Privacy policy

Last updated 8 November 2026

This policy explains what personal information The Broken Face (“we”, “us”) collects through the website thebrokenface.com, our email list and our internal analytics tool axon-hq, and what we do with it. Contact: [email protected].

1. This website

No account, no tracking cookies. You can read the whole site without giving us anything.

Hosting. The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes technical data such as your IP address and browser type to deliver the pages and protect the site from abuse. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Visitor statistics. We do not use analytics or advertising cookies on this website.

YouTube videos. Videos are not loaded until you press play. When you do, the video is loaded from YouTube's privacy-enhanced domain (youtube-nocookie.com) and Google's privacy policy applies to that player.

Fonts. Fonts are served by Google Fonts, which receives your IP address when the page loads.

Links to other sites. Amazon.ca (affiliate links), YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and AxonQuiz.com have their own privacy policies. Amazon may use cookies to record that you came from our link; see our affiliate disclosure.

2. Email list

If you join the list, we collect your email address (and the date and page you signed up from). We use it only to send our email: new episodes, their sources and related notes. We never sell or rent it.

The list is run by Kit (ConvertKit LLC), which stores the address for us and may record whether emails are opened or clicked. You get a confirmation email first (double opt-in); nothing is sent until you confirm.

Every email has an unsubscribe link. To have your address deleted, unsubscribe or email us and we will remove it.

3. Google user data — the axon-hq app

axon-hq is our internal reporting tool. It is used only by the owner of The Broken Face YouTube channel to read that channel's own statistics; it is not offered to the public and no one else signs in to it.

What it accesses

With the channel owner's permission, granted through Google sign-in, axon-hq uses the YouTube Analytics API with one read-only scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly (“View YouTube Analytics reports for your YouTube content”). It reads aggregated reports for our own channel, such as views, watch time, subscribers gained or lost, traffic sources and viewers by country. These reports are totals; they do not identify individual viewers.

axon-hq cannot upload, edit or delete videos, read private messages, or change any channel setting.

How we use it

Only to measure how our episodes perform and plan future episodes, in internal reports seen by the channel owner.

Sharing

We do not sell, share or transfer Google user data to anyone. We do not use it for advertising, and we do not use it to develop, improve or train AI or machine-learning models.

Storage, security and retention

The sign-in token is stored in the operating system's protected credential store on the channel owner's computer, never in files, code or email. Report numbers are kept in our private planning files for as long as they are useful for planning the channel, and deleted on request.

Revoking access

Access can be withdrawn at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. To ask us to delete stored report data, email [email protected].

Limited Use

axon-hq's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

4. Children

This website and our email list are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

5. Your choices and rights

You can ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it or delete it, or withdraw consent, by emailing [email protected]. We reply within 30 days. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to complain to your data protection authority.

6. Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page. Significant changes will be announced to the email list.