Last updated: 19 October 2026

Watch Party is a browser extension that keeps video playback in sync between people
watching the same page, with chat, video calls and friends built in.

• We never see, record or store the video you watch. We sync a timestamp and a
  play/pause flag. Everyone plays the video themselves, on the original website.
• You can use Watch Party without an account.
• We do not sell your data, ever, to anyone.
• We only look at the one tab you are watching a party in — never your other tabs.

As a guest — a generated user ID and display name, a session token that keeps
you signed in, the rooms you join, and the messages you send. No email, no name,
no sign-in required.

If you sign in with Google — your email address, name and profile picture, so
your account works across devices. We never receive your Google password and have
no access to Gmail, Drive or Contacts.

Your profile — display name, username, bio, avatar and status. Whatever you
choose to add, visible to other users.

Basic usage statistics — such as when you open Watch Party, how long you use it,
rooms created and watch minutes, so we know how the product is being used.

An install ID — a random ID created when you install Watch Party in a Chrome
profile. It lets us count real installs (instead of counting every sign-in or
sign-out as a new person) and tell which profile an account was used from. It is not
linked to your device or browser fingerprint, and a different Chrome profile is
always treated as a different install.

Your extension version and when it was last connected — so we can tell which
versions people use and mark accounts that have not been used for a long time
(they are only marked as inactive, never deleted).

Why you uninstalled, if you tell us — when you remove Watch Party, a page asks
why. Answering is optional; we record the reason you pick and any comment you type
(up to 500 characters), and that the extension was removed.

The address of the page a room is watching — shared with the people in that
room so everyone lands on the same video.

What happens in a room — while you are in a watch party we keep a record of the
room's activity so we can moderate it and fix sync problems: who joined and left and
why, play / pause / skip, whether each person was in sync, when someone switched away
from the party tab, moderation actions, and the room's chat messages. If the party tab
goes to another page during a party, we note the title and link when it is a video
page, and only the site name (for example "google.com") for any other page. We also
note your extension version, browser, operating system, country (worked out from your
connection — your IP address is never stored) and connection speed. This record is
visible only to our admin team.

Support conversations — if you message us through Help & Support.

• The video, audio or screen content you are watching
• Recordings of your camera, microphone or calls
• Your browsing history. Outside a room we look at nothing; inside a room only the party tab, and for a page that is not a video only its site name
• Passwords, payment details or financial information

Calls are peer-to-peer. Audio and video flow directly between participants and are
never routed through, recorded by, or stored on our servers.


Your account and profile stay until you ask us to delete them — an account that is
not used is marked inactive, not deleted. Direct messages and friend requests expire
automatically. Detailed usage statistics are deleted after 90 days; a daily summary
per account (for example "active on this day, minutes watched") and your install and
uninstall records are kept while the account exists. A comment typed on the uninstall
page is deleted after 13 months (the reason you picked is kept). Rooms
are removed once they end. A room's activity record and chat messages are kept for
30 days, for moderation and to fix sync problems, then deleted automatically.

• Use it without an account — guest mode needs no personal information.
• Edit or correct anything in your profile at any time.
• Clear your watch history, bookmarks and saved videos from the options page.
• Delete your account, or request a copy of your data, by emailing us. When an
  account is deleted, its profile, friends and settings are removed; rooms you hosted,
  reports you filed and messages you sent in other people's chats stay, shown as
  "Deleted user".
• Uninstalling the extension stops all collection.

Traffic between the extension and our servers is encrypted. Sessions use signed
tokens that can be revoked. We never store Google passwords, because we never
receive them.


If we change this policy we will update the date at the top.



watchpartyapplive@gmail.com — or Help & Support inside the extension.