Last updated October 29, 2026.
Account data
If you create an account, we store the account identifier from our sign-in provider (Clerk), your email, your name if you provide one, your plan, and Stripe customer identifiers when you subscribe. Creator memory (niche, audience, style, goals, notes) is stored only if you save it.
Public YouTube data
Channel lookups and free audits use the YouTube Data API with an API key. That returns public channel and video information: titles, descriptions, tags, statistics, and publish times. You do not need to sign in with Google for that.
Google user data from YouTube OAuth
Connecting YouTube is optional and limited to the Unlimited plan. Creator Climb requests the smallest scopes that can perform the feature you turn on:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl— identify your channel and update video title, description, and tags after you approve each change. This is the scope Google authorizes for those edits. Creator Climb does not delete videos, comments, ratings, or captions.https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly— read-only watch time, average view duration, and subscriber changes. Requested only when you enable watch-time alerts, not on the first connect.
We do not request monetary analytics or YouTube partner scopes.
The refresh token is encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM) and is not sent to the browser. Access tokens are used server-side to call the YouTube APIs and are not stored as the long-term credential. Original title, description, and tags are saved with an Auto fix run so Undo can restore them.
How Google user data is used
Google user data is used only to provide Creator Climb features you can see in the product: showing which channel is connected, drafting metadata rewrites, applying the rewrites you confirm, restoring them on Undo, and showing analytics alerts you enabled.
When you generate an Auto fix preview, the current title, description, and tags of those videos are sent to OpenAI to draft the rewrite. YouTube Analytics metrics are not sent to OpenAI. We do not sell Google user data, we do not use it for advertising, and we do not use it to train generalized models. Under OpenAI's API terms, data sent through the API is not used to train OpenAI's models by default.
Creator Climb's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Free planning tools
The posting-time log, the content calendar, the engagement rate calculator, the caption generator, and the YouTube watch time calculator run in your browser. Posts you add to the posting log are stored in local storage on that device. Caption text, the numbers you type into the engagement calculator, and the views, durations, and hours you type into the watch time calculator stay in the browser. They are not uploaded to Creator Climb.
Site measurement
The site loads Vercel Web Analytics, which records page views. A few actions also send a custom event: calculating an engagement rate, calculating watch time, drafting or checking a caption or a bio, clicking a signup link, and starting checkout. Those events include a page or plan name, the platform you selected, how many posts, hashtags, or videos were involved, the character count of a bio, and whether a caption or bio was over its length limit. The watch time event includes the question you asked and whether you used a duration or a percentage. They do not include caption text, hashtag words, bio text, or the like, view, duration, and hour numbers you type. Vercel Web Analytics is separate from the optional Meta, GA4, and Google Ads scripts described below.
Weekly tips
If you join the weekly creator growth tips list, we store your email address and which form submitted it (the site footer) in the same database as the rest of Creator Climb (Supabase). The address is used only so the operator can send those tips. We do not sell it, and there is no separate email vendor. To be removed, email support@getcreatorclimb.com from the same address.
Advertising and attribution
If the operator sets a Meta Pixel id, a GA4 measurement id, or a Google Ads id, the site loads that vendor's script. Those scripts can record a page view, a signup or lead event after an account is created, and a purchase event after Stripe confirms a paid subscription. An unset id means that script is not loaded.
A landing URL may include utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_term, utm_content, gclid, or fbclid. Those values are stored in a first-party cookie named cc_attr for 90 days. When you create an account, the cookie is copied onto your profile. The click that reaches a confirmed subscription is stored separately. Creator Climb uses them to see which campaign led to the signup or subscription. They are not sold.
Payments
Subscriptions are processed by Stripe. Creator Climb stores Stripe customer, subscription, price, and status identifiers. Card numbers stay with Stripe.
How long data is kept
Account data, audits, reports, memory, and the encrypted YouTube token are kept until you disconnect YouTube or delete the account. Disconnecting revokes the Google token and deletes the stored credential. Deleting the account also cancels an active subscription and removes your profile, audits, reports, plans, alerts, and memory. Public channel rows may remain without your user id because they contain public YouTube information. Private analytics stored on snapshots for your connected channels are cleared.
Your choices
Disconnect YouTube from the dashboard or Settings. Cancel a subscription from the billing portal in Settings. Delete the account from Settings by typing DELETE. You can also revoke Creator Climb in your Google Account permissions.
Contact
Privacy questions, data requests, and removal from the tips list go to support@getcreatorclimb.com.