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. The site serves static video briefings and a public JSON catalog, and uses Microsoft Clarity for basic site analytics. Clarity uses cookies and similar technologies to collect pageviews, approximate (country-level) location, device and browser information, referring site, session recordings/heatmaps of on-page interaction, and which video briefings are played on the site. This information is used only to understand how the site is used and to improve it; it is not sold or used for advertising. See Microsoft Clarity's terms and privacy documentation for details on how Microsoft processes this data.

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.

YouTube API Services

To publish briefing videos to the project's own YouTube channel (Cloud Pulse Briefing Room), this project uses YouTube API Services. By using this site's YouTube features (watching linked videos, following links to the channel), you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service. The Google Privacy Policy also applies.

  • The integration connects a single YouTube channel — our own — via Google OAuth, and uses it only to upload this project's videos, set their titles and descriptions, and organize them into playlists on that channel.
  • It does not access, collect, or store any data about any other YouTube user, channel, or video. Site visitors are never asked to sign in with Google, and no YouTube user data of visitors is accessed or stored.
  • The only YouTube data stored are the OAuth tokens for our own channel and the IDs of our own uploaded videos, kept in an access-controlled Azure Key Vault and private storage (see "Data storage and retention" below).
  • The channel owner can revoke this project's access at any time from the Google security settings page, at which point automated uploading stops and the stored tokens become unusable. Stored tokens can also be deleted on request via the contact address below.

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. The same generated videos are uploaded to the project's own YouTube channel with algorithmically built titles and descriptions, and are labeled as AI-generated (altered/synthetic content) on both platforms. 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 and YouTube on behalf of the connected accounts. They are retained until the account owner revokes this app's access from TikTok's app-permissions settings or Google's security settings, at which point automated posting stops and the stored tokens are no longer usable.

Alexa skill

The "CloudPulse Briefs" Alexa skill answers voice requests for the latest Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS, and Google Cloud updates, fetched live from the vendors' public feeds at the time of each request. Requests are processed transiently: the skill does not use account linking and does not collect, store, or share names, contact details, precise location, or voice recordings (audio is handled by Amazon under Amazon's own privacy policy). The only thing the skill retains is a one-way hashed device-anonymous Alexa user identifier with a small usage counter, used solely to limit how often an occasional one-line mention of this website or the CloudPulse mobile app is spoken; it cannot be tied back to a person by us.

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.