Privacy policy

Who operates this site

marlyman123.com is operated by Merlin Stemmer in Christchurch, New Zealand. Privacy questions can be sent to support@marly.studio.

YouTube Data API use

The site uses a server-side API key to read public information for the Marlyman123 YouTube channel only. It uses YouTube Data API read methods for channel details, the channel's public uploads playlist, and public video details.

• There is no Google or YouTube sign-in, OAuth consent, or access to any visitor's account.
• The site cannot upload, edit, delete, like, comment on, or otherwise change YouTube content.
• The site does not import, download, store, or cache YouTube video or audio files.
• Stored display data is limited to public fields such as video IDs, titles, publication times, thumbnail URLs, public counters, and durations.

A validated snapshot of those public fields may be retained for continuity. It is hash-bound and must be refreshed within 29 days; the release build fails closed when the snapshot is missing, changed without matching metadata, or too old, and a running release stops serving the snapshot after day 29. Data that is no longer public is removed from the active snapshot during the next validated refresh. Runtime API responses are temporarily cached for between one minute and one day, depending on the data.

Thumbnails and video embeds

YouTube thumbnail URLs are used to show public channel content. Vercel's image delivery layer may temporarily cache an optimized thumbnail copy. YouTube video players are not loaded until a visitor chooses to play a video. Once selected, the embedded player is provided by YouTube and YouTube may receive device, network, cookie, and playback information under the Google Privacy Policy and YouTube Terms of Service.

You can browse titles and thumbnails without starting an embedded YouTube player. External “Open on YouTube” links also leave this site and are governed by YouTube's policies.

Site analytics, performance, and logs

In production, the site uses Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights to understand aggregate visits and page performance. Vercel may process limited request, device, location, and performance data on our behalf. See the Vercel Privacy Policy for details. Hosting security and error logs may temporarily contain request metadata such as a timestamp, requested path, browser information, and a shortened or service-visible network address. We do not use this site to build advertising profiles or sell personal information.

Your choices and contact

You may avoid YouTube player data by not selecting a video, block analytics or third-party requests using browser controls, and contact us about privacy or public content displayed here. If this policy changes materially, the effective date above will be updated.