Last updated: November 9, 2026
This policy covers Ascent & Ruin and its publishing tool, Ascent Ruin Publisher (the "App"). Ascent & Ruin makes documentary videos about money, business and empires, and publishes them on its own social media accounts.
The App is used only by Ascent & Ruin to publish its own videos, images and text to accounts that Ascent & Ruin owns and manages: its Facebook Page, Instagram account, YouTube channel, TikTok account and X account. The App is not offered to the public, and no one else can sign in to it.
The App accesses only data belonging to Ascent & Ruin's own accounts: the content we publish (videos, images, captions, titles and descriptions); basic account information needed to publish (account names and IDs); and performance statistics for our own posts and accounts (such as views, reach and engagement). The App does not collect personal information about viewers, followers or any other users of these platforms, and it does not read private messages.
The data is used only to publish our content and to measure how our own posts perform, so we can decide what to make next.
Access tokens and statistics are stored on a private computer controlled by Ascent & Ruin. Tokens are kept in a protected configuration file and are never published or shared.
We do not sell, rent or share any data accessed through the App with anyone.
When the App uses a platform's services, that platform's own terms and privacy policies also apply, including Meta's Privacy Policy (https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy), the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) for YouTube API Services, TikTok's Privacy Policy and X's Privacy Policy. Our use of YouTube API Services is also subject to the YouTube Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms).
Account owners can remove the App's access at any time in their platform settings. For Google and YouTube, visit https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions. For Facebook, go to Settings & privacy > Settings > Business integrations (or Apps and websites) and remove Ascent Ruin Publisher. For TikTok and X, remove the app under Settings > Security or Apps and sessions.
You can ask us to delete any data the App holds by emailing contact@ascentandruin.com with the subject "Data deletion". We will delete it within 30 days and confirm by reply.
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.
contact@ascentandruin.com