Privacy policy

Effective October 13, 2026

Screenr is a private, invite-only social app for TV and movies. Justin Bishop runs it as a non-commercial project. This policy covers the website at screenr.club and the Screenr iPhone app: what Screenr collects, who can see it, which services help run it, and how to delete it.

What Screenr collects

• Account: your email address and the sign-in methods you use: email codes, Google, or Sign in with Apple. Every method for the same email address leads to one account.
• Profile: your display name, username, and optional photo.
• Friends: your friend requests, friendships, and blocks; the invitation you joined through; and the invitations you create, with who joined through each.
• Activity: your watch statuses and last-finished dates, Want to watch saves, recommendations, ratings, reviews, top 10, posts, comments, replies, reactions, and saved streaming services.
• Notifications: your notifications and which ones you have read, your activity email setting, and in the iPhone app, your push notification settings and devices.
• Usage records: described under Usage measurement below.

Who can see it

Nothing members share is public. Every profile and post requires signing in.

• You and your current friends see your watch activity, ratings, reviews, recommendations, and posts, and only that group can comment on them. A friendship needs a request and an acceptance, except that joining through an invitation makes you friends with the person who created it.
• Others in a conversation see the comments you write on a friend’s posts and activity, including that friend’s other friends. That does not show them your own activity.
• Any signed-in member can see your display name, username, photo, friends list, and top 10. People you may know can suggest you to friends of your friends, naming your mutual friends.
• Friends of your friends may see anonymous counts in Find a title, such as “3 friends of friends also recommend this.” Your recommendations and Want to watch saves can add to these counts, which never name anyone.
• The creator of your invitation sees your display name and username on it.
• Unfriending immediately ends access to each other’s posts, reviews, and threads, and hides your comments on each other’s content. Blocking also hides each person’s profile and content from the other, including comments in mutual friends’ conversations.

Services that help run Screenr

• Hetzner provides the server that runs Screenr and holds its database.
• Cloudflare carries all traffic to screenr.club and stores Screenr’s encrypted backups.
• Resend delivers sign-in codes and, if you turn them on, activity emails. It receives your email address and the message. Activity emails name the person and title involved and contain no comment text.
• TMDB (The Movie Database) supplies movie and TV details, images, and streaming availability, which comes from JustWatch. Screenr’s server sends TMDB your title searches without identifying you. Your browser loads streaming service logos directly from TMDB.
• Google runs Google sign-in and shares your email address, name, and profile picture with Screenr. Screenr stores its own copy of the picture as your photo unless you choose another or remove it, so your browser never loads it from Google.
• Apple runs Sign in with Apple, which lets you share a Hide My Email address instead of your own; Screenr’s email still reaches you through it. Apple also delivers iPhone push notifications. Each one carries only a notification ID, your unread count, and a generic “New activity on Screenr” alert. The app then fetches the details from Screenr, so comment text never passes through Apple.
• Sentry receives crash, error, and performance reports from the iPhone app and error reports from Screenr’s server. App reports identify you only by an opaque Screenr user ID, with no name, email address, or IP address, and contain no screenshots, searches, or anything you write. Server reports contain only technical details, such as the type of error, where in Screenr’s code it happened, and sometimes an opaque user ID. They never include anything you write. If you send feedback from the iPhone app, Sentry also receives your message, any screenshots you attach, and recent app logs, which contain no user content.
• YouTube plays trailers. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press Play trailer. YouTube’s own privacy policy applies to its player.

Usage measurement

Screenr measures how it is used in its own database, with no third-party analytics. It records:

• Each day you use Screenr, with whether you used the website, the iPhone app, or both.
• Each Want to watch save, with the title, the date, where in Screenr you saved it, and whether a friend was recommending it at the time, never which friend. Screenr also notes whether you later marked the title Watching, Caught up, or Finished.

The usage report shows only weekly totals, never figures for individual members, and none of these records go to third parties. They are deleted after 12 months.

Cookies and sign-in

The website uses a cookie to keep you signed in and another to remember an invitation while you join. The iPhone app keeps its sign-in token in the iPhone’s Keychain. Screenr’s sign-in records the IP address and browser of each session, and uses IP addresses to limit repeated sign-in requests. Screenr uses no advertising or tracking cookies.

No ads or selling

Screenr shows no ads, does not sell or rent your information, and uses no third-party analytics or advertising trackers.

Your choices

• Change your display name, username, or photo, or remove your photo, in Account.
• Delete your comments and posts, withdraw a recommendation or status, unfriend someone, or block them.
• Turn activity emails on or off in Account. In the iPhone app, choose which kinds of push notifications you receive.

Deleting your account

Account deletion is coming soon to Account on the website and to You → Settings in the iPhone app. Until then, email [email protected] to delete your account.

Deleting an account is permanent. It erases your sessions and push devices, profile and photo, friendships, invitations, blocks, recommendations, watch statuses, reviews, top 10, reactions, notifications, and usage records. Your posts and reviews are removed along with their conversations. Your comments are erased; one that has replies becomes “Comment removed” so the replies remain. If you used Sign in with Apple, Screenr also revokes its access with Apple.

Deleted information stays in Screenr’s encrypted backups until they expire. Backups keep seven daily and four weekly copies, so this takes about a month.

Children

Screenr is not meant for children under 13.

Changes

When this policy changes, the new version will appear on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about your information or this policy: [email protected]