This policy covers MovieMan and its companion film-discovery service, Marquee, operated by MovieMan. It explains the information we use to provide these services and the choices you have. Contact support@movieman.ca with privacy questions.
1. Information we collect
Your MovieMan account
When you sign in to MovieMan with Google, MovieMan receives your name, email address and Google profile picture. MovieMan also stores the profile details, attendance, plans, invitations, ratings, likes, friend relationships, notification preferences and activity you choose to provide.
Connecting Marquee
You can browse Marquee without connecting an account. When you choose to connect Marquee, MovieMan shares only your MovieMan account identifier, the MovieMan service that issued it, your name, your email address and whether that email address is verified. Marquee does not receive your Google profile picture, password, Google access or refresh tokens, or Firebase sign-in token.
Marquee stores your chosen theatres, genres, directors and favourite series; films you mark Interested or Not interested; onboarding progress; and your separate Marquee newsletter choice and schedule. These preferences and film choices are private. Connecting Marquee does not publish them to MovieMan friends or other users.
Service and support information
We process essential sign-in cookies and temporary security information to keep sessions secure, complete sign-in and prevent abuse. Hosting providers may process IP addresses, browser and device information, request times and security logs. If you contact support, we receive the contact details and information you provide. Analytics identifiers are not enabled in the current production release. We will explain any future consent-managed analytics before enabling it.
2. How we use information
- Operate your account, keep it secure and save your choices across devices.
- Provide MovieMan attendance, plans, social features and account notices.
- Sort Marquee listings using your film preferences, show your Interested films and keep Not interested films at the bottom.
- If you separately opt in, prepare and send your Marquee newsletter. It includes active Interested films each time and genuinely new listings that match your preferences. Not interested films are excluded. Minimal history helps prevent repeating other recommendations.
- Record the policy version you acknowledged when connecting Marquee and the newsletter choices you make, respond to support requests and meet applicable legal obligations.
A Marquee newsletter subscription is optional and separate from MovieMan marketing consent. Google sign-in, connecting Marquee and saving film preferences do not subscribe you to either. You can use Marquee without email.
3. Providers and sharing
We do not sell or rent personal information. We share information with providers only as needed to operate and protect the services:
- Google and Firebase: MovieMan sign-in, its account database, application hosting and server operations. Marquee checks MovieMan account eligibility through a server-to-server connection. Google-hosted MovieMan servers also process the Marquee preferences, private film choices, newsletter history and message content needed to prepare newsletter previews and optional emails. Cloudflare D1 remains the primary store for this Marquee information; the newsletter processor does not create a separate copy in MovieMan’s account database.
- Cloudflare: Marquee hosting, security, essential session handling and the D1 database containing Marquee profiles, film choices and newsletter records.
- Resend: Email delivery. For a Marquee newsletter, this includes your recipient email address and the message content, including the selected films. MovieMan uses Resend for its own transactional messages as well.
Posters and external film or theatre links may load from third-party providers. Opening them is subject to those providers’ privacy practices. We may disclose information when required by law or necessary to protect people, the service or our legal rights. If an ownership change affects personal information, we will provide notice before a different privacy policy applies.
4. Your choices and account controls
- Change preferences: Edit your film choices, newsletter frequency and delivery days in Marquee Preferences.
- Stop Marquee email: Choose No newsletter in Marquee or use the unsubscribe link in a newsletter. This does not change MovieMan marketing consent.
- Export: Download Marquee data through the Marquee section of MovieMan’s Account & Data. Your full MovieMan export also includes your connected Marquee profile. If a connected service is unavailable, the export reports that failure rather than silently omitting its data.
- Delete Marquee only: Use the same account controls to remove your Marquee profile, preferences, film choices, sessions and newsletter records while keeping MovieMan. Reconnecting later starts a fresh Marquee profile with newsletters off.
- Delete MovieMan: Full account deletion also removes your connected Marquee profile. Sign-in is disabled first. If a connected service is temporarily unavailable, the deletion stays pending and can resume; it is not reported as completed until required erasure succeeds.
- Support and rights: Contact support@movieman.ca for access, correction or deletion assistance, including when you cannot sign in. We may need to verify your identity.
Account exports and destructive controls require MovieMan’s security checks, including recent sign-in where required. You can block essential cookies in your browser, but account sign-in and saved preferences may then be unavailable. Public Marquee browsing remains available.
5. Retention
We keep your Marquee preferences, film choices and the minimal history needed to avoid repeated recommendations while your Marquee profile exists. We do not expire preferences because you have been inactive.
| Record | Retention |
|---|---|
| Delivered newsletter message bodies | Cleared after 2 days. |
| Message bodies for terminal failed or cancelled deliveries | Cleared after 7 days. |
| Operational delivery metadata | Cleared after 90 days. |
| Application operational events | Cleared after 7 days. |
| Restricted proof of newsletter consent | Kept for 3 years after withdrawal or profile deletion, or the last send, whichever is later. This is our chosen retention policy, not a statement that the law requires a 3-year period. |
The restricted consent record contains only the recipient identifier, newsletter purpose, policy and consent version references, and relevant timestamps. It does not retain your film preferences or Interested/Not interested choices and cannot reactivate a subscription.
Deleting a profile removes its active records. Cloudflare D1 Free recovery history may retain earlier database copies for up to 7 days. We retain a minimal deletion receipt separately for the recovery period and reapply deletions before a restored database is reopened. Resend retains email and log data under its own current policy, presently 30 days on Free, Pro and Scale plans. Provider copies may therefore take longer to expire than active application records.
MovieMan’s own account and social records remain while needed to provide those features, until you remove them or delete your MovieMan account, subject to necessary security records and legal obligations. Records required for a legal claim or a binding legal requirement may be retained for that purpose.
6. Security and international processing
We use HTTPS, access controls and limited server credentials to protect information. No system can guarantee absolute security. Providers may process information outside Canada, including in the United States and other countries where they operate. Those countries may have different privacy laws, and information may be accessible to their authorities under local law.
7. Children
The services are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Contact us if you believe a child has supplied such information.
8. Policy changes
We will post updates here and provide notice of significant changes. A new use that requires consent will be explained before it begins. Existing MovieMan users are asked to acknowledge the Marquee disclosure when they connect Marquee; ordinary MovieMan use does not automatically create a Marquee profile or newsletter subscription.