Policies

For any service you use for your business we know it's important to understand the fine print to make sure it's the right fit for you. Our full Terms of Service are available at  https://whereby.com/information/tos/ but a few highlights can be found here: 

Prohibited User Content

Nothing is more uncomfortable than NSFW content in your Whereby room during an important business meeting. So please, use Whereby for what it is intended for: a lightweight, easy to use way to collaborate with others without having to be limited to a geographical location. It's up to you to use Whereby appropriately and lawfully. If any of your content (including room names, display names, and profile pictures) falls within the list below, your subscription will be terminated without refund.

Prohibited User Content includes, without limitation, content which:

  • is offensive, such as User Content that engages in, endorses or promotes racism, bigotry, discrimination, hatred, harassment or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
  • displays or links to pornographic, sexually explicit or any other indecent material;
  • promotes or endorses false or misleading information or illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
  • promotes or endorses an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work;
  • infringes on other’s trademarks, copyright or legal rights
  • contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images;
  • solicits passwords or personal data from other users; or
  • violates the rights of or harms or threatens the safety of other users or the Service.
  • shares Personal information about others, without their consent

GDPR and Data Accessibility

As of May 25, 2018, Whereby joined other services in becoming compliant under the General Data Protection Regulation legislation. Users are able to  export and delete their data from their Whereby profile page. Additionally all registered users have the ability to manage their e-mail content settings. 

Note

We've recently updated our DPA, you can learn more about the changes in our January 2022 update to our Data Processing Agreement for more information. 

Cookies

Here's our up to date list of cookies you may run into while using Whereby:

Domain Name Description Type
app.intercom Intercom Data collected by Whereby in order to deliver personalised, behavioural based, email comms. First-party, persistent
whereby.com django_language Used to remember language setting of user in the Content Management System of Whereby First-party, persistent
whereby.com amplitude
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Usage and navigation events sent to Amplitude, Inc. (analytics provider and Data Processor for Whereby) First-party, persistent
whereby.com amplitude_id_
sandboxwhereby.com
Usage and navigation events under testing sent to Amplitude, Inc. (analytics provider and Data Processor for Whereby) First-party, persistent
whereby.com __stripe_mid Data collected by Whereby for our payment processor Stripe  First-party, persistent
whereby.com __stripe_sid Data collected by Whereby for our payment processor Stripe 
First-party, persistent
whereby.com _ga Google Universal Analytics - This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. Opt-out:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout First-party, persistent
whereby.com _gid Usage and navigation events sent to Amplitude (analytics provider) - expires after 24 hours. Opt-out:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout First-party, session-based
whereby.com _gat Google Universal Analytics - it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. Expires after 1 minute. Opt-out:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout First-party, session-based
m.stripe.network nsr Data collected by our payment processor Stripe for fraud detection https://stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal Third-party, persistent
getstarted.whereby.com fr Ads targeting cookie for Facebook. Used on landing pages separate from whereby.com and used to track engagement with users directly acquired by Facebook marketing activities, if the user accepts. Third-party, session-based
getstarted.whereby.com goog_report_conversion Ads conversion cookie for Google. Used on landing pages separate from whereby.com and used to track engagement with users directly acquired by marketing activities, if the user accepts. Third-party, session-based
getstarted.whereby.com UserMatchHistory LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. Used on landing pages separate from whereby.com and used to track engagement with users directly acquired by marketing activities, if the user accepts. Third-party, session-based
getstarted.whereby.com personalization_id Ads targeting cookie for Twitter. Used on landing pages separate from whereby.com and used to track engagement with users directly acquired by marketing activities, if the user accepts Third-party, session-based

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Note

If you have been using Whereby for a long time, you may see cookies from services that are not listed above. Your browser may still contain old cookies that were set by us and our partners before the GDPR came into effect. These cookies are not sending data that is processed by us today, and if you are concerned about privacy, you can delete them one by one, or delete all the cookies for Whereby through your browser (please note: this will log you out of Whereby).

Fair Use

This policy governs use of all Whereby plans as listed on our pricing page, and is a supplement to our Terms of Service. In order to provide affordable video meetings to as many users as possible, we require users to comply with this policy to prevent excessive or abusive usage that may result in unreasonable costs for us as a company and/or service degradation for other users. We have prepared this Fair Use Policy ("Policy") as a guide for our users to understand the intended and permissible uses of our service, and to prevent exploitation, fraud, and abuse of our unlimited usage plans.

How can I use Whereby?

Whereby is intended for normal, legitimate business use. This means use for video meetings during business hours (in the room owner’s time zone).

What is considered “Fair use”?

We may benchmark usage patterns of customers on different plan types to understand what levels of usage are normal by typical customers on the plan, and may use this to identify Users or Customers who have abnormal usage patterns.

Whereby may determine that abnormal, unreasonable or impermissible usage is occurring, and may take appropriate steps, including suspension or termination of service, even if the number of minutes used is not excessive, when a customer's calling patterns during more than one month reflect excessive:

  • volume of meetings
  • visitors to a room
  • meeting lengths;
  • uninterrupted meeting recordings;
  • excessive recorded meeting length;
  • meetings outside of normal business hours;
  • other calling patterns indicative of an attempt to evade enforcement of this Fair Use Policy

Explicitly, “Large Size” meeting rooms may not be used for security monitoring or continuously running telepresence.

Consequences of breach

Unauthorized or excessive use beyond that normally experienced by business customers may result in immediate account or plan termination with no refund. 

Refunds

Our team works hard to make sure you have a service that fits you well. However, in instances where you have a change of mind or your account has automatically renewed, our policy is that we do not issue refunds. If you believe you have an extenuating circumstance, then we may review your request on a case by case basis. You must submit your request within 30 days of renewal in order to be eligible for a refund in this case; all invoices older than 30 days are ineligible for refund consideration.

Past Due Accounts

Accounts that are 45 days past due will be automatically cancelled and downgraded. In this case, some rooms may be removed from your account at that time.