Privacy
WatchItNow is a private, invite-only app that shows where movies and shows stream and opens them on the TV. It shows no ads and doesn’t sell or share your data.
What’s kept
- Your account’s email, to sign you in and find your account again.
- Your devices (each TV’s or phone’s name, and when it was last used).
- Your profiles, lists, settings, followed titles and taste-quiz answers.
- To suggest better titles, for each profile: what you liked or not, opened and played; whether a title you started was watched (from the time spent in the service’s app, knowing nothing else of what you do there); and suggestions shown on the TV but never opened, forgotten after 60 days.
- If you turn them on, your phone’s notification subscriptions.
Recommendations between friends
When someone in this circle of invited people recommends a title to you, it is kept in your account with the name of their profile and their short note (140 characters at most), and shown on your TVs and phones. The profiles of every account in the circle (name and picture) are visible to those who want to recommend a title to them. A recommendation goes away when you close it or play the title, and after 30 days at the latest; it is part of “My data”.
Google and Facebook
If you sign in with Google or Facebook, WatchItNow receives only your confirmed email address, to find your account. Nothing is posted for you, and your friends, photos and profile aren’t asked for.
Services used
Questions asked to PopcornAI are sent to Anthropic (Claude) to be answered, without your email. Sign-in emails are sent by Resend. Movie details come from JustWatch and TMDB.
IMDb ratings: Information courtesy of IMDb (https://www.imdb.com). Used with permission.
Friday email and calendar
If you turn it on, on Fridays a notification (and an email to your account’s address) says what arrived on your services and what’s leaving your list; every email has an unsubscribe link. The calendar is a secret link you make yourself: anyone who has it sees, with no password, the titles in your profiles’ lists that are leaving a service and the shows with a season coming, with their dates. Share it only with people you choose; “Revoke” (account → Calendar) stops it at once.
Seeing your data
In the phone app, menu → My data: everything kept for your account, as a file to download.
Deleting your data
To delete your account and everything in it, write to privacy@watchitnow.app from your account’s email. Everything is erased within 30 days, and you’ll get a confirmation.
If you signed in with Facebook, you can also remove WatchItNow from your apps in Facebook (Settings → Apps and websites): Facebook will no longer give it your address.