The Latin Prayer Podcast

TLPP Analytics

Privacy

This page says, in plain words, what TLPP Analytics reads, from which Google services, why, who can see it, and what happens to it afterwards. TLPP Analytics is a private dashboard run by Dylan Drego for The Latin Prayer Podcast. If anything here is unclear, write to latinprayerpodcast@gmail.com.

What it reads, and from where

With the permission of the Google account that owns The Latin Prayer Podcast, the dashboard reads the podcast's own statistics. Nothing is read from any other account, channel or site.

• YouTube Analytics and the YouTube Data API: the channel's views, watch time, subscribers gained and lost, shares and likes; the same figures per video, with each video's title, publish date and length; audience age, gender and country as percentages; and the thumbnail impressions and click-through rate from YouTube's reach report. All of these are aggregate figures. None of them identifies a viewer.
• Google Analytics, for the podcast's website: visitors, sessions, which channels brought them (search, direct, video, social and so on), which pages they read, monthly totals, and counts of any key events the website defines, such as a click on a Patreon link once that is set up. Again, aggregate figures only.

The dashboard only ever reads. It never changes, uploads, deletes or writes anything in YouTube or Google Analytics.

Why

So that the people who make the podcast can see how it is doing, decide what to make next, and notice when something has changed. That is the whole purpose.

Who can see it

Five named people, each signing in with their own Google account. At sign-in, Google tells the dashboard the signer's email address, and the dashboard checks it against a short list. If the address is not on the list, the person sees a refusal page and nothing else. The dashboard does not read anything else about the people who sign in: not their own YouTube, their Drive, their contacts, or their browsing.

The written read

The dashboard can write a short plain-language reading of the figures. To do that it sends the statistics described above, including video titles and the website's page paths, to Anthropic's Claude service, which generates the text under Anthropic's API terms. Nothing about the person using the dashboard is sent: not their name, not their email, not what they typed about themselves. The question they ask is sent with the figures, so it can be answered.

What is kept, and for how long

• Figures read from Google are kept in a temporary server cache for up to six hours, so the page loads quickly, and are then gone. There is no database and no history.
• A signed-in person's session, which holds only their email address, is kept in the same temporary cache for up to six hours and then expires.
• The dashboard sets no tracking cookies of its own and runs no analytics on its own visitors. Google's own sign-in and hosting may set theirs, under Google's privacy policy.

What is never done with it

The figures are not shared with anyone outside the five named people, except as sent to Anthropic to write the read, as described above. They are not sold, not published, not used for advertising, and not used to build profiles of anyone. The dashboard's use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Your choices

The owner of the podcast's Google account can withdraw the dashboard's access at any time from myaccount.google.com/permissions, after which it can read nothing. Any of the five people can ask to be removed from the list by writing to the address below; removal takes effect on their next visit.

Changes

If what the dashboard reads or does changes, this page changes with it, with a new effective date at the top.

Contact

Dylan Drego, The Latin Prayer Podcast · latinprayerpodcast@gmail.com