Privacy
whatlanded lets someone share a YouTube video and collect how people felt while watching it.
What we store
- The YouTube video ID and title of a video someone submits
- Each reaction: which icon was tapped, and where in the video
- Playback position, sampled a couple of times a second, to know how much of the video was watched
- A display name, only if a reviewer chooses to type one
- If you sign in with Google: your email address, your name, and a link to your profile picture, plus the account identifier Google gives us
- For tests created without signing in: a one-way hash of your IP address, used only to limit how many tests can be created from one place in a day. We do not store the address itself and cannot recover it from the hash.
What we do not store
- The video itself. It stays on YouTube and is only embedded here.
- Any payment information.
- Any tracking of you across other websites.
What other reviewers can see
It depends on how the creator set the test up, and it is shown to you before you start. In the default setting you see nothing from anyone else until you have finished watching. In the other, everyone's previous reactions float over the video while you watch.
Either way, reactions are never labelled with who made them — not to other reviewers, and not to the creator.
What the creator can see
The combined shape of everyone's reactions — how many people reacted at each moment, and which feelings. Never which individual tapped what. This is deliberate: reviewers can only be honest if their individual reactions are not attributable to them.
Accounts
Reviewers never sign in. Watching a video and tapping how you feel needs no account and sets no login cookie, and that will not change.
Creators may sign in with Google, but do not have to. Anyone can still paste a link and get a test without an account. Signing in keeps your tests listed in one place and stops them expiring. We use Google only to identify you — we cannot read your Gmail, your files, or anything else.
How long we keep it
Tests created without an account are deleted automatically 14 days after the last time anyone reacted to them. The clock runs from the last activity, not from when it was made, so a test still being watched will not disappear. When a test is deleted, its reactions and playback samples go with it.
Tests belonging to a signed-in creator are kept until deleted. Signing in and claiming a test removes its expiry.
Other services
The video is embedded from YouTube, so YouTube receives your request directly and applies its own privacy policy.
Deleting your data
Email bensonsoong@gmail.com and it will be removed.
Removal is carried out through an internal tool that deletes a reviewer together with everything they contributed. Whoever runs it can see that you took part — not what you tapped.
A signed-in creator can also delete any of their own tests at any time, which removes every reaction and playback sample recorded on it. Only the creator who owns a test can do this — holding a link to someone's results never grants the ability to destroy them.
Last updated: 24 August 2026