Privacy

Who we are

Five Star Chaos is a fan-run GTA gaming channel on YouTube (@fivestarchaoscinema). This page covers the clip submission site and the tool we use to manage our own channel.

What we collect when you submit a clip

• The video file you upload.
• What you type in the form: your handle for credit, the streamer's name, the game and your note.
• Your channel link (optional): your YouTube, TikTok, Twitch or Kick page, so we can link it when we credit you.
• Your email (optional): only if you ask us to tell you when your clip is featured.
• The time of the submission and the file's size and type.
• Your IP address, used only for a moment to stop spam (at most 5 uploads per minute). We don't store it with your submission.

We don't use cookies, trackers or ads on this site, and you don't need an account.

What we do with it

• We watch every clip and decide whether to use it in a YouTube video or Short.
• If we use it, we credit the handle you gave us on screen and in the description, with a link to your channel if you gave one.
• If you left your email, we send you one short message with the link to the video your clip is in. We don't use it for anything else: no newsletter, no marketing, never shared.
• We never sell your data and we don't share it with anyone except the services that run this site (below).

Where it's stored and for how long

Submissions are stored privately on Cloudflare (the company that hosts this site). Nobody else can see them. We keep clips for as long as they're useful to us. A great clip may come back in later videos and compilations, so there's no fixed time limit.

Using your clip

When you submit, you give us permission to use, edit and publish the clip in any Five Star Chaos video or Short, now or in the future, with your handle credited. Once a clip is in a published video, it stays in that video.

Questions

Message us on YouTube at @fivestarchaoscinema.

Our YouTube management tool

We use a small private app, “Neon Heist Uploader”, which uses the YouTube API Services. It signs in only with our channel's own Google account, and it never signs in to or accesses anyone else's account. It:

• uploads videos to, and reads statistics from, our own channel;
• searches public YouTube videos to find gameplay clips we'd like to feature, and reads their public details (title, channel name, length, view count);
• posts a comment from our channel asking the creator for permission, and reads the public replies to that comment.

We never download videos from YouTube: a creator who agrees sends us the original file on this site. For each clip we ask about we keep the video link, the channel name and the creator's reply, as a record of the permission (or of the refusal, so we never ask again). Nothing else is stored, nothing is sold or shared. To have that record deleted, message us on YouTube at @fivestarchaoscinema. Google account holders can review or remove any app's access at Google security settings.

Its use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. By using YouTube you're also covered by YouTube's Terms of Service and Google's Privacy Policy.

Changes

If this page changes, we'll update the date at the top.