PRIVACY
Last updated: September 2026. Written in plain English because legal jargon helps nobody.
// the short version
We collect as little data as possible. We don't store your email. We don't track you across the web. We don't sell anything to anyone. If you delete your profile, your data goes with it.
*That's genuinely it. But here's the longer version if you need it.
// what we store
When you sign in (with Twitch or Google) and create a profile, we store:
| Data | Stored? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Username (from Twitch or Google) | Yes | Your display name in the directory |
| Avatar URL | Yes | Your profile picture |
| Bio | Yes | You wrote it, we display it |
| Timezone | Yes | Helps viewers find streamers in their timezone |
| Genres & top games | Yes | Feeds the directory filters |
| Platform links | Yes | So viewers can find your channels |
| Live status & viewer count | Yes | Updated automatically via Twitch, Kick & YouTube APIs |
| Email address | No | We don't ask for it, don't need it |
| Real name | No | None of our business |
| Location / IP address | No | Not stored by us |
| Browsing activity | No | No tracking scripts, no analytics |
| Outbound link clicks (Twitch/YouTube/etc) | Yes* | *An anonymous count, not about you — see below |
// outbound link clicks
When you click a link that takes you from this site to someone's actual Twitch, YouTube, or other channel, we count it. Not you — the click. There's a real difference, and here's the honest breakdown:
We do not know who clicked. There's no session, no cookie, no IP address, no account tied to the click, nothing that could ever be traced back to a visitor. What we keep is a number: this profile's Twitch link was clicked 4 times today. That's genuinely the entire fidelity of it — no timestamps beyond the date, no order, no way to reconstruct anyone's path through the site.
We use this a few ways. First, honestly, to find out whether this site does anything at all — "the directory sent 40 people to streamers' channels last month" is a real claim we couldn't make before. Second, once a streamer's links have been clicked a handful of times, they'll quietly earn a private achievement for it — same rule as every other achievement on the site, never shown to anyone but them.
Third — and this is the one actual number that gets shown to anyone — a streamer can privately see last month's click total on their own profile page. At most once a month, and only if the total isn't zero; a zero month just stays quiet rather than showing up as a number. Nobody but that streamer ever sees it, it's never a running total you can check whenever you like, and it's never shown to their audience or anyone else browsing the site.
Daily detail gets collapsed into monthly totals after six months. Nothing is ever deleted outright, just made coarser over time — which also means the data gets less specific the older it gets, not more.
*We know "anonymous but we still count it" is the kind of line every tracking company says. The difference: nothing about the table lets it be traced to you even if someone tried — there's simply no visitor data in it to trace. The site's public API can't read this table at all, full stop — the achievement and the monthly digest above are the two narrow exceptions, each built to return only what its caller is entitled to see, nothing more. Like everything else here, whoever runs the database can technically go looking at the raw numbers — same as any site owner can query their own database. There's just nothing about you in there to find.
// signing in
You can sign in with either Twitch or Google. Both use OAuth, which means you log in directly with that provider — we never see or store your password.
Whichever provider you use, we only keep your public username and avatar. If you sign in with Google, we don't store your Gmail address, your contacts, your calendar, or anything else from your Google account.
You can revoke our access at any time:
• Twitch Connections settings — remove NobodysWatching
• Google Account permissions — remove NobodysWatching.live
// youtube api services
We use the YouTube API Services to check whether streamers who've linked their YouTube channel are currently live. This is read-only — we only check public live status data on channels that streamers have explicitly linked to their NobodysWatching profile. We do not access your watch history, subscriptions, playlists, uploaded videos, comments, or any private YouTube data.
By using NobodysWatching.live, you are also agreeing to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service.
Google's privacy practices are described in the Google Privacy Policy.
You can revoke our access to your Google account at any time via the Google security settings.
// third-party services
The site is hosted on Netlify and our database is on Supabase. Both are reputable services with their own privacy policies.
To check live status across platforms, we use the Twitch API, the YouTube Data API, and Kick's public channel API. These calls are made server-side using only the public channel identifiers that streamers have explicitly added to their profile.
We don't use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any other third-party tracking tool. The one thing we do count ourselves is anonymous outbound link clicks — see "outbound link clicks" above for the honest breakdown.
Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which may log basic request data on their end. That's the extent of third-party involvement.
// cookies
We use a single authentication cookie to keep you logged in. That's it. No tracking cookies, no advertising cookies, no cookie consent banner taking up half your screen.
*You're welcome.
// deleting your data
You can delete your entire profile and account at any time from your profile settings. It's permanent, it's immediate, and it removes everything we have on you. No waiting period, no "we'll keep your data for 30 days just in case" nonsense.
// changes to this policy
If we ever change what we collect or how we use it, we'll update this page. We'll try to make noise about it too. But honestly, the whole point of this project is to collect as little as possible, so major changes are unlikely.