name, email, company, role, website, the channels you name, your interests, budget range and message), together with where you came from: the page and button, the referring page your browser reports, and any campaign tags in the link. We use it only to answer your request and to understand which parts of the product people ask about. We do not sell it or share it with advertisers.
When you ask for a channel audit
The audit form stores the channel link, your email and your goal, plus your name, what describes you and your note if you give them, with the same where-you-came-from details. We use them to prepare the audit and send it to you.
When you sign up for the weekly digest
We store your email address with the same where-you-came-from details, and nothing else. Signing up again with the same address adds nothing. We use it only to send you the digest, and keep it until you ask us to remove it.
Spam protection
With each of these forms we also store a one-way hash of your IP address, to stop automated spam. The address itself is never stored, and the hash cannot be turned back into it.
Counting clicks
When you click a “Request access” button or a locked section, we add one to a counter for that button and month, so we can see which data people want. Nothing about you is stored with it: no cookie, no IP address and no identifier. To stop one address from inflating the counts, a hash of the IP address is kept for one minute and then deleted.
How long we keep it
We keep a request for as long as we are in contact about it, and for up to 24 months after the last contact. Requests filed as spam are deleted after 90 days. Both are deleted automatically. Digest sign-ups are kept until you ask us to remove them. Click counters are kept for about 13 months.
Email we send
Email the site sends is delivered by Resend, which processes it on our behalf: account emails (password reset and address checks), the digest, and the notice our team receives when you write to us, which contains what you submitted. Resend keeps delivery records under its own privacy policy.
When something breaks
If a page fails on our servers, an error report is stored on our own server, not with a third party, for up to 90 days. It names the page address without its query part and the browser type, and never includes cookies, what you typed into a form, or email addresses.
Cookies and browsing
Pages can be read without an account, and we set no cookies for visitors who do not sign in: no advertising, analytics or cross-site tracking cookies. Your theme choice is kept in your own browser's storage and is never sent to us. If you sign in to an account, a session cookie keeps you signed in; it is used for nothing else.
To count visits we use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and does not identify or follow you across sites. It records the page address, the referring site, the browser and device type, the country and page load times, and reports them to us only as totals.
Your choices
You can ask us to show you, correct or delete what we hold about you at any time by email to privacy@viewershift.com or through the contact form. We answer within 30 days.
The YouTube data we show
The channel and video statistics on this site come from public YouTube pages. They describe channels and videos, not the people who visit this site. Channel owners can ask for a correction or removal; see About.