Privacy Policy

This policy covers TourTheBlock (tourtheblock.com) and describes what happens to your data when you use it. In short: there are no accounts, nothing is recorded, and almost everything about a showing disappears the moment it ends.

What we don't collect

There's no sign-up and no password. Showings are identified only by a name you choose and, where the brand requires it, a join code — not by an account. We never record or store the video or audio from a showing; see “How video and audio work” below.

What we hold, and for how long

Your display name, cursor color, the showing name, its join code (when one exists), and chat messages sent during the showing are held only in server memory for as long as the showing is running. None of it is written to a database. The moment everyone leaves, the showing and everything tied to it is discarded.

How video and audio work

With four or fewer participants, video and audio travel directly between browsers over WebRTC — peer to peer, never touching our servers. Once a showing has five or more participants, that mesh stops scaling, so audio and video are relayed through a LiveKit SFU (a selective forwarding unit) instead. The relay only forwards the stream in real time; it doesn't record or store it. Your browser asks for camera and microphone permission directly — we only ever receive it once you've granted that permission yourself.

Third parties

Street View imagery, and address search on brands that offer it, are served by Google Maps Platform, subject to Google's own privacy policy. Some brands also use Google Analytics on marketing pages to understand traffic; where enabled, Google Analytics sets its own cookies under Google's policy, not ours.

Cookies

TourTheBlock doesn't set cookies of its own for accounts or tracking. Any cookies you see come from Google Analytics, where it's enabled.

Changes

We'll update this page if what we collect or how we handle it changes materially.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email phil@tourtheblock.com.