These privacy practices apply to Brainy Movie at brainy-movie.com, operated by the Brainy Movie website operator. Questions and requests: admin@brainy-movie.com. You do not need an account to email us.
1. Information we collect and why
We use account email and authentication records to sign you in and secure your account. We store the profile details, creator information, film submissions, ownership claims, ratings, reviews, community comments, follows, watchlist items, preferences and support requests you provide to operate discovery, community and moderation features.
When an enabled social sign-in option is used, Supabase Auth receives the provider’s account identifier, email and verification information, and basic profile information such as a name or picture when available. New social users choose a public display name; using the provider’s profile picture publicly is optional. Account email stays private, including an Apple private relay address. We do not request inbox, contacts, Drive, social posts, YouTube subscriptions or viewing-history access for sign-in. Connecting a creator channel would require a separate explicit action and permission. Social sign-in does not opt you into marketing emails.
Published reviews, community comments, creator profiles and aggregate community scores are public. Account settings, watchlists and individual follow lists are account-scoped. Do not put sensitive personal information into public posts. Hosting and authentication providers may process technical information such as IP addresses, browser details and security logs to deliver and protect the service.
Creator Studio stores proposed film revisions and review decisions for the current representative and administrators. A filmmaker-selected starting film and its introduction are public when saved. Sharing kits are prepared in your browser from published film information; downloading a kit does not post it or send messages. Creator discovery records use public weekly programme membership, not private viewer saves, watched choices or private programmes.
Film Passport stores your private film profiles, reusable submission materials, saved destinations, preparation checklists, notes, self-reported fees and application outcomes. Personal matching runs from these details without sending your film profile to an AI provider. Administrators receive aggregate passport counts rather than access to private film details or notes through the passport dashboard. Archiving preserves your records; account deletion removes account-owned passport records. You can export materials locally or contact us for deletion requests. Do not store screening passwords, identity documents or payment credentials in this workspace.
The public passport directory is researched from organiser websites and public search leads. Automated maintenance may send public opportunity text and existing public directory facts to the configured Google Gemini service to extract submission rules; it does not send private passport profiles or tracking notes. Following a destination link takes you to that organisation’s service and privacy terms. Brainy Movie does not send applications, contact organisers or pay fees for you.
2. YouTube API Services and public video data
Brainy Movie uses YouTube API Services to discover public films and retrieve video IDs and links, titles, descriptions, channel names and identifiers, thumbnails, publication dates, language information, runtime, view counts and availability information. We use this information to screen discovery candidates, describe their viewing sources and help visitors find films. Films remain hosted on YouTube; we do not download or store copies of their video or audio.
We use public API access for discovery. We do not ask for your YouTube password, connect your YouTube account, request private channel analytics, upload to your channel or post YouTube comments on your behalf.
Google and YouTube process information under the Google Privacy Policy. Use of YouTube features is also subject to the YouTube Terms of Service.
3. Embedded playback and third-party content
Film pages use YouTube's privacy-enhanced embedded player. Loading a player or remotely hosted thumbnail connects your browser to the provider, which may receive your IP address, browser/device information and page context. Playback can result in further data collection, cookies or similar technologies, and advertisements served by YouTube. Privacy-enhanced mode does not make playback anonymous. Playback is not set to start automatically.
You can open the original video on YouTube instead. We do not sell your account information to advertisers. YouTube's data handling and advertising choices are governed by Google's policies and your Google settings.
4. Service providers and AI processing
OpenAI Sites and its hosting infrastructure deliver this website. Supabase provides authentication and application data storage. Google/YouTube provides discovery and playback. Google Gemini processes discovered public film metadata to help prepare descriptions and classification. These providers receive information needed for their respective functions and may process it in countries other than your own. An email delivery provider may deliver account or transactional messages.
We may disclose relevant records when legally required, to investigate abuse or rights complaints, or to protect the service. Public contributions can be read and indexed by other people and search engines.
Film Night programmes and Your Cinema
The planner uses recorded film metadata to assemble programmes. Guest device drafts and choices are stored in this browser where available; anyone using this browser may see them. Your Cinema lets you clear device choices, explicitly import them to an account, and export current account choices. Account-saved programmes, names, watched/hidden choices, interests and update receipts are private to their owner. Marking a film watched is your declaration, not verified playback. Not for me hides personal suggestions without rating the film publicly. Explicit watched changes update your own private programme progress. Sharing a programme exposes only the selected public films, order and programme settings to anyone with the link; it excludes your private account name and watched history. Archived account programmes can be restored. Functional preferences and saves do not subscribe you to email or enable account-linked retention analytics. Optional anonymous planner event counts follow your separate usage measurement choice and do not establish unique visitors or completed viewing. Films remain on their original YouTube sources.
