Privacy and data sources

About your data, and ours

Cinespective is a small, early product shared with a few people for feedback. This page says plainly what it stores about you, where its film information comes from, and what to keep in mind when reading it.

What we keep about you

• Your email address, and your name if you sign in with Google.
• What you mark as watched, your ratings and your comments.
• The lists you follow, the films you swiped as seen or not seen, and your answers to the optional questionnaire.
• The profile text written about you, and your edits to it.
• A sign-in cookie that keeps you logged in. We use no advertising or tracking cookies.

Supabase stores accounts and data and sends the login email. The site is hosted on Vercel. Google is involved only if you choose “Continue with Google”. If you ask for a profile, your ratings, comments and questionnaire answers are sent to Anthropic, the company behind Claude, to write it; the age and gender answers are used only to set the tone, not to describe you. We do not sell your data or use it for advertising. You can ask for your account and everything in it to be deleted at any time, by contacting the person who invited you.

Where the information comes from

• TMDB (The Movie Database)

  Film facts, cast and crew, posters and images, age ratings, audience ratings, trailers and where to watch.

  This product uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

• JustWatch

  Where a film can be streamed, rented or bought in each country, supplied through TMDB.

  Streaming availability data provided by JustWatch. Availability changes often and may be out of date.

• IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

  The IMDb rating, the Rotten Tomatoes critics percentage and the Metacritic score shown on each film, and the IMDb ranking behind the “IMDb's highest-rated films” list. They reach us through OMDb.

  These scores belong to their owners and are shown for information only. They are a snapshot and move over time.

• YouTube

  Links to reviews, video essays and documentaries about each film, with title, channel and view count.

  Videos open on YouTube; nothing is played or copied here. The video details are refreshed regularly and may lag behind YouTube.

• Awards

  The awards line for each film (Oscars and Cannes only) in the “After watching” section.

  Written by our AI and cross-checked against OMDb's Oscar wins where possible. Cannes results are not cross-checked yet, so treat them as unverified.

The film guides

The guides (why watch, context, the story, themes, legacy, cultural impact, and the kids guide) are written by an AI in our own words and have not been reviewed by an editor yet. They can contain mistakes. The “Watch with kids?” advice is a suggestion, not an official rating; the official ratings shown next to it come from TMDB.

Images, names and logos

Posters, stills and portraits belong to their rights holders and come through TMDB. Names and logos of IMDb, TMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Letterboxd, JustWatch, MUBI and YouTube belong to their owners, are used only to identify them, and do not mean any of them endorses or is connected to Cinespective.

Not a commercial service

Cinespective is free and not-for-profit at this stage. Some of the data above is licensed for non-commercial use only, so the data sources would need to be licensed or replaced before any paid version.