Last updated: April 2026
Ident.fm ("we," "us," "our") provides sonic branding services for YouTube creators. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website, apply to our program, or participate as a creator partner.
We process your data to fulfill our contractual relationship with you and to comply with applicable legal obligations (GDPR Article 6(1)(b) and (c)). Specifically, we use your information to:
We do not sell, share, or rent your personal information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration.
We do not use your data for advertising, profiling, or targeted marketing. We do not share your information with third parties except as described in this policy to operate the service. If you are a California or Utah resident and wish to exercise your rights under the CCPA or UCPA, contact us at privacy@ident.fm.
We use the following services to operate ident.fm:
Ident.fm's use of the YouTube Data API is limited to verifying public view counts on videos that creators have opted into tracking. We do not access your YouTube account, private analytics, subscriber data, or any information beyond publicly available video statistics.
By participating in the ident.fm program, you acknowledge that view verification relies on the YouTube Data API and is subject to YouTube's Terms of Service and Google's Privacy Policy.
We retain your application and account data for the duration of your participation in the program and for a reasonable period afterward for legal and accounting purposes. View verification records are retained as part of payment audit trails. You may request deletion of your data by contacting us.
We use industry-standard measures to protect your data, including encrypted connections (TLS), Row Level Security on our database, signed URLs for audio file access, and webhook signature verification for all payment processing. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
You have the right to:
To exercise these rights, contact us at privacy@ident.fm.
We use essential cookies for authentication session management only. We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or third-party analytics cookies.
We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via email to active program participants. The "last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent revision.
Questions about this policy? Contact us at privacy@ident.fm.