Movie Roulette Tuesday — Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 16, 2026 Developer: Matthew Studley Contact: theMrtPodcast@gmail.com

Movie Roulette Tuesday is a free companion app for Movie Roulette Tuesday: The Podcast. The app has no ads and no in-app purchases, and it does not sell or share your data.

What we don't collect

• No accounts or sign-ups. The app never asks for your email or contact info. The only thing you can choose to type is an optional credit name on a movie suggestion (see below).
• No third-party SDKs, analytics, advertising, or tracking of any kind.
• No location, contacts, photos, or device identifiers for tracking.

Data that stays on your device

Your spin history, stats, watchlist, watched list, settings, and optional local reminders are stored only on your device. We never receive them. Deleting the app removes them.

Network connections the app makes

• Buzzsprout (rss.buzzsprout.com, storage.buzzsprout.com): to download the podcast's public RSS feed and episode artwork.
• Apple iTunes Lookup API: to look up the podcast's public listing. The only thing sent is the show's ID, never anything about you.
• GitHub (raw.githubusercontent.com): to download the public movie catalog (movies.json), including where each movie is streaming.
• TMDB (image.tmdb.org): to show streaming-service logos. The app sends no personal data. TMDB's servers only see your IP address, as with any web request.
• Apple CloudKit (public database): for community polls, movie ratings, and movie suggestions.
  • Polls and ratings: when you vote or rate, the app stores the poll and option you chose, or the movie and your half-star rating (sharing your ratings is off by default), together with a SHA-256 hash of your iCloud user record ID. The hash stops duplicate votes. Your raw iCloud ID is never stored, and no profile is built. These records are stored without your name, email, or Apple ID, and we can't see any of those.
  • Movie suggestions: if you use Suggest a Movie, the app sends the movie title you typed, an optional category, an optional note, an optional credit name, and the app version. It does not attach your Apple ID, email, or device identifier. Suggestions are limited to one every ten minutes. Please don't put personal information in these fields.
  • Apple's privacy policy covers CloudKit: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
• Email option: Send by email opens the Mail app with a draft to the podcast. Nothing is sent until you send it, and then your email provider's policy applies.

Links to episodes or other websites open only when you tap them. Once a site opens, that site's own privacy policy applies.

Children

The app is not aimed at children and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Your choices

You can delete on-device data by deleting the app. To ask about a poll, rating, or suggestion record, email us.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update the effective date above.

Contact

theMrtPodcast@gmail.com