1. Scope & contact
This policy describes the current Movie Scene website at moviescene.xyz and the data flows of the Movie Scene iPhone and iPad app. Movie Scene is operated by Eateri, Inc., United States (“we” or “us”), the organization responsible for the personal information described here. For privacy questions or requests, contact support@eateri.co.
Movie Scene is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. This website does not create app accounts, collect payments, host a public discussion feed, or provide a movie-streaming service. App features depend on the version you use. Version 1.0 includes library tracking, movie moments, and public community moments. Version 1.1 adds movie reviews, private account-synced shortlists and episode progress, and optional private episode notes.
2. Visiting this website
Cloudflare delivers and protects the site. To respond to requests and maintain security, its infrastructure processes technical request data such as IP address, requested URL, browser or device information sent in headers, time, response status, and diagnostic information.
Our website code does not install analytics, advertising pixels, session replay, a newsletter form, or nonessential cookies. Fonts, screenshots, and images are served from this site. The FAQ uses temporary page state only. See Cookies & storage.
Email links open your email app. We receive your email address, message, and any attachments only when you choose to send the message. These are used to respond, troubleshoot, and handle your request. Avoid including sensitive details that are not necessary.
3. Information in the app
Guest use
You can use Movie Scene without registering an email account. Your guest library, custom lists, preferences, ratings, movie favorites, favorite people, and notes are saved on your device. Guest use does not automatically upload that library or note text for cloud library sync. Online discovery creates a guest identity with a unique identifier and session credentials, without requiring an email address. Session credentials are stored in iOS Keychain. Our servers associate that identity with discovery choices and swipe-credit records as described below. Online searches and artwork requests also contact the services needed to load them.
Discovery choices and swipe credits
For guests and registered accounts, our servers store the discovery identity, unique action identifiers, movie or show identifier, selected classification, time, processing result, and credit usage. These records enforce the free discovery allowance, prevent retries from counting twice, and support recovery of queued choices. Manual library changes are separate from this discovery accounting. These server records do not contain your private note text. On-device queues can hold unconfirmed choices until a connection is available.
Optional accounts
If you create an account, authentication processes your email address, password credentials, account identifier, and session information. Signed-in library sync stores movie and show classifications, ratings, movie favorites, custom lists and their membership/deletion state, selected streaming services, and metadata needed to restore your library. Starting with version 1.1, signed-in sync also stores private movie-night shortlists and candidate metadata, plus watched-episode progress. Favorite actors and directors remain local to each workspace and do not currently sync across devices. The app stores session credentials in iOS Keychain.
Movie Scene+ and Apple purchases
Movie Scene+ is an auto-renewable Apple subscription for unlimited discovery. A Movie Scene account is required to subscribe or restore. To verify access, our backend processes Apple-signed purchase information and stores account-linked transaction identifiers, product, subscription status, expiration, verification times, and whether the transaction is a sandbox or production purchase. Apple handles checkout and billing; Movie Scene does not receive your payment-card number.
Private moments
Your own non-sample movie moment text and, starting with version 1.1, episode note text, references, categories, timestamps, and edit/delete state can sync privately when you explicitly enable moment sync for that account on a device. You can turn private moment sync on or off in Profile for each account on each device. Turning it off pauses future note transfers from that device and keeps your local notes and queued changes. It does not erase notes already uploaded, undo a request already accepted by the server, or change another device’s setting. Explicitly turning it on again sends retained edits and deletions and may download account notes. Other library sync continues; account deletion is a separate action. Private sync does not make notes public.
Community submissions
Version 1.0 lets signed-in members submit a separate public copy of a movie moment with a display name, text, category, and timestamp. Starting with version 1.1, members can also submit public movie reviews with a display name, movie reference, review text, optional star rating, and spoiler setting. New and edited community posts and reviews enter a moderator queue and are visible to others only after approval. Submitted content is associated with the author’s account and moderation status; private notes are not automatically submitted. Votes, reports, blocks, and moderation decisions create related account records. Use Your submissions for community moments and My reviews for movie reviews to check their status.
4. Why information is processed
- Deliver the website and app, load movie/show and people information, maintain guest or registered identities, and sync the data you choose.
- Personalize movie choices using your classifications, ratings, favorites, and preferences. Current taste-based recommendations use app data; they are not decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.
- Respond to support, privacy, deletion, and safety requests.
- Track discovery credits and repeated operations, verify subscription access, protect accounts and services, limit API abuse, troubleshoot errors, moderate public community posts and reviews, respond to reports, and comply with applicable legal duties.
