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Privacy Policy

Effective August 9, 2026

The short version: Film Feud has no accounts, no ads, no analytics SDKs, and no interest in who you are. Group sessions are anonymous and expire on their own. We could not sell your data if we wanted to, because we do not know whose data it would be.

What the app sends to our servers

When you create or join a group session, your device sends:

• The display name you type for the night. This is optional; play nameless and the room calls you “Player N”. It is shown to the people in your session and stored only inside that session.
• Your movie filters (streaming services, region, rating thresholds), so the server can deal a deck the group can actually watch.
• Your votes for the round, so the group's matches can be computed.
• Any guaranteed picks you lock in from the lobby (the “suggest a movie” feature), stored inside the session so the deal can honor them.
• A list of movie identifiers you've already seen, drawn from the watched history on your device, so the deck skips them. These are TMDB catalog numbers, not viewing records tied to your identity.
• If you connect a Plex library: the movie identifiers from your library, so the deck can be dealt from it. Your Plex account credentials and tokens stay on your device and are never sent to us.

How long any of it lives

Everything above is stored inside an anonymous session record identified by a random code. Sessions expire six hours after they're created and become inaccessible from that moment; you can also end one sooner from inside the app. Our database then erases expired records on its own schedule, typically within a day or two. Operational logs that keep the service healthy record anonymous session identifiers and event counts, never names or votes, and are retained for 30 days. There is no server-side profile or history that connects one session to another, or any session to you.

What stays on your phone

• Your watched history and movie-night log.
• Your saved filter preferences and display name.
• Your Plex connection, if you make one.

Deleting the app deletes your history and preferences. If you've connected Plex, disconnect it in the app before deleting: iOS can preserve an app's keychain entries, which is where the Plex token lives, even after the app itself is gone.

What we never collect

• No accounts, emails, phone numbers, or contacts.
• No location data.
• No advertising identifiers, no cross-app tracking, no analytics SDKs.

Third parties

Movie data, artwork, and streaming-availability information come from TMDB. Poster images load directly from TMDB's public image servers, which means your device requests images from them the way any web page loads a picture. Our servers hold the TMDB credentials; there is no key of yours involved. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

If you connect Plex, your device talks to Plex directly using your own Plex sign-in. We never see those credentials.

Our servers run on Amazon Web Services in the United States.

Children

Film Feud is not directed at children under 13. There are no accounts, and the only thing a player ever provides is an optional display name, which is deleted with the session it was typed into.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. Since we have no way to contact you, by design, this page is the record.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@filmfeud.co.