Last updated: April 2, 2026
Critic is a product of Casting Stats LLC (formerly BlueQuincy LLC). Casting Stats LLC was previously registered as BlueQuincy LLC; this is the same legal entity.
When you use Critic, we collect the information you provide directly: your name, email address, phone number (if you opt in to SMS notifications), profile photo, and the films, shows, books and places you add to your lists — along with your notes and who recommended each one to you.
We also record how you use the app — which screens you open and which actions you take, tied to your account — so we can see which parts of Critic work and which do not. We use this ourselves; it is not sold or shared with advertisers.
If you photograph a book cover to add it, the photo is sent to an AI service to read the title and author off it. We do not keep the photo.
We use your information to operate Critic — showing your lists, tracking sparks (attribution credits), sending you notifications about spark activity, and delivering recommendations from friends. If you enable SMS notifications, we use your phone number to send transactional text messages about sparks and recommendations.
If you allow it, Critic uses your location to show you places near you and to notice when you arrive somewhere you have saved. Your coordinates are sent to our servers, and we ask Google or OpenStreetMap to turn them into a neighbourhood and city name. We store the place and the neighbourhood; we do not keep a history of everywhere you have been.
You can turn location off at any time in your phone’s settings. Critic works without it — you lose the nearby features, nothing else.
If you use “Find your people”, Critic reads your address book to work out which of your contacts are already here. Your contacts’ phone numbers and email addresses never leave your device. They are turned into one-way codes on your phone, and only those codes — plus your contacts’ display names — are sent to us, so we can match them against existing members. We do not upload your contacts’ photos.
We keep the display names of contacts you were shown as suggestions. You can skip this entirely; Critic works without it.
If you turn on push notifications, we store a notification token for each of your devices so we can send them. We also store your time zone — reported by your phone, or worked out from your approximate location if we do not have it — so a notification arrives at a sensible hour where you are rather than in the middle of your night.
We do not sell, rent, or share personal data or SMS opt-in data with third parties for marketing purposes. We use third-party services solely to operate the app: Supabase (accounts and storage), Vercel (hosting), Twilio (SMS), Resend (email), Expo (push notifications), Google and OpenStreetMap (turning coordinates into place names), Google Books and TMDB (looking up books, films and shows), Vercel AI Gateway (reading a book cover from a photo), and Sentry (error reports). Your lists and profile are visible to other Critic users.
When something goes wrong, Critic sends a technical error report to Sentry so we can find and fix it. A report contains the error, where in the app it happened, and the version you were using. It is not tied to your account. Phone numbers, email addresses and location coordinates are removed before a report is sent, and we do not record your screen or your session.
If you opt in to SMS notifications, you will receive transactional SMS text messages from Critic, a product of Casting Stats LLC (formerly BlueQuincy LLC), about recommendations, sparks, and account activity. Message frequency varies. Msg & data rates may apply. You can opt out at any time by replying STOP to any message or by disabling SMS notifications in your profile settings.
SMS consent is optional, is not a condition of using Critic, and is separate from these privacy terms. Your mobile number, opt-in data, and consent status will not be shared with or sold to third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.
Your data is stored securely using Supabase and Vercel infrastructure. We retain your account and personal data while your account is active. When you delete your account, we remove that data as described in “Deleting your data” below. Limited historical attribution — a record of recommendations you made to other users — may remain as part of those other users’ records after your account is deleted.
You can delete your account at any time — in the app or on the web (Settings → Delete account), or by emailing support@joincritic.com. When you delete your account, we remove your login and authentication, your contact information (email and phone number), your profile photo, bio, and link, your notes, your notification settings, and your device tokens. You are signed out and cannot log back in, and a deleted account cannot be reactivated.
A limited record may remain: if you recommended something to another Critic user, your name may still appear in that user’s records as the person who recommended it (for example, “recommended by [your name]”). That information is part of their account and reflects a recommendation you actually made, so it is retained to keep their history intact. It is not anonymous — it is your name — but after deletion it is not used to contact you, you receive no notifications, and you do not appear as an active member.
To make it possible to return, we keep a one-way key derived from your email and phone number — not the email or phone itself, and not usable to contact you. Its only purpose is that if you later sign up again with the same verified email or phone, you can choose to reclaim your previous recognition history and resume under your original identity. Reclaiming is always your explicit choice; the key is never used to identify or contact you otherwise, and never matches you by name.
You can also deactivate your account instead of deleting it. Deactivating hides your profile and stops notifications, and your account data is preserved so you can restore it by logging back in.
Questions? Email us at support@joincritic.com.
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