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MovieDuo Privacy Policy

Effective: 2026-05-05  ·  Last updated: 2026-05-05  ·  Previous version: 2026-05-03

What changed on 2026-05-05 (clarification, not material)

Section 11.1 now describes the in-app Delete my data button more precisely — it anonymises your half of the couch (replacing your name with the placeholder “Deleted”, clearing your synthetic user identifier, and wiping your individual likes) but does not remove the whole document, since doing so would also remove your partner’s data without their consent. Section 12 has been clarified to document that we do not currently apply automated retention limits to couch documents; we may introduce them later, and we will update this section before we do. Affected sections: 11.1, 12.

What changed on 2026-05-03 (clarification, not material)

A new in-app Settings → Delete my data button now lets you erase your local data and your half of the shared couch in one tap, without having to email us. Your partner’s data on their device is unaffected. The email path described in section 11.2 still exists as a backup. We also corrected the location of the in-app reset (it lives under Settings, not in the Couch tab footer as previously stated). Affected sections: 11.1, 11.2, 12.

What changed on 2026-05-02 (material change)

The MovieDuo App now serves opt-in rewarded video ads inside the AI Search feature, supplied by Google AdMob. As a result we now collect and share the device advertising ID and a small set of related data when (and only when) you choose to watch an ad, and we ask EU/UK and California users for ad consent the first time the App launches under this version. The full disclosure is in section 5.5, section 6, and section 9.

1. Who we are

MovieDuo is a mobile application published by Adeeby Technologies LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States of America (Wyoming Secretary of State filing 2026-001939133, dated April 2, 2026).

In this policy, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to Adeeby Technologies LLC. “You” and “your” refer to the person using the MovieDuo mobile application (the “App”).

Registered office:

Adeeby Technologies LLC
30 N Gould St, Ste R
Sheridan, WY 82801
United States of America

Privacy contact: contact@adeeby.com

We will respond to privacy-related requests within 30 days, in accordance with applicable law.

2. What this policy covers

This policy explains:

  1. What information the App collects
  2. Where that information goes (on your device, to our servers, to third parties)
  3. Why we collect each type of information
  4. How long we keep it
  5. The rights you have over your information and how to exercise them
  6. The security measures we use to protect it
  7. How we will tell you if this policy changes

This policy applies only to the MovieDuo mobile application. It does not cover the Adeeby Technologies LLC corporate website (adeeby.com) or any other product. Those have their own policies.

3. The short version

If you only read one section, read this:

  • Most of your data stays on your phone. Your watchlist, your swipes (left and right), and your nickname are stored locally on your device. We do not see them unless you connect with a partner.
  • When you connect with a partner via a “couch code”, a small amount of data is shared. Specifically: your nickname, the codes of movies you swiped right on, and any matches between your right-swipes and your partner's right-swipes. This is the minimum data the matching feature needs to work.
  • Four third-party services receive some data when you use the App:
    1. Google Firebase (Firestore database) hosts the couch-code matching data.
    2. The Movie Database (TMDB) provides movie information and images.
    3. RapidAPI (specifically the “AI Movie Recommender” service) processes your AI search queries.
    4. Google AdMob serves the rewarded video ads in the AI Search feature, but only if you have already chosen to watch an ad (see the next bullet).
  • Ads are opt-in and only appear in the AI Search feature. You get one AI search per day for free. After that, if you want more, the App asks you to watch a rewarded video to unlock two additional searches. If you ignore the ad button, you simply do not see ads. The rest of the App (browse, swipe, match, watchlist, trailers) is and remains ad-free. We do not show banner ads, interstitial ads, or app-open ads anywhere.
  • We do not run analytics or behavioural profiling. No marketing pixels, no cross-app tracking SDKs, no Facebook SDK, no Mixpanel, no Crashlytics. Google AdMob does receive the device advertising ID and standard ad-request signals when you choose to watch an ad — that is unavoidable and is the disclosure we are making here.
  • We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13. The App is intended for adults.
  • You can delete all your data on demand. See section 11.

The rest of this policy is the long, legally precise version of the same content.

4. Information we collect, where it goes, and why

We are honest about every category. If a category does not apply, we say so explicitly.

4.1 Information you give us directly

What Where it’s stored Who can see it Why we collect it
Your chosen nickname (a name you type when you create or join a couch) On your device (Android SharedPreferences / iOS user defaults). Also written to our Firebase Firestore database when you create or join a couch. Stored on your device, only readable by your install of the App. Stored on Firebase, where it is accessible to the partner who joins the same couch code (and to us as the operator of the database). The matching feature needs to display your name to your partner, and vice versa, so each of you knows whose swipes you are seeing.
A 6-character “couch code” that the App generates when you create a room (or that you type in to join a partner’s room) Same as above. Same as above. The couch code is the only identifier that links two devices together so they can match. It is intentionally not tied to any account.
Your AI search query text (the natural-language sentence you type into the AI search bar, e.g. “a sci-fi movie with a twist”) Sent at the moment of search to a third-party API (RapidAPI’s “AI Movie Recommender” service, see section 5.3). Not stored on our servers. Read by RapidAPI for the duration of the request. May be retained by RapidAPI according to their own privacy policy. To return movie recommendations that match your description.

