Privacy policy

When you create an account on Will It Scare Me, we collect the following information:

• Account information: your username, email address, and password (stored securely using industry-standard hashing)
• Profile information: any optional details you add to your profile, such as a display name or bio
• Usage data: your ratings, reviews, list and forum activity, and which title pages you open (used for your recently viewed list and for site-wide trending)

We use your information to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve the site
• Authenticate your identity and manage your account
• Display your public profile, ratings, and reviews to other users
• Send transactional emails such as account verification and password resets
• Enforce our Terms and Conditions and moderate content

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We do not use your data for targeted advertising.

The site integrates with the following third-party services to provide content data:

• TMDB (The Movie Database) for movie information and poster images
• OMDB (The Open Movie Database) for external critic ratings
• Open Library for book information

These services may have their own privacy policies. Your personal account information is not shared with these services.

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information, including:

• Passwords are hashed using industry-standard algorithms and are never stored in plain text
• Communication between your browser and our servers is encrypted using TLS
• Only the people who run the site can access account data

While we strive to protect your data, no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

The site uses cookies and similar technologies solely for essential site functionality, such as maintaining your login session. We do not use tracking cookies or third-party analytics cookies. We count page views with analytics software we run ourselves (Umami). It sets no cookies, does not identify you, honours your browser's Do Not Track setting, and nothing it records leaves our servers.

You have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information
• Delete your account and associated personal data
• Export your data in a portable format

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at support@willitscare.me.

The site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete that information promptly.