The short version
Mayflower Studios is a tiny indie studio. The site has three things: Watch Together, Together rooms, and Sakari stories. None of them ask you to make an account, and we don't run ads or sell anything about you.
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.
Sakari stories
Sakari stories run entirely in your browser. Your reading progress and language preference are saved in your browser's local storage on your own device. Nothing about your reading is sent to us.
What we don't do
- No accounts, no email collection, no advertising.
- No selling or sharing of personal data with third parties.
- No tracking of you across other websites.
Third-party services we rely on (such as Google Firebase for realtime rooms and Google Fonts for type) 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.