Privacy — Chitravaaram

There are no analytics on this site. No Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no tracking scripts of any kind, no advertising, and nothing is sold or shared with anyone. This is a hobby site about films.

If you never sign in

Nothing identifying is stored. You can read everything older than 14 days without an account, and the site keeps no record that you did.

Two exceptions worth naming, because "nothing" should mean nothing:

Suggesting or voting puts a random ID in your browser — a string like 8f3c…, generated locally, tied to no account and to no person. It exists so the same browser can't vote twice on one item. Clearing your browser data erases it.
GitHub hosts these pages and, like every web host, sees the IP address of requests in its own server logs. That is GitHub's, not mine — I cannot read it.

If you sign in

Accounts exist for one reason: the two most recent weeks are for members, and the site needs some way to know you are one.

What	Why	Where
Your email address	It is your account — there is no other identifier	Supabase
Your name and profile picture URL	Only if you use Google; it shows in the top bar so you can see you're signed in	Supabase
Sign-in timestamps	Created by Supabase automatically	Supabase

That is the complete list. Your account is not linked to anything you suggest or vote on — those stay anonymous, by design, and there is no column anywhere joining the two.

Who else sees it

Supabase stores it. They are the database host.
Google, if you choose Google sign-in — they already know you signed in somewhere, because they are the ones telling this site who you are. Using the email link instead avoids that.
Nobody else. It is never sold, shared, or emailed to you. There is no newsletter.

How long

Until you delete it. There is no automatic expiry, and no backup that outlives the delete below.

Delete your account

One button, immediate, no request form and no waiting. It removes your account, your email address and everything attached to it.

Your account

Checking…

Anything you suggested stays, because it was never attached to your account — it's a film credit, not personal data. If you want a specific suggestion pulled too, ask.

Cookies

None. The site uses localStorage for two things — your sign-in token, and that random voting ID — and neither is sent to any third party. Signing out removes the token.

Your rights

If you are in the UK or EU, the GDPR gives you the right to see what is held about you, correct it, or have it erased. The delete button above does the erasing immediately. For anything else, email director@timesofcinema.com.

This page describes what the site actually does, and is updated whenever that changes.

What this site knows about you