Privacy & Terms

Last updated: 14 August 2026.

The short version: WatchAlongs sets no advertising or tracking cookies, uses no analytics company, has no user accounts, sells nothing, and shares nothing with anyone for money. What it does collect is listed below in full.

Who runs this site

WatchAlongs.com is operated by Holden's Digital Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 08297786, registered office 5 White Oak Square, London Road, Swanley, Kent BR8 7AG, United Kingdom.

For anything in this policy, including a request about your own data, contact us through the contact page.

What this site measures

We count page views and stream clicks using our own software, on our own server. No analytics company is involved and nothing is sent anywhere else.

To count visitors without identifying them, each request is turned into a short code derived from your IP address and browser, mixed with a secret that changes every day. We never store your IP address or browser string alongside it, and because the secret rotates, the same person on two days produces two unrelated codes. We cannot follow anyone from one day to the next, by design.

What is recorded: the time, the page path, the site you arrived from if it was an external one, whether the device is a phone, and — when you open a stream — which platform it is on, which sport or category it was listed under, and the link you opened. If you build a multiview, the number of tiles in it is recorded too. These files are deleted after 90 days.

Cookies and things stored in your browser

We set no advertising cookies and no tracking cookies. There is no cookie banner because our own site does not set anything that would need one.

One cookie, PHPSESSID, is set by the site software. It carries a security token that stops other websites submitting our contact form on your behalf. It holds nothing about you and expires when you close the browser.

The site also remembers some preferences in your browser's own local storage. This never leaves your device and we cannot read it from our side:

• which day, sport and platform filters you last used, and your chosen view
• multiviews you have saved, their layout, and any per-stream timing nudges
• your region and language choice, if you set one
• a taste profile — scores for the categories, channels and events you click, which decay over time and are used only to order the featured stage and the live band. Clearing your browser data removes it and the site works exactly as well without it.

Thumbnails from other companies

When the page loads, stream thumbnail backgrounds that are visible straight away can load from the platforms' image CDNs: i.ytimg.com for YouTube, static-cdn.jtvnw.net for Twitch, and images.kick.com for Kick. That means your IP address and browser details reach those hosts on page load, before you open a stream. In our testing those thumbnail requests did not set third-party cookies.

Video players from other companies

Streams are played using the official YouTube, Twitch and Kick players, embedded in our pages. Those players are run by those companies, and they can set their own cookies and storage when they load. We do not control that and cannot see it. Their own privacy policies apply to what they collect.

On stream pages we use YouTube's privacy-enhanced player.

What you type in the search box

Typing in the search box sends what you have typed to our server so we can suggest matching streams, channels and events. Those suggestions come from the listings we already hold. Nothing you type is stored, and it is not sent anywhere else.

One exception. If what you type looks like a channel handle (for example @SomeChannel) and we do not already list that channel, we ask YouTube's public API whether it exists and whether it is streaming. In that case the handle you typed is sent to YouTube. We remember the answer for an hour so the same handle is not asked twice, and that record holds the handle and what we got back — not you, and not anything about your visit.

Rate limiting

To stop automated abuse of a few features, we briefly record how many requests have come from an IP address in the last hour, on our own server. These records are discarded as they age out and are not used for anything else.

The contact form

What you type — your name, your email address and your message — is emailed to us and kept so we can reply. We use it for nothing else and send it to no one else. The form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA, which checks whether a submission is automated; Google's own privacy policy applies to that check.

Categorising streams

To work out what a stream is about, we send its title, channel name and the first part of its description to Anthropic, which provides the AI model we use. That is public information published by the streamer. Nothing about you, or any visitor, is ever sent.

What we do not do

• We do not sell, rent or share personal information for money or anything else.
• We do not show advertising and use no advertising network.
• We have no user accounts and ask for no passwords.
• We take no payments and hold no card or bank details.
• We run no newsletter and send no marketing email.
• We do not collect location data, health data or anything similar.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, or object to our using it. Contact us through the contact page and we will reply within one month.

In practice we hold very little: the daily codes described above cannot be traced back to you even by us, so a request will usually concern a message you sent through the contact form.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Reporting a stream

If something listed here is infringing, illegal or abusive, tell us through the report page. We list streams that other people broadcast on other platforms; we can remove a listing from this site, and we will.

Changes

Any change appears here with a new date at the top.

Last updated: 14 August 2026.

The short version: WatchAlongs is a free directory of live watch-along streams. The streams belong to the people who make them and the platforms that host them, not to us. Use the site normally and fairly, don't abuse it or the streamers it links to, and we reserve the right to remove any listing or block any user who does.

Who we are

WatchAlongs.com is operated by Holden's Digital Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 08297786, registered office 5 White Oak Square, London Road, Swanley, Kent BR8 7AG, United Kingdom. Contact us through the contact page.

What the service is

WatchAlongs finds, lists and links to live and scheduled watch-along streams on third-party platforms (currently YouTube, Twitch and Kick), and embeds their players so you can watch one or several at once. We host no video. A listing is a link plus information about the stream, not an endorsement of its content.

Third-party content and platforms

• Every stream is created by its streamer and hosted by its platform. Its content is theirs, not ours, and we have no control over it.
• Embedded players are provided by the platforms under their own terms, and when you watch through one you are also dealing with that platform under its terms and privacy policy.
• Trade marks, stream titles, thumbnails and channel names belong to their owners. We display them to identify the streams they belong to.
• If you own content listed here and want it removed, send a notice through the report route. Our copyright and takedown policy explains what to include and what we do with it.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the site for anything unlawful, or to harass or harm streamers or other users;
• scrape, bulk-download or systematically copy the site or its data, or hammer its APIs past the published rate limits;
• probe, overload or attempt to bypass the site's security or rate limiting;
• submit streams you know to be misleading, unlawful, or not what they claim to be;
• use the site to misrepresent an affiliation with us or with any streamer.

Submissions

Where the site invites stream suggestions, you confirm anything you submit is accurate to your knowledge. Submitting gives us permission to check, list, edit the presentation of, or decline the suggestion. We owe no obligation to list anything and give no credit for suggestions.

Our right to remove and to block

We may remove any listing, refuse any submission, and block any user, device or network from the service, at our discretion and without notice, including for breach of these terms, legal risk, or protection of the service and the people it links to. This is the contractual basis for every takedown and ban decision we make.

Availability and changes

The service is free and provided as available: streams appear and disappear on their platforms' schedules, and we may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the service at any time. We may update these terms; the date above changes when we do, and continued use after a change is acceptance of it.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, the service is provided without warranties, and we are not liable for the content of third-party streams, for platform outages, or for loss arising from use of a free information service. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under the law of England and Wales, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and its courts have jurisdiction — though if you are a consumer elsewhere in the UK you keep any rights your local law gives you.