Privacy Policy

We keep collection deliberately narrow. In practice this means:

• Watch configuration you provide — watch names, keywords, channels, topic scopes, natural-language prompts, date windows, cadence, and the analysis budgets you set.
• Public content we analyze — publicly available transcripts, source metadata, reviews, posts, and comments retrieved from configured Watch Stations through their official APIs, limited to the scope of the watches you create.
• Derived analysis — the themes, evidence excerpts, diffs, alerts, bets, and forecasts the pipeline produces from that content.
• Operational logs — step-by-step run traces (ingest → extract → diff → grade) used for transparency and debugging.
• Local preferences— your theme choice is stored in your browser’s local storage. We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

Information is used only to operate and improve the product:

• To run your watches — discover sources, extract themes, compute diffs, grade bets, and generate forecasts.
• To maintain, secure, and improve the service.
• To diagnose failures and communicate operational status.

We do not sell your data, and we do not use your watch content to advertise to you.

Watchdogs relies on third-party providers that process data on our behalf, each under their own terms and privacy policies:

• Source platforms — the YouTube Data API (Google) and the Reddit API, used to retrieve public content within your configured scope.
• Language-model providers — text (transcripts, comments, and briefs) is sent to LLM providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI to extract themes, cluster signal, and generate keywords.
• Infrastructure — hosting, a managed Postgres database, and background job execution used to store data and run cycles.

Your use of Watchdogs is also subject to the terms and policies of these upstream platforms.

Derived snapshots, themes, short evidence excerpts, diffs, alerts, bets, and logs are retained so your watches remain auditable over time. Full transcripts, descriptions, comment text, and author names are automatically redacted after the configured raw-data retention window (90 days by default). Deleting a watch cascades to its associated data. You may request deletion of your data at any time (see Contact).

Content analyzed by Watchdogs belongs to its original authors and the platforms that host it. We store short excerpts as evidence so every claim in a diff or bet can be traced to its source. We collect only via official APIs and operate within platform terms of service and API quotas.

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect data in transit and at rest. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

You can edit or delete watches at any time from the app; deletion cascades to the associated snapshots, themes, and logs. Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete personal data — reach out and we will honor applicable requests.

Watchdogs is a professional research tool and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above, and we will note material changes where appropriate.

Questions about this policy or your data? Contact us at hello@watchdog.sh.