Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

Before using the application's features, the operator must agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. Use of YouTube API Services is also subject to the YouTube Terms of Service. Do not use the application if you do not agree.

2. Application and authorized use

WasNowForward Publisher is a local desktop and command-line tool for preparing original audiovisual releases and uploading operator-selected videos, metadata, and thumbnails to an authorized YouTube channel. It is not a public upload service and does not grant access to the public.

Use is limited to an authorized operator who controls the destination channel and the Google account used for OAuth authorization.

3. Operator responsibilities

The operator is responsible for reviewing and approving each release, including:

• the video, audio, artwork, and thumbnail;
• the title, description, tags, category, language, and disclosures;
• the made-for-kids designation and any altered or synthetic-media disclosure that applies;
• the visibility, subscriber-notification setting, and any requested future publication time;
• the destination channel and final upload command; and
• post-upload review and publication decisions.

4. Content rights and platform compliance

The operator must own the content or have all permissions necessary to upload and publish it. The operator must comply with applicable law, the YouTube Terms of Service, the YouTube Community Guidelines, and applicable copyright, privacy, publicity, consumer-protection, and advertising requirements.

The application must not be used to upload infringing, deceptive, abusive, unlawful, malicious, or privacy-violating material, or to evade platform restrictions, quotas, audits, enforcement, or technical controls.

5. Credentials and security

The operator must protect the Google account, OAuth client configuration, OAuth tokens, local computer, and media files. Credentials must not be shared, committed to source control, embedded in public files, or sent to support.

If credentials may have been exposed, the operator must stop using them, revoke the affected authorization, rotate or replace credentials where appropriate, and investigate the exposure before resuming uploads.

6. YouTube actions and consent

Any action that uploads, publishes, schedules, or changes visibility must be clearly shown to and expressly approved by the operator before execution. The destination channel, title, description, and visibility must remain visible and reviewable.

The application may not perform unattended YouTube write actions without prior, specific operator authorization. Production public or scheduled API publishing must remain disabled until the applicable compliance controls are installed and the associated API project has completed the required YouTube review.

7. Availability and changes

The application depends on the operator's computer, local software, network connection, Google OAuth, YouTube API Services, quotas, channel status, and platform policies. Features can fail, change, be suspended, or become unavailable. Uninterrupted or error-free operation is not promised.

The application may be updated, limited, suspended, or retired to address security, legal, policy, platform, or operational requirements.

8. Revocation, suspension, and termination

The operator may stop using the application and revoke Google access at any time. WasNowForward may suspend use when credentials are compromised, authorization is withdrawn, policy requirements change, platform access is restricted, or continued operation could create legal, security, or compliance risk.

Revocation and local-data deletion procedures appear on the support page. Revocation does not delete content already stored by YouTube.

9. Disclaimer and responsibility

The application is provided for current operator use on an “as available” basis. The operator remains responsible for verifying every output and release. To the extent permitted by law, WasNowForward does not promise that the application or third-party services will be uninterrupted, complete, secure, or error-free.

Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or responsibilities that cannot lawfully be excluded. Governing-law, liability-cap, indemnity, arbitration, and other jurisdiction-specific provisions have intentionally not been invented and should be reviewed by qualified counsel before the application is offered beyond its current single-operator use.

10. Privacy

The Privacy Policy explains the information accessed, local token storage, use of YouTube API Services, retention, sharing, revocation, and deletion.

11. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to wasnowforward@gmail.com. Include “WasNowForward Publisher” in the subject line and do not send credentials or tokens.

12. Changes

Revised Terms will be posted here with an updated effective date. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance only where permitted by law and after any acceptance step required by the application.