Last updated: September 10, 2026
CinemaDekho is a movie discovery app — release dates, ratings, box office rankings, what’s playing near you, and a link to book tickets. This policy explains, in plain terms, exactly what the app does and does not do with your information.
CinemaDekho has no accounts and no sign-up. Your followed movies and actors, your last-known city, and a short-term cache of movie listings (to make the app load faster) stay on your device and are never uploaded to us as a bundle. We don’t know who you are, and there’s nothing in the app to make an account with in the first place.
The outside services CinemaDekho uses are for movie data, real-time showtimes, and understanding how the app performs — all described below.
● No name, email address, or phone number
● No accounts or sign-in of any kind
● No payment information (CinemaDekho has no purchases of any kind)
When you allow it, CinemaDekho uses your device’s location once to detect your city — in the foreground only, never in the background and never while the app is closed. You can also type a city yourself instead of using location at all. Your coordinates stay on your device and are never sent to our servers — CinemaDekho only ever uses the city name they resolve to for movie searches, showtimes, and analytics.
Movie and actor names you search for are sent to The Movie Database (TMDB) to find matches. When you follow a movie or actor, that choice is saved on your device — only the type of item (movie or actor) and its language are included in our analytics (below), never the title itself.
If you use the microphone button to search by voice, your recording is sent to Groq’s Whisper transcription service to convert it to text, which is then used the same way a typed search would be. The audio itself is not stored by CinemaDekho after transcription. Typing is always available as an alternative, and CinemaDekho only records audio between when you tap the microphone to start and tap again to stop — never in the background.
The "In Cinemas" and box office screens use Google’s Gemini API with real-time web search to find what’s actually playing near you. Your city name and the current date are sent as part of this request — never your exact location or any personal information.
We use PostHog to understand how the app performs — which screens load slowly, whether our data cache is working, and general usage patterns (like a city change or a "Book Now" tap). This is tied to an anonymous, randomly generated device ID — never your name, email, or any account, since CinemaDekho doesn’t have accounts. Your IP address is used briefly by PostHog to estimate an approximate city/country for these events.
Tapping "Book Now" opens your browser to a ticket-booking option for your city — a direct link (like Fandango in the US) where we have one, or a search that gets you to the right page otherwise. CinemaDekho does not process payments and does not send your personal data to these sites — only the movie title and city, as a search query. Once you leave the app this way, that site’s own privacy policy applies.
CinemaDekho shares limited data with a small number of established third-party services, each described in the sections above: The Movie Database (TMDB) for movie information, Groq for voice transcription, Google (Gemini) for real-time showtimes and box office data, and PostHog for anonymous usage analytics. We share only the minimum each feature needs — a search term, a city name, a voice recording to transcribe, or an anonymous device ID — and never your name, email, or account details, because CinemaDekho has no accounts. Each of these providers operates under its own published privacy policy and terms of service, and we use only providers whose terms commit them to protecting the data they receive to a standard equivalent to the one described in this policy, and to using it solely to deliver the feature requested. We do not sell your data to anyone, and we do not share it for advertising or profiling.
CinemaDekho does not currently show ads. If that changes in the future — planned as a Google AdMob banner, the same simple, non-intrusive format used across our other apps — this policy will be updated first, and you’ll be able to review what it means for your data before continuing to use the app.
CinemaDekho is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect any information from children.
If this policy changes, we’ll update the "Last updated" date above. Since CinemaDekho has no accounts or contact information on file for users, we can’t email you about changes — check back here periodically.
Questions about this policy: cinemadekhosupport@gmail.com