Privacy Policy
ShortsCutter ("the tool") is a personal video publishing tool built and operated by Danil Gryzlov ("the operator", "we"). This policy explains what data the tool accesses, why, where it is stored, and how it is deleted.
1. Who uses this tool
ShortsCutter has one user: its operator. It is not a service offered to the public, it has no user accounts, no sign-up, and no customers. It connects only to social media accounts that the operator personally owns, in order to publish videos the operator personally produced.
If you are reading this page because you were asked to review the application, this is the whole scope: one person publishing their own videos to their own channels.
2. What data the tool accesses
ShortsCutter connects to the APIs of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest and VK. From each it accesses only what is required to upload a video:
- An access token and refresh token issued after the operator signs in and grants permission. These identify the operator's own account to the platform.
- Basic account identifiers — the account or channel ID, username and display name — used to confirm the upload is going to the correct account, and, where a platform requires it, to show the operator which account is about to receive the post.
- The list of the operator's own boards or channels, where the platform requires choosing a destination.
- The identifier and URL of each video after it is published, recorded so the tool does not upload the same clip twice.
The tool does not read other users' content, followers, direct messages, comments, analytics, contact lists, or any personal data belonging to anyone other than the operator.
3. What data the tool sends
Video files produced by the operator, together with the title, description, tags and hashtags written for that video. Nothing else is transmitted to the platforms.
4. Where the data is stored
ShortsCutter runs locally on the operator's own computer. There is no server, no database and no cloud component that holds account data.
- Access and refresh tokens are stored in a file on that computer, readable only by the operator's user account.
- A local log records which clip was published to which platform and when, so that a repeated run does not create duplicate posts.
- Video files are stored on the operator's own drives. One platform, Instagram, accepts uploads only from a public HTTPS URL; for that platform, and only for that platform, a clip is placed in the operator's own private object storage for the duration of the upload and removed afterwards.
5. Data is never shared or sold
No data obtained through these APIs is sold, rented, shared with third parties, used for advertising, used to build user profiles, or used to train machine learning models. It is not transferred to anyone. It is used solely to publish the operator's own videos to the operator's own accounts.
The tool uses a large language model to draft the titles and descriptions that accompany each video. Only the transcript of the operator's own video is sent for that purpose. No account data, no tokens and no data obtained from any platform API is ever included in those requests.
6. Retention and deletion
Tokens are kept only while the connection to a platform is in use. They are deleted when the operator revokes the tool's access, disconnects the platform, or removes the local token file. The publication log contains no personal data and can be deleted at any time without affecting anything.
The operator can revoke the tool's access at any time from the platform's own settings:
- Google and YouTube — Google account permissions
- TikTok — Settings and privacy → Security and permissions → Manage app permissions
- Instagram and Facebook — Settings → Business tools and apps
- Pinterest — Settings → Apps and connected accounts
- VK — Settings → Applications
To request deletion of any data associated with this tool, write to gryzlovstudio@gmail.com. Requests are handled within 30 days.
7. YouTube API Services
ShortsCutter uses YouTube API Services to upload videos to the operator's own YouTube channel.
- By using this tool you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service.
- Google's handling of data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
- Access granted to ShortsCutter can be revoked at any time through the Google security settings page.
ShortsCutter's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Data obtained from Google APIs is used only to provide the video publishing function described on this site, is not transferred to others, is not used for advertising, and is not used to develop, improve or train generalised machine learning models.
ShortsCutter stores no YouTube user data beyond the access and refresh tokens described in section 4, and the ID of each video it has uploaded.
8. Children
This tool is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone other than its operator.
9. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the revised version will be published on this page with a new "last updated" date above.
10. Contact
Danil Gryzlov — gryzlovstudio@gmail.com