We do not collect: your real name, your email address, your phone number, your date of birth, your location, your photos, or any payment information.

4.2 Information we collect automatically about how you use the App

What Where it’s stored Who can see it Why we collect it
Your swipe history (movie IDs you swiped left or right on, plus a stored copy of the basic information about movies you liked, so the App can show you your watchlist offline) On your device only. Never sent to our servers in this form. Only your install of the App. So we can show you your watchlist, hide movies you have already swiped on, and remember what you liked between sessions.
The IDs of movies you swiped right on while inside an active couch Sent to our Firebase Firestore database while a couch is active. You and the partner who is inside the same couch code with you. Us as the operator of the database. The matching feature needs to compare your right-swipes against your partner’s right-swipes to detect mutual likes.
Synthetic user identifier (a string of the form user_<timestamp> generated to distinguish you from your partner inside a single couch) Stored on your device. Sent to Firebase as the hostId or guestId field on the couch document. Same as above. To distinguish whose swipe is whose inside a shared couch. This identifier is not tied to your real identity, is not used for tracking across sessions, and is regenerated each time you create or join a couch.
Your device’s locale (e.g. “en-US”, “fr-FR”) Used at runtime only. Not stored. Not sent to our servers. Only your device. To request streaming-availability information for your region from TMDB (e.g. so French users see Canal+ rather than Hulu).

We do not collect your device’s IMEI/MAC address, your installed apps, your contacts, your call logs, or your SMS messages. Whether we collect your IP address and your advertising ID depends on whether you trigger the rewarded ad path described in section 4.3.

4.3 Information collected only if you choose to watch a rewarded ad

The AI Search feature gives you one free search per day. If you want more, the App offers you a button labelled with a play icon. If — and only if — you tap that button, the App requests a rewarded video ad from Google AdMob, and the AdMob SDK collects and transmits the following information for the duration of the ad request:

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or California, the App will also show you a Google-issued consent dialog the first time you launch this version, asking whether you want personalised ads, non-personalised ads, or whether you would prefer not to be asked. Your choice is stored on your device and respected on every subsequent ad request. You can change it at any time by reopening the consent dialog — we will surface a “Privacy options” entry in the App’s settings for this purpose.

If you never tap the rewarded ad button, none of the above data leaves your device. The free daily AI search uses none of it.

4.4 Information we do NOT collect

We feel it is more useful to be explicit about what we do not collect than to leave you wondering. We do not collect:

The App contains exactly one third-party advertising SDK (Google AdMob, used as described in sections 4.3 and 5.5), no third-party analytics SDK, no third-party crash reporting SDK, and does not request any operating-system permission beyond Internet access (which is required to talk to the third-party services described in section 5).

5. Third-party services

The App relies on the following third-party services. We have no control over their data practices beyond what their published policies promise.

5.1 Google Firebase (Firestore database hosting)

5.2 The Movie Database (TMDB)

The App attribution credit “This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB” applies and is shown in the App where required.

5.3 RapidAPI (“AI Movie Recommender” service)

5.4 YouTube (trailer playback)

If you do not want YouTube to receive any data, do not tap the “Watch trailer” button. The rest of the App works without it.

5.5 Google AdMob (rewarded video ads in the AI Search feature)

If you do not want any data sent to AdMob, do not tap the rewarded-ad button. The first AI search of each calendar day, and the rest of the App, do not contact AdMob and do not require it.

5.6 What about the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and your device’s operating system?

When you download the App from the App Store or Google Play Store, those stores collect data according to their own policies, and your device’s operating system collects data according to Apple’s or Google’s policies. These are not within our control. We list them only so you know they are part of the picture.

6. Cookies, tracking pixels, advertising IDs, and the AdMob SDK

Browser cookies: not applicable. The App is a native mobile application, not a website, and does not use HTTP cookies for its own purposes. The embedded YouTube player (section 5.4) and the embedded AdMob ad-rendering surface (section 5.5) are independent of the App and may use storage mechanisms equivalent to cookies inside their own embedded views; that is governed by Google’s policies linked in those sections.

Tracking pixels: the App contains no tracking pixels of any kind.

Advertising IDs: the App does not read your advertising ID for its own purposes (we do not personalise content, we do not run analytics, we do not target you across other apps). The Google Mobile Ads SDK reads the advertising ID solely when you trigger a rewarded ad request, as disclosed in sections 4.3 and 5.5. If your operating system has “Limit Ad Tracking” (iOS) or “Reset advertising ID” (Android) controls enabled, those controls apply normally and Google’s SDK respects them.

