World Cinema Atlas

Privacy

Last updated 12 September 2026

You can use this site without an account, and nothing here asks who you are. Signing in exists for one reason: so the titles you save stay yours when you open the site on a different device.

If you never sign in

No account is created and nothing about you is written to any database. Your browser stores a couple of preferences locally — the interface language you picked, and whether you have seen the opening titles — and those never leave your device.

If you sign in with Google

Google tells us three things about you, and we store them:

Your Google account ID A number Google uses for you and only for this site. It is how we recognise you the next time.
Email address Shown back to you in the account panel so you know which account you are signed in as.
Name and profile picture Shown back to you in the account panel. Not shown to anyone else.

We do not ask Google for anything else — not your contacts, not your calendar, not your files. The permission screen you saw lists exactly what we requested.

Alongside that, we store what you do here:

That is the whole list. There is no profile built from your browsing, no advertising, and your data is never sold or shared with anyone.

Where it lives

On Cloudflare's infrastructure, in a database whose primary copy is in the Asia-Pacific region. The site itself is hosted by Cloudflare too. Cloudflare processes this data on our behalf and under their own privacy terms.

Cookies

One cookie, set only after you sign in. It holds a random string that identifies your session — nothing else, no name, no email. It is marked HttpOnly (scripts on the page cannot read it), Secure, and SameSite=Lax (other sites cannot use it to act as you). It expires after 90 days of not being used, and signing out deletes it on both ends.

There are no advertising or tracking cookies, and no third-party cookies at all.

Traffic measurement

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see how many people visit and which pages are slow. It is cookieless, does not fingerprint your device, and does not follow you to other sites. We can see aggregate numbers; we cannot see individuals.

Other services the page talks to

None of these are told who you are, and none of them receive your saved titles.

Deleting everything

Open the account panel (top right) and choose Delete account. It is immediate and complete: your account, your session, your saved and seen titles are removed from the database. There is no grace period and no archived copy, which also means it cannot be undone.

You can also revoke this site's access from your Google account permissions page. That stops future sign-ins but does not delete what is already stored here — use Delete account for that.

How long we keep things

Your account and saved titles stay until you delete them. Expired sessions are removed automatically.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 14, and we do not knowingly create accounts for them.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see, correct, export, or delete what we hold about you. The account panel already covers seeing and deleting it. For anything else, write to us.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or why, the date at the top changes and the new version is posted here before it takes effect.

Contact

[email protected]