Privacy policy — SineO

In short

SineO collects nothing. No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no ad network. Your watchlist stays on your phone.

Data kept on your device

The following is stored only in your device's own storage and is never sent anywhere:

• Your watchlist and the last known details of the titles in it
• Your "watched" marks and how you rated them
• Your region, additional regions and the streaming services you picked
• Appearance preference and recent searches
• The notification setting and which services a title was last seen on
• Your "what should I watch" filters and the backdrop theme you chose
• So that system search can find them: the names and artwork paths of the titles on your watchlist are written to your iPhone's own search index (Spotlight). That index is Apple's on-device index; it does not come to us or to anyone else. Removing a title from your list removes it from the index too.
• For the widget and the Control Center button: because the widget on your home screen needs to know what to show, a small summary of your list (title and artwork path) is written to a shared container inside your device. That container lives on the phone, is shared between the app and its widget, and never leaves.

Two more things stay inside your device, but deserve to be named: The share card ("share my watchlist") renders the image on your device; you decide where it goes in the share sheet, and the app never sends it anywhere on its own. There is no third-party software package inside SineO: no analytics, no crash reporting, no ad network, no "user experience measurement". Deleting the app deletes all of it. It may appear in your device backups, which are under your own Apple account's control.

Services the app talks to

SineO makes requests to three places in order to work. Those requests carry no identity: no account, no device identifier, no advertising identifier. As with any internet request, your IP address and general device information are visible to the receiving service; we neither log this nor operate a server of our own.

• TMDB (api.themoviedb.org, image.tmdb.org) — film and TV metadata, artwork, availability
• OMDb (www.omdbapi.com) — IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic scores
• YouTube (when you play a trailer) — trailer playback

Streaming availability is provided by JustWatch through TMDB. Tapping a service logo opens that service's own site or app; from there their privacy policy applies.

Notifications

If you turn on "Tell me when it arrives", the availability of titles on your watchlist is checked and your device itself shows a notification when one of them reaches a service you subscribe to. Notifications are local: there is no remote server, no push service and no notification token.

Children

SineO is not directed at children and does not ask anyone's age.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above is updated and the new text ships with the next version of the app.

Contact

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