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Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 2026

What CinemaTimes is

CinemaTimes is a free website that helps you find cinema showtimes across Ireland and the UK. We show screening times, movie info, and links to book tickets at your local cinema.

Who we are

CinemaTimes is operated by Fuzzy Tech Limited, a company registered in Ireland (company number 812524). We're the data controller responsible for this website under EU GDPR and UK GDPR. You can reach us any time at privacy@cinematimes.com for data-protection questions or to exercise the rights listed below.

What we collect

We keep data collection to an absolute minimum. Here's what happens when you use CinemaTimes — with the legal basis under GDPR Article 6 in brackets:

  • Your location preference — When you choose a city (e.g. Dublin, London, Cork), we save it in your browser's local storage so you don't have to pick it again. This stays on your device and is never sent to us. (No legal basis required — processing happens solely on your device.)
  • Location search — If you search for a location, your search text and IP are sent to the Google Places API so it can return matching places. (Legitimate interest — Article 6(1)(f).)
  • Basic analytics — We use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-friendly service that counts page views without using cookies or collecting personal data. Plausible is EU-hosted. (Legitimate interest — Article 6(1)(f); aggregated, non-identifying data only.)

What we don't collect

  • No accounts or logins
  • No email addresses
  • No cookies
  • No personal profiles
  • No advertising or tracking pixels

Third-party services

CinemaTimes uses a few external services to run:

  • Google Places API — Powers location search. Google's privacy policy
  • Plausible Analytics — Privacy-first analytics, no cookies, EU-hosted. Plausible's data policy
  • Vercel — Hosts the website. Your IP and basic request metadata (URL, user-agent) pass through Vercel to serve each page. Vercel's privacy policy
  • Supabase — Hosts our cinema and showtime data. No personal user data is stored here.

When you click "Book" on a showtime, you're taken directly to the cinema's own booking website. That cinema's privacy policy applies from that point.

Where your data goes

We don't hold user accounts or profiles, so we never control any personal data that leaves the EEA ourselves. A few of the services above do process data outside the EEA/UK — where they do, they rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) as the legal transfer mechanism under UK GDPR Article 46 / EU GDPR Article 46:

  • Google (US) — Your location search text and IP reach Google servers in the US under Google's SCCs.
  • Vercel (US) — Our hosting provider serves pages from globally distributed edge nodes, some in the US, under Vercel's SCCs.
  • Plausible (EU) — EU-hosted; no transfer occurs.
  • Web fonts — We self-host our fonts from our own domain, so no third-party CDN is involved in font loading.

How long we keep data

  • Location preference — Stored in your browser's local storage until you clear it; we never see it.
  • Plausible analytics — Aggregated, non-identifying page counts retained indefinitely.
  • Server logs — Vercel's standard retention (short-window edge logs, a few days of build logs). No identifying personal data is retained by us.

Local storage

We use your browser's local storage (not cookies) to remember your location preference. This data never leaves your device. You can clear it at any time by:

  1. Opening your browser's developer tools (F12)
  2. Going to Application > Local Storage
  3. Deleting entries starting with cinematimes_location_state (includes cinematimes_location_state_ie and cinematimes_location_state_uk)

Or simply use your browser's "Clear site data" option.

Your rights

Under GDPR (both EU and UK), you have the right to:

  • Access — Ask what data we hold about you (in practice, we hold none).
  • Deletion — Ask us to delete any data relating to you.
  • Object — Object to processing that relies on our legitimate interest (Article 21), including the Plausible analytics and Google Places query flow.
  • Withdraw consent — Where we rely on your consent (for example, if you grant browser location access), you can withdraw it at any time through your browser settings; we stop processing on withdrawal.
  • Complaint — Lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (Ireland) or the Information Commissioner's Office (UK).

UK and Northern Ireland users

If you access CinemaTimes from the UK (including Northern Ireland), your rights are governed by UK GDPR and PECR rather than EU GDPR. Both regimes apply equivalent rights, and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) linked above is the appropriate regulator for any concerns.

Children

CinemaTimes is a general-audience site. We don't knowingly process personal data from anyone under 13, and we don't offer accounts, profiles, or personalisation — so there's nothing for a child's data to attach to. We mention this explicitly in line with the ICO's Age Appropriate Design Code.

Contact

Email us at privacy@cinematimes.com with any privacy questions or to make a data-subject request. We aim to respond to all requests within 30 days, as required by GDPR Article 12(3).

Changes

If we make significant changes to this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page.