The short version
- The app works without an account. If you never sign in, your ratings and watchlist stay on your device and are never uploaded.
- Signing in turns on sync, which stores your ratings, watchlist, and series progress on our servers so they follow you between devices.
- We show ads, which involves Google AdMob and, only if you allow it, your device's advertising identifier.
- We do not sell your personal information.
- You can delete your account and all associated data from inside the app, at any time: You > Account > Delete account.
Who we are
ReelDeal is a movie and television recommendation app operated by Nerdy Executive Labs Inc. In this policy, "ReelDeal," "we," "us," and "our" refer to Nerdy Executive Labs Inc. and the ReelDeal app and service.
1. What the app stores on your device
Whether or not you have an account:
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Titles you rate, and how much you enjoyed them | The recommendation engine runs on this |
| Your watchlist | To show it back to you |
| How far through a series you are | Continue watching and new-episode alerts |
| Streaming services you subscribe to | So recommendations can say where you can watch |
| Language preferences, filters, sort order, recent searches | To keep the app the way you left it |
| Titles you have passed on, and until when | So the same suggestions stop reappearing |
| Cached title metadata from TMDB | So the app works offline |
This lives in the app's private storage and is removed when you delete the app. Your login session is stored in the iOS Keychain, marked device-only so it is never carried onto another device by an iCloud or iTunes backup.
2. What we store on our servers
Only if you create an account. Without one, nothing in this section applies except section 4 (Ask) and section 6 (advertising).
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Email address | To identify your account and let you sign back in |
| Ratings, watchlist, series progress | Sync between your devices |
| A handle and display name, if you choose one | So friends can find you |
| Your phone number, only if you enter it | Optional friend discovery, described below |
| Who you follow | The friends feature |
| Watch party membership and votes | The shared shortlist feature; deleted within 12 hours |
| Product analytics events, described in section 5 | To find out which recommendations actually work |
Phone numbers. Entering one is optional and the app works fully without it. It is stored only so that someone who already has your number in their contacts can find you. It is never readable through our API, not by other users and not even by you; the app keeps its own local copy to show you what you entered. Lookups are exact-match only and capped per person per day, so the directory cannot be crawled.
Ratings visible to others. A person you have approved as a follower can see titles you rated 3 out of 5 or higher. Ratings below that, and anything you mark private, are never visible to anyone else.
3. Anonymous (guest) sessions
Trying the Ask feature before signing up creates an anonymous account with no email and no credentials. It exists to give the daily usage limit something to count against. Nothing personal is synced to it, and it cannot be signed back into once the app is deleted.
4. Ask, and what goes to OpenAI
When you use Ask, we send to OpenAI: your question, a short summary of your taste profile (genres and moods, with no titles you rated and no identity), and a shortlist of candidate titles our own engine picked.
We do not send your email, user id, name, phone number, or rating history. OpenAI processes this to choose from the shortlist and does not use API content to train its models. See OpenAI's privacy policy.
Ask is limited to 15 questions per day per account, and 3 per day for guests.
5. Analytics
The app records a fixed, closed list of events, such as app opened, card opened, rating given, watchlist add, and ad shown, each with an optional title id and a per-launch session id. There is no free-text field, no advertising id, and no device fingerprinting in this data.
You can switch this off at You > Help improve recommendations. Turning it off also discards anything already queued on your device.
6. Advertising
The app shows ads supplied by Google AdMob. To do that, Google receives information about your device and your interaction with the ads, and may use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA).
- On first launch you will see Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt. If you decline, or never answer, the IDFA is not shared and you get non-personalised ads instead. The app works identically either way.
- In the EU, UK, and Switzerland you will additionally see a consent form before any ad loads, where you can accept or refuse each purpose. You can reopen it at any time at You > Privacy & ad settings.
- Google's handling of this data is governed by its own policies: Google privacy and AdMob data disclosure.
We do not give Google your email address, your ratings, your watchlist, or anything else from section 2.
7. Everyone we share data with
| Who | What they get | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Everything in section 2 | Our database and authentication provider |
| OpenAI | The Ask payload in section 4 | To answer your question |
| Google AdMob | The ad data in section 6 | To serve ads |
| TMDB | The searches and titles you request | Film and television metadata |
| OMDb | Title identifiers | Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores |
Apple never gives us your Apple ID when you use Sign in with Apple, only an opaque identifier and, if you allow it, a relay email address.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising beyond what section 6 describes.
8. How long we keep things
- Account data: until you delete your account.
- Analytics events: automatically deleted after 180 days.
- Watch parties: automatically deleted 12 hours after creation.
- Guest sessions: removed with their usage counters on the same schedule.
9. Your rights, and how to use them
Delete everything, in the app, right now: You > Account > Delete account. This erases your account, ratings, watchlist, progress, follows, analytics events, and usage counters from our servers, and wipes the copy on your device. It cannot be undone.
Depending on where you live (GDPR in the EEA and UK, CCPA and CPRA in California, and similar laws elsewhere) you also have the right to access, correct, port, or restrict processing of your data, and to object to it. Write to admin@nerdyexecutive.com and we will respond within 30 days. You may also complain to your local data protection authority.
Legal bases under GDPR: contract for section 2 sync and section 4 Ask; consent for section 5 analytics and section 6 personalised ads, each withdrawable in the app; legitimate interest for security, abuse prevention, and non-personalised ads.
10. Children
ReelDeal is not directed at children under 13, or under 16 in the EEA and UK, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, contact admin@nerdyexecutive.com and we will delete it.
11. Security
Data in transit is encrypted with TLS. Your session token is held in the iOS Keychain, not in app storage. On our servers, every table enforces row-level security so one account cannot read another's rows, and your phone number is not exposed through the API at all. No system is perfectly secure, but we do not store passwords ourselves; authentication is handled by Supabase.
12. International transfers
Our infrastructure and the third parties in section 7 may process your data in the United States. Transfers out of the EEA and UK rely on Standard Contractual Clauses.
13. Changes
Material changes will be announced in the app before they take effect, and the date at the top of this page will change.
14. Contact
Nerdy Executive Labs Inc.
admin@nerdyexecutive.com