Privacy Policy

What we collect

Your account

Your email address, and your name if you give it or your Google or Apple account shares it. When you sign in with Google or Apple we receive an identifier for that account, never your password.

If you make films

What you put on your filmmaker page (name, studio, bio, links, pictures) — which is public — and your films, their listings and trailers. Stripe holds your identity and bank details for payouts; we store only your Stripe account reference and whether it can be paid.

What you buy

Which film, which offer, the price, the currency and when. Card details go straight to Stripe and never reach us.

What you watch

When you play a film, which film it is, how far through you got, and the kind of device (phone, computer, TV) — so we can pick up where you left off, and show filmmakers how their films are watched. Filmmakers see totals, never who watched.

Where you are

We work out your country from your IP address, using a database that runs on our own servers, to apply the countries a film is licensed in. We don't store your IP address with your account; it appears in our server logs, which we keep for Log retention period — to be confirmed.

Copyright notices

If you send a copyright notice or counter-notice, the contact details and statements in it. See below for who sees them.

Why we use it

• To run your account and deliver what you bought — necessary to perform our contract with you.
• To pay filmmakers, keep financial records and meet tax and legal duties — a legal obligation.
• To prevent fraud, piracy and abuse, and to secure the site — our legitimate interest in a safe service.
• To email you about your purchases, films and account. We don't send marketing email without asking first.

Who we share it with

• Filmmakers see totals about their films — sales, plays, countries — but not who bought or watched.
• Stripe processes payments and pays filmmakers, and uses payment data to prevent fraud.
• Amazon Web Services hosts Projektor and sends our email, in the United States.
• Google and Apple, if you sign in with them, learn that you signed in to Projektor.
• Wikidata: when a film is published we look up its title to check whether it's a studio film. Only the title is sent — it's about to be public anyway.
• Copyright notices. When we act on a notice, we tell the filmmaker who complained (name or company) and what work they say was copied. A filmmaker's counter-notice, including their contact details, is forwarded to the person who complained — the law requires it.
• Authorities, when the law requires it, and anyone who buys or takes over Projektor, under this policy.

We don't sell personal data, or share it for advertising.

How long we keep it

Account data until you close your account. Purchase and payout records for as long as tax law requires (typically seven years). Copyright notices for as long as they may be needed to defend a claim or apply our repeat-infringer policy.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, or object to how we use it, by writing to privacy@projektor.com. Some records we must keep even after you close your account, such as purchase records. If you're in the EU or UK you can also complain to your data protection authority; if you're in California, you have the rights the CCPA gives you, and we don't sell or share your personal information as it defines those terms.

Projektor is run from the United States, so your data is processed there. Where the law requires it, we rely on standard contractual clauses for transfers.

Children

Projektor isn't for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Cookies

We only use the cookies the site needs to work. The cookies page lists them.

Changes and contact

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll tell you first. Questions: privacy@projektor.com, or write to Postal address — to be confirmed.