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The app · Privacy Policy

Renoir maps cinema: films, the people who made them, and the connections between them. This policy says what it keeps about you while it does that, and who else can see it.

The short version

• You sign in with a code sent to your email address, and your account keeps what you save in step across your devices.
• Renoir's server holds your account, the films you keep, your profile and favorites, and what you send to other members.
• Other members see your profile, who you follow, your favorites as far as you allow, and what passes between you and them. No other member sees your email address, your shelf or your notes.
• When you open a film or a person, its page comes from Renoir's server, and the app keeps it so it opens again without a connection.
• Film images come from The Movie Database, and the app checks with Expo for updates. Neither carries your name, your email or your account.
• Renoir sells nothing about you. There is no advertising, no tracking, no analytics and no notifications.
• You can delete your account from inside the app, and everything stored with it goes too.

1. Your account

Most of Renoir works through an account, so that what you keep follows you between devices and so that you can take part in its community. You sign in with a code sent to your email address. Asking for a code with an address Renoir has not seen before creates an account for it.

Renoir's server holds:

• Your email address, which is how you sign in.
• An account id, a random identifier the server assigns.
• Your profile: the name you choose to show and, if you set one, a photo.
• When you last looked at what is new, so the app can show you what has arrived since.
• The films you keep, and what you have done with each, with the dates. Entries you bring in from another service are marked as imported. The file you import from is read on your device and never sent.
• Your favorites, if you choose them: the films, people and soundtracks you put on your profile, in lists by kind, and who you allow to see each list.
• Who you follow, who you block and who you report, with any reason you give for a report.
• Recommendations you send and receive: the film, who sent it to whom, the note that came with it, and how it has gone since, such as when it was seen or watched.
• Conversations: the messages you exchange with other members, with who wrote each one and when.

Each of these carries the dates and settings that go with it.

The contact form. You can write to Renoir from inside the app, even when you cannot sign in. What you send is stored where only Renoir can read it: your message, any name and address you give, and the choices you make on the form. It is kept apart from your account, so deleting the account does not remove it.

2. What other members can see

Other members can see:

• Your name and photo, and the random id that stands for your account. Your photo can also be opened by anyone who has its link, signed in or not.
• Who you follow, and who follows you.
• Your favorites, list by list, as far as each list's setting allows. The settings run from only you to every member, and a list can be seen by every member until you choose otherwise.
• What passes between you and another member. A recommendation and its note, and the messages that follow, are seen by that member as well as by you. So is how the recommendation has gone since, such as whether it has been seen or watched.
• The rest of your profile. Your profile also holds a few dates and settings the app does not display, such as when you last looked at what is new. Treat those as visible to other members too.

No other member can see your email address, your shelf (the films you keep and what you have done with them), who you block, what you report, or your notes, which never leave your device. Blocking someone hides each of you from the other, conversations and recommendations included, and they are not told.

3. Film images and app updates

Some requests go from your device straight to other companies. None of them carries your name, your email or anything about your account.

Film images come from The Movie Database (TMDB). Most of the posters, stills and portraits you see come from TMDB's servers. TMDB does see your device's IP address and which images it asks for, and so which films and people you look at.

The app checks with Expo for updates. Renoir can be fixed without a new release from the App Store, through a service Expo runs, so the app regularly asks Expo whether an update is waiting. That check carries details about the app and its version, and a random identifier for your installation, which stays the same until you delete the app, even if you sign out or delete your account. If the app has crashed, a technical description of the crash goes with the next check.

Every request the app makes, these included, also carries the ordinary technical details of an internet connection, such as your IP address and the kind of device and software making it.

4. Who else is involved

A few companies help Renoir work. Renoir gives none of them your information for their own use.