Third-party SDKs we embed:

Third-party SDKs we do NOT embed: Facebook SDK, AppLovin, Unity Ads, ironSource, Vungle, Chartboost, AppsFlyer, Adjust, Branch, Singular, or any other ad mediation or attribution SDK. Google Analytics, Firebase Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Segment, PostHog, or any other product-analytics SDK. Sentry, Crashlytics, Bugsnag, Instabug, or any other crash-reporting SDK.

7. Children’s privacy

The App is not directed at children under the age of 13 (under the United States Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, “COPPA”) or under the age of 16 (the default age of digital consent under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”, though some EU member states set the age lower).

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the relevant age, we will delete it as quickly as we can. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe your child has used the App and provided us with personal information, please contact us at the address in section 1 and we will act promptly.

8. International transfers of data

We are a US-incorporated company. The third-party services we use (Firebase, TMDB, RapidAPI, YouTube) operate global infrastructure and may process data in countries outside your country of residence, including in the United States.

If you are in the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, or any other jurisdiction that restricts cross-border transfers of personal data, please be aware that by using the App you are sending the data described in section 4 across borders to the operators of those third-party services. Each of those operators publishes its own approach to international transfer compliance (e.g. Standard Contractual Clauses, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, etc.) in their respective privacy policies linked in section 5. We rely on those mechanisms; we do not transfer data on our own account beyond what those services receive.

9. Your rights under the GDPR (and the UK GDPR)

If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, you have the following rights with respect to the personal data we hold about you (which, as section 4 makes clear, is a small amount: essentially your nickname and your couch-code activity if you use the matching feature):

Legal bases. We process your personal data on more than one legal basis depending on the activity:

To exercise any of these rights, please email us at contact@adeeby.com. To withdraw or change your ad-consent choice specifically, you can also use the “Privacy options” entry inside the App’s settings, which reopens the same Google consent dialog. We will reply to email requests within 30 days.

EU representative: Adeeby Technologies LLC does not currently have an appointed representative in the European Union under Article 27 of the GDPR, on the basis that our processing is occasional and does not include large-scale processing of special category data, in line with the exception in Article 27(2)(a). We will appoint a representative if our circumstances change such that the exception no longer applies.

10. Your rights under California law (CCPA / CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act):

To exercise any of these rights, please email us at contact@adeeby.com. We will reply within the timeframes the CCPA requires.

11. How to delete your data

You have three options. The first one is the easiest and covers most cases.

11.1 In-app: Settings → Delete my data (recommended)

This is the fastest and most complete option. Open the App, tap the gear icon in the top-right of the Couch tab to open Settings, scroll to the Danger zone, and tap Delete my data. After you confirm, the App will:

This action is irreversible and takes effect immediately. The App will show you a confirmation message describing exactly what was removed.

If your phone is offline when you tap Delete my data, the local wipe still happens, but the server-side anonymisation may not. In that case use option 11.2 below to ask us to finish the job.

11.2 By email (backup option, useful if you have already uninstalled)

If you have already uninstalled the App, or if option 11.1 reported that the server-side step did not succeed, email contact@adeeby.com from the email address you would like us to reply to. Include the 6-character couch code you used (so we can find your data, since we have no other identifier for you) and tell us “please delete my MovieDuo data”. We will delete or anonymise the matching couch document and confirm by email within 30 days. We aim to act within five business days.

If you no longer have the couch code, we will not be able to identify your data on Firestore (this is a privacy benefit, not a bug — it means we cannot link your data to your real identity). In that case please tell us in the email and we will work with you to identify any couch document that may contain your record, on a best-effort basis.

11.3 To delete data stored on your device by uninstalling

If you simply want the App’s local data gone and do not care about the shared couch on our server, uninstalling the App from your phone is enough. Your operating system removes all locally stored App data when you uninstall.

This option does not remove your half of any shared couch on our server. To remove that, use option 11.1 before uninstalling, or option 11.2 after.

11.4 To request deletion from third parties

We cannot delete data on behalf of TMDB, RapidAPI, YouTube, or Google. If you want to ask them to delete what they hold about you, please use the contact details in their privacy policies linked in section 5. To withdraw or change your ad-consent choice with Google AdMob specifically, the Settings → Ad consent settings entry in the App reopens the Google consent dialog so you can change your selection at any time.

12. How long we keep your data

13. How we secure your data

14. Changes to this policy

We will update this policy when our data practices change. When we update it:

15. Contact

If you have any question about this policy or about how we handle your data:

Email: contact@adeeby.com

Postal mail:

Adeeby Technologies LLC
30 N Gould St, Ste R
Sheridan, WY 82801
United States of America

We aim to respond within 5 business days for general questions and within 30 days (or sooner where required by law) for formal data-rights requests.