Privacy Policy for YouTube Thumbnail Downloader

1. Information We May Collect

You can use the core thumbnail tool without creating an account. Depending on how you access the website and which features or third-party services are enabled, the following categories of information may be processed:

• Technical information: IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, language, approximate location derived from IP address, referring page and similar request data.
• Usage information: Pages viewed, interactions, approximate visit times and general site-performance information.
• Contact information: Information you voluntarily submit through a contact form, such as a name, reply email, subject and message.
• Cookie and advertising identifiers: Cookies, local storage, IP addresses, advertising identifiers or similar technologies may be used by advertising, consent or measurement providers when those services are enabled.

2. How We Use Information

Information may be used to:

• Operate, maintain and secure the website and thumbnail tool.
• Diagnose technical errors and improve performance and usability.
• Respond to messages, feedback, copyright enquiries or support requests.
• Understand general traffic and usage trends where measurement tools are enabled.
• Prevent abuse, fraud, security incidents or misuse of the service.
• Comply with applicable legal obligations.
• Display and measure advertising when advertising services are enabled.

3. Cookies, Local Storage & Similar Technologies

Our website and third-party services may use cookies, local storage, web beacons, IP addresses or similar technologies to operate features, remember consent choices, measure traffic, protect the service and, where advertising is enabled, deliver or measure ads.

You can usually manage cookies through your browser settings. Where required by applicable law, a consent message or privacy controls may also be provided so you can make choices about eligible cookies and advertising technologies.

4. Google AdSense & Advertising

We may use Google AdSense or other Google advertising services to display ads. When Google advertising code is enabled, Google and its advertising partners may place or read cookies on your browser or use web beacons, IP addresses and other identifiers to collect information for ad delivery, frequency capping, measurement, fraud prevention and, where permitted, personalization.

Google may use information from this website together with information from other sites or apps that use Google services, subject to Google’s own policies and your available privacy choices.

5. Consent for the EEA, United Kingdom & Switzerland

Where required, users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland may be shown a consent-management message before certain advertising or storage technologies are used.

When Google publisher advertising products are used, we intend to use consent controls that meet Google’s applicable consent-management requirements. Users can make or update available consent choices through the consent interface provided on the website when such controls are active.

6. Third-Party Services

Our website may rely on third-party platforms and service providers for web hosting, content delivery, security, consent management, advertising, analytics, measurement or other website functions.

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7. Data Retention

We aim to retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including responding to enquiries, maintaining security, resolving disputes or meeting legal obligations. Different service providers may apply their own retention periods to information they process.

8. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect the website and information handled through it. However, no website, internet transmission or electronic storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

9. GDPR & Related European Privacy Rights

If European data-protection law applies to the processing of your personal data, you may have rights such as:

• Requesting access to personal data about you.
• Requesting correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Requesting deletion in circumstances where the law provides that right.
• Requesting restriction of certain processing.
• Objecting to certain processing.
• Requesting data portability where applicable.
• Withdrawing consent where processing is based on consent.
• Lodging a complaint with an appropriate data-protection authority.

10. California Privacy Rights

California residents may have privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), if and to the extent those laws apply.

• The right to know or access certain personal information.
• The right to request deletion, subject to legal exceptions.
• The right to correct inaccurate personal information.
• The right to opt out of certain sale or sharing of personal information where applicable.
• The right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable.
• The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising eligible rights.

11. Children’s Privacy

This website is a general-audience utility and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly ask children under 13 to submit personal information through the website.

12. International Users

The website may be accessed from different countries. Service providers used to operate the site may process information in countries other than the country where you live, subject to their own safeguards and applicable legal requirements.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when website features, service providers, advertising practices or legal requirements change. The latest version will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.

14. Contact & Privacy Requests

If you have a privacy question or want to submit an eligible privacy request, please use our Contact Us page. Do not send passwords, payment information or other highly sensitive information through a general contact form.