• Supabase runs Renoir's server and storage. It keeps your account and everything stored with it on Renoir's behalf, contact-form messages included, it serves the film and people pages you open, and it sends the sign-in emails.
• Hostinger delivers Renoir's email from Renoir's own address, sign-in codes included, so your address passes through it whenever Renoir writes to you. It also keeps the mailbox your email reaches when you write to Renoir.
• Vercel serves renoir.info, and like any website's host it keeps ordinary technical logs of visits.
• The Movie Database (TMDB) supplies much of the film catalog and serves the images described above.
• Expo runs the update service described above.

5. What Renoir does not do

• No selling. Renoir does not sell your information or share it for advertising.
• No advertising. Renoir shows no ads and does not read your device's advertising identifier.
• No tracking. Nothing in Renoir follows you across other apps or websites, and it carries no third-party trackers.
• No analytics. There is no analytics in Renoir of any kind.
• No notifications. Renoir sends no push notifications. New recommendations and messages wait in the app until you open it.
• No profiling. Nothing about you is scored or ranked. The films Renoir suggests are worked out on your device from the films you keep, and nothing is sent to do it.
• Nothing you have not handed it. Renoir uses a photo or a file only when you pick one, and it has no access to your camera, microphone, location, contacts, calendar or health data.

6. What stays on your device

Renoir keeps these on your device, in its own storage, which other apps cannot read:

• What you save: the films you keep, your notes, the maps you make, your settings and your recent searches.
• Your profile, and the profiles you visited recently.
• The images you have already seen, so they need not be fetched twice.
• The film and people pages you have opened, so they open again without a connection.
• While you are signed in, what keeps you signed in, including your email address.

Renoir never sends your notes anywhere, not a word of them.

If more than one account has signed in on the device, what each one kept stays there too.

If your device is backed up, to iCloud, a computer or any other service, these are in the backup, and restoring it onto another device brings them along, including, if you were signed in, what keeps you signed in. Your device's own backup settings control this.

Signing out removes what keeps you signed in and leaves the rest as it was.

7. Deleting things

Your account. You can delete your account in Settings, inside the app. That removes it from Renoir's server, and everything stored with it: your profile and photo, your favorites, your follows, blocks and reports, every film you kept, and the recommendations and conversations you were part of. It cannot be undone.

A recommendation or a conversation is shared with another member, so deleting your account removes it for them too.

What stays. What you kept on this device stays on it until you delete the app. A message sent through the contact form is kept apart from your account, so deleting the account leaves it; write to the address at the end of this policy to have it removed.

Everything at once. Deleting the app removes everything Renoir kept on your device, including the identifier the update check uses.

Or ask. You can also write to the same address to ask what is held about you, or to have it corrected or deleted.

8. How long things are kept

What is stored with your account is kept until you delete the account or ask for it to be deleted. Messages sent through the contact form are kept as long as they are needed to deal with them. What is on your device stays until you remove it or delete the app.

9. Children

Renoir is not directed at children. You must be at least 13 to have an account, and Renoir does not knowingly keep information about anyone younger. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, write to the address below to have it deleted.

10. Legal basis, and where this applies

Renoir is offered from the State of Utah, United States, and this policy is governed by its law.

Where the law asks for a basis for handling your information, as it does in the UK and the European Economic Area, the basis is providing the service you asked for. Renoir does not use your information for marketing. Wherever the law gives you rights over your information, such as access, correction, deletion, portability or complaint, you have them, and writing to the address below is how to use them.

Renoir does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as California law uses those terms.

11. Changes, and how to reach a person

When this policy changes, the new version appears here with a new date at the top.

Renoir is published by Tanush Saran. Write to hello@renoir.info about anything in this policy, including a request about your own information. A human reads it.

The app · Terms of Use

These are the terms for using Renoir. By using it you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use it.

1. What Renoir is

Renoir maps cinema: films, the people who made them, and the connections between them. It is published by Tanush Saran. Where these terms say Renoir, they mean the app and its publisher.

2. Your license to use it

You may install Renoir on devices you control and use it for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. That permission is yours alone and cannot be transferred.

You may not copy, decompile, reverse-engineer or redistribute the app or its catalog; extract its film data in bulk or scrape it for another product; resell or sublicense any part of it; or remove the credits it displays.

