Policy Changes

Zeeker uses versioned documents and records acceptance by exact document hash. A material change requires renewed affirmative acceptance for the affected role.

Current versions

Document	Version	Effective	Acceptance required
User Terms	2026-09-08	September 8, 2026	All authenticated users
Admin & Moderator Terms	2026-07-29	July 29, 2026	Admins, owners, moderators
Publisher, Embed & White-Label Terms	2026-08-02	August 2, 2026	Publisher dashboard, Embed, WordPress, and white-label operators
Privacy Policy	2026-09-08	September 8, 2026	Notice; separate consent where required
Cookie & Tracking Notice	2026-09-08	September 8, 2026	Notice; existing saved choice retained
Community Guidelines	2026-07-29	July 29, 2026	Incorporated into User Terms
Publisher Data & Crawler Policy	2026-09-08	September 8, 2026	Operational policy
Data Processing Addendum	2026-08-02	August 2, 2026	Eligible organization-controlled processing
Developer Terms	2026-08-02	August 2, 2026	APIs, SDKs, embeds, automation, and integrations

September 8, 2026 YouTube services update

• Added the required YouTube Terms acceptance statement to the User Terms and links to the YouTube Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.
• Explained the public YouTube API data Zeeker uses, its short retention limits, and that Zeeker does not request authorized YouTube account data.
• Clarified that a YouTube-hosted thumbnail can make a request before player activation, while the official player loads only for visible muted autoplay or a user playback action, depending on the surface.
• Removed speculative YouTube and Google video-host preconnections from Zeeker page shells.
• Documented the publisher-image preview rule: Zeeker may remotely display the exact HTTPS image URL supplied in RSS or Open Graph metadata with publisher attribution and a direct article link, while honoring explicit image restrictions and verified opt-outs.
• Preserved the exact 2026-07-29 User Terms.

August 2, 2026 white-label update

• Added a contractual white-label entitlement that permits an approved Operator Experience to omit public Zeeker branding and Zeeker legal-portal links and use one neutral Operator Legal & privacy link instead.
• Added a managed Operator Legal Hub default based on existing verified configuration, maintained templates, selected features, and regional settings, while preserving Operator review and fact-specific responsibilities.
• Required Operator terms, privacy and cookie disclosures and controls, community rules, reporting and rights paths, and a working Operator contact.
• Clarified flow-down content and data rights, moderation, safety, privacy, cookie, request-handling, and legal-hub continuity duties.
• Added a white-label processing schedule to the DPA and a matching narrow branding exception to the Developer Terms. White-label presentation does not itself change data-protection roles or guarantee compliance in every jurisdiction.
• Preserved the exact 2026-07-29 Publisher & Embed Terms, Data Processing Addendum, and Developer Terms.

July 30, 2026 contact amendment

• Published Deepa Balasubramanian as Zeeker’s India Grievance Officer and designated website recipient for copyright notices, using the dedicated legal mailbox.
• Disclosed that the separate US Copyright Office directory registration remains unverified and that the website designation alone is not a federal safe-harbor claim.
• This contact-only amendment does not change a versioned user, admin, or publisher agreement.

July 30, 2026 analytics-control clarification

• Clarified that optional analytics uses prior opt-in where consent is required and may use a default-on, opt-out model where law permits.
• Confirmed that users can turn analytics off at any time, saved choices remain respected, and GPC keeps optional analytics off.
• This clarification does not change a user’s existing analytics choice or make Terms acceptance consent to analytics.

July 29, 2026 launch

• Created a central legal and safety portal with guided FAQs and request routes.
• Added separate user, admin/moderator, and publisher/embed terms.
• Added a broad user-content license, including public-content syndication, commercialization, and AI/ML, while preserving user ownership and separating third-party publisher rights.
• Added versioned account-backed acceptance evidence.
• Added shared, region-aware analytics controls and a cross-app cookie preference.
• Added public privacy, publisher, copyright, illegal-content, appeal, India grievance, NCII, child-safety, and law-enforcement intake.
• Added a distinct privacy-rights decision appeal category with prior-decision evidence.
• Added publisher rights/provenance, machine-readable reservation, attribution, verification, opt-out, removal, and appeal commitments.
• Added public-content licensee safeguards and private-content exclusions.

Superseded, acceptance-bearing text is preserved in the policy archive.