Poke Privacy Policy

We dont collect or share your personal information! That's our privacy policy TL;DR lol

Poke does not collect or share personal information. Poke is a free software program that you can fork it yourself. you can see the repo here.

see history of this privacy policy here

You dont have to read this entire policy as it might put you to sleep. So in TL;DR:We dont collect or share your personal information. thats it lol

Preamble

Please note that im not a lawyer, so dont execpt too much on this policy :P

Haiii! Welcome to Poke Privacy Policy! We Dont collect or share your information. Ever. When we collect information, we mean, aggregated information (see "Information Collected" section for more info). The main reason that we dont collect your information is we care about your privacy. like alot (like alot alot). see; whynottrack.com

We are free software, meaning you have freedom while using PokeTube. Learn why you should care about your freedom here.

P.S:I love you <3

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We Dont Collect Information that can indentify you

(see source)

We use Matomo (https://matomo.org/) to gather and store non-identifying information for statistical purposes. The data collected includes details such as your country (inferred from anonymized IP addresses like 111.xx.xxx.xx), operating system, browser version and name, and screen size. This information helps us understand and improve our services.

The above doesn't apply if you have Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control enabled on the browser level.

We dont see the videos you watch

When the Video gets sent to the matomo server, we encrypt it using SHA-256 Signature Algorithm; (See source) meaning we cant see the videos you watching or things you do. Learn more About hash Algorithms here.

We migth use third party services on Poke, but third party request on Poke is proxied by default. no third party can see wat the hell ru doing on PokeTube. We do this by proxying the requests via a whole diffrent server, so no third party can see you.

We don’t track you through cookies

on Poke, no cookies are used by default. (see source) Poke Doesnt use cookies (See the storage tab yourself!). altho we use local storage to save stuff like themes.

We proxy 3rd party request

any 3rd party domain is proxied by our proxy (p.poketube.fun) No personal Information is collected by the tools we use.

Liability

We take no responsibility for the use of our tool, or external instances provided by third parties. We strongly recommend you abide by the valid official regulations in your country. Furthermore, we refuse liability for any inappropriate use of PokeTube, such as illegal downloading. This tool is provided to you in the spirit of free, libre software.

You may view the GPL V3 licence which this software is provided to you here. a copy of the section is bellow.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

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This is the end of our privacy policy (so helpful ik)

Other Cool Stuff

holly shit these are stuff that are not boring (real)

Other Free YouTube Front-Ends

If you care about privacy and your freedom, you might also want to check out these other YouTube Front-ends that take it seriously by default

Invidious [Source Code]
LightTube [Source Code]

Each One does things a bit differently in terms of privacy and your freedom. However, none store your personal information by default and they are free software, which make them all pretty safe in our opinion

License

PokeTube is free software, You can fork and modify the source code under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3 or later. our source code is Here!

see our license page

Feedback

I (Ashley) am the creator of Poketube and personally wrote this privacy policy. If you have any questions or concerns, please submit feedback on codeberg :3

Policy License

POKETUBE POLICY LICENSE INFO
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Copyright (C) 2021-2023 POKETUBE

This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Ty! <3

Thank you qt for reading this privacy policy, ILY<3