Privacy Policy

WeMovies AI is a movie recommendation application built with a Next.js frontend and a FastAPI backend. The service helps users discover movies by analyzing temporary preference inputs — specifically the three movies a user rates during a recommendation session.

The product currently does not include user accounts, payments, or a long-term personal profile system. Our goal is to keep the experience lightweight while still being transparent about how data is processed in production.

• Recommendation inputs. When you use the recommendation feature, the app sends the three movies you select and the reactions you assign to them (for example, “loved it” or “dislike”).
• Contact form details. If you submit the contact form, we process the name, email address, subject, message, and submission timestamp needed to respond to your inquiry.
• Basic technical request data. Like most deployed web applications, our hosting and API infrastructure may process operational data such as IP address, request metadata, browser information, and server logs for delivery, debugging, uptime, and abuse prevention.
• We do not collect account or payment data. There is currently no sign-in system, subscription system, checkout flow, or stored billing information in WeMovies AI.

Recommendation inputs are used only to generate results for the current session. The frontend sends your selected movie IDs to the FastAPI backend, which runs inference using a hybrid recommendation model and returns a ranked list of movie suggestions.

• selected movie IDs are matched to the backend catalog for inference,
• the recommendation engine combines collaborative and content-based signals,
• results are enriched with movie metadata from TMDB before being returned to the frontend,
• recommendation inputs are not used to create a permanent personal identity profile for you.

In short: your ratings are processed to answer your request, not to build a user account history.

WeMovies AI relies on a small set of third-party services to operate. These services process data only to the extent needed to provide the product.

• TMDB provides movie metadata, search results, posters, overviews, ratings, and genre discovery data.
• Hugging Face hosts the recommendation model artifact used by the FastAPI backend. The model file is downloaded dynamically at runtime when needed.
• Resend is used to deliver contact form messages sent through `/api/contact`.
• Vercel hosts the Next.js frontend and frontend-side route handlers.
• Backend container hosting runs the FastAPI API and temporary model cache in a Docker environment.

These providers may maintain their own logs and operational safeguards under their respective terms and privacy policies.

WeMovies AI is intentionally designed to minimize long-term data retention.

• Recommendation inputs are used transiently to produce recommendation results and are not stored as a persistent user profile.
• Model files cached by the backend do not contain your personal data; they are machine learning artifacts used to serve inference.
• Contact form messages may be retained for as long as reasonably needed to respond, support operations, maintain records, or comply with legal obligations.
• Operational logs may be retained by our hosting providers for security, debugging, and reliability purposes under their normal retention practices.

We use reasonable technical and operational safeguards to protect the services that power WeMovies AI, including hosted infrastructure, environment-variable based secret management, and provider-managed HTTPS delivery.

No internet-based service can promise absolute security, but we aim to keep the data we process limited, practical, and aligned with the lightweight nature of the product.

• You may choose not to submit the contact form if you do not want us to process your message details.
• You may contact us to request deletion of information you submitted through the contact form, subject to any legal or operational obligations that require retention.
• Depending on your jurisdiction, you may also have rights to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information processed about you.

Because WeMovies AI does not currently provide account-based profiles, most recommendation interactions are session-like and not tied to a long-term user identity.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how the application handles data in practice, you can contact us at: