Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 5, 2026

orbutton is a YouTube playlist crossfade player. It has no user accounts and no backend server of its own — this page explains exactly what little data exists and where it lives.

What orbutton stores, and where

• Locally, in your own browser only (via localStorage) — never sent to us, because there is no "us" to send it to: your crossfade/fade-duration/volume settings, your current queue and playback position, your sleep-timer preference, and, if you choose to enter one, your own YouTube Data API v3 key.
• Anonymous, aggregate usage counters. orbutton counts three things as simple day-by-day totals: a playlist was loaded, a crossfade into the next track completed, and a personal API key was used. These counts have no IP address, cookie, device fingerprint, or any other identifier attached to them, and are never tied back to you or to any specific session — they only tell us whether the app is being used at all. No accounts, no tracking cookies, no third-party analytics scripts, and no server-side logs of what you actually play.
• The Buy Me a Coffee support link. The "Support orbutton" link in the footer goes to buymeacoffee.com, a separate, independent platform. If you choose to click it and make a contribution, that's handled entirely by Buy Me a Coffee under their own privacy policy and payment terms — orbutton has no visibility into and no control over anything that happens there.

Your optional YouTube API key

If you paste in your own YouTube Data API v3 key (only needed to import a full playlist by URL), it is stored solely in your browser's local storage and used only to call Google's API directly from your browser. It is never transmitted to any server operated by orbutton.

YouTube / Google

Playback happens through the official YouTube IFrame Player API, embedded directly from YouTube. When you load or play a video, YouTube/Google receives the same information they would if you watched the video directly on youtube.com, governed by Google's own Privacy Policy. orbutton has no visibility into and no control over that data.

Clearing your data

Since everything lives in your browser's local storage, clearing it (or your browser's site data for this page) removes it completely. There is nothing stored anywhere else to delete.

Changes to this policy

If this ever changes — for example, if a future version adds an account system or server-side storage — this page will be updated to reflect it before that change ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected]

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