Privacy policy

To make Cinemate work, we store:

• Authentication data from Google OAuth — your email and display name.
• Movies you log, your reactions, reviews, and watchlists.
• Collections you create and follow relationships you opt into.

Your data powers your reel, your collections, and the activity feed your friends see. We don't sell it. We don't share it with advertisers. We use it to run the product — nothing else.

We delete your profile, reel, watchlist, collections, follows, and anything else keyed to your account. There's one exception: if friends have logged movies as "watched with" you, your first name stays in their reels as a guest companion — those entries are their personal records, not yours. The friend who owns the entry can rename or delete that guest from their guest list.

Cinemate depends on a small number of vendors: Google for sign-in, Convex for storage, Vercel for hosting, and PostHog (hosted in the EU) for product analytics and error tracking. Movie metadata comes from TMDB. None of these vendors receive the contents of your reel, reviews, or notes.

We use the cookies needed to keep you signed in, and — if you accept the cookie banner — PostHog to understand how Cinemate is used: pageviews, clicks, the events you trigger (e.g. logging a movie, creating a collection), and any errors the app hits. We do not run advertising trackers, and we do not record session replays.

You can change your mind at any time:

You can, at any time:

• Export everything you've logged as a single file.
• Delete your account and all associated data.
• Make your profile, reel, or collections private.

To do any of the above, email simon@cinemate.film.

If we change anything material, we'll update the "Last updated" date above and email registered users. The current version always lives at this URL.