Privacy policy
The short version: Flosstubes has no accounts, no adverts and no tracking. We only use cookies to remember your own settings, and they stay in your browser.
Who we are
Flosstubes (flosstubes.com and flosstubes.co.uk) is run by Brett and Sian in the United Kingdom. You can contact us at hello@flosstubes.com.
What we collect about visitors
We do not ask for your name or email, and we do not use analytics, advertising or social media trackers. We only store the cookies below. They hold your settings, are never used to identify you, and you can remove them at any time by clearing cookies for this site in your browser.
| Cookie | What it remembers | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
langs | The languages you chose to see videos in | 1 year |
fav | The Flosstubers you gave a thumbs up | 400 days |
mute | The Flosstubers you gave a thumbs down | 400 days |
fx_admin | Only set for the site owners, to show admin shortcuts | 1 year |
These cookies are needed for features you choose to use, so we do not ask for consent before setting them.
If we add a "most visited videos" list in future, we will count how often each video page is opened without recording who opened it, and we will update this page before we start.
Hosting and other services
- Cloudflare hosts the site. Like any web host, it handles your IP address and basic request details to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse. See the Cloudflare privacy policy.
- YouTube. Video thumbnails are loaded from YouTube's servers, and the Watch buttons take you to YouTube, where Google's terms apply.
YouTube API Services
Flosstubes uses YouTube API Services to find videos and to show their titles, thumbnails and view counts. By using Flosstubes you also agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. The Google Privacy Policy explains how Google handles data. You can manage Google's access to your data at Google security settings.
Information about creators
We store public information from YouTube about FlossTube channels and videos: names, titles, descriptions, thumbnails, view counts and where a channel says it is based. We refresh it regularly, and remove videos that are deleted or made private on YouTube. AI summaries are written from each video's public description and captions, using an AI service (OpenRouter). No information about visitors is sent to it. Creators can ask us to remove or correct their information by emailing hello@flosstubes.com.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask what information we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it. Email hello@flosstubes.com. If you are unhappy with how we handle your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Changes
If we change how Flosstubes uses information, we will update this page and the date at the top.