poppd — Terms of Use

Effective: 3 September 2026

This page describes how the app actually behaves and what we ask of you, in plain language rather than boilerplate. Questions: privacy@poppd.io.

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Sami Rehman, an individual developer, of E1-05 Meydan South Villas, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, about your use of poppd. Using the app means you accept them.

The app is under active development. Features will change and some things will break. What we are and are not responsible for is in §9.

Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with your data and forms part of these terms.

2. What the app does

poppd lets you record movies you have watched, rate them on a five-point scale, build a taste profile, find people with similar taste, and get recommendations.

Recommendations are suggestions, not promises. A match score is a compatibility score based on your ratings and other users' — not a prediction that you will enjoy a film. Movie information, running times, age certifications, posters and artwork come from a third party (TMDB) and may be incomplete, out of date or wrong; do not rely on a certification shown in the app as an authoritative age rating.

3. Your account

• You need an account. That means an email address and a password, or — on an iPhone — Sign in with Apple.
• You must be at least 13 to use poppd. We ask you to confirm that when you create your profile and we record the confirmation, but we do not verify it and we do not collect your date of birth.
• One account per person. Creating accounts to inflate your own influence on recommendations is not allowed (§5).
• Keep your sign-in details to yourself. Tell us at privacy@poppd.io if you think someone else has access.
• You can delete your account at any time from Settings. See the Privacy Policy for exactly what is deleted and what is kept.

4. Your username, photo and bio

You choose a username and may add a photo and a short bio. They must not impersonate anyone, and must not contain slurs or abusive terms — the app blocks a list of these outright, and a blocked username or bio will simply be refused.

What we do with them. They stay yours. By using poppd you give us permission to store them and to show them inside the app to the people your privacy settings allow — that is what a profile is — and to process your ratings to produce recommendations and taste matches for you and for other users, as the Privacy Policy describes. That permission lasts as long as your account and ends when you delete it. We do not use them anywhere else: not in advertising, not to train anything, and we do not sell them.

We may remove or require a change to a username, photo or bio that breaks these terms.

5. Fair use

Do not:

• rate films in bulk, or in patterns designed to push a film up or down other people's recommendations — the recommendation engine is a shared resource and manipulating it affects everyone;
• create fake or automated accounts, or run scripts against the app or its API;
• harass, impersonate or abuse other users;
• submit reports you know to be false, or report the same account repeatedly to harass them — reporting is rate-limited and repeated reports of the same account will be refused;
• attempt to access data the app does not show you, or to work around the privacy settings of another account;
• copy, scrape or redistribute movie data or artwork from the app.

Movie data and artwork come from The Movie Database and are subject to TMDB's own terms. The app displays:

Movie data from TMDB. This product uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

6. Safety tools

We have no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. Content or accounts that break these terms will be removed, and users who abuse others can be removed without notice.

You can block an account, remove a follower, unfollow, hide any of your own ratings, change your profile privacy, and report an account with a reason. Blocking makes you and the blocked account invisible to each other.

What we do about a report. Reports are reviewed by us. An account that breaks these terms can be restricted or removed. The account you report is not told who reported them. If you want to appeal a decision, or to ask what happened to a report, write to privacy@poppd.io.

7. Availability and changes

We may change, suspend or withdraw features, and the app depends on services we do not control (hosting, app stores, the movie data provider).

The app is provided as it is. We do not guarantee that it will be available, uninterrupted, accurate or free of faults. It is built and run by one person, and much of what it shows you comes from third parties. To the extent the law allows, we give no warranties beyond those you have by law and cannot give up.

We may update these terms by updating this page and changing the effective date at the top. The current version is always the one here.

8. Ending it

You can stop using the app and delete your account at any time — see §3 and the Privacy Policy. Our side of this (suspension and termination) is covered in §6.

9. Liability

poppd is a free movie-tracking app. Do not rely on it for anything that matters, or as your only record of anything: data can be lost, and we cannot promise otherwise.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss of data, loss of profit, or any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the app, and our total liability to you is limited to what you have paid us for it. Nothing here takes away rights you have under the law where you live that cannot be given up.

10. Legal

• Governing law and jurisdiction. These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you live elsewhere, this does not take away the protection of any mandatory law of your own country.
• App stores. The app is distributed through Apple's App Store. The store's own terms for apps you install apply to you in addition to these terms.
• Intellectual property and takedowns. If you believe something in the app infringes your rights, write to privacy@poppd.io with the detail and we will look at it.

Contact: privacy@poppd.io.