The short version
Mayflower Studios is a small indie project. Some public pages work without an account, while social features such as profiles, friends, chat, gifts, rooms, companions, moderation, and notifications require one. We do not run ads, sell personal information, or track you across unrelated websites.
Watch Together & Together rooms
These features use a realtime database (Google Firebase) so that everyone in a room sees the same thing at the same time. While you're in a room, the following is stored temporarily so the room can work:
- The room name you chose and its visibility setting (public, locked, or hidden).
- A display name you type in — entirely optional, and only ever shown to others in your room.
- Whatever you actively share into the room: chat messages, the video/queue you load, drawing strokes, and game moves.
- A short-lived presence marker so the room knows who's currently connected.
This data lives only as long as the room is active and is meant to be transient. Don't share anything in a room you wouldn't want the other people in that room to see. Locked rooms add a password gate; hidden rooms simply aren't listed — neither is a guarantee of secrecy, so use good judgment.
Accounts, profiles & notifications
Account and social features use Google Firebase. We store the information you choose to add to your profile, your username, friendships, relationship status, gifts, guestbook posts, room invitations, and notifications. Notifications may contain a short preview of the event that created them, such as a message, gift note, or moderation notice. Only the signed-in recipient can read and manage their notification inbox.
Chat moderation records can privately retain removed message text, the action taken, and the moderator responsible for up to 30 days so the owner can review or restore it. Publicly removed messages disappear from chat.
Translation
Translation is optional. When you choose another site language or turn on chat translation, the text that needs translating may be sent to a translation provider. Mayflower currently tries Google's translation service first and uses MyMemory as a compatibility fallback, including on browsers where the Google request is blocked. A browser's on-device translator may be used when it is available.
For chat, this can include the text of the individual message being translated. Links, email addresses, usernames, and Mayflower product names are protected from translation where possible. Do not use translation for a message you would not be comfortable sending to the translation provider. Turning translation off leaves the original message in place.
Successful translations are cached in your browser so the same message does not need to be sent again every time chat opens. The cache uses a one-way hash of the language and original text as its key; the translated result is stored locally on that device. Failed requests are not cached. You can clear translation data from Settings.
Payments & paid downloads
Paid digital-world checkout is processed by Stripe. Payment-card details are entered on Stripe's hosted checkout and are not sent to or stored by Mayflower Studios. To attach a purchase to the correct account, Mayflower Studios stores limited fulfillment information such as your Firebase account ID, the world purchased, payment/order identifiers, amount, currency, purchase status, and timestamps. Stripe may process payment, billing, fraud-prevention, and transaction information under its own privacy practices.
What we don't do
- No advertising and no selling of personal data.
- Account email addresses are used by Firebase Authentication to sign you in; they are not shown publicly.
- No sharing of personal data with advertisers or unrelated data brokers.
- No tracking of you across other websites.
Third-party services we rely on (including Google Firebase for realtime rooms, Google Fonts for type, and Google or MyMemory when you request translation) have their own privacy practices. If you embed an external video, that provider may set its own cookies.
Children
The site isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has shared data through a room, get in touch and we'll remove it.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Reach out through the studio's contact channels and we'll help.