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Privacy Policy — socialpub

Last updated: 12 September 2026

socialpub is an open-source tool that a person runs on their own machine to publish content to their own social media accounts. It is not a hosted service: there is no server of ours involved, and whoever runs the tool retains full control of all data.

Who is responsible

This tool is maintained by Alba Gutiérrez Pedemonte. For any privacy-related question, please open an issue on the repository.

What data is processed

When you authorise the application with your Pinterest account, the tool receives and stores:

• OAuth access and refresh tokens, which allow it to publish on your behalf.
• Your board identifiers and names, so it knows where to publish.
• The content you choose to publish: images, titles, descriptions and links.

No other data is collected. Specifically: no email addresses, no contacts, no usage statistics, no analytics, and no browsing data.

Where it is stored

Credentials are stored exclusively on your local machine, in the file ~/.config/socialpub/tokens.json, with read permissions restricted to your own system user (mode 600).

This data is never transmitted anywhere except to the official API of the relevant platform (api.pinterest.com), in order to carry out the actions you have requested. There is no intermediary server and no remote database.

Who it is shared with

No one. The data is not sold, transferred, or used for advertising, profiling, or model training. The only transmission that takes place is the one you requested: publishing your content to the destination platform.

How long it is kept

Tokens remain on your machine until you delete them or they expire. The tool keeps no copy anywhere else.

How to delete it

You have two options, and you may use both:

1. Delete the local credentials: remove the file ~/.config/socialpub/tokens.json. From that moment on, the tool loses all access.
2. Revoke access from Pinterest: go to Settings → Apps in your account and withdraw the application’s permissions. This invalidates the tokens even if the file still exists.

Your rights

Because all data resides on your own equipment and under your control, you have direct access to it at all times: you can inspect, modify or delete it without any intermediary. If additional data protection rights apply to you under your local law (such as the GDPR in the European Union), you may exercise them by contacting us through the repository issues.

Third-party services

The tool communicates with the official APIs of the platforms you publish to. How those platforms handle your data is governed by their own policies:

• Pinterest Privacy Policy

Children

This tool is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, this page and the date above will be updated. The full revision history is publicly available in the repository.

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