Sceen Terms of Service
Last updated: October 23, 2026
These are the terms for using Sceen, a movie and TV-show rating app
(the “App”, “we”, “us”, “our”), run by an independent developer
(contact: jackgerlach1@gmail.com). By creating an account or
using the App you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the
App.
1. Who can use Sceen
You must be at least 13 years old to use Sceen. We collect your birth
year at signup and reject accounts under 13. If you sign up with a false
birth year, we may delete your account when we find out.
If you are between 13 and the age of majority where you live, you confirm
that you have permission from a parent or guardian.
2. Your account
- You are responsible for keeping your password secret.
- You are responsible for what happens through your account.
- One person, one account. Don’t share accounts.
- If you sign in with Apple or Google, the same rules apply.
You can delete your account at any time. See the Privacy Policy for what
that does to your data.
3. What you can do on Sceen
You can:
- Rate movies and TV shows.
- Build a watchlist.
- Follow other users and see their ratings.
- Get AI recommendations based on your taste.
- Export your library as a text file and share it with an app you choose.
- Connect Sceen to your own account with a third-party app that supports
our connector (for example an AI assistant) so it can read your
library, see your friends’ names, help you pick something to watch with
a friend, and, if you allow it, save your scores (see §8, Connected
services).
4. What you can’t do
You agree not to:
- Post comments or content that is hateful, harassing, sexually explicit
toward minors, threatening, or illegal.
- Impersonate another person.
- Try to break, scrape, or overload the App or our servers.
- Try to read or modify other people’s data.
- Use the App to send spam.
- Reverse-engineer the App for purposes other than security research and
interoperability allowed by law.
Zero tolerance, reporting, and blocking
We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. We
remove content and suspend or ban accounts that break these rules.
- Report a user or a post from the “•••” menu on their profile, or by
pressing and holding their post in the Feed. We review reports within
24 hours.
- Block a user from the same menu. They can no longer follow you, any
follow between you is removed, and you stop seeing them in the App. You
can unblock them from their profile.
5. Your ratings and content
- You keep ownership of the ratings, watchlist entries, comments, and
profile content you create.
- You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host,
store, display, and (for comments) show your content to the people you
share it with on Sceen — for the purpose of running the App.
- You confirm that you have the right to post anything you upload
(including profile pictures).
When you delete content, the license ends except for backups that are
overwritten on our normal schedule.
6. Movie and show data
Sceen uses The Movie Database (TMDB) for movie and show metadata,
posters, and search. The metadata, images, and ratings come from TMDB and
its contributors — not from us. TMDB has its own terms of service, which
apply to that content.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
7. AI recommendations
Sceen offers AI-powered recommendations. These are generated by
third-party models — our server tries providers in cascade order until
one succeeds: Groq, NVIDIA, Cerebras, and Google (Gemini) — using
prompts assembled from your taste profile. See Privacy Policy §4 for
what data is sent to them.
AI suggestions can be wrong, biased, or repeat the same titles. Treat them
as suggestions, not facts.
We rate-limit AI sessions per user per day to keep the service available.
8. Connected services
You can connect Sceen to your own account with a third-party app that
supports our connector (for example Claude, made by Anthropic) so that it
can read your Sceen library on your behalf. The App offers one-tap setup
for Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini. Connecting is optional, and
nothing is connected unless you approve it on our consent page. We do
not vet apps that request a connection; approving one is your decision.
- You must be 18 or older to connect an app. Accounts in the 13–17
age bracket are not eligible. §1’s parent-or-guardian permission does
not extend to this feature.
- What a connected app can do. It can read your ratings, watchlist,
“not interested” list, streaming preferences, and age bracket, and
search title metadata through our server. It can see your friends’
names, and, when you ask it to pick something to watch with one friend
who is 18 or older with a public profile, limited information about
that friend’s taste. It can save your score for a movie or show only if
you turn on “Let AI apps save scores” in the App, up to 100 saves per
day. Our database rejects every other write from connector
credentials. A score a connected app saves on your instruction is your
rating under these terms. Privacy Policy §3 (“Services you connect”)
lists exactly what our connector tools return, what they never return,
and what the credential itself carries.
- Their terms, not ours. The app you connect is run by someone else,
under its own terms and privacy policy. We are not responsible for
what that app does with the data you authorize it to read, for what it
tells you, or for whether it works. Anything it says about your Sceen
library is its statement, not ours.
- It acts as you. Requests a connected app makes with the credential
you approved count as your use of Sceen under these terms, including
§4. Keep your account with that app secure, and disconnect Sceen there
if you stop trusting it.
- Limits and suspension. We rate-limit connected-service requests
per account. We may suspend, limit, or revoke a connection, a
particular app, or the connected-services feature as a whole — for
abuse, to protect the App or other users, or because the third-party
app changes in a way we cannot support — with notice when we can.
- Disconnecting. The credential does not expire on its own — it
renews automatically until you disconnect or we revoke it. Remove the
connection in the connected app’s settings, or email us (§15) and we
will revoke it. Deleting your Sceen account revokes every connection.
- Logging. We keep a log of each connected-service request — tool
name, time, connected app, duration, and row count, never the content
of what was returned — to run rate limits and detect abuse. When a
connected app saves a score, we also log the title, the old and new
score, and which app saved it, so you can see and undo it. See Privacy
Policy §1 and §5.
9. Subscriptions and payments
If we offer paid subscriptions, payment is handled by the App Store
(Apple) or Play Store (Google). Their refund and renewal policies apply.
Cancel a subscription through your App Store or Play Store account, not
through us.
We may change pricing for new subscriptions. Existing subscribers will be
notified before any change to a renewal price.
10. We can change the App and the terms
We can add features, change features, or shut features down. If we make a
substantive change to these terms, we will bump the version date and ask
you to accept again the next time you open the App.
If you keep using the App after a change, that counts as accepting the new
version.
11. Termination
You can stop using Sceen at any time and delete your account.
We can suspend or terminate your account if you break these terms, if we
are required to by law, or if running the account creates an unreasonable
risk for the App or other users. We will try to give you notice when we
can.
12. Disclaimers
The App is provided “as is” and “as available”. We do not promise
that the App will always be available, error-free, secure, or that
recommendations will be accurate. To the extent allowed by law, we
disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability and fitness for
a particular purpose.
13. Limit of liability
To the extent allowed by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental,
or consequential damages arising from your use of the App. Our total
liability for any claim arising from the App is limited to the amount you
have paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or USD 50, whichever is
greater.
Some places do not allow these limits. In that case the limits apply only
as far as the law allows.
14. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA,
without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be resolved in the
state or federal courts located in California, unless local law gives you
the right to bring a claim where you live.
Questions about these terms?
Email: jackgerlach1@gmail.com