The Short Version

• We don't require you to create an account. (Coming Soon!)
• We don't ask for personal information to use the app.
• The only personal information we ever receive is what you choose to type into the feedback form — and even there, your name and email are optional.
• We use a privacy-focused analytics tool to count visits. It doesn't track you across the internet.
• We don't sell your information. We don't show third-party ads that track you.

What We Collect

1. Feedback you choose to send

If you use the feedback form, we receive your message (required), a category (Idea, Bug, or Other), your name (optional), and your email (optional) — only if you choose to enter them. If you leave the name and email blank, your feedback is effectively anonymous. We use this information only to read, understand, and act on your feedback. To reduce spam and abuse, the feedback system temporarily notes the network address a submission comes from to limit how many messages can be sent in a short time. This is used only for rate-limiting and is not used to build a profile of you.

2. Basic, privacy-respecting analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand general traffic — things like how many people visit and which pages are popular. This tool is designed to respect privacy: it does not use cookies to follow you, and it does not track you across other websites. You can read about how it works in Cloudflare's documentation.

3. Show and episode data you search for

When you search for a show or request a recap, that request is sent to our servers so we can generate your recap. We may keep cached recap and show data to make the app faster and reduce repeated work, but this caching is about shows and episodes — not about you.

What We Do Not Collect

• We do not require or store account logins or passwords (there are no accounts yet).
• We do not collect your contacts, photos, location, or device files.
• We do not collect payment information.
• We do not knowingly collect information from children. Recap is intended for a general audience, not directed at children.

Third-Party Services We Rely On

Recap uses a few outside services to function. When you use the app, some data necessarily passes through them:

• TMDB (The Movie Database) — provides episode and show data and images. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
• Google (Gemini) — used on our servers to generate the recap text from official episode summaries.
• Cloudflare — provides our domain, security, and the privacy-respecting analytics described above.
• Render — hosts our backend servers.
• Google Play — distributes the Android app. Google may collect its own data as part of the Play Store; see Google's own privacy policy.

These services have their own privacy policies governing how they handle data.

How Long We Keep It

We keep feedback for as long as it's useful for improving Recap. If you'd like feedback you sent (including any name or email you included) deleted, contact us and we'll remove it.

Your Choices

• You can use Recap without entering any personal information.
• You can leave the name and email fields blank when sending feedback.
• You can ask us to delete feedback you've sent.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as Recap grows and adds features (for example, if we add accounts or audio recaps in the future). When we do, we'll update the "Last updated" date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your information? Email us at hello@recapstory.com.