Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 October 2026

Marquee is a video player. You add your own playlists, and the app plays them. The app doesn’t send us any of your data, unless you turn on Marquee Sync, and then only encrypted so that we can’t read it. We don’t have accounts, and we don’t collect analytics.

What stays on your device

Your playlists (including server addresses, usernames and passwords), favourites, watch progress and settings are stored on your device, and in your device’s own backup if it keeps one. The channel, film and series lists are downloaded straight from your provider to your device and are never sent to us. Where Apple Intelligence is available, Marquee uses it on your device to tidy channel names and understand searches. When you use a phone or tablet as a remote for Marquee on a TV, the two talk directly over your own network.

iCloud sync (Marquee Pro)

If you have Marquee Pro and are signed in to iCloud, your playlists, favourites, watch progress and settings are stored in your private iCloud database so they appear on your other devices. They are end-to-end encrypted. Neither we nor Apple can read them. You can turn this off in the Settings app under your Apple Account → iCloud.

Marquee Sync (optional)

Marquee Sync keeps your playlists (including server addresses, usernames and passwords), favourites, watch progress, settings and what each of your devices is playing in step across all your devices with Marquee. It’s off until you turn it on. One device makes a sync code and the others join with it. Everything is encrypted on your device, with a key made from that code, before it’s sent, and it’s stored on our server (which runs on Cloudflare) under names the server can’t read either. We never receive the code, so we can’t read what’s stored. Anyone you give the code to can. For each group of devices the server keeps the encrypted records, when the group was made and last used, and whether one of its devices has bought Marquee Pro. Like any website it sees your IP address when the app connects; it doesn’t store it, beyond counting requests for a minute to stop misuse. If you’ve bought Marquee Pro, the app sends the store’s proof of purchase so your other devices get Pro too; the server checks it with the store it came from and keeps only a scrambled fingerprint of it, to count how many groups one purchase is unlocking. Stop Syncing on This Device, in Settings → Marquee Sync, stops that device, and Delete Synced Data Everywhere deletes the server’s copy for good. A copy that none of your devices has synced with for 13 months is deleted too; what’s on each device stays there.

Your playlist providers

Marquee connects directly to the servers in the playlists you add, and to the image addresses they list. Those servers see your IP address and the requests the app makes, as with any website. Their own privacy policies apply. We have no relationship with any provider.

Trakt (Marquee Pro, optional)

If you connect a Trakt account, Marquee tells Trakt which films and episodes you watch (the title, year, season and episode numbers, and how far through you are) so they appear in your Trakt history. Live TV is never sent, and nothing is sent unless you connect. You can disconnect at any time in Settings → Trakt, and manage or delete your history at trakt.tv. Trakt’s privacy policy applies: https://trakt.tv/privacy

Trailers

Trailers open in YouTube, in its app or in your browser. Google’s privacy policy applies there.

Purchases

Marquee Pro, and the free trial where the store provides it, come through your device’s app store, which handles payment; we never see your payment details. The app checks your purchases with that store on your device.

Advertising (free version on phones and tablets)

The free version on phones and tablets shows ads from Google AdMob. There are no ads on a TV or with Marquee Pro. To show and measure ads, Google may collect your IP address, device and app information, ad interactions and crash data. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Marquee doesn’t ask to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, so your device’s advertising identifier isn’t shared. If you’re in the UK, the EEA or Switzerland, we ask for your consent before ads are personalised, and you can change your choice at any time in Settings → Ad Privacy Choices. Ads are limited to a family-friendly content rating, and Marquee isn’t directed at children.

Your rights

Under UK and EU data protection law you can ask for access to, correction of or deletion of your personal data. We don’t hold any that we can read: with Marquee Sync on, our server holds the encrypted copy described above, which you can delete in Settings → Marquee Sync. Google processes what it collects for ads and Trakt holds the history you send it (contact them for that), and the rest is stored on your device, in its backup or in your own iCloud account. Deleting the app removes everything on the device. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).

Contact

For privacy questions, email crabhands@me.com.

We’ll update this policy if the app changes how it handles data, and change the date above.