Rownd Archives - Product news and updates

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!

March 15, 2022 Data Privacy

Facebook Protect

What’s the latest and greatest from Facebook? Well, they have decided that a small subset of Facebook users are now eligible to enroll in Facebook Protect – a way for political candidates, their campaigns and elected officials to further secure their accounts.

March 2, 2022 Data Privacy

The Consumer Experience

The consumer experience is evolving every single day. Customers are demanding not only products, but also experiences that connect them to your company.

February 17, 2022 Data Privacy

The Login Experience

The login experience has gotten more and more complicated over the years and every website has their own way to do it. When logging into a new website, we are presented with options to sign in with Google, Facebook and other platforms that make the login experience apparently more seamless. But what about using actual login information and what does that mean for your privacy?

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 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.

December 8, 2021 Data Ownership / Data Privacy / Data Security

Apple’s App Tracking Transparency

Apple released the App Tracking Transparency feature back in April with the iOS14.5 update, but many people still haven’t heard about it. There are so many new privacy protections being put in place privately and federally that are threatening the flow of user data which companies rely on to target consumers with online ads. How does this App Tracking Transparency feature work and why should you care?

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.