Screen Night keeps track of what you watch. To do that across your devices it stores a small amount of data about you — and nothing beyond that. This page says exactly what, where it goes, and how to get rid of it.
Effective 2 October 2026
Screen Night contains no analytics service, no advertising SDK, no crash-reporting service, and no third-party tracking of any kind. It does not use the device advertising identifier (IDFA) and never asks to track you across other apps or websites. It does not collect your location. If you use Friends, it checks your contacts for people you know without keeping your address book — see “Friends” below.
We do not sell or rent your personal data, and we share it with no one you haven’t chosen to share it with. There is no advertising in the app, so there is no one to sell it to.
What we do store is the account you sign in with, and the shows and episodes you track — because that is the product. If you choose to use Friends, we also store what it needs to connect you with people you know, and your friends see what you’re watching.
When you sign up with an email address, we store that address and a securely hashed form of your password. We never store or see your password in readable form. If you sign in with Apple, we receive an email address — yours, or a private relay address if you choose Hide My Email — and your name, if you choose to share it. If you sign in with Google or Facebook, we receive your email address and the basic profile they share: your name and a link to your profile picture. Your name is shown on the app’s Settings screen; the picture isn’t shown or used, and is kept only because the sign-in system records what those services send. With any of the three, we never see your password for that service.
When you add a show, mark an episode watched, or rate something, we store that so it survives a reinstall and follows you to another device. It is information about the shows and when you did something — never free text, notes, or anything you write:
| Stored | What it contains |
|---|---|
| Watchlist | Each show’s ID, title, poster link and network, and when you added it. |
| Watched episodes | The show and episode IDs, the season and episode number, when you marked it, and the show’s genre labels. |
| Ratings | The show ID, your rating, when you rated it, and the show’s genre labels. |
Genre labels are stored alongside your ratings and watch history so the app can suggest shows without having to look every title up again. They describe the show, not you.
Each record also notes when it last changed, so your devices can sync just what’s new. When you remove a show, unmark an episode or clear a rating, the record is kept marked as removed rather than erased, so your other devices remove it too. All of it goes when you delete your account.
If you unlock Screen Night with a promo code, we store which code you redeemed and when, so that each code can only be used once. That is the whole record — a code, a timestamp, and the account it belongs to.
If you send feedback from inside the app (Settings → Send Feedback or Report a Bug), we store your message, the app and iOS versions you were using, which account sent it and when, and email it to us so we can read it and reply to your account’s email address. At most ten messages a day can be sent from one account. The stored copy is deleted with your account; the email we received stays in our inbox. If you email us instead, we see only what you send.
Friends is optional; none of this is collected unless you set it up. When you do:
| Stored | What it contains |
|---|---|
| Your profile | The name you choose, the avatar you pick (an emoji and a color from Screen Night’s own set; nobody uploads photos), whether people who have your number can find you, and whether you’ve paused sharing. If you add your phone number, we store a scrambled form of it rather than the number itself; the number as you typed it stays on your phone. Nobody can read the scrambled form through Screen Night, but because phone numbers are short, someone who got hold of our database could work it back to the number. |
| Contact matches | To find friends, your phone scrambles the phone numbers in your contacts the same way and sends them to be compared with people on Screen Night who have chosen to be findable. They are compared and discarded, not stored. What we keep is the record that you have a findable person’s number, so that when each of you has the other’s number you can be suggested to each other. Each record stops counting after 60 days unless a newer check renews it. We also keep the time of your phone’s most recent check, which helps us work out what went wrong if finding friends doesn’t work. Your address book is never uploaded or kept. |
| Friends and requests | Who you’re connected to, requests you’ve sent or received, and when. |
| Invite link | A random code for your invite link, which you can reset at any time. |
| Hidden shows, dismissed suggestions and blocks | Shows you’ve hidden from friends, people you’ve dismissed from People You May Know, and people you’ve blocked. |
| Reports | If you report someone: who you reported, the reason, any note you wrote, and their name at the time. Reports are read by us and are never shown to the person reported. |
| Notification devices | So Friends notifications reach you, the push address Apple gives the app on each of your phones, and a short-lived record of each Friends notification sent (who it was for, who it was about, what kind, when). Each record is deleted after 30 days. |
What friends see. The people you connect with see your name and avatar, the shows you’re watching and how far along you are, the shows you’ve finished, and the shows you loved or liked — with the day you last watched or rated each one, and how many episodes you’ve watched, in all and recently. They never see your email address, your phone number, your watch list, or the shows you didn’t like. Your name and avatar are also shown to anyone who opens your invite link or a show you recommend from Screen Night (a recommendation carries your invite, so it works as one), and, if you’re findable, to people whose number you have and who have yours. Anyone who opens one of those links in Screen Night can connect with you straight away; if one ends up somewhere you didn’t mean it to, choose Replace Invite Link in Friends Settings and the old links stop working. You can hide any show, pause sharing, remove a friend, or stop being findable at any time.
To prevent abuse, we briefly record when some Friends actions were used, such as contact checks and reports, and delete those records after a day, apart from the time of your most recent contact check, described above.
Episode reminders and the weekly reminder are scheduled entirely on your device. Nothing about what you watch is sent anywhere to produce them. The only notifications sent from our servers are for Friends — a friend request, an accepted request, someone joining from your invite or from your contacts — and they are delivered by Apple’s push notification service. Friends may also send your phone a silent signal to check your contacts right away; it carries no information about anyone.
When something goes wrong, the app writes technical detail to the device's own system log to help with troubleshooting. That stays on your device and is not transmitted to us.
Screen Night is a small app and relies on a small number of outside services. Each one receives only what it needs to do its job:
Your data is stored on servers in the United States. If you are using Screen Night from elsewhere, that means your information is transferred to and processed there.
You can delete your account at any time from inside the app — Settings → Delete Account. If your subscription has lapsed and you're seeing the subscribe screen instead, Delete Account is on that screen too, so deleting never requires paying first. Deletion removes your account record along with your watchlist, watched episodes, ratings, and everything Friends stored about you, and it can't be undone. If you'd rather not use the app to do it, email mike@redrockappsllc.com from the address on the account and we'll delete it for you.
Within Friends you can change your name, remove your phone number, stop being findable, pause sharing, hide a show, remove a friend, or block someone at any time, from the Friends tab.
Deleting your account doesn't cancel an active subscription — that's managed separately through your Apple ID, and the app will tell you to cancel it first if one is active.
You can export your watch list, watch history and ratings yourself at any time, from Settings → Your Data → Export My Data. The file is made on your phone and goes only where you send it. You may also ask us for a copy of the data we hold about you, or ask us to correct it. Depending on where you live — including the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and California — you may have additional rights to access, correct, delete, or port your personal data, and to object to how it is used. We honour these requests regardless of where you live. Write to the address above and we will respond.
Your account and tracking data are kept for as long as your account exists. When an account is deleted, the associated records are removed at the same time. One exception, for honesty's sake: if you redeemed a promo code, the record that the code was used outlives the account — but it is stripped of any link to you, so what remains identifies a spent code and nothing about a person. Feedback and reports also reach us by email, and those emails stay in our inbox after an account is deleted. To recover from mistakes, we keep a nightly backup copy of the database for 30 days, on encrypted storage we control in the United States; backups are used only to restore data, never for anything else. A deleted account is therefore gone from every backup within 30 days.
Screen Night is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has given us their information, write to us and we will delete it.
When this policy is updated, the effective date at the top of the page changes with it. If a change materially affects how your information is handled, we will say so in the app rather than relying on you to check.