Privacy Policy

Next Showing helps you decide which streaming services are worth paying for each month. To do that, it stores what you choose to tell it — the services you pay for and the shows, movies, and people you follow. We don't run ads, we don't sell your data, we don't track you around the web, and we never connect to your streaming accounts. This page explains the details in plain English.

Your account. Sign-in is handled by Clerk, our authentication provider. Through them we receive your name, email address, and profile photo. If you use a password, it is stored by Clerk — it never touches our servers.

What you add to Next Showing. The streaming services and prices you track, the titles and people you follow, your collections, titles you mark "Not interested," and — if you use the import — your Letterboxd username and watched-films list. This is the product working; none of it is collected quietly.

Usage analytics, anonymized. We record events like "a subscription was added" to understand how the product is used. These events contain no account identifiers: sessions are identified by a salted one-way hash, which we cannot reverse into you.

The boring technical minimum. Our hosting providers keep short-lived server logs (IP addresses, request paths) for security and debugging, and our rate limiter briefly holds per-account request counters to keep the service healthy.

• Your streaming accounts. We never connect to Netflix, Disney+, or any other service. When you pause or cancel, you do it on their site — we only record what you tell us.
• Payment information. Next Showing is currently free and collects no payment details.
• Bank data. The app contains an optional bank-sync experiment that is switched off. If we ever enable it, this policy will describe it before it reaches you.

One purpose: running Next Showing. Your follows and services are the inputs to your recommendations. Anonymized events help us see which features matter. Logs and rate limits keep the service secure and stable. That's the list — there is no advertising use, no profiling for third parties, and no sale of personal data.

We share data only with the infrastructure that runs the product, under their standard data-processing terms:

• Clerk — sign-in and account management
• Supabase — our database (hosted PostgreSQL)
• Vercel — hosting and delivery
• Upstash — rate limiting

Title information (posters, release dates, where things stream) comes from TMDB — but those lookups happen from our servers, and TMDB receives nothing about you. If you import from Letterboxd, we fetch only the data you exported or made public. We never send your personal data to anyone else, full stop.

Next Showing uses only essential cookies: the session cookies Clerk needs to keep you signed in, and a preference for light or dark mode. There are no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies, which is why there's no cookie banner.

Deleting your account removes your data from our database — your services, follows, collections, and imports. You can delete your account from your profile menu, or email us and we'll do it for you. Anonymized analytics events are not deletable because they were never connected to you in the first place.

Wherever you live, we honor the same set of rights: ask us what we hold about you, correct it, export it, or delete it. Email privacy@thenextshowing.com and a human will respond.

Next Showing is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, email us and we'll remove it.

If our practices change, this page changes first and the effective date above moves. For material changes — anything that would surprise you — we'll say so in the product, not just here.

Questions about privacy: privacy@thenextshowing.com