VideoTag Privacy Policy

VideoTag was called FamScan until September 2026. It is the same app.

Effective date: September 18, 2026

VideoTag is an app made by Stan James. It records a video, saves it to your own YouTube channel or your own Google Drive, whichever you choose, and prints a label with a QR code that links to the video.

This policy explains what information the app handles and where it goes. The short version:

• VideoTag has no accounts and no servers that store your videos or personal information.
• Your videos go from your phone directly to your own YouTube channel or Google Drive.
• Each video is shared so that anyone who has its link can watch it. That is how the QR code on the label works.
• VideoTag contains no advertising and no analytics, and it does not sell or share your information.

If anything here is unclear, write to wanderingstan@gmail.com.

Your videos are viewable by anyone with the link

Please read this section before you record anything you would not want a stranger to see.

When VideoTag uploads a video to your Google Drive, it sets that one file's sharing to "anyone with the link can view". When it uploads to YouTube, it makes the video "unlisted", which means the same thing: anyone with the link can watch, and the video does not appear in search or on your channel page. The link is what the QR code on the printed label contains. This means:

• Anyone who scans the label, or who is given the link, can watch the video. They do not need a Google account.
• On YouTube, the video's title and the words spoken in it (saved as its description) are visible to those same people.
• The link is long and random, and the video does not appear in search results, but it is not protected by a password.
• If you stick a label somewhere other people can reach it, treat the video as something those people can see.

You are in control of this. You can delete any video in VideoTag. In Google Drive you can also delete it, or turn off link sharing and keep the video; on YouTube you can delete it or make it private. Either way, the label stops working.

What VideoTag accesses on your device

VideoTag asks for these permissions and uses them only as described.

• Camera and microphone. Used to record video and sound when you press record. Nothing is recorded in the background.
• Speech, to title your videos. After you record, VideoTag turns the words spoken in the video into text, on your phone, and uses the opening words as the video's title so you do not have to type one. The audio is never sent to VideoTag, to Apple, or to anyone else for this. On iOS 26 and later, iOS does not ask for permission, because nothing leaves the device. On older versions of iOS, you will see Apple's standard Speech Recognition prompt, which says speech may be sent to Apple. VideoTag requires on-device recognition and skips titling altogether if your phone cannot do it on-device, so that does not happen. If you decline, everything else works and your videos are titled by date.
• Bluetooth. Used to find and talk to your label printer. The app sends the printer an image of the label and nothing else.
• Location, on Android 11 and older only. These versions of Android require the location permission before any app may scan for Bluetooth devices. VideoTag uses it only to find your printer. It never reads, stores, or sends your location. Newer versions of Android and all versions of iOS do not ask for this.
• Photos and videos you choose. If you use Import Video, the system's picker lets you select one video. VideoTag can see only the video you pick, not the rest of your library.

Your Google account

VideoTag is a client for YouTube and for Google Drive. You connect your Google account, choosing one of the two, so the app can save videos there. VideoTag has no account system of its own.

What VideoTag receives from Google when you connect:

• Your name, your email address, and your Google account's ID number. The app shows your name and email in its menu so you can see which account is connected.
• Permission to use either YouTube or Google Drive, as described below. VideoTag asks for one or the other, never both.

What VideoTag can do in your Google Drive. VideoTag asks for Google's drive.file permission. This lets the app see and manage only the files and folders that VideoTag itself created. It cannot see, open, change, or delete anything else in your Drive.

With that permission, VideoTag:

• Creates one folder named "VideoTag videos". If you started when the app was called FamScan, your folder is named "famscan files" and VideoTag keeps using it.
• Uploads the videos you record or import into that folder. The video's title becomes the file's name, and the words spoken in it are saved as the file's description, so you can search for them.
• Sets each uploaded video to "anyone with the link can view", as described above.
• Lists those videos so you can see them in the app.
• Changes a video's description, or deletes a video, when you ask it to.

