Privacy

Late Feature is a small, personal film diary. This is what it keeps about you and who else sees any of it. The rules for using it are in the terms.

What Late Feature stores

• Your email address, to sign you in, and a password unless you sign in with Google, Apple, Plex or Facebook instead (see below).
• Your diary: the films you log, when you watched them, your ratings, likes, notes and tags, plus your watchlist and favourites. Only you can see these in Late Feature, unless you add friends or share your diary (below).
• Film trivia you add: the fact and its source. Other signed-in members see it on that film’s page, with your @handle only while your profile is public, and you can take it down at any time.
• To keep you signed in, your browser holds a sign-in cookie that latefeature.com and tv.latefeature.com both read, so signing in or out on one does the same on the other. It isn't used for anything else, and signing out removes it.
• If you use TV by Late Feature (tv.latefeature.com, the same account): the shows on your list, the episodes you tick off (or bring in from your Netflix history, if you choose to) and when, and the seasons you finish with your stars and notes. Only you can see these, unless you switch on “Let friends see what I'm watching” there: then your friends see your latest episodes and the stars you gave each season, never your notes. Share links and public profiles show only films. If you switch on “Log episodes from Plex” there, the episodes you finish on your own Plex account are added for you; until then Late Feature keeps nothing about the TV you watch in Plex.
• If you import your Netflix viewing history: every row of the file you upload (a title and the day you watched it), so the import can work through it a little at a time and never ask the same thing twice, plus what you answered about each film. Only you can see it, and Forget this history on the Netflix import page deletes it; films it put in your diary stay there.
• Connections you set up (Plex, the Siri Shortcuts, AI assistants, Alexa). Each is a key that lets that service add to your diary, and an AI assistant read it too (see below). Late Feature keeps only a scrambled copy of each key, with when it was last used, and you can remove any of them from your Sources page. If you connect Plex, Late Feature also keeps the last few things Plex told it (films started, stopped or finished) to show you on the Plex page, and the films you stopped part way through.
• The Siri ticket Shortcut reads your AMC ticket on your phone and sends Late Feature only the text on it, to log the showing. The screenshot itself stays on your phone.

Who else sees it

• Other people see nothing of your diary unless you choose to share it.
• If you add friends (you ask by their handle and they have to say yes, or the other way round), each of you sees the films the other logs, with dates, ratings, rewatches and likes, on the Friends page and on film pages. Your notes only if you tick “Let friends read my notes”, and your watchlist only if you tick “Let friends see my watchlist”. Never your tags, email, where a film came from or showings still to come. Anyone who asks you, or whom you ask, sees your handle; friends also see your member number. Ignoring a request isn't shown to the person who sent it. Remove a friend and you both stop seeing each other's diary at once.
• If a friend asks you to a movie night, you see the film, who else is in it (by handle, for those who are your friends too) and when they logged it. The others in it see the same of you once you join, with your stars and like (your note only if you share notes). Saying no isn't shown to anyone: you just drop out of it.
• From your Account page you can also share your diary in two ways. A share link shows the films, dates and ratings in your diary (and, only if you tick the box, the film you're playing in Plex right now), never your notes. A public profile, at an address with a handle you pick, shows the same films, dates and ratings and your notes too, as reviews, to anyone. Neither shows your tags, likes, watchlist or email. Turn either off and it stops working at once. Search engines and AI assistants are asked not to list a public profile unless you also tick “Let search engines and AI assistants find it”.
• If you join a local scene, your films count towards that city's totals, which other signed-in members can see: how many people logged a film and their average rating, and only once at least five people have. Never who, and never a single watch. Leave the scene and you stop counting.
• Anyone signed in can follow a public profile. Following shows them only what that profile already shows anyone. Nobody is told who follows them, there's no follower count or list, and if you make your profile private your followers see nothing.
• If you add a profile picture, it's shown on your Account page, to your friends, on your public profile if you have one, and beside your films for people who follow you. Anyone who has its address can open it. Pictures are shrunk on your device before they upload. If you choose “Use my Google picture” (or Plex or Facebook), Late Feature's server fetches that picture from them once and keeps a copy. Remove it and the copy is deleted. Without a picture, people see the first letter of your handle.
• Every account has a member number, given in the order people joined. It appears on your Account page, to your friends and, if you make your profile public, on that profile.
• Film details and posters come from TMDB. When you search, Late Feature's server passes the words you search for on to TMDB.
• Late Feature runs on Vercel, and your account and diary are kept in a Supabase database that the person who runs this Late Feature manages. Password-reset emails are sent through Resend, which sees your email address to deliver them.
• Late Feature uses PostHog to see which features get used and to find bugs: what you click, linked to your account, how quickly pages load, and screen recordings of visits with everything you type hidden. You can turn the recordings off under Privacy on your Account page.
• Late Feature never sells your information or shows you adverts.

