Imprint & Privacy

Privacy policy

Summary: We do not store IP addresses in our application logs or databases. The browser profile token (and its equivalent in the Android TV app) is an anonymous, randomly generated identifier — it is not linked to your name, email, or an account. Operational logs we control are kept for no longer than 30 days.

1. Controller

2. Purposes and legal bases of processing

We process personal data only where necessary to provide the search service or where you have given consent.

• Operation of the website and API (limited operational logs for security and reliability — IP addresses are not stored): legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interests in secure, reliable operation).
• Search queries and filter parameters: processed to return results and temporarily cache responses for performance. Legal bases: Article 6(1)(b) GDPR (steps prior to contract / performance in the context of a free-of-charge offering) and Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (service operation and improvement).
• Browser-stored profile token (localStorage): an anonymous random string generated in your browser — it does not contain your name, email, or login, and we cannot infer your real-world identity from it unless you voluntarily associate it with identifiable information elsewhere. Optional personalization of ranking weights only; no account registration. Legal basis: Article 6(1)(a) GDPR where you consent by using personalization; supplementary Article 6(1)(f) GDPR for operating that feature.
• Interaction events (e.g. clicks on results), where sent: used to improve ranking and quality on an aggregated basis. Legal basis: Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in improving the service); you can limit submission via browser behaviour or by not using the feature.
• PeerSeek Android TV app: the app generates the same kind of anonymous random profile token and stores it, together with the list of accounts you follow and your preferred language, only in the app’s storage on your TV (no cloud backup). It sends search queries, filters, interaction events (e.g. which video you start), the list of followed accounts (to show their new videos on the home screen) and the preferred language (a two-letter code, by default your TV’s language unless that is English, to rank videos in it higher) to the PeerSeek API. No account, advertising ID or device identifier is used. Clearing the app’s data in the TV settings deletes the token, your follows and your language choice. Legal bases: as for the website, Article 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR.
• Video reports: if you report a video in the Android TV app, we store the video identifier, its instance, the reason you chose, the app type and a one-way hash of your anonymous profile token (to prevent duplicate reports and abuse). Reports are kept as long as needed to review them and to document how they were handled. Legal basis: Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in keeping the index free of unlawful or harmful content).
• Optional caching: temporary storage of response caches and profile-related data — only where enabled in deployment (typically same region as the API unless configured otherwise).

3. Categories of personal data

• Technical metadata in application logs where enabled (e.g. timestamp, requested path, user agent). IP addresses are not stored by PeerSeek in these logs.
• Content of search queries and selected filters.
• Anonymous browser-local profile token: a random identifier only — not derived from personal details you give us; deleting site data for this origin removes it.
• Aggregated or pseudonymous usage data for ranking and statistics.
• Android TV app: the list of followed accounts sent with home-feed requests, and video reports (video, reason, hashed profile token).

4. Retention

Server and security logs under our control are retained for a maximum of 30 days, then deleted or anonymised unless a longer period is strictly required by law (e.g. a specific legal hold). Cache entries use configurable TTLs. We do not sell cache-held profile data for advertising profiles.

5. Recipients and processors

Hosting, database, or caching providers may process data as processors where required, on the basis of data processing agreements (Article 28 GDPR). We do not sell personal data to third parties for advertising.

• Object storage: video thumbnails are mirrored to an object storage service (standard provider processing under Article 28 GDPR), so your browser loads thumbnails from PeerSeek’s storage and not from remote PeerTube instances.
• Video playback: PeerSeek embeds the video player directly from the originating PeerTube instance. Playing a video — as with any federated PeerTube service — can reveal your IP address to the hosting instance and, because PeerTube uses peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, to other viewers participating in the stream. This is inherent to the nature of the service and outside PeerSeek’s control; if you do not want this, do not start playback.
• Video playback in the Android TV app: the app plays videos directly from the originating PeerTube instance or, where available, from another PeerTube instance that keeps a copy of the video (PeerTube “redundancy” mirrors). These servers can see your IP address, as with any website. Like PeerTube’s own player, the app reports the playback position to the originating instance every few seconds while a video plays (with a random ID that changes each time the app starts), so the instance counts the view. The TV app does not use peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming, so other viewers do not see your IP address.

6. International transfers

Transfers to countries outside the EU / EEA take place only where a valid legal mechanism applies (for example an adequacy decision or EU standard contractual clauses).

7. Your rights

Subject to statutory conditions, you have in particular the right to:

• access (Article 15 GDPR)
• rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
• erasure (“right to be forgotten”) (Article 17 GDPR)
• restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR)
• data portability (Article 20 GDPR)
• object to processing based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (Article 21 GDPR)
• withdraw consent with effect for the future where processing is consent-based (Article 7(3) GDPR)

To exercise these rights, contact contact@peerseek.video.

8. Complaints

You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Article 77 GDPR). The authority competent for you is often that of your habitual residence or the place of the alleged infringement.

9. No obligation beyond technical necessity

Pure use of search does not require you to proactively share personal identifiers with us. Network routing outside our application (e.g. hosting provider infrastructure) may necessarily process connection data transiently; PeerSeek does not persist IP addresses in its own logs or databases as described above.

Abuse, complaints & content removal

PeerSeek links to and indexes metadata about videos hosted on independent PeerTube instances. The operators of those instances and the respective right holders are solely responsible for the underlying content.

Reports of unlawful material, alleged copyright infringement, abuse, or requests to remove search results or metadata from this index should be sent to contact@peerseek.video.

Please include the affected URL or video identifier (UUID), a short description of the issue, and, for copyright matters, evidence of your authority to act. We review incoming notices and handle them according to applicable law (for example Article 17 GDPR where personal data is concerned, and hosting / intermediary rules where relevant).

Legal notice / Imprint

Information pursuant to Section 5 of the German Telemedia Act (TMG) / Section 55 of the German Interstate Broadcasting Treaty (RStV)

Service provider: PeerSeek — a search and browsing interface for publicly indexed PeerTube videos.

General contact: contact@peerseek.video

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