Shotwell's privacy policy for Online Services
Google
Information Shotwell Stores and Transmits About You

The Shotwell Connect application and its data store reside locally on your personal computer.

During the course of its operation, Shotwell Connect may store an authentication token that it receives from YouTube and Google Photos on your computer. This authentication token is simply a session-identifying sequence of letters and numbers. It contains no password, user name, or other personal information. This authentication token can be deleted by logging out of the service, or, if Shotwell Connect is not available anymore, by navigating to your system's credential store and removing it manually.

You can also revoke access to any Google service at any time by visiting https://security.google.com/settings/. If you opt to revoke the access by using the link above, the stored token will removed upon next use.

At no time does Shotwell Connect transmit any information to the GNOME foundation, the Software Freedom Conservancy, any of the developers of the Shotwell Connect Application for Google services or any other third-party.

For Google's own privacy policy, please refer to https://policies.google.com/privacy

YouTube

Shotwell uses the YouTube API services https://developers.google.com/youtube for accessing your YouTube channel and upload the videos.

Data obtained from your YouTube account

The only data retrieved from your YouTube account is your YouTube user name. The user name will be used during the upload procedure only and not stored permanently anywhere.

YouTube terms and permissions

By using Shotwell to access YouTube, you agree to be bound to the YouTube Terms of Service as available at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

Permissions you grant Shotwell for YouTube

By using Shotwell, you grant the Shotwell Connect application permission to publish videos to your YouTube channel. Other than uploading videos, Shotwell does not insert, modify or remove, store or share any information from your YouTube account and channel.

Google Photos

Shotwell uses the Google Photos API services https://developers.google.com/photos/ for all interaction with your Google Photos data

Permissions you grant Shotwell for Google Photos

By using Shotwell, you grant the Shotwell Connect application to publish photos on your Google Photos account. It will download the list of available albums to allow you to chose an existing album to upload to, it can create albums on your behalf. Other than creating albums and uploading photos, Shotwell does no modification whatsoever to the existing data on Google Photos

Flickr
Information Shotwell Stores and Transmits About You

The Shotwell Connect application and its data store reside locally on your personal computer. During the course of its operation, Shotwell Connect may store an authentication token that it receives from Flickr on your computer. This authentication token is simply a session-identifying sequence of letters and numbers. It contains no password, user name, or other personal information. At no time does Shotwell Connect transmit any information to the GNOME foundation, the Software Freedom Conservancy or any of the developers of the Shotwell Connect Application for Flickr.

Permissions you grant Shotwell for Flickr

By using Shotwell, you grant the Shotwell Connect application access to publish photos to your Flickr account. It will download the list of available albums to allow you to chose an existing album to upload to. It can also create new albums on your behalf. Other than creating albums and uploading photos, Shotwell does not modification whatsoever to the existing data on your Flickr account.