WatchTogether asks users to create an account in order to facilitate functionality on multiple platforms and to allow other users to specifically be invited to join in on watching the video. The information requested during registration is fairly basic and nowadays commonplace: a username, email, and password. These authentication details are stored so that the user can sign back into their account at a later date, and to enable important messages to be sent to their chosen emails.
It is important that all these details are stored appropriately in case of malicious intent from other users. Emails and passwords in particular. To prevent unwanted situations, they need to be encrypted and kept safely and securely. We are aware of and have looked over the Data Protection Act, and will strive to ensure WatchTogether abides by the laws and regulations stated in it.
We do not want to risk upsetting our customers by sharing their data, and we do not have much data stored to begin with, so we will not sell the data we store about our customers’ accounts. We want to make the users feels comfortable enough to trust us with the data required to create an account. Furthermore, users will have the option to delete their account, with their information being removed from our databases upon doing so.
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Further reading:
Gov.uk. Data Protection. [Online] Available at: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection
AudienceDataSharing. Data Protection – What the regulations say. [Online] Available at: https://www.audiencedatasharing.org/legal-information
