Privacy Policy

1. Information Flixie Collects

We collect information needed to create your account, provide Flixie’s movie and social features, keep the service safe, and respond to support requests.

2. Notifications and Technical Information

If you enable notifications, Flixie stores a Firebase Cloud Messaging push token associated with your account so it can deliver friend, group, list, and watch-request notifications. This token is not used for advertising or cross-app tracking.

Community activity, including replies, reactions and mentions, may generate in-app or push notifications according to your preferences. Removing content cannot recall notifications already delivered to another person’s device.

Our hosting and authentication providers may process limited technical information, such as request timestamps, IP addresses, and security or error logs, as necessary to operate, secure, and troubleshoot their services. Flixie does not use advertising trackers or sell personal information.

3. Analytics

If you choose to allow analytics, Flixie uses Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the app is used and improve its features and reliability. This may collect app interactions, session information, device and operating-system information, an app-instance identifier, and approximate location derived from a masked IP address. The app-instance identifier lets Firebase associate events from this app installation.

Flixie does not send Firebase Analytics your name, email address, username, reviews, messages, watch history, or the titles of movies and television programmes you interact with. We do not use Firebase Analytics for advertising or cross-app tracking, and we do not link analytics data to your Flixie account.

Analytics is disabled unless you choose to allow it. You can change your choice at any time under Settings → Share usage analytics. Data already processed may remain in aggregated reports in accordance with Google’s retention and deletion practices.

4. How Information is Used

• Create, authenticate, and manage your account and profile.
• Save your movie and television activity, preferences, lists, and viewing progress.
• Provide recommendations and show relevant activity from friends and groups.
• Enable friends, groups, collaborative lists, chat, and watch requests.
• Provide community discussions and public sharing, personalise community discovery, and suggest people with similar interests using information you have chosen to make available through community profile settings.
• Deliver notifications you have allowed.
• Investigate reports, enforce safety rules, prevent abuse, and respond to support requests.

5. Profile Visibility and Social Sharing

Flixie is a social service. Your username, avatar, badges, and information you make public may be visible to other Flixie users. Friends may see additional profile and activity information, including your first name, according to the app’s visibility rules.

Lists can be private, friends-only, or public. Private lists are visible only to their members, friends-only lists are visible to eligible friends, and public lists may be visible to anyone viewing a profile. Messages and group content are visible to the relevant conversation or group participants. Reviews may be visible to other users, with spoiler content hidden until they choose to reveal it.

Around Flixie sharing: If you enable “Share on Around Flixie”, your existing and future movie and television reviews, including their ratings, and eligible public personal lists can appear to other Flixie users beyond your friends. Shared reviews may also appear in relevant communities you join. Your watch history, watchlists and watch plans are not included in these public feeds.

You can change this setting at any time. Turning it off stops your reviews and eligible lists appearing through Around Flixie. It does not change their visibility elsewhere under existing profile, list or Friends sharing rules.

Discussions and public replies: Discussions and replies you publish in communities or on public posts can be seen by eligible Flixie users outside your friends. These are separate from the Around Flixie review-sharing setting. Turning that setting off does not delete discussions or public replies; you can delete them individually using their content menu.

Leaving a community does not permanently delete your contributions. Content whose visibility depends on your membership may become visible again if you rejoin.

Community identity: Public contributions display your username, avatar and badges. Separate community profile settings control additional information, such as your biography, favourites and favourite genres. Favourites you make available may be used to suggest people with similar taste.

6. Third-Party Services

Flixie uses Firebase Authentication, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase Firestore and Storage, and cloud hosting providers to provide authentication, notifications, chat, image storage, and application services. These providers process only the information needed to perform those functions.

Movie, television, cast, artwork, and watch-provider information is retrieved from The Movie Database (TMDB). TMDB’s watch-provider data is powered by JustWatch; Flixie does not integrate with JustWatch directly. Flixie may submit ratings to TMDB using anonymous guest sessions. External links open third-party services under their own privacy practices.

7. Sharing and Sale of Information

Flixie does not sell your personal information. Information is shared with service providers only where needed to operate Flixie, with other users according to the social and visibility choices described above, or where disclosure is required by law.

8. Storage and Security

Information is stored using Flixie’s database and cloud service providers. Flixie uses reasonable technical and organisational safeguards, including encrypted network connections and access controls. No online service can guarantee absolute security.

9. Data Retention and Account Deletion

Flixie retains your account and associated information while your account is active or as needed to provide the service. You can permanently delete your account in the app from Profile → Settings → Delete Account.

Account deletion removes your profile, login, email address, username, avatars, favourites, ratings, reviews, lists, watch activity, friendships, group memberships, messages, watch requests, notifications, and other associated account data from Flixie’s active systems. Limited redacted safety-report information may be retained where necessary to investigate abuse, prevent repeated misuse, comply with legal obligations, or establish or defend legal claims. Temporary provider backups and operational logs may remain until they expire under the relevant provider’s normal retention cycle.

Account deletion also removes community memberships, discussions, replies and other account-linked community records from Flixie’s active systems, subject to the limited safety-related retention described in this policy.

Authorised moderators may review reported content and relevant report information, remove content that breaches our rules, and restrict accounts. We retain limited moderation records, including the action taken, its reason and relevant identifiers, where necessary to investigate abuse, prevent repeated misuse and maintain accountability.

If you cannot access the app, email flixieadmin@gmail.com from your registered email address and include your Flixie username. Never send your password. We may ask you to verify account ownership.

10. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:

• Access or obtain a copy of your personal information.
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Request deletion of your information.
• Object to or restrict certain processing.

You can edit profile information in the app, control list visibility, manage blocked users, disable notifications in your device settings, or contact us about another privacy request.

You can manage Around Flixie sharing, community profile visibility and community notification preferences in the app. You can also delete your discussions and replies, leave communities, and report or block other users. Disabling sharing, leaving a community and deleting content are separate actions with the effects described above.

11. Children’s Privacy

Flixie is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, contact us so that we can investigate and delete the information.

12. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when Flixie’s features or legal obligations change. We will update the date shown above and provide additional notice where required.

13. Contact Us

For privacy questions, safety concerns, or data requests, email flixieadmin@gmail.com.