Privacy Policy
Last updated: 17 October 2026
LongToShorts (https://longtoshorts.com) is a private tool used by its owner to upload their own videos, schedule their publication on the owner's own YouTube channels, Facebook Pages and TikTok accounts, view the statistics of those publications and, when the owner switches it on, reply to comments on the owner's own YouTube channels.
YouTube API Services
LongToShorts uses YouTube API Services. By connecting a YouTube channel you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Information obtained through YouTube API Services is also handled according to the Google Privacy Policy. You can revoke LongToShorts's access to your Google account at any time from the Google security settings page.
Data we access
- YouTube / Google (scopes
youtube.upload,youtube.readonly,youtube.force-ssl): the channel name, ID and avatar; permission to upload videos; the view, like and comment counts of the videos published through LongToShorts; and the comments posted on the connected channel's videos (comment text, the commenter's public display name and channel ID, date), together with permission to reply to them and delete those replies. - Facebook: the list of Pages the user manages, their names and Page access tokens, used to publish videos to those Pages and read the like and comment counts of those publications.
- TikTok: the basic profile (open ID, display name, avatar), permission to upload/publish videos and to read the
list of the account's public videos with their view counts (scopes
user.info.basic,video.upload,video.publish,video.list).
How we use it
Data is used only to provide the features above to the account owner: publishing the videos they scheduled, showing statistics for those publications, and — only on channels where the owner explicitly turned on automatic replies and gave consent — reading new comments and posting a reply under the channel's name. The owner can see every reply in the app, delete any reply and switch the feature off at any time. We do not sell personal data, do not show ads, do not build profiles of commenters and do not use YouTube data for any other purpose.
Sharing with service providers
To write comment replies, the text of a comment, the commenter's public display name, the video title and the channel's own instructions are sent to Anthropic (Claude API), which generates the reply on our behalf. Anthropic acts as a processor and does not use API data to train its models. No other data is shared with third parties.
Storage, retention and security
Access tokens are stored encrypted on our server in the European Union. Uploaded videos, publication statistics and the comments and replies handled by the app are stored on the same server. Statistics and comment data obtained from YouTube are refreshed regularly and deleted when the related channel is removed from the app, and in any case kept no longer than needed to show them to the owner.
Deleting your data
Deleting an account in the app (Accounts → Delete) removes its tokens, statistics and comment data immediately. You can also revoke access at any time from the Google security settings page, Facebook Settings → Business Integrations, or TikTok Settings → Security → Manage app permissions; after access is revoked we delete the related stored data within 30 days. To request deletion of all data, write to contact@example.com; we delete it within 30 days.
The use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.