Where a privacy law requires a lawful basis, necessary account and sync operations support the service you request; security and support support our legitimate interests in a functioning service, subject to your rights; legal requirements may require processing. We request consent where applicable, including before optional uses that require it. You can contact us to withdraw consent where consent is the basis.
5. Providers & sharing
- Cloudflare: website, movie API and private Apple-verification hosting, delivery, security, diagnostics, caching, and IP-based API rate limiting. Cloudflare privacy policy.
- Supabase: guest and registered-account authentication, discovery-credit and choice records, verified subscription records, account-owned cloud data, and community-moment and movie-review submissions, votes, reports, blocks, and moderation records. Supabase privacy policy.
- Movie and image providers: movie/show searches and filters pass through our backend to the Streaming Availability API via RapidAPI. People searches, filmographies, and production-country lookups use Wikidata through our backend. Supported people portraits also use Wikimedia Commons file, creator, and license metadata for image credits. Structured movie and people metadata and image licenses are separate. The relevant name, title, filters, or public identifiers are sent for those lookups; private notes and passwords are not needed. Wikimedia privacy policy. Remote artwork requests can expose your IP address and request headers to the image host. The movie-data request does not need your private note text or account password.
- Apple: in-app checkout, subscription management and purchase/renewal information used to verify Plus. Apple processes its own account and payment information. Apple privacy policy.
- Email services: support and account-service messages are processed by the email providers involved in delivery. This site does not enroll you in a marketing mailing list.
Opening a trailer, streaming link, or other external website subjects that visit to the other service’s policies. Your approved public submissions may be visible to other people when publishing is enabled. We may disclose information when required by law or necessary to address abuse, protect rights, or resolve a security issue.
The current website has no advertising or data-sale integration. We do not use this website to sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
6. Retention & deletion
Your local guest library and notes remain on the device until removed. Guest discovery identities, credit records, and choice records are held on our servers while providing guest discovery; uninstalling the app does not delete those server records. In Profile, use Delete guest data to delete the current guest identity and its associated active server records, together with the guest library, lists, preferences, favorites, and notes on that device. Discovery pauses until you explicitly start a new guest session, which creates a new identity. Signed-in account workspaces remain separate. Device backups and exports may contain separate copies.
Registered-account data is kept to provide the account until you delete the relevant content or account. Account deletion removes the account and associated active cloud library, private synced movie and episode moments, discovery-credit/choice records, verified subscription records, and community data, including submitted moments and reviews and their associated votes, reports, and blocks. Downloaded copies on other devices may remain; exports and device backups are separate. Pending changes may remain on a device until they sync. Deleting a Movie Scene account does not cancel an Apple subscription or delete Apple’s own transaction records; manage billing through Apple. Support correspondence and technical records may be retained as needed to resolve a request, maintain security, meet legal obligations, or address a dispute. Backup and provider-log retention can differ from active app data; deleting an account does not promise immediate erasure from every backup, export, or third-party copy.
Use the account deletion instructions, or email a deletion request. Signing out, clearing website browser data, or uninstalling the app is not the same as deleting a guest discovery identity or registered cloud account.
7. Your choices & rights
You can use the app without email registration, review or change library entries, delete guest data in Profile, choose whether to import your guest library into a registered account, turn private moment sync on or off for each account on each device, and separately choose whether to submit a public moment or review. The library CSV export includes classifications, ratings, and favorites, but not private note text.
Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of your personal information; restrict or object to certain processing; withdraw consent; or appeal a decision on a privacy request. We will handle requests under applicable law and may ask for reasonable information to verify identity. You may complain to your local privacy regulator. We will not discriminate against you for exercising applicable privacy rights.
Send requests to support@eateri.co. This site does not perform advertising sale/sharing or targeted advertising that requires an opt-out control.
8. Security & international processing
The website uses HTTPS. The app uses authenticated, account-scoped access controls for cloud data and stores session credentials in Keychain. No internet service or device storage is completely secure; protect your device and keep account credentials private.
Hosting and service providers may process information in countries other than yours. Applicable transfer requirements and provider arrangements depend on the service and region. Contact us for information about a particular data flow; this notice does not claim that a particular certification or transfer mechanism applies to every provider.
9. Children
Movie Scene is intended for people aged 13 and older, and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If your local law requires a higher age or parental permission, those requirements also apply. Do not send personal information about a child through support or public submissions. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can investigate and address it. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13 without a lawful basis, we will take steps to delete it. Parents or guardians may contact us with a concern.
10. Changes & questions
We will update the date on this page when the policy changes and provide additional notice where required. Material new data uses will be described before they apply. For any question, contact support@eateri.co.
Adapted with reference to the CC0 templates from General Legal. General Legal has not reviewed or endorsed these adaptations; use of its templates does not create an attorney-client relationship.