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“YouTube Kids does not allow your child to share personal information with third parties or make it publicly available.”
“when your child is signed in to YouTube Kids with their Google account, the information we collect, including your child's search and watch history and recordings of their voice searches, may be stored with their Google account...”
“The app does not allow interest-based advertising or remarketing.”
“We will not disclose individual user information outside of Google unless one of the following circumstances applies”
“YouTube Kids doesn't collect personal information like name, address, or contact information from your child.”
“We may share individual user information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google when we have parental consent.”
YouTube Kids is designed to protect children's data: it does not collect names, addresses, or contact details from children, does not allow interest-based advertising, and will not share your child's information outside Google without parental consent or a listed exception. However, the app does collect device information and uses your child's watch and search history to recommend content, and that history keeps influencing recommendations even after you sign out. Parents can stop this by clearing and pausing history in the app's parental settings.
The YouTube Kids Privacy Notice establishes the data collection, usage, sharing, and retention practices applicable to YouTube Kids and overrides the Google Privacy Policy wherever the two conflict. The notice limits direct collection of personally identifying information from children, prohibits interest-based advertising and remarketing, and restricts external disclosure of individual user information to enumerated circumstances or instances of parental consent. A persistent app-level identifier is associated with a child's watch and search history to drive content recommendations, device information is collected automatically during use, and voice data is briefly captured during audio feature use and immediately deleted. When a child is signed in with a Google account, watch and search history and voice search recordings may be stored to that Google account, and watch and search history continues to be used for recommendations after a parent signs out unless a parent clears and pauses that history in parental settings.
Individual user information will not be shared outside Google unless a listed exception applies or YouTube Kids has parental consent, and no interest-based advertising or remarketing targets children in the app. A persistent app-level identifier links your child's viewing and search activity to content recommendations, and if your child is signed in with a Google account, that history and any voice search recordings may be stored to the Google account. Signing out alone does not stop existing history from being used for recommendations — to stop that use, a parent must go into the parental settings section of the YouTube Kids app and both clear and pause watch and search history.
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“YouTube Kids does not allow your child to share personal information with third parties or make it publicly available.”
“when your child is signed in to YouTube Kids with their Google account, the information we collect, including your child's search and watch history and recordings of their voice searches, may be stored with their Google account...”
“The app does not allow interest-based advertising or remarketing.”
“We will not disclose individual user information outside of Google unless one of the following circumstances applies”
“YouTube Kids doesn't collect personal information like name, address, or contact information from your child.”
“We may share individual user information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google when we have parental consent.”
“Where there are terms that differ, this Privacy Notice overrules the Google Privacy Policy.”
“YouTube Kids collects information based on your child's use of the app, like when they watch a video. This information includes: device type and settings, such as hardware model and operating system version...”
“You can pause the collection of watch and search history or clear the watch and search history in the parental settings section of the app.”
“We associate an identifier that's unique to the app with the videos your child has watched and terms they've searched for to recommend content likely to be of interest to them, subject to the controls described below.”
“If a child uses audio features in the app such as voice search, the app briefly collects voice information. This information is processed to allow for use of the audio feature and immediately deleted.”
“When you sign in with your Google account, we use the watch and search history tied to each specific installation of the app to recommend content on YouTube Kids, as described above, and we will continue to use that watch …”
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