Effective: November 6, 2026. Last reviewed: November 6, 2026.

This policy covers Jared Howard Social Publisher, the developer app I use to publish my own posts to YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Bluesky and LinkedIn. It does not replace the site-wide Privacy Policy, which covers this website and my paid services. The Social Publisher terms of service cover using the app.

1. What it is

I run a self-hosted social media scheduler (Postiz, which is open source). It publishes posts to social accounts that I own and manage for my own projects, such as Threkir and FeohLedger. It is not offered to the public. I am its only user.

2. What it accesses

  • The access tokens a platform grants when I connect one of my own Pages, channels or accounts (for Bluesky, an app password I create for it).
  • Basic profile or page details of those accounts: name, ID and picture.
  • The posts and media I write and schedule, which it sends to the platform to publish.
  • Aggregate statistics for my own accounts and posts, such as follower, view and like counts, where the platform provides them, so I can see how my posts perform.

3. What it does not do

It does not collect data about other people; the statistics it reads are aggregate counts for my own accounts and posts. It does not sell data or share it with anyone other than the platform it came from. It shows no ads and adds no tracking or third-party analytics.

4. YouTube and TikTok

The app uses the YouTube API Services. With my permission it accesses my Google account's name and email address, my channel's details and videos, and aggregate statistics for my channel and videos (YouTube Analytics), such as views and likes. It uses them to connect the channel, to upload and update the videos I make (titles, descriptions and thumbnails), and to show me how they perform. It stores the OAuth tokens and the basic account and channel information needed to publish, the post content I write, and the statistics it reads. It does not sell any of this or share it with anyone other than YouTube. By using it with YouTube you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google's handling of data is described in the Google Privacy Policy. You can revoke its access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

From TikTok it accesses my profile information (display name, ID, avatar and profile details), aggregate account statistics (such as follower and like counts), the list of my videos and their view, like, comment and share counts, and permission to post the videos I make to my own account. It uses them to publish and to show me how my posts perform, and shares them with no one other than TikTok. You can revoke its access in the TikTok app under Settings and privacy > Security > Manage app permissions.

5. Where data is kept

The scheduler runs only on a server I control, in Amazon Web Services (us-east-1), and no account is connected to it before then. Access tokens are stored encrypted at rest. I can disconnect any account at any time.

6. Removing access and deleting data

You can revoke the app's access from each platform's own settings, and ask me to delete anything it holds. The steps are on the data deletion instructions page.

7. Contact

Jared Howard
jared@jaredhoward.com