Version 2026-10-20

A small service.
A clear set of promises.

The Daily Telly is a free, open-source tool for adult-managed family viewing. We aim to offer a calmer, scheduled alternative to an open video feed. We are independent of YouTube and Google and are not an approved replacement for YouTube Kids.

Privacy: collect less, keep less.

We collect an adult’s email address to confirm account ownership and send requested sign-in links. We do not request children’s names, birth dates, addresses, photos, or individual profiles. There are no child accounts.

We save the channel schedule and filters you choose, cached public video metadata, household playback progress, and the devices you explicitly link. This information is needed to show your library and resume videos across screens. Progress is shared by the household, not used to build a behavioral advertising profile.

We use essential, HttpOnly session cookies and a short-lived sign-in cookie. Linked TVs store a revocable viewing credential privately on the device. We do not use analytics, advertising cookies, tracking pixels, device fingerprinting, marketing lists, or social-login providers. We do not sell, rent, or monetize personal data. There are no paid tiers or advertisements supplied by us.

Safety requires an honest boundary.

Videos and thumbnails come from YouTube/Google. Loading thumbnails shares network information with those services; playing a video loads YouTube’s embedded player. That player can process data and display ads under Google’s policies, including in privacy-enhanced mode. We cannot promise that YouTube playback is free of ads or tracking, nor do we hide its controls, links, branding, or ads.

Read Google’s privacy policy and YouTube’s terms. By using the embedded player, you agree to YouTube’s terms. Channel approval and title filters are not content moderation; future uploads can change. Review your schedule, supervise viewing, and use device-level parental controls. We do not guarantee suitability or prevent a child from leaving the app.

Who can see what?

Your account controls its own schedule, library, and saved progress. A linked TV can read its household library and report playback progress; it cannot administer channels, inspect other accounts, or access the owner panel. You can revoke its credential at any time.

The platform owner can audit registered email addresses, verification state, creation and login times, account status, and device counts. The owner panel does not display household video titles or watch history. Server operators necessarily control the underlying hosting and backups; this service is not end-to-end encrypted.

Email delivery uses the operator’s SMTP provider, which receives your address and the transactional sign-in message. Optional server-load notifications use Pushover and contain aggregate resource usage, never account emails or family viewing data.

Operational data and retention.

We keep aggregate CPU, memory, disk, request-count, and error-count samples for 24 hours. No request URLs, user agents, or permanent IP logs are required by the application. Short-lived, keyed digests of network addresses and email addresses protect sign-in and pairing from abuse; these expire after their rate-limit windows. An address is not used to fingerprint a device.

Sign-in links last 15 minutes; pairing codes last 10 minutes; parent sessions last seven days. Unverified accounts expire after 24 hours. Operator action records and minimal household configuration-change records expire after 30 days. The schedule and progress remain until you remove them or delete the account. Browser/device vendors, email providers, YouTube, and the hosting provider may process data independently.

You can export your library or permanently delete your account from account settings. Account access and linked credentials are revoked immediately. Active library files are removed on deletion or retried by minute-by-minute maintenance if an in-flight request holds a file. Production backups must expire within seven days; operators must apply deletion records when restoring a backup. Deletion cannot remove data already processed independently by YouTube or other providers.

Our code of conduct.

• Manage only a household and devices you are responsible for. Never enter a pairing code supplied by a stranger.
• Do not harass, exploit, impersonate, discriminate against, or endanger anyone, especially children.
• Do not upload private information, use the service for illegal material, bypass access controls, scrape accounts, or attack the service.
• Respect creators and their work. Do not extract streams, strip attribution, block player ads, or misuse YouTube APIs.
• Use shared infrastructure fairly. Account, channel, device, and refresh limits protect this free service.
• Report safety concerns or account problems to hello@thedailytelly.com. Do not include a child’s personal details or live credentials.

We may suspend accounts to protect users and the service. Operator actions are recorded. We will explain account decisions where practical and allow questions through the contact address. No public messaging, comments, uploads, or discovery of other users is provided.

Open source. No attention business.

The code is available under MIT. You can inspect or self-host it, and we will publish changes to the service’s code. See source and licensing. We will not quietly turn household activity into a revenue stream. Material policy changes will be explained before taking effect and may require renewed acceptance.

This is a development build. Public launch requires verified email delivery, child-directed platform-policy review, a published source location, and an operator who can enforce the retention and safety commitments above.