5. Proposed AI audience summaries: collection paused
Comment-based audience analysis remains disabled while we verify a proposed change of processing route with YouTube. Approval of the earlier submitted use case does not imply endorsement of Brainy Movie or confirmation of this new configuration.
If confirmed and enabled, we would sample up to 100 recent and 100 relevance-ordered public top-level YouTube comments per film, filter duplicates, obvious promotion and identified creator comments, and redact obvious links, handles, email addresses, phone-like numbers and IP addresses. Redaction cannot guarantee removal of every personal reference. Author and channel identifiers would not be sent to the model; raw comments and commenter identifiers would not be stored in our database.
The proposed audience-summary route sends the remaining text through OpenRouter to Google Gemini on Google Vertex. Requests would be restricted to that Google endpoint, with provider fallbacks disabled and training-enabled routes excluded. Optional OpenRouter prompt/output logging and product-improvement data use must remain off before activation. OpenRouter and Google still process operational metadata; Google may retain safety-flagged prompts for up to 90 days for abuse prevention. OpenRouter also describes safety screening and legal retention exceptions. This route does not promise strict zero data retention. See OpenRouter’s Privacy Policy and provider safety-retention disclosures. Public film-metadata and Passport processing continue using their existing direct Google Gemini connection.
Generated summaries would be clearly labelled AI-generated and show the sample size, analysis date, source discussion and limitations. They would not profile individual commenters, claim that AI watched the film, create a numeric film score or contribute to genuine community ratings. Derived summaries expire after 30 days; expired summaries are hidden and their text/counts cleared by scheduled maintenance.
Optional OpenAI marketing measurement
OpenAI’s advertising pixel helps measure visits attributable to ads in ChatGPT. It is separate from our anonymous usage counts and remains off until you select “Allow marketing”. You can withdraw permission using “Marketing measurement” in the footer. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control override a saved permission. The choice is stored on this browser for 180 days; an earlier anonymous usage opt-in does not enable marketing.
When allowed, the browser loads OpenAI’s pixel SDK and sends public-page view events. OpenAI may receive technical information such as your IP address and browser details, the site origin, a public page identifier and advertising attribution identifiers. The pixel may capture the oppref parameter from an ad landing URL. It uses the first-party __oppref attribution cookie for up to 30 days and the __obref browser-reference cookie for up to 365 days, subject to browser restrictions. Cookie lifetime is separate from OpenAI’s server-side data retention.
We do not manually pass account email, name, private saved programmes, watched history, comments, support messages or purchase information to this integration. It pauses on account, sign-in, creator workspace, admin, contact and submission pages. This installation does not configure customer-information matching or purchase/registration conversions. Withdrawing permission stops future events and removes the known attribution cookies in this browser; it cannot recall data already sent. For information about OpenAI’s handling and your rights, see the OpenAI Privacy Policy.
7. Retention and deletion rules
We retain account and community records while needed to provide the service, subject to deletion requests. Limited security, moderation or legally required records may be retained where necessary. Our retention rule for cached YouTube API data is to refresh or delete it within 30 days; this applies to public metadata and statistics as well as any permitted derived summaries. We do not store raw YouTube comment samples.
You may request deletion of information about you held by Brainy Movie by emailing admin@brainy-movie.com with the subject “Privacy / data deletion”. Include your account email, relevant Brainy Movie or YouTube URLs and what you want removed. Never send a password or API key. We may request proportionate evidence that the data relates to you. We will delete applicable stored user/API data as soon as possible and within seven calendar days of your request; we will explain any legally required retention.
Deleting data held by Brainy Movie does not delete videos, comments, accounts or other information held by YouTube. Manage those through YouTube. We currently hold no YouTube OAuth authorization tokens. If you have granted Google permissions to an application, you can review or revoke them in Google's permissions settings; this does not itself delete your Brainy Movie account.
8. Your choices and contact
Edit your profile and remove your own reviews, community comments, follows and watchlist items using your account. Email admin@brainy-movie.com for account deletion, data access, corrections, privacy questions or complaints. You can also use our signed-in contact form. Requests do not require watching a film or having a YouTube account.
The service is not directed to children under 13. Contact us if you believe a child has supplied personal information. Depending on applicable law, you may have additional rights concerning access, correction, deletion or objections to processing.
9. Policy changes
Changes are published on this page with an updated date. Material changes to how information is used will be disclosed before the affected feature is activated, with consent requested where required.