Privacy Policy
Cleangarden is a browser extension that sorts your own YouTube playlists using your YouTube account. This policy explains what we collect, what we don’t, and the control you have.
What we collect
- Your Google account email and ID, to sign you in.
What we don’t store
- Your playlists or their videos: fetched live from YouTube each time you use Cleangarden, never stored on our servers.
- Your Google sign-in token: passed through per request to talk to YouTube on your behalf, never stored.
- Your browsing history or anything you do outside the extension.
Analytics and feedback
To improve Cleangarden, we use usage analytics and error tracking that run on our own servers, so no outside company receives them. They are tied to a random ID in your browser, not to your name or email:
- Which screens and features you use, and basic actions like sorting a playlist.
- Because sorting works on real playlists, some events include the YouTube ID of a playlist or video you open, so we can see which features get used. These IDs go only to our own analytics and are never linked to you.
- If you send feedback, we receive your message and, if you include it, your email or a screenshot, so we can reply.
We don’t sell your data or share it with advertisers or data brokers, and we don’t show ads.
YouTube
We use the YouTube Data API v3 to fetch your playlists and video details on your behalf. This is shown in the extension and not stored on our servers.
By using this extension, you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service. Our use of Google API data follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. You can revoke access anytime at your Google account’s permissions page.
Browser permissions
- identity: Google sign-in
- storage: keep your session in the browser
- sidePanel: show the extension
- activeTab: detect YouTube in the current tab
- tabs: open videos in new tabs
Account deletion
Open the extension, click the account icon, then Delete account. We delete your email right away, and keep a de-identified Google sign-in identifier so the account can be recreated cleanly if you sign in again; we remove that too on request. Your playlists are never stored on our servers, so there is nothing there to delete. If you have uninstalled the extension or cannot sign in, email privacy@paintingstack.com and we will delete your account, usually within a few business days.
Contact
Questions? privacy@paintingstack.com
Last updated: August 2026