Terms of Service

The short version

• Group Watch is free and in early access, so things may change or break.
• Your account is yours: keep it secure and use it only for yourself.
• Be decent: no breaking the law, no getting into other people's accounts, no attacking or scraping the service.
• Recommendations are made with AI and outside title data, so they can be wrong.
• You own your ratings and notes. You can leave at any time and ask us to delete your data.

What Group Watch is

Group Watch helps two people decide what to watch together. You rate titles you have seen, we build a taste profile for each of you, and we suggest picks that suit you both. You can also invite someone to join a single movie night as a guest.

Early access

Group Watch is in early access. It is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind. Features may change, break or go away, and there may be bugs.

Who can use Group Watch

Group Watch is not meant for children under 13. If you use it, you are telling us you are at least 13.

Your account

• Give us accurate information and keep your sign-in method (your Google account or email) secure.
• Each account is for one person. Do not share it, and do not sign up as someone else.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at nathanael@snowbear.llc if you think someone else is using it.
• Only invite people to your group who want to be there.

Acceptable use

Please do not:

• Break the law, or use Group Watch to harass or harm anyone.
• Pretend to be someone else, or access or try to access someone else's account or data.
• Put anything harmful into Group Watch, such as malicious code, or anything you do not have the right to share.
• Attack, overload, scrape or reverse engineer the service, or get around its limits or security.
• Use Group Watch to build a competing product or to collect data about other people.

We may suspend or close accounts that do these things.

How recommendations work

Picks and taste profiles are generated with the help of AI models, based on what you and your partner rate and tell us. For example, if you both rate several slow-burn thrillers highly, Group Watch will lean toward similar titles and say why. These are suggestions, not facts about you, and they can be wrong. You can correct them by rating more titles or by keeping or rejecting the taste traits we suggest.

Title information and other services

Title details come from TMDB (The Movie Database), and streaming availability is JustWatch data that we get through TMDB. This information may be incomplete or out of date, so check the streaming service before you settle in. We do not control TMDB, JustWatch or any streaming service, and you use those services under their own terms.

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

Your content

You keep ownership of what you put into Group Watch, such as your ratings and notes. You let us store and use it to run the service for you and your group, as described in the Privacy Policy.

Changes and ending the service

We may change these terms, or change, pause or stop Group Watch, at any time. If we change the terms we will post the new version here and update the date. You can stop using Group Watch at any time and ask us to delete your data by emailing nathanael@snowbear.llc.

Limits on our liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for indirect or unexpected losses from using Group Watch, such as lost data, lost time or a disappointing movie night, and our total responsibility to you for anything related to Group Watch is limited to the amount you paid us to use it in the past 12 months. Group Watch is free during early access, so that amount is currently zero. Nothing here limits rights you have that the law does not allow us to limit.

If something goes wrong

If you have a problem with Group Watch, please email nathanael@snowbear.llc first. Most issues can be sorted out quickly that way.

Governing law

Snowbear Ventures LLC is a Massachusetts limited liability company. These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA.

Contact

Questions about these terms: Snowbear Ventures LLC, nathanael@snowbear.llc