Privacy

Provisionalia is a small, invitation-only site run by one person. This page says what it keeps and why. Last updated November 12, 2026.

Your account: name, email address and a hashed password (the password itself is never stored). A sign-in cookie, which is the only cookie the site sets.
Your lists: the titles on your Watchlist, Watched, Media and Wishlist, with the dates, notes, ratings, priorities, moods, and the names you type under “Watching with”.
Friends: who you are friends with and the access level you give each other, friend requests, recommendations you send and receive with their notes, and invites you send. When an invite leads to a join, a line recording who invited whom and when is kept for a year.
Zip code: if you enter one, the zip and the town it maps to, used for “near you”.
Listen: when you use Listen, a few seconds of audio are sent once to OpenAI to be turned into text and are not stored. The text is kept for 30 days so a match can be checked, then blanked. Which title you chose is kept.

Friends see what the access level you gave them allows: Basic Access shows your Media, Watchlist and ratings; Full Access also shows your criteria scores, taste match, watch together and Watch Calendar. Notes, priorities, moods and who you watch with are never shown to anyone.
TMDB (The Movie Database) supplies titles, posters, credits and streaming availability; the site sends it the titles you search for, not your account.
OpenAI receives Listen audio for transcription, as above.
OpenSubtitles supplies subtitle text the site indexes to recognise what is playing; nothing about you is sent to it.
Zippopotam.us is asked once, for the location of a zip code you enter.
The site runs on Railway, which hosts the database. There is no advertising and no analytics.

Change or remove a friend’s access level, or remove the friend, any time under My Account.
Clear your zip code, hide Listen, and remove any title or note yourself.
To delete your account or ask for a copy of your data, email support@provisionalia.com; it is done by hand for now.