Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 9, 2026

Play Overview (playoverview.com) shows a video from YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Vimeo, TikTok or Medal next to highlights, stats and a timeline that it makes by analyzing the video. This page explains what we collect, why, who helps us process it, and how to have it deleted. Questions or requests: playoverview.com@gmail.com.

What we collect

• The videos you open. The link, the video's public details from its platform (title, channel, length, thumbnail, views, likes, category, game) and our analysis of it: highlights, loudness stats, in-game stats read from the video (like a player's name, kills and deaths in Counter-Strike, VALORANT, Rainbow Six Siege, League of Legends, Apex Legends, WARDOGS or Call of Duty: Warzone), a sports game's score read from the score box shown in the video, a cooking video's recipe, notes on what the video is about (like a podcast's questions, a trip's places, a workout's exercises, code shown on screen), the claims made in it with a fact check of each and the sources found, when sounds like laughter and applause are heard, small preview frames of the highlights, a copy of the video's thumbnail, and text transcribed from the video's speech (used for highlights and search). Analyses are shared: anyone who opens the same video sees the same results.
• We never keep the video itself. Audio and video are streamed through the analysis and discarded; only the results above are stored.
• Your account, if you sign in with Google: your Google account ID, name, email address and profile picture, and when you last used the site while signed in. We never see your Google password.
• Your library, if you sign in: the analyzed videos you open, where you stopped in each one and when (your History), the videos you save to Watch later, and the moments you save, with any note you write. Only you see them, in your library. We use them for nothing else.
• Your channels, if you connect them: when you sign in to YouTube, Twitch or Kick from My channel, we receive your channel's ID and name, and keep only those, with your account, to list your channel's public videos on My channel. The access the platform gives us is used once, to read them, and never stored. We never see your passwords there. Once you connect one, your connected channels and the stats of their analyzed videos get a public page at playoverview.com/@handle (the handle is made from your first channel's name), so you can share it; it shows nothing about your account, and you choose which of your channels it shows. If you remove the analysis of one of your channel's videos, we delete it and keep only that video's link and your account ID, so that nobody can analyze it again until you restore it. You can disconnect a channel on My channel at any time.
• Events, if you sign in: the events you create (their title, time and the live streams you picked) are public, on the Events page and to anyone with their link, with your page's handle (or your first name) as their host. If you sign up for an event, we keep that you did, to email you when it starts; others see only how many signed up. The messages you write in an event's chat are public on its page, with your page's handle (or your first name) and your Google profile picture, and kept with the event. To show how many are on an event's page, we count open pages by account ID or a one-way hash of the IP address, in memory only: it's never stored.
• Questions, if you sign in: when you ask about a video, we keep only that your account asked and when, to count your questions a day; never the question or its answer. Deleting your account deletes these too.
• Comics, if you sign in: a comic you create from a video is public on that video's page, for anyone who opens it, and kept with the video. We keep your account ID with it, to count your comics a day and so you can delete it. The wishes and the style pictures (up to 3) you add are sent to the AI that draws it and never kept.
• Emails: one welcome email to your Google account's address when you first sign in. And if you connect a channel: when a new video of it is analyzed automatically, an email about it (its title, stats and best moments). Every such email has a link to stop them, and the switch in Settings turns them off or on. If you sign up for an event: one email when it starts. We send no other emails and no marketing.
• The browser extension, if you install it: on YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Vimeo, TikTok and Medal only, when you open a video there, it sends us that video's link, to put its moments on the video's seek bar and its Analyze button on the video (you can switch both off; then it sends nothing for those). While its panel is open, it sends us the link of the video in the tab beside it, to show that video's analysis, as if you opened it here, and it follows where that video is playing, in your browser, to show it on the panel's timeline (signed in, it goes to your History, as on the site). It reads nothing else from your pages or your browser, and keeps only your two switches, in your browser.
• Usage records, for the free limits: for each new video analyzed, who started it (your account ID, or a one-way hash of your IP address if you're not signed in), which video, its length, and when.
• View counts: to count views without counting reloads, a one-way hash of your IP address is kept for the day of the view only; afterwards only the total count remains.
• Server logs: our hosting provider keeps request logs, which include IP addresses, for up to 30 days.

Google user data

When you sign in with Google, we ask Google only for your basic profile: your Google account ID, name, email address and profile picture (the openid, email and profile scopes). We use them only to sign you in, to show your name and picture in the page's menu, and to count your usage against your account's limits. We store them in our database (hosted by Railway) until you ask us to delete them. We don't sell them, share them with anyone, use them for advertising, or use them to train AI models. Only Play Overview's administrators can see them, with your usage records and the videos you had analyzed, and only to run the service: to answer your requests, enforce the limits and stop abuse.

