Privacy Policy

Effective July 3, 2026

Cloud Pulse Briefs ("we," "our," "the site") publishes short auto-generated video briefings about Azure platform updates on this website and on TikTok (@azureupdates). This policy explains what data we collect and how we use it.

What this site collects

Browsing this website does not require an account and does not collect personal information. The site serves static video briefings and a public JSON catalog; no cookies, analytics, or tracking scripts are used.

TikTok account data

To publish briefing videos to TikTok, this project connects a single TikTok creator account to TikTok's Content Posting API using OAuth. This grants access to a limited set of data, scoped by TikTok's user.info.basic permission:

  • The connected account's TikTok display name, username, and avatar — used only to confirm which creator account is connected before posting, and to present that identity back to the human operator when they set posting defaults.
  • The connected account's allowed privacy levels for posting — used to build the posting-defaults selection described below.

We do not read the account's other TikTok content, followers, direct messages, analytics, or any data beyond what's needed to publish this project's own videos. We do not sell, share, or use this data for advertising or targeting of any kind.

What gets posted

Only videos generated by this project (short Azure-update briefings) are posted to the connected TikTok account, with captions built algorithmically from the corresponding public Azure update. A human explicitly sets the posting defaults (visibility, comment/Duet/Stitch settings, and content-disclosure choices) once, through a compliant on-screen flow, before any automated posting begins; those choices are then reused for subsequent posts until changed.

Data storage and retention

OAuth access/refresh tokens and the captured posting defaults are stored securely (locally and, for the automated cloud pipeline, in an access-controlled Azure Key Vault) and are used only to authenticate API calls to TikTok on behalf of the connected account. They are retained until the account owner revokes this app's access from TikTok's own app-permissions settings, at which point automated posting stops and the stored tokens are no longer usable.

Children's privacy

This site and its TikTok integration are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time; the effective date above reflects the most recent revision.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to xxbutler86xx@gmail.com.