Rownd Archives - Product news and updates

June 27, 2022 Auth / Rownd

The end of passwords? Why the world is moving away from this traditional method

You’ve probably been using passwords for as long as you can remember. And up until now, they’ve been a necessary evil.

In this post, we’ll explore 5 reasons why the world is moving away from passwords.

Product launch: Introducing the auth snippet

Rownd makes adding auth to any website a breeze. Whether you have a Webflow, Wordpress, or a custom site, you can add Rownd to it in minutes. If you use Netlifly or Cloudflare, you can get up and running even faster!

May 25, 2022 Rownd

Tribeca Case-Study: 50X more users with Rownd!

The Tribeca film festival brings over 150,000 festival attendees to NYC for its week-long event. 2-3 times more will visit their website, buy virtual tickets, and engage with their properties. The festival is a part of the social and cultural fabric of New York and is regarded as one of the premier film festivals in the world.

January 27, 2022 Press Release / Rownd

We are excited to announce that Rownd is a part of Y Combinator’s Winter ’22 batch!

Rownd is excited to announce that we are a part of the W22 batch of YC. We are a part

January 25, 2022 Data Ownership / Data Privacy / Rownd

Data Privacy vs. Data Protection

experts established that anyone who handles or shares data should know what each term means. To the average person, these two concepts may be one in the same, but when it really comes down to it, they are entirely different concepts.

January 11, 2022 Rownd

Rownd + Airtable: Add data privacy and consent management to your Airtable backend

Airtable is taking the world by storm. Never has there been a simpler and easier way to create a visual

January 5, 2022 Data Privacy / Data Security / Rownd

Amazon Mishandling Customer Data

ticle recently surfaced about Amazon mishandling customer data back in 2018. The article states that, “according to internal documents from the Center for Investigative Reporting and WIRED, Amazon’s vast empire of customer data—its metastasizing record of what you search for, what you buy, what shows you watch, what pills you take, what you say to Alexa, and who’s at your front door—had become so sprawling, fragmented, and promiscuously handled within the company that the security division couldn’t even map all of it, much less adequately defend its borders.”

December 22, 2021 Rownd

Web3? What’s That?

A hot topic of discussion is the evolution of the internet as we know it. Web3 is all the rage and some very wealthy individuals are putting a lot of financial eggs in the Web3 basket. So why should you care and what do you need to know?

December 16, 2021 Rownd

Revocable Consent

Revocable consent is the right for a user to revoke access to a piece of personal information at any time. We run into it time and time again where websites and companies aren’t actually allowing us to rescind our data when we feel like it. There is always some sort of “30 day” clause or fine print that we happen to miss when we accept the terms and conditions.

November 30, 2021 Data Ownership / Data Privacy / Data Security / Rownd

What are Pixel Tags?

There seems to be so many unknowns today as we browse the internet. A large majority of consumers open their device, navigate to a site, complete a transaction and resume their day as usual without giving any thought to the processes behind their browsing session. Then individuals open Facebook a few hours later to see an advertisement for the winter boots they just purchased in their Google Chrome web browser. How is that possible? Let’s talk about it.