Privacy Policy

Infomercial · Last updated 11 October 2026

What we keep

Infomercial keeps what it needs to work, and nothing else:

• Your account: an ID from Sign in with Apple, and the handle you pick. The app asks Apple for nothing but who you are: no name and no email address, and we hold neither. There is no password. So that Apple can be told when you delete your account, the server may keep a token from Apple for your sign-in. It is used for that and nothing else.
• Your card: the line you write about yourself, your colour, and a photo if you add one. The photo is stored small and in greys.
• What you write: reviews and the pips on them, rankings of a show's characters, replies, answers to the daily phone-in, calls and your verdicts on other people's, and the applause you give. A review or a reply is kept with the place in the show it was written from.
• What you rate: your pips for a show or a season.
• Where you are: how far through each show you have got, and the days you took part, which is what your streak counts.
• Who you know: who you have added and who has added you, the watch parties you are in or have been asked into, shows friends have put on for you, and anybody you have blocked or reported.
• Reports: who made one, who it is about and, when it is about something they wrote, a copy of those words as they stood. The copy is kept so the report can still be read if the post or reply is deleted afterwards. It goes when the account it is about is deleted.
• Notifications, if you turn them on: your phone's push token, your time zone, and which kinds you have switched off.
• Sign-in records: when your phone signs in, our authentication provider notes its IP address and the version of the app and system asking.

What stays on your phone

The reviews you have tuned in to and the news you have read are kept on the phone and never sent.

What we don't do

• No advertising, no trackers, no analytics, no crash reporting of our own. The only outside code in the app is the client for our own database.
• No selling or sharing of your data with anyone.
• No browsable directory of people. Searching for someone returns nothing until you have typed at least two characters, so the app can never hand anybody a list of everyone who signed up.
• No words on your lock screen. A notification says who, which show and where, never anything anybody wrote.

Apple keeps crash reports and usage figures of its own, and what it passes on to us depends on where you got the app. From the App Store, only if you have agreed in your phone's settings to share analytics with app developers, and then in a form that does not say who you are. From TestFlight, Apple sends us crash reports, how the build was used and any feedback you send, and may show us the name and email address you test under. Either way that is under Apple's terms, not this policy.

Who can see what

Your handle, your card and what you write are public: anybody using Infomercial can read them. Your pips for a show or a season show on your reviews of it; the list of everything you have rated is yours alone.

How far you have got is not public. It is readable by you, and by people in a watch party with you, for that party's show and no other. A friend, meaning somebody you have added who has added you back, can also see the one show you most recently moved on and how far into it you are, and the length of your streak. On a show's page, a friend can also see that you have watched it: started it, finished it or rated it. Not how far you are, and not when. Who you have added is between you and them.

Your photo's file can be fetched by anybody who has its exact address. The app gives that address only to people who can already see your handle.

Blocking somebody hides what each of you writes from the other, and they are not told.

Those rules are enforced by the database itself through row-level security, not by the app asking nicely. A bug in the app cannot leak where you are.

Where it lives

Accounts, data and photos are stored with Supabase, on servers in the United States (Oregon). If you use Infomercial from another country, what you put into it is sent there and kept there. Notifications are delivered by Apple. Artwork is loaded from The Movie Database's image servers and cast pictures from TVmaze's, which means each can see the IP address of a device asking for a picture. We send them nothing else, and they are never told who you are.

How long we keep it

For as long as you have an account, and no longer.

• What you take back is deleted, not hidden: a like, a friend, a block, a photo you replace or take down. A copy of a photo that somebody's phone or the network that delivers pictures had already fetched can outlast the file.
• Sign-in records are kept until you sign out on that phone or delete your account. Our database provider's own request logs, which include IP addresses, are kept for no more than a week.
• Notifications: your phone's push token is deleted when you sign out on that phone. The record of each notification sent to you is cleared 30 days after it went.
• A report about you is kept, dealt with or not, until you delete your account.
• The token from Apple is kept until you delete your account, or until you sign in again, when a new one takes its place.

Deleting something you posted

Hold a post or a reply of yours down, then Delete. It asks once. A post goes with its replies and its likes, and with the rating its pips gave. A reply somebody has answered leaves the word "deleted" where it was, with none of your words and without your name, so the answers under it still make sense. A reply nobody answered just goes. A tier list and a phone-in answer cannot be deleted by themselves: deleting your account takes both.

Deleting your account

In the app: You, then Menu, then Delete account. It asks once. Your account goes with everything in it, permanently: your card and photo, what you wrote, your ratings, your progress, your friends and your place in any watch party. A party you started passes to whoever has been in it longest. A report you made about somebody else is kept, without your name on it.

If you can't get into the app, email owenbishop364@gmail.com and say the handle you want removed. To take Infomercial out of your Apple account as well, look under Sign in with Apple in your Apple Account settings.

Seeing or correcting what we hold

Much of what we keep about you is already on your own screen: your card, what you wrote, and where you are in each show. Wherever you live, you can ask for a copy of all of it, or for something wrong to be put right: email owenbishop364@gmail.com and say your handle. We may ask you to show the account is yours first. Deleting it is in the app, as above.

Children

Infomercial is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.

Contact

Questions about any of this: owenbishop364@gmail.com.

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