Privacy policy

Who runs BingeGremlin

BingeGremlin is a free, non-commercial series diary run by one person in India. For anything about your data, write to hello@bingegremlin.in. That address is also the contact for complaints and grievances under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

What we store

Your account. Your email address. If you sign in with Google, also the name and profile picture link Google shares. We never see your Google password.

Your profile. Username, display name, bio, the country you pick for where-to-watch, your chosen style, and whether your profile is public.

What you log. Shows you follow, wishlist notes, episodes you mark watched and when, who you watched with, ratings, likes, reviews, comments, lists, mood tags, your comfort shelf, who you follow and who you've blocked.

Reports. If you report something, we keep your report, the reason you gave and a copy of what you reported, so we can look into it. The person you reported isn't told who reported them.

Imports. Files from TV Time, Trakt, Serializd or IMDb are read in your browser and never uploaded. Only the shows, episode numbers, dates and ratings we match are saved.

Notifications. If you turn on new-episode alerts, we store the address your browser gives us for sending them, your browser's name, and a log of which alerts were sent so you don't get one twice.

Cookies. Only ones the site needs: your sign-in session, your style and its options, and your time zone so air dates show on the right day. There are no advertising or analytics cookies, so there's no cookie banner.

Your country. If you haven't picked one, where-to-watch uses the country our host detects from your connection. It isn't saved.

Why we use it

Only to run the service you signed up for: keeping your diary, showing it to the people you choose, suggesting what to watch next from your own history, and sending the alerts you asked for. We don't profile you for advertising, and we don't sell or rent your data.

Who can see what

• Public profile (the default): anyone can see your profile, diary, ratings, reviews, comments, lists and follows.
• Private profile: only you can see them. Switch it in Settings at any time.
• Your email address is never shown to other people.
• If a friend logs that they watched with you, your name appears on their diary entry.
• If you block someone, neither of you sees the other's reviews, lists or comments, and they can't follow you. They aren't told.

Services that handle your data

BingeGremlin runs on a few services. They process data only to make it work:

• Supabase stores the database and handles sign-in. The database is in Mumbai, India.
• Vercel hosts the site. Pages are built in Mumbai and delivered through Vercel's worldwide network, which keeps short-lived request logs (including IP addresses) for security and debugging.
• Google verifies who you are if you choose Continue with Google.
• Your browser's push service (from Google, Mozilla, Microsoft or Apple) delivers notifications if you turn them on.
• TMDB serves posters and photos straight to your browser, so it sees your IP address like any image host. YouTube does the same only when you press play on a trailer, using its privacy-enhanced mode.

Show information comes from TMDB, TVmaze, JustWatch and OMDb. We ask them about shows, never about you: none of your personal data is sent to them.

How long we keep it

As long as your account exists. When you delete your account, your profile and everything you logged are erased straight away, and your name is removed from friends' “watched with” entries. Copies can remain in our providers' backups for a short time until they expire.

Your choices and rights

• See and download everything we store about you: Settings → Download my data.
• Correct it: edit your profile, or change or remove any entry, rating or review.
• Delete it: Settings → Delete account.
• Turn off notifications in Settings or in your browser.
• Ask or complain: write to hello@bingegremlin.in. If you aren't satisfied with the answer, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India, or to the data protection authority where you live.

Age

BingeGremlin is for people aged 18 and over. If you learn that someone younger has an account, tell us and we'll delete it.

Security

Data travels over HTTPS, and database rules stop anyone else from changing your entries or reading anything you've kept private. No system is perfect: if something goes wrong that affects your data, we'll tell you and the authorities as the law requires.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll say so on the site before it takes effect. The date at the top shows the latest version.