Privacy

Hummingenesis is a personal archive. It mirrors reels from one Instagram account, which its operator owns, to one YouTube channel, which the same person owns, and gives each reel a page here. It is run by one individual, not a company, and has no users other than its operator.

One thing, and only if you give it to us: your email address, if you subscribe to the letter. It is stored so we can send you the letter, it is not sold or shared, and you can ask for it to be deleted at any time. Visiting a page does not create an account, and we run no analytics software of our own.

Our hosting provider, Vercel, processes ordinary server request logs — including IP addresses — as a normal part of serving a website, for security and reliability. We do not read those logs to identify visitors and we do not combine them with anything else.

This site shows ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to serve those ads and to measure them, which may include showing ads based on your previous visits to this or other websites. This is the one place where something is tracked across sites, and it is worth being plain about it rather than burying it.

You can turn off personalised advertising in Google's Ad Settings, and you can review how Google handles data from sites that use its services in its partner-sites policy. Third-party vendors may also be opted out via aboutads.info.

Every reel page embeds the standard YouTube player. No video file is stored or re-hosted here; thumbnails load from YouTube's image servers.

When a page with an embedded player loads, YouTube and Google receive your request and may set their own cookies and collect data under their policies, independently of this site. This site does not control and cannot see that data.

By using this site you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's handling of your information is described in the Google Privacy Policy.

A scheduled job reads the operator's own Instagram account through the Instagram Graph API, using that account owner's own access token, and uploads the resulting videos to the operator's own YouTube channel through the YouTube Data API v3.

It reads and writes only those two accounts. It does not access, collect, store, analyse or display data belonging to any other Instagram account, YouTube channel, or viewer. It does not use the APIs to search, scrape, or gather information about anyone else.

The only data stored is the operator's own posts: the Instagram post id and caption, the generated title and description, the resulting YouTube video id, and the publishing status. That is what renders the pages you see.

The operator can revoke this application's access to their Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions, and its access to Instagram in the Instagram app under Settings, Apps and websites.

Because the site asks nothing of visitors, there is no account of yours to delete and no consent of yours to withdraw.

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. Material changes — for instance if analytics were added, or advertising changed in kind — would be described here before taking effect.