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Privacy policy

Kanepe (Google Play package digital.onur.seyir) is a TV show tracking app by Onur Şahin (developer name on Google Play: Onur Digital). This page explains what data the app processes and why. Last updated: 3 October 2026 (version 2: social features, Google sign-in, Wikipedia descriptions, on-device translation).

Account

• On first launch the app creates a guest account on the server. A guest account has no e-mail or password; its name is generated from fixed word lists (e.g. SwiftOtter42). No real name is asked for.
• You may add an e-mail and password to the account (to reach your data on another phone). The password is stored only as a one-way hash; we cannot see it. The e-mail is not used for marketing and is never shared.
• You may sign in with Google or link your account to Google. Only your Google account ID (sub) and the e-mail address verified by Google are received; your name, photo and contacts are not. The account ID is stored to recognise your account; the e-mail is written only if your account has none. Because sign-in goes through Google's service, Google knows that you signed in (policies.google.com/privacy). If your account has a password you can remove the link in Settings.

Data kept on the server and visible only to you

• Your watchlist: which shows you follow, their status (watching / plan to watch / completed / dropped), your show rating, favourite flag and when it was added.
• Your watch history: episodes you marked as watched, when you marked them and your episode rating. Your episode-by-episode history is never shown to other users.
• Your quiz results: the day, score, number of correct answers, time and streak. Because the speed bonus is measured by the server's clock, the moment you started the day's quiz is recorded too (seeing the questions does not start the clock).
• Your app language, the age group you chose, the version of the terms of use you accepted and when.
• Session tokens (hashes only).
• Rate limits: IP addresses are not stored in the database. The server's access logs keep them for at most 14 days for security and abuse prevention. To limit abuse (sign-in attempts, account creation, registration, sync) only a keyed hash of the IP address and of the e-mail address typed in a sign-in attempt is kept, never the address itself. Short-lived counters stay in memory and are deleted once their window (at most one hour) has passed. Counters for sign-in attempts, account creation, registration and daily sync are kept in the database; the hash key changes every day and these counters are deleted within 2 days. Counters are not linked to your account.

The app does not read device IDs, the advertising ID, location, contacts or photos. There are no ads and no third-party analytics in the app. Your data is not sold.

Data other users may see (if you turn it on)

Social features are optional. Until you choose a username and accept the terms of use, none of your information is visible to other users (except the weekly league, below).

• Profile: your username, your generated name, up to 4 shows you put in your showcase and the summary the app calculates on your phone and sends (episodes and shows watched, total time, shows finished, favourite genres, badges). You can turn your profile off: then your profile shows only your username, your generated name and your follow counts (your reviews stay visible on show pages). If you change your username, your old name is not given to anyone else for 30 days (so a shared profile link does not lead to someone else); deleting your account deletes this record too.
• Reviews, comments and likes: reviews you write (with their rating and text) and comments are visible to everyone on the show's page under your username. Only the number of likes is shown, not who liked. You can delete your reviews and comments at any time.
• Following: a person you follow sees you among their followers; your profile shows how many people you follow and how many follow you.
• Activity: events such as "started watching", "finished a season", "finished a show" and "earned a badge" appear in your followers' feeds. You can turn activity sharing off in Settings.
• Age: when you turn on social features you choose your age group (under 15, 15-17, 18 and over). Only the group is stored, no date of birth is asked for; the group is shown to no one. Social features are off for under-15s; show tracking, the quiz and reactions stay available.
• Blocking: following between you and a person you block is removed in both directions and their content is not shown to you.

Social features can be switched off entirely on the server; while they are off none of the data in this section is shown.

Data shown only in aggregate

• Your reaction to an episode (shocked, cried, laughed, scared, legendary, bored), your "star of the episode" vote, your episode ratings and your show ratings are stored with your account, but other users see them only as totals, distributions and averages (e.g. the "Kanepe rating"); who gave what is never shown. If you write a review, its rating is shown with the review.
• In the weekly league table your generated name and quiz score are visible to other users.

Reports and moderation

If you report content or a person, the content, the reason and any note you write are stored for moderation; the reported person is not told who reported them. Inappropriate text may be rejected by an automatic filter, content with enough reports is hidden and reviewed. Accounts that break the rules may be suspended; a suspended account's content is not shown.

Usage counters

To understand which features are used, the app reports some events to the server (e.g. a card being shared, the app being installed from a shared link). The server does not link them to your account, your device or your IP address; it keeps only an anonymous daily total per event name. Clicks on shared links are counted the same way.

TVmaze

Show, season, episode and schedule information comes directly from TVmaze. Your phone therefore connects to TVmaze on search and show pages and TVmaze sees the IP address of that connection; your watchlist is not sent to TVmaze, only the page you open is requested. TVmaze data is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TVmaze privacy policy: tvmaze.com/site/privacy.

Wikipedia descriptions

A show's description comes from the Wikipedia article in your app language, if there is one. Our server, not your phone, fetches and caches the article; nothing about you is sent to Wikipedia. If you tap the article link, your browser opens Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Discovery and recommendations

Discovery filters, similar shows and recommendations come from the server. When you ask for recommendations the IDs of the shows you follow and liked are sent; the server uses them only for that response and does not store them. Your device's country code may be sent for the popular list.

On-device translation

If a description is only available in English you can translate it on your phone. Translation is done on the phone with Google ML Kit; the translated text never leaves your phone. The language model (about 30 MB) is downloaded from Google on first use. ML Kit sends anonymous usage information to Google: the selected languages, device and app information, performance, the length of the text and error codes. The text itself is not sent. Translations are labelled "automatic translation" on screen.

Notifications

New-episode and daily-quiz reminders are scheduled locally on the phone. The server sends no notifications and collects no notification token. They can be turned off in Settings.

Retention and deletion

• Data is kept while the account exists. Guest accounts with no data that are unused for 30 days are deleted automatically; session tokens unused for 180 days are deleted; the moment you started a quiz is deleted after 7 days; rate-limit counters are deleted within 2 days.
• To delete your account: in the app, Profile > Settings > Delete account. The account and all its data (watchlist, history, quiz, profile, reviews, comments, likes, follows, activity, reactions, reports, blocks, Google link) are deleted immediately and irreversibly. If you cannot access the app: account deletion page.
• Data on the phone is removed when the app is uninstalled.

Contact

[email protected]

Dizi verisi: TVmaze.com (CC BY-SA 4.0)