Signing in with Google, Apple, Plex or Facebook

If you use one of those buttons, that service tells Late Feature your email address, your name and, if it has one, your profile picture. Late Feature uses them for your account and nothing else (the picture only if you choose to use it), and never sees your password there. If you already have an account with the same email, you sign in to it. Apple lets you hide your email, in which case Late Feature gets an address that forwards to yours. With Plex, Late Feature asks plex.tv once who you are and doesn't keep the key Plex hands over; Plex may still list Late Feature under Authorized Devices in your Plex account, and you can remove it there. The service you choose knows you signed in to Late Feature, under its own privacy policy.

So their buttons work without leaving the page, the sign-in form loads Google's sign-in script (and on latefeature.com, Apple's). If you're signed in to Google, it may offer to sign you in with one tap. Google learns that you opened the form, whether or not you use it.

Connect Plex (on your Plex page) and Fill in from Plex (the library import) sign you in to Plex in a small window. The key Plex hands over goes straight from plex.tv to your browser, which uses it once, to add Late Feature's webhook to your Plex account or to fill in your server's address and key, and then drops it. Late Feature's server never sees that key.

AI assistants

If you connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI app to Late Feature, it can read your diary, including your notes, your watchlist and your stats, whenever you ask it something about them. It can also log films, rate them and add to your watchlist, but it can't delete diary entries. What it reads goes to the company that runs that assistant and is handled under their privacy policy. Each connected app is listed under Sources, AI assistants, with when it was last used; disconnect it there and it stops at once.

Alexa

If you link the Late Feature skill, Amazon sends Late Feature the words of what you say to the skill (as text, never a recording) along with the key that links it to your diary. Late Feature uses them to find the film, asks you to confirm it, and saves the diary entry. It doesn't keep what you said. Amazon handles your voice under its own privacy notice. Unlink the skill from your Sources page, or disable it in the Alexa app, and it stops at once.

The iPhone app

The iPhone app reads and writes the same diary as this site, under the same rules. When you sign in, it makes a key for that phone (listed with your other keys) so a notification can save your stars without opening the app. If you turn notifications on, Late Feature keeps the phone's notification address (from Apple), its time zone and which notifications you chose. A notification names a film and, for a friend's, their @handle; never a note. Apple delivers them. Turn notifications off in the app or in iPhone Settings, and signing out of the app forgets its key on that phone.

Taking your diary with you

Download your diary from your Account page whenever you like: it saves everything you've logged, with your notes, tags and likes, plus your watchlist and favourites, as files you can keep or import elsewhere, Letterboxd included. The file is put together in your browser from your own diary and goes only to you. Your TV diary isn't in that download yet; until it is, ask us and we'll send it to you.

How long it's kept

Your diary and everything else above stay until you remove them or delete your account. A connection's key stays until you remove it. The Plex activity list keeps only its latest 30 events, and PostHog keeps screen recordings for 30 days.

Leaving, and questions

To delete your account and everything in it, go to Account → Delete your account: it happens at once, and your diary, lists, friends, profile, picture and connections go with it. Your @handle stays taken with no owner, so nobody else can use links you shared. With any question about your data, email chrisntr@gmail.com and it will be dealt with.