Privacy Policy
ContentSling is a content workspace. A person who uses it (a "customer") connects their own social media accounts and schedules their own content to be published to them. This policy explains what ContentSling does and does not do with information. The short version: ContentSling is a tool, not an audience tracker. It does not collect data about the people who see its customers' posts, and it holds only what a customer puts into it. ContentSling is operated by Ryan Collier, a sole proprietor based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
What ContentSling does not collect
ContentSling is deliberately narrow. It does not:
- collect personal information about the people who see, like, or follow the content that customers publish;
- run advertising trackers, third-party analytics, or fingerprinting, or build advertising profiles of anyone;
- build audience profiles, mailing lists, or movement trails;
- sell, rent, or share anyone's information with data brokers or advertisers.
The only people ContentSling knows about are its customers, and only to the extent described below.
Visits to this website
ContentSling counts visits to this site so it can see which pages help and where people get stuck. It does this itself. No outside analytics company sees it. For each page request it keeps the page, the site that sent you there, any campaign tags in the link, and your browser, device type and country. It does not use cookies for this and does not store your IP address. Visits are grouped using a code that changes every day and cannot be turned back into who you are, so ContentSling cannot tell that two visits on different days came from the same person.
Requests from search engines, AI crawlers and other automated tools are recorded the same way, along with the name the tool gives itself, so they can be told apart from people.
Use of the product
Once you are a customer, ContentSling may record what you do in the product, such as which screens you open, which buttons you press and the errors you run into, so it can fix what is confusing. This is tied to your account, is never shared or sold, and is deleted with your account.
Visit and usage records are deleted after 13 months. Records of automated tools are deleted after 30 days. After that only daily totals are kept, such as how many visits a page had, which say nothing about any one visit.
What ContentSling stores
For each customer, ContentSling stores only what is needed to do its job:
- Sign-in details for the customer's own ContentSling account (an email address and a password, stored securely).
- The content the customer adds: images, captions, links, and their schedule.
- Access tokens for the social accounts the customer connects, so ContentSling can publish on their behalf. These are supplied by each platform's own secure sign-in and are encrypted at rest.
- Replies and mentions fetched from the customer's own connected accounts, so the customer can read them in one place.
The platforms you connect
ContentSling connects to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, X and YouTube. Each connection is made by the customer, through that platform's own sign-in, and covers only the accounts they choose.
TikTok. When a customer connects a TikTok account, ContentSling receives the account's open id, its basic profile (display name and avatar), and an access token and refresh token. The profile is shown in that customer's dashboard so they can confirm the right account is connected. ContentSling uses the token only to publish the posts, video or photo, that the customer has created and approved, to that customer's own account. It does not read a customer's TikTok posts, followers, analytics or messages, and it does not collect information about anyone who views or interacts with what is published. Disconnecting a TikTok account from the Connectors screen deletes the stored tokens and account name and withdraws ContentSling's access at TikTok, and all of it is also deleted when the customer's ContentSling account is deleted. Every TikTok post waits for the customer to choose who can see it before anything is sent. Data received from TikTok is not sold, and is not shared with anyone except as needed to publish the customer's own post.
How long information is kept, and where media lives
Images and video a customer uploads are held on ContentSling's infrastructure so the connected platforms can fetch them when a post publishes. They stay while the account is active, and are deleted after a customer closes their account or asks for deletion. A workspace left after a trial ends without a subscription may be deleted after a period of inactivity.
Media files are served from public URLs. Most platforms will only accept an image or video they can fetch themselves, so uploaded media is reachable by anyone who has its address. Addresses are long random strings and are not listed or browsable anywhere, but they are not secret. This applies to anything uploaded, including drafts that are never published. Do not upload anything to ContentSling that would cause harm if it were seen.
ContentSling is a scheduling tool, not a backup service. Customers should keep their own copies of anything they upload.
How information is used
Information is used only to operate the product for the customer who provided it: to store and schedule their content, to publish it to the accounts they chose, to show them replies and mentions on their own accounts, to keep their account secure, and to find and fix what makes the product hard to use. It is not used for any other purpose.
Where information goes
ContentSling talks to the platforms a customer connects (for example TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube) through those platforms' official APIs, and only to publish the customer's content or read replies on the customer's own accounts. Content a customer publishes becomes subject to the receiving platform's own terms and privacy policy once it is posted there. ContentSling also relies on infrastructure providers (hosting and a database) to run the service. It does not send information anywhere else.
Content and rights (customer responsibility)
Customers are solely responsible for holding the rights or licenses necessary to publish the content they schedule, and for complying with each connected platform's terms. ContentSling does not review, own, or claim rights in customers' content; it simply publishes what a customer instructs it to publish, to the accounts the customer controls.
How information is protected
- Access tokens and credentials are encrypted at rest and are never shown in the browser or returned by the product's interface.
- All traffic is served over HTTPS.
- Service keys stay on the server and are never embedded in the browser app.
- No system is perfectly secure, but ContentSling holds the minimum it needs and nothing more.
Customer controls
- Disconnect any connected account at any time to stop ContentSling accessing it. You can also revoke ContentSling's access from within each platform's own settings.
- Request a copy of your stored data, or have your account and its data deleted, by contacting us at the address below.
Changes
We may update this policy. Material changes will be reflected here with a new "last updated" date.