Monal Radar.
Privacy Policy
Effective 26 August 2026 · Monal Radar is operated by Monal Digital ("we", "us"). Contact: ajay@monaldigital.com
What Monal Radar does
Monal Radar is a research tool for YouTube creators. It analyzes publicly available YouTube channel and video statistics across a market niche, and — only for creators who explicitly connect their own channel — private channel analytics, to recommend what to make next.
Information we collect
- Account information: your email address and name when you create an account, and your Google account identifier if you sign in with Google.
- Session cookies: a signed cookie that keeps you logged in. We use no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
- Public YouTube data: channel and video statistics retrieved via YouTube API Services (subscriber counts, view counts, titles, thumbnails and similar public metadata). This is public information about channels, not about you.
- Connected-channel analytics (optional): if a channel owner links their channel via Google OAuth, we retrieve read-only YouTube Analytics data for that channel (daily views, watch time, subscriber changes, traffic sources, top videos). We never receive your Google password, and access is read-only.
- Usage data: basic logs of feature use and API consumption, for operating and securing the service.
YouTube API Services
Monal Radar uses YouTube API Services. By using the app you also agree to the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's handling of your data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
If you have connected your channel, you can revoke Monal Radar's access at any time from your Google security settings, or by using Unlink inside the app — which deletes the stored OAuth token immediately.
How we use information
- To provide the product: market rankings, change detection, digests, video plans and channel insights.
- To generate AI analysis: relevant channel statistics and (for connected channels) aggregate analytics are processed by Anthropic's Claude models to produce digests, plans and recommendations. This data is not used to train those models under our API terms.
- To secure and operate the service (authentication, abuse prevention, debugging).
What we do not do
- We do not sell personal information, ever.
- We do not collect data from or about children. Monal Radar is a professional tool for creators and studios; the channels we analyze publish children's content, but we store only public channel-level statistics — never any information about viewers.
- We do not show ads or share data with advertisers.
- Other users can never see your connected channel's private analytics — that data is visible only to the workspace owner.
Service providers
We rely on a small set of processors to run the service: Render (hosting), Google/YouTube API Services (data source and sign-in), and Anthropic (AI analysis). Each receives only what is necessary to perform its function.
Data retention & deletion
- Public market statistics are retained as historical time-series — that longitudinal record is the product's core function.
- Connected-channel analytics are retained while the channel stays linked; Unlink deletes the access token, and you may request deletion of the imported analytics by email.
- To delete your account and associated personal data entirely, email ajay@monaldigital.com from the account's address — we action deletions within 30 days.
Security
Passwords are stored only as salted scrypt hashes; sessions use signed HTTP-only cookies; OAuth tokens are held server-side and never exposed to the browser; all traffic is encrypted in transit (HTTPS).
Changes
If this policy changes materially, we'll update this page and its effective date. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated policy.