Privacy Policy
Last updated: 24 August 2026
Movie Case (“the app”, “we”, “us”) is a personal movie archive. You add the movies you own or have seen, rate them, and the app uses that to power recommendations. We built it to keep your data on your device and to collect as little as possible. This policy explains what that means in practice.
The short version
- Your collection lives on your device. Movies, ratings, notes, your tags, watchlist and taste preferences are stored locally on your iPhone. We have no account system and no copy of your library.
- We don’t track you. No advertising, no cross-site tracking, no selling of data. The app contains no analytics at all. This website counts page views using Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and does not identify you.
- Some features send data to services to work (looking up movie info, fetching ratings, and the optional AI features). Details below.
What stays on your device
Everything you create in the app is stored locally using Apple’s on-device database (Core Data): the movies in your collection and their details, your star ratings, notes and tags (e.g. DVD, Blu-ray, 4K, or ones you create), your watchlist and taste preferences, and cached poster images. This data is not uploaded to us. Deleting a movie removes it from your device; deleting the app removes all of it.
What is sent to external services, and when
To provide certain features, the app sends limited information to the services below. Lookups and AI requests are routed through our secure proxy (hosted on Cloudflare). We keep no logs of them and cannot link them to you — we have no accounts and receive no identifiers. To keep the app fast, successful movie-lookup responses (TMDB and OMDb) are cached at the edge for up to 7 days; a cached entry contains the lookup (such as your search text) and its result, but nothing about who asked. AI requests are never cached.
Images are the exception. Posters and stills load directly from TMDB’s image servers, and trailer thumbnails load directly from YouTube — not through our proxy, because routing image traffic through it would make the app slower without making it more private. A direct request means those providers can see your device’s IP address and which image was requested. No account, name or library data is attached, and we receive nothing back from it.
| Feature | What is sent | Service |
|---|---|---|
| Search & movie details, posters | Your search text (including any names or descriptions you search for) and movie identifiers | The Movie Database (TMDB) |
| Critic ratings (IMDb / Rotten Tomatoes / Metacritic) | A movie title and year | OMDb |
| AI features (optional — requires a subscription and being enabled in Settings) | Search text (including movie descriptions or people's names you type); candidate movie titles, years and genres; and your taste profile (favourite genres, your top-rated titles and ratings, preferred era and directors, the titles and genres of movies you've marked not interested or rated poorly — sent as negative signals so we can steer away from similar movies — and your written thoughts on your top-rated movies) | Anthropic (Claude) |
| Photo scanning (single cover or batch shelf scan) | Text recognised from the photo on your device is sent to identify movie titles. The photo itself is not uploaded. | Anthropic (Claude) / TMDB |
| Posters and stills | Loaded directly from TMDB’s image servers, so they see your IP address and which image was requested — nothing else. | The Movie Database (TMDB) |
| Trailer thumbnails | Loaded directly from YouTube, so Google sees your IP address and which thumbnail was requested — nothing else. Tapping a trailer opens YouTube itself, where their policy applies. | YouTube (Google) |
| Subscription | Purchase and renewal are handled entirely by Apple. We receive only whether you have an active subscription — never your payment details. | Apple (StoreKit) |
When the AI features are on, your written thoughts on your top-rated movies are sent (with the rest of your taste profile) to personalise recommendations — what you say about a movie you love is the richest signal of your taste. We also send the titles and genres of movies you've marked not interested or rated poorly, so recommendations can steer away from similar movies — but never your written notes on them. Your thoughts on lower-rated or unrated movies, your tags, and your watchlist are never sent to any AI service. If AI features are off, no data is sent to Anthropic at all, and your notes and thoughts never leave your device — ordinary searches still send your search text to TMDB, as described above.
Anthropic processes these requests under its API terms: inputs and outputs may be retained for up to 30 days for safety and abuse monitoring and are then deleted, and they are not used to train Anthropic's models.
Website analytics
This website (mymoviecase.com) uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views. It records the page visited, the referring site, and coarse details such as country, browser, operating system and device type, along with page-speed measurements. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device, and does not fingerprint you or follow you across other sites, so there is no profile of you to build or sell.
This applies to the website only. The app itself contains no analytics or tracking of any kind — no third-party SDK collects anything from it.
Photos and camera
With your permission, the app can use your camera or photo library to (a) choose a custom poster for a movie, or (b) scan a movie cover or a shelf of movies. Text recognition runs on your device using Apple’s Vision framework. For shelf scanning, only the recognised text is sent to identify titles — your images are never uploaded or stored by us.
Third-party services
When data is sent as described above, it is handled under each provider’s own privacy policy:
- The Movie Database (TMDB)
- OMDb API
- Anthropic (Claude)
- YouTube / Google (trailer thumbnails and playback)
- Apple (App Store / StoreKit)
- Cloudflare (request proxy and website analytics)
Data retention
Your collection remains on your device until you delete it or remove the app. Requests to the services above are processed in real time to return a result and are not retained by us.
Children
Movie Case is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Your choices
- The AI features are optional — they only run if you subscribe and keep them enabled in Settings.
- You can delete any movie in the app at any time, or uninstall the app to remove all local data.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we’ll update the date above and post the new version at this page.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email [email protected].