Disclaimer

Featured videos on our homepage and our legal right to embed YouTube videos.

Videos shown in the featured section on our homepage are embedded using YouTube's standard Embeddable Player. We do not download, re-host, modify, or claim ownership of these videos — they belong to their original creators, who retain all copyright in their work.

1. We don't use the YouTube Data API.

StreamerHomes does not query, store, or process data through the YouTube Data API or any other YouTube developer service. We embed videos using the standard iframe embed code that YouTube provides on every public, embeddable video — the same mechanism that powers "Share > Embed" on youtube.com. No API key is used, and no Google Cloud project is involved in the operation of the featured videos section on our homepage.

2. The chain of consent: creator → YouTube → us.

StreamerHomes' right to display these videos comes from a chain of consent that runs creator → YouTube → us. The chain works like this:

1. The creator's upload agreement with YouTube. When a person uploads a video to YouTube, they accept YouTube's Terms of Service. Those Terms grant YouTube a broad, worldwide license to host, distribute, and make the video available through YouTube's services — including through YouTube's "Embeddable Player," which is the iframe technology that lets a YouTube video play on third-party websites.
2. The creator's "Allow embedding" setting. Inside YouTube Studio, every creator chooses (on a per-video basis) whether to allow embedding. The setting is on by default but can be turned off at any time. When a creator leaves embedding enabled, they are affirmatively authorizing third-party sites — including StreamerHomes — to display that video through YouTube's Embeddable Player. If a creator turns the setting off, embeds for that video stop working everywhere automatically; we don't need to take any action. Embedding does not transfer any ownership or copyright; the creator continues to own their video and all associated rights.
3. YouTube's permission to us. Section 4 of YouTube's Terms of Service ("General Use of the Service — Permissions and Restrictions") expressly grants users permission to redistribute YouTube content through tools YouTube itself provides. The Embeddable Player is that tool. The clause reads, in full:

   YouTube hereby grants you permission to access and use the Service as set forth in these Terms of Service, provided that: You agree not to distribute in any medium any part of the Service or the Content without YouTube's prior written authorization, unless YouTube makes available the means for such distribution through functionality offered by the Service (such as the Embeddable Player). — YouTube Terms of Service, Section 4 (Permissions and Restrictions). Available at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms.

Put together: the creator opted in to YouTube's distribution framework when they uploaded; the creator opted in again to embedding by leaving the toggle on; and YouTube's Terms expressly permit us to use the Embeddable Player they provide. The featured videos section on our homepage operates entirely within that framework.

3. What we do (and don't do) with embedded videos.

We:

• Use the official YouTube iframe embed code, unmodified.
• Use youtube-nocookie.com rather than youtube.com as the embed origin, which prevents YouTube from setting tracking cookies on a visitor's device until that visitor actually starts a video.
• Display the creator's video alongside a short caption (such as streamer names and the game played) so visitors understand what they're about to watch.
• Hand-pick a small curated set of videos that demonstrate co-streaming as a meaningful format.

We do not:

• Modify, alter, or build upon the embedded player.
• Block, hide, or interfere with YouTube's ads, branding, "Watch on YouTube" link, or related-video panel.
• Download, re-host, or re-upload the underlying video file. Playback always happens through YouTube's servers.
• Claim ownership of any embedded video or its content. All credit belongs to the original creator.
• Charge visitors to watch the embedded videos. The featured videos section on our homepage is free and publicly accessible.
• Imply that streamers shown are users of, sponsors of, or endorsers of StreamerHomes, or that any of the streamers shown met one another, collaborate, or have any other relationship as a result of StreamerHomes. Featured videos are illustrative examples of the co-streaming format and make no claim about how the streamers came to know or work with each other.

To state this plainly: the streamers featured may have met, collaborated, or formed any depicted living, working, or social arrangement entirely independently of StreamerHomes. We make no claim that any relationship visible in a featured video originated on, was facilitated by, or involves our platform in any way, unless we explicitly state otherwise in the caption for that specific video.

4. If you're a creator and you want your video removed.

You have two options, and either one works:

1. Self-service: Open the video in YouTube Studio and uncheck "Allow embedding." Once you save that change, the video will stop playing on our homepage automatically — no further action from us is required.
2. Ask us directly: If you'd prefer we simply remove the video from our featured section, contact us through our Contact Us page with the video URL and a brief note. We'll remove it promptly.

Either path is fine. Both produce the same result. We will not argue with a creator who wants their video taken down.

5. Privacy.

When a visitor clicks "play" on an embedded video, YouTube may set cookies and collect playback data in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy. That data is collected by Google, not by StreamerHomes — we don't see, receive, or store it. To minimize this, we use YouTube's privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com embed origin, which delays cookie-setting until a visitor interacts with the player.

6. References.

• YouTube Terms of Service — see in particular Section 4, "Permissions and Restrictions," and the sections referencing the Embeddable Player.
• YouTube Help — Embed videos & playlists — YouTube's own documentation of how to embed videos and the conditions that apply.
• Google Privacy Policy — applies to data Google collects when a visitor interacts with an embedded player.

Questions about this Disclaimer? Reach us through our Contact Us page.