What connecting Google does

Setnayan offers two optional connections to a Google account. Both are off by default, both are asked for only at the moment you use the feature that needs them, and either can be disconnected at any time. Nothing on Setnayan requires you to connect Google — a couple who never connects anything still plans their whole wedding, keeps their Memories, and runs their event page.

• YouTube — so Live Watch can set up the live broadcast of a ceremony and put the player on the event page.
• Google Drive — so photos are copied into a folder inside a Drive the couple owns, and stay there whatever happens to us.

Setnayan never touches a file it did not create, never uses anything it receives from Google for advertising, never sells or transfers it, and never uses it to train AI models.

Live Watch is an optional paid feature that streams a ceremony live so family working abroad can watch it happen. Setnayan asks for exactly one Google permission:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube

This is the narrowest permission Google offers that can create and run a live broadcast — the read-only one cannot start a broadcast, and the alternatives are wider, not narrower. Google describes it broadly on the consent screen, as managing your YouTube account, so the screen will tell you it covers more than we use. Here is everything we actually do with it:

• Read which channel is connected, so we can show you it is linked.
• Create the live broadcast for the event, and the streaming slot it receives video on.
• Start it, check that video is arriving, and end it.
• Afterwards, look up the replay of the broadcast we created, by its ID, so the event page can link to it.

Broadcasts are always created unlisted. Setnayan does not send the video itself — the couple’s own streaming software pushes it to the stream key. We do not upload videos to anyone’s channel, and we do not read anything else on a connected channel.

Whose channel is used depends on how the event is set up: the broadcast runs on the couple’s own channel when they connect one, and where Setnayan supplies the channel for an event the couple connects nothing and grants Setnayan no access to their Google account at all.

A couple can connect Google Drive so their photos are copied into their own Drive, in folders Setnayan creates for the event. It is how a couple keeps full-resolution originals, and it means the photos survive independently of us. Setnayan asks for exactly one permission:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file

This is the narrowest Drive permission Google offers. It restricts Setnayan to files and folders the Setnayan app itself created. We cannot see, read, edit or delete anything else in the Drive — not your documents, not your existing photos, not your other folders. We do not ask for full Drive access, and we do not ask for read-only Drive access either.

What we do with it: create a folder for the event, create the sub-folders inside it, and write the couple’s own photos and videos into them. Nothing else. If you disconnect, the files we already wrote stay in your Drive under your sole control — we do not take them back.

Either route works, and either is immediate. In Setnayan, open the page for the feature — Live Watch, or the photo page for your event — and use its Disconnect button. Or revoke Setnayan from your Google Account permissions page. When a connection ends, we erase the stored keys rather than merely marking the connection closed.

Setnayan’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

This page is a summary. The complete disclosure — what each connection stores, where it is stored, how long it is kept, and your rights under the Philippine Data Privacy Act (RA 10173) — is in our privacy policy. Questions go to our Data Protection Officer at dpo@setnayan.com.