What VideoTag can do in your YouTube account. If you choose YouTube, VideoTag uses YouTube API Services and asks for Google's permission to manage your YouTube account. Google offers no narrower permission that covers uploading a video, listing your videos, renaming one and deleting one, so Google's consent screen describes it broadly. What VideoTag actually does with it:

• Uploads the videos you record or import to your channel as unlisted videos, tagged "famscan". The video's title is its YouTube title, and the words spoken in it are saved as its description.
• Creates one private playlist named "VideoTag" (named "FamScan" if it was made before the app was renamed) and adds those videos to it. The app shows what is in that playlist.
• To find VideoTag videos that are missing from the playlist, looks at the titles and tags of your 50 most recent uploads. It keeps nothing about videos that are not VideoTag's.
• Renames or deletes a VideoTag video when you ask it to.

VideoTag does not read your comments, subscriptions, viewing history, or anything else in your YouTube account, and does not change or delete videos it did not upload. By using VideoTag with YouTube you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's handling of this information is described in the Google Privacy Policy.

Where your Google information is kept. Your name, email, and account ID are stored only on your device. The sign-in itself is handled by Google's official sign-in software on your device, which keeps its own credentials on your device. VideoTag does not send your Google information, your access credentials, or your videos to Stan James or to any server operated for VideoTag. There is no such server.

Google's Limited Use requirements. VideoTag's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. In particular, VideoTag does not use Google user data for advertising, does not sell it, does not transfer it to third parties, and does not allow any person to read it.

Information stored on your device

VideoTag keeps a small amount of information on your phone so that it works between uses:

• The name, email, and ID of the connected Google account.
• The ID of the "famscan files" folder in your Drive.
• The name and Bluetooth identifier of your printer, so the app can reconnect.
• Your camera preference, front or back.
• A list of videos that have not finished uploading, and a temporary copy of each of those videos. The copy is deleted as soon as the upload completes.

This information stays on your device. It is removed when you delete the app. Disconnecting your Google account in Setup removes the Google account information.

Other services the app contacts

• Google. To sign you in, to upload and list your videos, to show their thumbnail images, and to play a video inside the app. Google handles this information under the Google Privacy Policy.
• uqr2.com. When the app opens, it downloads one small file from uqr2.com, a website run by Stan James, to find out which tutorial video to show. The request contains no information about you or your account. Like any website, the server may keep a standard log of the request, which includes your IP address and the time. These logs are used only to keep the site running and are not combined with anything else.
• Shopping links. The Printer Setup screen has links to Amazon and AliExpress searches for compatible printers. These are ordinary links that open in your browser only if you tap them. VideoTag earns nothing from them and sends those sites nothing.

What VideoTag does not do

• It does not contain advertising.
• It does not contain analytics, usage tracking, or crash reporting that sends data off your device.
• It does not sell, rent, or share your information with anyone.
• It does not use your videos or your Google data to train any AI model. Titles are worked out by software that runs on your phone.

Deleting your data

You can remove everything VideoTag has touched, and you do not need to contact anyone to do it.

• One video: open it in VideoTag and tap Delete, or delete it in Google Drive or on YouTube. The label for that video stops working.
• All videos: delete the "VideoTag videos" folder (or "famscan files", if yours has the older name) in Google Drive, or the videos in the "VideoTag" playlist on YouTube.
• VideoTag's access to your Google account: tap Disconnect Google in the app's menu. This withdraws the permission at Google, not only on your phone. You can also remove VideoTag at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
• Information on your device: delete the app.

Children

VideoTag is not directed at children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from them. Families often record children in videos. Because every video is viewable by anyone with its link, please think about where you place labels for videos that show children.

Security

Uploads travel over encrypted connections directly to Google. VideoTag has no server holding your videos or credentials, so there is no VideoTag database that could be breached. The main privacy risk is the one described at the top: a label, or a link you share, reaching someone you did not intend.

Changes to this policy

If VideoTag changes how it handles information, this page will be updated and the effective date at the top will change.

Contact

Stan James
wanderingstan@gmail.com