Security Policies

In order to provide the services and features appropriate for the market and clients that we serve we have made certain policy choices.
  1. We do not offer any traditional form of password recovery. We do provide on the Configure page a means by which you can download, print, store, or otherwise preserve a recovery means. This means that noone, including you can hi-jack yor account because they have access you your eMail or other recovery means.
    The recovery code is provided as a QR code and a link which may be used to get to a recovery page where you can set a new password. You will be required to enter your phone number. This means that even if someone found your QR-code they could not access your account.

    If you are truly paranoid, you could even cut the QR code in half, keep one half and send the other to a trusted friend. Then to recover your account you would connect the two halves.

  2. To generate the recovery code, discussed above, you must enter your password. In this manner, even if you forget to sign off no one can generate the code and hi-jack your account.
  3. All password storage on our systems is hashed using a salted hash. In this manner even if somehow the passwords file was compromised it would not provide passwords.
  4. All communication between you and our servers uses a secure connection. You will see this in your browser location bar.
  5. We offer no facility to delete saved videos. They remain accessible for ten days.
  6. We collect no identifying information whatsoever other than the phone number that you use with the device from which you stream.
  7. We maintain very limited logs for minimal periods only as required to maintain the system.
  8. While we maintain actual videos for a relatively short period we do save an MD5 checksum of all videos for as long as you maintain your account. In this manner, if you, your attorney or some other party needs to 'prove' that they video they have is the video that was streamed, this may be proved.
  9. We do automatically sign you out from this web site after 10 minutes of inactivity.
  10. We provide no information whatsoever to any outside organization, including Police Agencies unless required by law.
  11. Since we have no identifying information about you it will be almost impossible for any information to be requested with a subpoena.
  12. We offer the option to disable GPS tracking if you are concerned about that aspect of your privacy. This is offered on the Configure menuu.
  13. A special domain, https://find.cop.watch is available so that dowmloaded videos can be verified without need to enter any identifying information. More information on that feature is available at that page.
  14. Our servers use RAID 10 so that all data is automatically available even after a disk crash.
  15. We do NOT us azure, AWS, google cloud or and of the other well known and often hacked web providers,
  16. We use your phone number, and those of your trusted friends ONLY to send alerts when videos are captured, AND shortly before your subscription expires we will send you a reminder to renew.
  17. We use the well respected 'Braintree' to process your payments so we never even see your credit card information.
  18. We do not maintain logs or any other information other than as described here or for very short periods as is required to maintain the systems.
  19. Our servers operate in a variety of locations with 24x7 security, maintenance staff and fall-back generators to protect in the case of a power outage.
  20. There is NO method of deleting your uploaded video or GPS location.
  21. We do delete your uploads whne they become stale and are more than ten days old, however, we maintain the signatures of them for at least two years.