Pass the Remote privacy policy

Effective November 2, 2026

Pass the Remote (“the app”) picks a movie for you and your partner from the streaming services you have. It’s made by Other Half Marketing LLC (“we”). This policy explains what the app collects, why, who sees it, and how to delete it. It covers the iPhone and Android apps and the Pass the Remote web pages for group nights and invites.

The short version: we collect only what’s needed to pick movies for you. We don’t sell your information or use it for advertising. You can delete your account and all your data from inside the app at any time.

What we collect

When you create an account

• Your email address (or a private relay address if you use Sign in with Apple), and your first name.
• Your phone’s time zone, so the nightly reset and reminders happen at the right local time.
• If you sign in with Apple, a token from Apple that we keep only so we can cancel your Sign in with Apple link if you delete your account.

When you use the app

• Your answers during sign-up: your streaming services, dealbreakers (for example, no horror), your “this or that” answers, and movies you say you loved.
• Movies you mark as seen, and your answers to “Did you watch it?” after a pick (watched and liked it, watched and didn’t like it, or didn’t watch).
• The picks made for you and your partner, and your pick settings (rentals, seen movies, quality).
• If you turn on notifications, a notification token for your phone.

Group nights

• Guests join from a web link and give only a nickname (no account, no email), their “hard nos,” a mood vote, which options they’ve seen, and their vote. All of it is deleted within a day after the group night ends (group nights end 6 hours after they start).
• The guest page keeps a small pass in the guest’s browser so a refresh doesn’t lose their place. It isn’t used for anything else and isn’t a tracking cookie.
• To stop people guessing join codes, we keep a scrambled (one-way hashed) version of the internet address that entered a wrong code, for about an hour. It can’t be turned back into the address, and correct codes aren’t recorded.
• Hosts: we keep the movie each of your group nights ended on, with the date, for 90 days, so your next group nights don’t repeat it. It doesn’t include anything about your guests.

Crash reports and usage

• If you’ve allowed it in your phone’s settings, Apple or Google shares crash reports with us (device model, operating system, app version, and where the app stopped). They don’t include your name or email.
• A record of some actions in the app, such as opening it, sharing a pick, or playing a trailer, linked to your account, to see which features are used. We keep this ourselves; it isn’t shared or used for advertising.

What we don’t collect: your location (only your time zone), your contacts, photos, or anything from your streaming accounts. We never ask for your streaming passwords.

How we use it

To pick movies for you, to learn your taste over time, to run group nights, to send the “Did you watch it?” reminder if you’ve turned notifications on, to keep the app working and secure, and to fix problems.

Who can see it

• Your partner sees your first name, your shared services and pick settings, your shared picks, and how well each pick matches each of you (a percentage), and your movie couple type, which can name up to three tastes you both share. Your partner does not see your dealbreakers, your seen list, your “Did you watch it?” answers, your taste answers, or picks you make just for yourself (“Just me tonight”).
• People in a group night see each other’s nicknames, who has voted (not what they voted for), the options, and the result.
• Service providers that run the app for us, only as needed to provide their service:
  • Supabase: database, sign-in, and live group night updates
  • Expo: delivering notifications, app updates, and hosting the group night and invite web pages
  • Resend: sign-in code emails
  • Apple and Google: if you sign in with them, and to deliver notifications to your phone
• Movie data: movie details and posters come from The Movie Database (TMDB), and streaming availability from JustWatch. We don’t send them your personal information, but your phone or browser loads poster images directly from TMDB’s servers, so they see your device’s internet address, as any website would.
• Trailers: if you play a trailer, it opens on YouTube (owned by Google), which sees your device’s internet address and applies its own privacy policy. We don’t send YouTube anything about you.

We don’t sell or rent your information, and we don’t share it for advertising.

How long we keep it

• Your account information: as long as you have an account.
• Group night guest information: deleted within a day after the group night ends.
• A host’s group night results: 90 days.
• Scrambled internet addresses from wrong join codes: about an hour.

When you delete your account, your data is deleted right away; copies in our providers’ backups expire on their normal schedule.

Deleting your account

In the app, go to Settings → Delete account and type DELETE to confirm. This permanently deletes your account and everything linked to you, and if you signed in with Apple, cancels the app’s Sign in with Apple link. If you’re paired, your partner keeps your shared services and pick history. You can also email us at support@otherhalfmarketing.com to ask us to delete your data; see how to delete your account.

Children

The app isn’t directed at children under 13, and accounts are for people 13 and older. Group nights may include children; guests give only a nickname, and we ask that they don’t use real names. If you believe a child under 13 has given us personal information, contact us and we’ll delete it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your information, or to know how it’s used. Use the in-app deletion, or contact us at support@otherhalfmarketing.com, and we’ll respond within the time the law requires.

Security

Your data is stored with access controls that let each person reach only their own and their couple’s information. Group night guests can only act through checks on their join code and a private pass. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information.

Changes

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date above and, for significant changes, let you know in the app.

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