Privacy Policy

What this policy covers

This policy explains how HackerTube Explorer handles information when you browse our independent guide to videos discussed on Hacker News and associated with HackerTube. HackerTube Explorer is not the official HackerTube project, Hacker News, or YouTube.

Most of the catalogue can be explored without creating an account. Some optional features, such as saving items, submitting support requests, or contributing a guest post, may require an account.

Information connected to your use of the site

Depending on how you use HackerTube Explorer, we may process:

• Account details you provide when registering or signing in, such as your name and email address.
• Account activity needed to provide optional features, such as saved videos, support requests, account preferences, and guest-post submissions.
• Content you submit, including a guest post draft, title, description, links, and any information you include in a support request.
• Technical information required to deliver and secure the site, such as request and device information handled by our hosting and security infrastructure.

We do not require an account simply to browse the public catalogue, topic pages, collections, guides, or source links.

Cookies, local storage, and analytics

We use essential browser storage for functions such as sign-in sessions, appearance preferences, and, when enabled, your cookie-consent choice. These are used to make the site work and remember choices you make.

The site may also enable privacy or traffic analytics configured by the site operator. If non-essential analytics are enabled, the cookie banner gives you a choice before those tools are used. You can revisit that choice from the footer when cookie settings are available.

External links and source attribution

Catalogue entries link to third-party destinations, including Hacker News discussions, YouTube videos, and other sources. Opening one of those links takes you to a site we do not operate. Their privacy practices, cookies, accounts, and content are governed by their own policies.

We retain source attribution to explain why a video appears in this independent catalogue. We do not claim ownership of the linked video or discussion content.

Optional payments and contributions

If the operator enables a paid feature, checkout is handled by the payment provider selected for that feature. We receive information needed to confirm and administer the purchase, such as the transaction status, provider reference, amount, and the account associated with it. We do not collect or store complete payment-card details on HackerTube Explorer.

Guest-post contributors may submit article content and links for editorial review. Approved contributions can be published on the site; external links in paid guest posts are labelled and handled as sponsored links.

How information is used

We use information only as needed to:

• operate, secure, and improve HackerTube Explorer;
• provide account-based features you choose to use;
• respond to support requests and administer submissions;
• process an enabled purchase or contribution workflow; and
• investigate abuse, fraud, or violations of these terms.

When information is shared

We do not sell personal information. Information may be processed by service providers that help operate the site, such as hosting, authentication, email, storage, analytics, or payment providers, only for the services they provide. We may also disclose information when required to comply with applicable law or to protect the security of the site and its users.

Your choices

You can browse the public catalogue without an account, manage available account preferences from your settings, and control non-essential cookie choices where the consent banner is enabled. For a question about information connected to your account or a submitted contribution, use the support channel available in your account.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as HackerTube Explorer changes. The “Last updated” date above shows when this page was most recently revised.