Photostream Agent wants to use your confidential information

I keep getting the following message when I power on: "Photostream Agent wants to use your confidential information stored in icloud in your keychain. Do you want to allow access." I click, "Deny" and the same message pops up again. I click, "Deny" and it disappears for good until the next time I power on.
Is there some way to get rid of this pop up. I don't even understand who Photostream is and why an agent would want my info. Maybe it has something to do with my keychain settings.
Thank you.

Thank you, captfred.
I unchecked "photostream" in icloud. Does this mean that my photos on my hard drive are no longer backed up in icloud? I want to back them up, I just don't want to "share" them with a "Photostream Agent", or anyone else for that matter as I have pictures of my children on my hard drive.

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