Effective 2026-10-05.
Dobby PA is used only by its owner, on the owner's own Google account. It has no other users.
Google OAuth scope youtube.readonly, plus basic sign-in identity (openid, email). It reads the owner's subscriptions, playlists and public video metadata. It has no write access to YouTube.
Only to rank and suggest videos for the owner. The data is fetched and stored on the owner's own computer. To rank and summarise videos, it is also read by AI assistants acting for the owner: Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini through Vertex AI. These assistants are used only to produce suggestions for the owner.
The data is not sold, not shared with anyone else, and not used for advertising. Dobby PA does not use it to develop, improve or train generalised AI models.
The access token and any derived lists are stored only on the owner's computer. Access can be revoked at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions, after which the app can no longer read anything.
Dobby PA's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.