Privacy Policy
Last updated 19 August 2026
FILMIO is made by Toby Johnson, trading as TJCreate, Lincoln, UK ("we", "us"). This policy explains what data FILMIO collects, why, and what you can do about it.
What we collect
- Email address — to create and secure your account, whether you sign up with Sign in with Apple or email and password.
- Account identifier — a unique ID tied to your profile, used to keep your ratings, chat messages and social connections attached to you.
- Ratings, reviews and watch history — the films you rate, mark as seen, save to your watchlist, or mark not interested. This is the core of the app: it's what your recommendations are built from.
- Chat messages and other content you post — messages in circle chat, written reviews, your bio, username and display name.
- Profile photo — if you choose to upload one, from your own photo library. We never access your photo library without your explicit selection.
- Friend and circle connections — who you're friends with, which circles you belong to, and what you've invited people to watch.
We do not collect location data, contacts, or advertising identifiers. We do not use analytics or advertising SDKs, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
Why we collect it
Everything above exists to run the app: to generate your personal recommendations, to let you track what you've watched, and to let you watch things with people you know. We don't sell data, and we don't use your data for advertising.
Who we share it with
- Supabase (database and authentication hosting) — stores your account and app data securely on our behalf.
- The Movie Database (TMDB) — we send film titles and IDs to TMDB's API to fetch posters, cast and metadata. We don't send your personal data to TMDB.
- Apple — if you sign in with Apple, Apple handles that authentication step; we only receive what you choose to share (your email, or Apple's private relay address).
We don't share your data with advertisers, data brokers, or anyone else.
Other people using FILMIO
Ratings you make public through your profile (your Top 10, favourites, and completed reviews) are visible to other FILMIO users who view your profile. Chat messages are visible to the members of the circle you send them in. You can report content or block another user at any time from within the app; blocking removes that person's messages and profile from what you see, and from what they can see of you.
Your rights
You can:
- Delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete Account. This permanently removes your profile, ratings, reviews, chat history and social connections. This action can't be undone.
- Ask us what data we hold about you, or ask us to correct it, by emailing hello@tjcreate.co.uk.
If you're in the UK or EU, you have rights under UK GDPR / EU GDPR to access, correct, delete, or export your data, and to complain to the ICO (or your local data protection authority) if you think we've mishandled it.
Children
FILMIO isn't directed at children and isn't intended for use by anyone under 13.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the top and, for significant changes, let you know in the app.