Privacy

Privacy Policy

Last updated September 2026

Trend Intelligence is a pre-launch product. Today it consists of a data-ingestion pipeline and this informational site — no customer accounts, sign-ups, or end-user product exist yet. This policy describes exactly what's collected and accessed right now, and will be replaced by a fuller policy before any customer account or end-user data collection begins.

1. What this website collects

This site is a static set of pages. It does not use cookies, does not run any analytics or advertising script, and has no sign-up, login, or contact form. Visiting it does not create any record on our side.

2. What the ingestion pipeline accesses

Separately from this website, the Trend Intelligence data pipeline reads from a fixed set of official, publicly documented APIs, plus specific public web pages an operator has explicitly approved. The table below lists every source and exactly what it reads.

Source	What's accessed	Authentication
Google Trends	Relative search interest, rising queries for a fixed keyword list	None (public data)
Reddit	Public "hot" post listings in a curated set of subreddits	OAuth2, app-only
YouTube	Public trending-video feed (titles, view counts)	API key
Google Ads (Keyword Planner)	Search-volume history for a fixed keyword list, on our own Ads account	OAuth2
eBay	Public listing search results for a fixed category list	OAuth2, app-only
Etsy	Public listing search results for a fixed category list	API key
Public web pages	Specific, operator-approved public pages only	None

In every case: access is read-only (nothing is ever posted, edited, or sent on any connected platform), and the data collected is public listing, post, or search-volume information — never a private account's content, and never any individual person's personal information.

3. Google API data specifically

Where this project uses a Google API (the YouTube Data API and the Google Ads API), Trend Intelligence's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Specifically:

Data retrieved through Google APIs is used only to compute this project's own aggregate trend signals.
It is not sold, is not shared with any third party, and is not used for advertising or ad targeting of any kind.
It is not used to train generalized AI or machine-learning models unrelated to this project's own trend-detection function.
Access is limited to our own Google Ads account's data and public YouTube data — never another person's Google Account data.

4. Data retention

Raw responses from each source are used to compute short, derived signal summaries (for example, "search interest for a keyword rose 40% this month") and are not retained indefinitely in their original form. Derived signals are kept to power trend detection; there is currently no process for an individual to request deletion of platform-public data, since none of it identifies a private individual in the first place.

5. Security

All API access uses HTTPS. Credentials (API keys, OAuth tokens) are stored as environment configuration on infrastructure we control and are never included in source code or exposed publicly.

6. Children's privacy

This site and the pipeline behind it are not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to anyone under 13.

7. International users

Data sources are currently configured for the United States market (for example, YouTube's trending feed and eBay/Etsy searches are region-scoped to the US). This may expand as the product develops.

8. Changes to this policy

As Trend Intelligence moves from a pipeline into a real seller-facing product, this policy will be replaced by one that directly covers customer accounts and any data collected from them — not silently expanded to cover that under this version. The "Last updated" date above will change whenever this policy does.

9. Contact

Questions about this policy: github.com/suryarott.