Privacy Policy

The short version

• You never need an account, so we don’t ask for your name, email address or password.
• We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which features are used. It sets cookies, but we never ask for your name or email, and no ad scripts are loaded.
• The links you paste are looked up through a third-party API.
• Nothing is stored beyond a short cache of public video information.

When you paste a link

When you submit a YouTube link, your browser sends the video’s ID to our server. Our server asks an outside YouTube data service (provided through RapidAPI) for the video’s public details: its title, channel, length, thumbnail and the list of available download links. We send only the video ID and, where available, a two-letter country code so the API can return links that work in your region. We do not send your IP address or any information that identifies you.

What we store

Public video information returned by the API is kept in our hosting provider’s edge cache for up to one hour, so repeat lookups are quicker. It is dropped sooner if the download links expire first. This cache contains no information about who requested the video.

We do not keep a history of the links you paste, and we do not store the videos or audio files themselves. Downloads go directly from YouTube’s servers to your device.

Analytics and cookies

Y2mate uses Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used: how many people visit, which pages they open, and which formats and qualities are downloaded. Google Analytics sets its own cookies (such as _ga) and collects technical data like your approximate location, device type and browser. We look at this only as combined statistics and never use it to identify you.

You can block these cookies in your browser settings or with Google’s opt-out browser add-on, and the downloader keeps working either way. No advertising cookies are set, and Y2mate does not use your browser’s local storage to follow you around.

Thumbnails and downloads

After a lookup, the video thumbnail comes from YouTube’s image servers, and when you tap Download your browser fetches the file straight from YouTube. Those requests go directly from your browser to Google, which receives your IP address and browser details as it does whenever you watch YouTube. Google’s own privacy policy covers those requests.

Server logs

Like any website, our hosting provider (Cloudflare) processes technical data such as IP addresses and request details in order to serve pages and keep the service safe from abuse. We do not use these logs to build profiles of visitors.

Children

Y2mate is not directed at children under 13. We don’t set out to collect personal information from anyone, of any age.

Your rights

Because we do not collect personal information through the tool, there is usually nothing for us to access, correct or delete. If you email us, we use your message only to reply, and you can ask us to delete the conversation at any time.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. Questions about privacy? Email [email protected].