If you connect your YouTube channel, Play Overview uses YouTube API Services: we ask Google for read-only access to your YouTube account (the youtube.readonly scope) and use it once, to read which channel is yours: its ID and name. We don't store that access, and we read nothing else from your YouTube account (no private videos, playlists, subscriptions or history). Your channel's public videos are then listed from YouTube's public pages. Google's own handling of your data is described in the Google Privacy Policy. You can remove our access at any time in your Google account's third-party connections, and disconnect the channel on My channel (which deletes its ID and name from our database). We access no other Google data (no Gmail, Drive or contacts).

Play Overview's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Cookies

Only our own, all needed for signing in: a session cookie that keeps you signed in (signed so it can't be forged; up to one year, removed when you sign out), and short-lived cookies that protect the Google sign-in step and the step that connects your channel (10 minutes). An event's page remembers how you arranged its streams in your browser's storage, so a reload shows them the same way; so are your light or dark theme and the voice and speed you pick for Listen; none of it leaves your browser. We use no advertising or analytics cookies and no trackers. The video players are the platforms' own embedded players; YouTube, Twitch and the others may set their own cookies under their own policies.

Who processes data for us

• Railway hosts the site, its database and the preview frames.
• Google handles sign-in.
• YouTube (Google), Twitch and Kick handle connecting your channel, and list its public videos; they also list their live streams to pick for an event (the words searched go to them, not who searched).
• Resend delivers our emails (the welcome, about your analyzed videos, and events you signed up for): it receives your email address and the email.
• Groq turns what's said in a video's audio into text (speech-to-text), and reads in-game stats (small strips cut from the video's frames: the kill feed, the player's kills and deaths) of Counter-Strike 2, VALORANT, Rainbow Six Siege, League of Legends, Apex Legends, WARDOGS and Call of Duty: Warzone videos, and the score box of sports videos and sports video games (small strips cut from its frames).
• OpenAI reads that text or the video's own subtitles, and its title and description, to pick and name highlights, to summarize the video and to recognize the game or what it's about; to write a cooking video's recipe (also from the recipe page its description links to, which we read), the notes on a video's topic, the names of a sports game's plays and the claims a fact check checks; and, when you create a comic, the video's details, highlights and transcript with your style words, to pick its moments and captions; and, when you ask about a video, your question (and your last few questions and answers about it) with the video's analysis and transcript, to answer it.
• Google Gemini watches the seconds of video around each of the player's kills and deaths (frames only, no sound) in videos of the games we read kills and deaths in, to read what the game's screen shows then (health, weapon, place...) and, in Counter-Strike 2, VALORANT, Rainbow Six Siege and WARDOGS, to suggest a tip on what cost a death. It finds where a sports video's score box is in a few of its frames, reads the code shown in programming videos and an artwork's stages in art videos (frames only), checks the claims made in a video with Google Search (the claims and the video's title go to it; the searches it ran are shown with the fact check), and reads the recipe page a cooking video's description links to when that site doesn't let our server read it (its link goes to it). When you create a comic, it picks the best of a few frames of the video around each of its moments (taken from the video as it plays on its platform, never kept) and draws it from them and your wishes and style pictures. When you press Listen, it reads that text of the video's page aloud (the text only; the audio is kept with the video for the next listener, but an answer to your question is never kept). Over the day's limit for Listen, your browser's own voice reads it instead; some browsers use their maker's online voices for that.
• Twitch's public game catalog provides game names and cover art.

Apart from the platform you connect your channel on, and Resend for our emails to you, what these services receive is about the videos, not about you; none of them receives your account details. We don't sell or share personal data for advertising.

How long we keep it

Your account, its library and its usage records are kept until you remove them or ask us to delete them; deleting the account deletes its library too, and the events you created, your event sign-ups and your chat messages. An event, with its sign-ups and chat, is kept until its creator deletes it. Usage records of visitors who aren't signed in (hashed IP addresses) are kept to enforce the free limit. Video analyses are kept so that the next viewer gets them instantly. A log of what our administrators do (like blocking or deleting an account) keeps the account ID they acted on. A comic is kept with its video until its creator or we delete it; comics you created stay on their videos, no longer linked to you, when you delete your account.

Your choices and rights

You can use Play Overview without an account. You can sign out at any time from the menu under your picture. In your library you can remove any video from your History or clear all of it, and remove anything from Watch later and Saved; on My channel you can disconnect your channels; on an event's page you can cancel your sign-up, and delete the events you created. In Settings you can download everything we keep about you and delete your account yourself (with its library, channels, page, events and usage records). For anything else about your data, email playoverview.com@gmail.com from the address on your account and we'll handle it within 30 days. You can also remove our access in your Google account settings.

Children

Play Overview is not meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its date.

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