Mentorium Social

Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 23, 2026

Mentorium Social (“the tool”) is an internal publishing tool of Mentorium, an online tutoring service for school students (mentoriumm.ru). It is operated by Individual Entrepreneur Samarokov Alexey Yurievich (“we”). The tool is used only by members of our own team to prepare our own posts and videos and to publish them to our own social media accounts and YouTube channels. It is not offered to the public.

1. YouTube API Services

The tool uses YouTube API Services to upload videos to the YouTube channels that our team connects to it and to read the statistics of those videos. Users of the YouTube features of the tool agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Google’s handling of information is described in the Google Privacy Policy.

2. Information the tool accesses, collects and stores

• Sign-in data of team members: e-mail address, name and a password hash. Passwords themselves are not stored.
• YouTube authorization data: when a team member connects a channel through Google sign-in (OAuth 2.0), the tool receives and stores an access token and a refresh token for the scopes youtube.upload and youtube.readonly. The tokens are kept on our server in a file that only the service can read.
• Channel title: the title of the connected channel, to show the team which channel is connected.
• Videos published through the tool: the video file, title and description written by our team; the YouTube video ID and link returned after the upload; and the publication status of that video.
• Statistics of those videos: the view, like and comment counts that YouTube returns for videos published through the tool.

From YouTube, the tool does not access other channels, viewer or subscriber data, comment text, or any Google account data unrelated to the connected channel.

2a. Instagram

The tool uses the Instagram API with Instagram Login only for our own Instagram professional accounts. It publishes our posts and Reels, reads their view, like and comment counts, and answers comments that contain a keyword chosen by our team (for example, a viewer writes “map” to receive a free learning material).

• Instagram authorization data: the access token of each connected account, the account ID and username. They are stored on our server and renewed automatically.
• Comments on our own posts: the tool reads comments on posts published through it for up to 30 days after publication. Comments without the keyword are not stored. For a comment with the keyword, the tool stores the comment ID, its text, the time it was written, and the commenter’s username and Instagram-scoped ID. This is used to answer each person once and to count how many people asked for the material.
• Replies: the tool sends the commenter one private reply with a link to our Telegram assistant and leaves a short public reply under the comment. It does not send any further messages on Instagram.

This information is not sold, not used for advertising and not shared with third parties; it is sent only to Instagram, as required to publish and reply.

3. How the information is used, processed and shared

• Authorization data is used only to upload and schedule videos to the connected channel when a team member asks the tool to do so, and to read the statistics of those videos.
• Statistics are shown to our team, separately for each platform. YouTube figures are displayed as YouTube returns them and are not combined with figures from other platforms.
• We do not sell this information, do not use it for advertising and do not share it with third parties. It is sent only to Google/YouTube, as required to perform the upload, and is stored on a server that we rent from a hosting provider.

4. Cookies and device information

The tool places one first-party cookie on a signed-in team member’s device. It keeps the session and protects forms from forgery. The tool does not use analytics or advertising cookies and does not allow third parties to place or read cookies.

5. Storage and deletion

• Instagram data deletion: anyone who commented on our posts can ask us to delete the stored comment data by writing to the address below and naming their Instagram username; we do so within 7 days. A team member who disconnects an Instagram account on the Connections page removes its token from the tool; access can also be removed in Instagram: Settings → Apps and websites.
• Authorization tokens are stored until the channel is disconnected. When a team member presses “Disconnect” for YouTube on the Connections page, the tool immediately revokes the token with Google and deletes the stored YouTube statistics.
• YouTube statistics are refreshed about once an hour. Statistics that could not be refreshed for 30 days are deleted automatically.
• In addition to this procedure, access can be revoked at any time on the Google security settings page: https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions. After such a revocation the tool can no longer access the channel, and the data stored for it is deleted as described above, within 30 days at the latest.
• A team member can ask us to delete any stored data earlier by writing to the address below; we do so within 7 days.

6. Contact

Questions and complaints about privacy practices: mentoriumm.sotrudnik@gmail.com.

7. Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is published on this page with a new effective date.

See also the Terms of Service.