The app, its design, its code and the arrangement of its catalog belong to its publisher. Nothing here gives you ownership of any of it.

3. Your account

Most of Renoir needs an account. You sign in with a code sent to your email address, so keep access to that address: losing it can mean losing the account.

You must be at least 13 to have an account, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age for a service like this.

Use an email address you are entitled to use. You are responsible for what happens under your account.

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. It cannot be undone, and the Privacy Policy says what it removes and what stays on your device.

4. What you put in is yours

The films you keep, the dates you record, your profile, your favorites and everything you write in Renoir are yours. Renoir claims no ownership of any of it.

To run the service, Renoir needs your permission to store what you put in, keep it in step across your devices, show other members what the next paragraph describes, and deliver what you send. That is the whole of the permission you give. It covers running Renoir for you and nothing else, and it ends when you delete your account. Your notes are outside it, because they never leave your device.

Your shelf is private: no other member can see the films you keep or what you have done with them. Your profile is the exception, and it is made to be seen: your name, your photo if you set one, who you follow and who follows you, and your favorites, list by list, as each list's setting allows. What passes between you and another member is seen by the two of you and by no other member: a recommendation, its note, how it has gone since, and the messages that follow.

5. How you may not use it

Do not use Renoir to break the law. Do not try to get into another person's account or any part of the service you have not been given. Do not probe, overload or interfere with the service or the servers behind it, and do not use automated means to create accounts or to ask for sign-in codes.

There is no tolerance in Renoir for objectionable content or for abusive behavior toward other members. Anything you put on your profile or send to another member must be lawful and yours to use, and must not pretend to be anyone else. Put nothing there you would not want read, and do not use Renoir to harass or threaten anyone. Renoir may refuse or remove anything that breaks these rules, and may end the account behind it without notice. Report it from inside the app, and block anyone you would rather not hear from.

6. Film data, images and the CRI

Much of Renoir's film and person information, and the posters and stills it shows, come from The Movie Database (TMDB). The Privacy Policy explains what fetching its images means for you.

Renoir uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Your use of Renoir is also subject to TMDB's own terms, and Renoir may change how or whether it shows TMDB's material if those terms or TMDB's availability change.

Posters, stills and other film imagery remain the copyright of their studios and rights holders. They are shown here to identify films and are not licensed to you: you may not extract, redistribute or reuse them.

Renoir shows no ratings and no critics' scores, by design. Nothing in it should be read as a judgment of a film's quality, and the CRI, Renoir's Cinema Relevance Index, is not one either. It measures the mark a film or a person has left on cinema, through what the people who make films say of it and the films that came after it, never how good they are, and a masterpiece can carry a modest one. It is worked out from the record of cinema and from Renoir's own curation, including choices made by hand. It is also Renoir's own: a CRI is worked out within Renoir's catalog, not across all of cinema.

7. It is offered as it is

Renoir is provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

It may contain errors. The catalog is incomplete and some of what it says is wrong. The service may be unavailable at times, and features may change or be removed. Nothing is promised about the accuracy or completeness of anything in it.

Keep your own record of anything you would be sorry to lose. Renoir takes care with what you keep, but things can be lost, on your device or on the server, and no backup is guaranteed.

8. Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Renoir is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, for lost data, or for lost profits, arising from your use of it. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for Renoir.

Nothing here excludes liability that the law does not allow to be excluded, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected by anything in these terms.

9. Ending it

You can stop using Renoir whenever you like: delete your account, delete the app, or both.

Renoir may suspend or end an account that is used to break these terms or to harm the service or other people.

10. Changes to these terms

These terms may change. When they do, the new version is published with a new date at the top, and using Renoir after that means accepting it.

11. Law, and reaching a person

These terms are governed by the law of the State of Utah, United States, and its courts have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer living elsewhere, this does not take away any right you have to bring a claim in your own country's courts or under its mandatory consumer law.

If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.

Write to hello@renoir.info. A human reads it.