Privacy Policy

No accounts, no submitted-link database

ThumbnailGrab doesn’t require or offer sign-up. When you paste a YouTube URL, it is parsed inside your own browser to extract the video ID — the full URL you typed never leaves your device. We do not write submitted video IDs, URLs, or search activity to a database.

What our server touches

Two small server routes exist, and both work the same way:

• Metadata lookup — takes a validated video ID and requests the title/channel name from YouTube’s public oEmbed endpoint on your behalf, so your browser never has to contact youtube.com directly for this.
• Download — takes a validated video ID and an allowlisted thumbnail filename, fetches the image from YouTube’s official image CDN, and streams it back to you with a download header.

Neither route stores what was requested. Our hosting provider may keep short-lived, standard technical request logs (such as IP address, timestamp, and requested path) for security and operational purposes, the same as virtually any web host — this is infrastructure-level logging, not something our application code writes to a database.

Thumbnail previews load from YouTube directly

Thumbnail preview images shown on screen are loaded directly from YouTube’s image CDN (i.ytimg.com) by your browser, which means Google receives a normal image request (including your IP address) for each preview, the same as it would if you visited YouTube itself. This is unavoidable for any tool that previews YouTube images.

Cookies and analytics

This site does not currently set any cookies of its own and does not run any analytics or advertising script. If that changes in the future — for example, to add privacy-respecting analytics or advertising to keep the tools free — this page will be updated first to disclose exactly what’s added and why.

Local browser storage

Some tool features (like remembering a preference on a page) may use your browser’s own local storage. That data stays on your device and isn’t sent to us.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the “last updated” date above will change with it. Continued use of the site after an update means you accept the revised policy.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent through our Contact page.