Privacy Policy
Want 2 Watch helps you decide what to watch, and find the titles you and your friends both want to see.
Last updated 8 October 2026
The short version
Want 2 Watch has no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party trackers of any kind. Nothing you do in the app is measured, profiled, or sold. We collect only what the app needs to work, and you can delete all of it from inside the app at any time.
Who we are
“Want 2 Watch”, “we” and “us” mean the independent developer of Want 2 Watch, based in the United States. We are responsible for the personal data described here. You can reach us at contact@want2.watch.
What we collect
Your account. Your email address and password when you sign up, plus a username, an optional display name, and your region. Passwords are stored hashed by our authentication provider — we never see or store your password.
Your profile picture, if you choose to set one. The app asks for access to your photo library or camera only at the moment you tap to change it. If you never set a picture, we never access either.
Your ratings. The verdict you give each film or series — want to watch, not interested, already seen, must-see — along with the title and the time you rated it. This is what the app is for; without it there is no watchlist and no matching.
Titles you put off. When you choose “not tonight”, we record that so the title comes back later instead of immediately. To know when “later” has arrived, we also keep a running count of how many times you have opened the app. That count is all we keep about your use of it.
Your streaming services, so the app only suggests things you can actually watch.
Your friends. Friend requests you send or accept, and the resulting connections.
Blocks and reports. If you block someone, we record who you blocked. If you report someone, we record who reported whom, the reason you picked, and their username, display name and profile picture as they were at that moment, so we can review it even if they change them. The person you report is never told it was you.
Sign-in records. Our sign-in provider keeps the IP address and the type of device or browser used for each sign-in, to protect your account — for example, to spot someone else signing in as you. An IP address shows roughly where a connection came from, typically to the city or region.
Your purchase, if you buy the unlock. Apple handles the payment. Apple sends us a signed record of the purchase: a transaction number, the product, and the date. We store it with your account, so the unlock works wherever you sign in. If your purchase includes a pass for a friend, we also record whether it has been used, and by whom.
What we do not collect
- No GPS or precise location. The only location-related data is the country you pick for your streaming catalogue and the sign-in records above.
- No contacts or address book. Invitations open your own messaging or mail app with the invite already written, and you choose who gets it — the app never reads who you know.
- No advertising identifiers, and no tracking across other apps or websites.
- No usage analytics, crash telemetry, or behavioural profiling. Beyond the session count above, nothing about how you use the app is recorded.
- No payment information. Apple takes payment for the unlock, and we never see your card details or your Apple ID.
What other people can see
Anyone signed in to Want 2 Watch can find you by searching for your username or display name, and sees your username, display name and profile picture. That is how friends find each other. Anyone you block cannot find you at all.
People you have accepted as friends can also see the titles both of you have said yes to — your matches.
They cannot see your full watchlist unless you deliberately turn that on. Watchlist sharing is off by default, it is a setting you control, and no update will ever switch it on for you. With it off, a friend only ever learns about titles you already agree on.
Titles you marked “not interested” are never shown to anyone.
On this website
The want2.watch website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. Simply visiting it sends nothing to anyone but our host.
The contact form asks for your name, your email address, and your message. We use them only to read and answer your message. When you press send, your browser sends them to Web3Forms, which delivers them to our inbox as an email. Web3Forms keeps a copy of each message for 30 days. Your email address is used only to reply to you.
Nothing is sent to Web3Forms unless you submit the form.
Who else is involved
Supabase hosts the database and handles sign-in. Your account and the data above are stored there on our behalf.
Apple processes the in-app purchase. That is governed by Apple's own terms and privacy policy, and Apple shares with us only the purchase record described above.
The Movie Database (TMDB) supplies all film and series information — posters, cast, descriptions, and streaming availability. The app requests this directly, so TMDB receives ordinary network information such as your IP address. We do not send TMDB your identity or your ratings. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Vercel hosts this website, the web version of the app, and the server that checks purchases with Apple.
Resend sends the emails that confirm your address and reset your password, so it receives your email address.
YouTube plays trailers. When you open one, the app opens YouTube's page, so YouTube receives ordinary network information such as your IP address, under Google's privacy policy. Nothing is sent to YouTube unless you tap a trailer.
ImprovMX and Google. Email to contact@want2.watch, including contact-form messages and report notifications, is forwarded by ImprovMX to an inbox hosted by Google (Gmail).
Web3Forms delivers contact-form messages to our inbox, as described above. When you report someone in the app, it also emails us the two usernames, the display name of the person reported, and the reason, so we can act on it quickly.
Each of these services uses your information only to provide its service to us, and is bound by its own privacy and data-protection terms to protect it at least as well as this policy does. We do not share your data with anyone else.
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it with anyone for advertising or marketing.
How long we keep it
Your data stays until you delete it. There is a Delete my account option in the app under Profile. It removes your account, your ratings, your profile picture, and your friend connections permanently — not a deactivation, and not recoverable. The app erases the picture file straight away; if it can't, our server erases it within a day.
Reports are kept after we have dealt with them, as a record of what we did. A report is deleted along with the reported account. If you delete the account that made the report, the report is no longer linked to your account, but the notification email we received about it still shows your username.
If you bought the unlock, we keep the bare purchase record after you delete your account: the transaction number, product and date, no longer linked to you. That stops one purchase being used to unlock more than one account. It holds nothing that identifies you.
Your rights
You can view and change your profile, streaming services, and sharing setting inside the app, and delete everything as described above. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to request a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, or object to how it is handled. Write to us and we will help.
If you are in the UK, the EU or the EEA: we use your data mainly because it is needed to provide the service you signed up for. We keep sign-in records and handle blocks and reports because of our legitimate interest in keeping accounts and other users safe. Your data is processed in the United States, where we are based, and wherever our service providers above operate, under their data-protection safeguards. You also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.
Children
Want 2 Watch is not directed at children under 13, or under the older age some countries set for agreeing to this kind of data use (16 in some European countries), and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will remove it.
Security
All traffic between the app and our servers is encrypted with HTTPS. Access to your data is restricted at the database level so that one account cannot read another's. No system is perfectly secure, but we do not hold payment details or government identifiers, which keeps the stakes low.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that materially affects you, we will update the date at the top and describe the change on this page.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about your data: contact@want2.watch, or the contact form.