Cue Mason Privacy Policy

Cue Mason is a publishing tool built and run by Brian Paris (Sounds & Colors, Champaign, Illinois). It schedules and posts content to social media accounts that Brian owns or manages for the brands he works with, such as Polka Dot Firehouse.

Cue Mason isn’t open to the public. There’s no sign-up, and only Brian uses it. It connects only to accounts whose owners have given permission, and only to post and measure that brand’s own content.

• YouTube, to upload videos, add caption files, schedule when videos go public, and read view counts.
• Facebook Pages and Instagram professional accounts, to publish and schedule posts and read post insights.
• Pinterest, to create pins on the brand’s boards and read pin stats.
• Publer, a scheduling service that currently posts some content for us. Publer’s own privacy policy (opens in a new tab) applies to what it handles.

• Account details for the connected accounts: the account or Page name, its ID, and its profile picture.
• Access tokens, the keys each platform issues when an account owner approves the connection. They let Cue Mason post for that account.
• Our own content: the text, images, videos, caption files, alt text and schedule for each post.
• Post results: whether each post went live, its link, and totals the platform reports, such as views, reach, likes, comments, saves and clicks.

Cue Mason doesn’t read private messages, and it doesn’t collect information about the people who see or interact with our posts. The stats it keeps are totals, never lists of people.

Everything Cue Mason stores stays on a computer Brian controls, not on a public server. Access tokens are kept in a protected folder that only the app can read.

We don’t sell this information, share it with anyone, or use it for advertising. The only places it goes are the platforms themselves (to post the content) and Publer, for the posts it schedules.

Access tokens are kept until the connection is removed. Post content and results are kept for as long as we manage that brand’s accounts, so we can report on how posts did. When a brand stops working with us, or asks us to, we delete its tokens and stored data within 30 days.

An account owner can disconnect Cue Mason at any time. Once you do, it can no longer post or read anything.

• Google and YouTube: remove Cue Mason on your Google account permissions page (opens in a new tab).
• Facebook: go to Settings & privacy > Settings > Business integrations (opens in a new tab) and remove Cue Mason.
• Instagram: go to Settings > Apps and websites (opens in a new tab) and remove Cue Mason.
• Pinterest: open your Pinterest settings and remove Cue Mason from your connected apps.

To have everything Cue Mason has stored about your account deleted, email Brian with the account name. We’ll delete it within 30 days and write back to confirm. Disconnecting by itself stops all access, but stored post results are only deleted when you ask.

Cue Mason uses YouTube API Services. By connecting a YouTube channel, you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service (opens in a new tab), and Google’s use of information is covered by the Google Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab). Cue Mason’s use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy (opens in a new tab), including the Limited Use requirements.

Meta’s Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab) and Pinterest’s Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab) cover how those platforms handle information.

Some of the content Cue Mason posts is made for kids, but Cue Mason never collects information from or about children, or from anyone who watches or reads our posts.

If Cue Mason starts handling information in a new way, this page will be updated first, with a new date at the top.