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Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 27, 2026

SeeItEarly ("we," "us," or "our") operates the website at seeitearly.com. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.

Notice at collection

What we collect, why, and how long we keep it.

Ads here count as selling or sharing under California law. This button opts you out:

Email address

From
You, when you sign up or track a film.
Why
To confirm your signup and send what you asked for.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
While you are subscribed. After you unsubscribe, we keep it so we never email you again.

Location

What
A city or ZIP you enter, the area your IP address points to, or your device's exact position if you tap Use my current location.
From
You and your browser.
Why
To show screenings near you and send local alerts.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
30 days in a cookie in your browser. On your subscription until you fully unsubscribe, then deleted about 30 days later. If our emails bounce, are marked as spam, or you never confirm, it stays until you ask us to delete it. A city set on a tracked film stays with that film.

What you follow

What
Films you track, saved cities, alert distance, and the emails you chose.
From
You.
Why
To send the right alerts.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
On your record until you ask us to delete it. Saved cities are deleted about 30 days after you fully unsubscribe. Tracked films stay on file, switched off.

Signup record

What
The signup wording you saw, the page you signed up on, your browser type, a scrambled code made from your IP address, and how you found us.
From
Your browser.
Why
To prove you asked for our emails.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
Proof you agreed stays after you unsubscribe. How you found us is deleted about 30 days after you fully unsubscribe. If our emails bounce, are marked as spam, or you never confirm, it stays until you ask us to delete it.

Email activity

What
Whether our emails arrive, get opened, or get clicked.
From
Our email provider.
Why
To stop emailing people who never read them.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
In our log of each email we sent you, until you ask us to delete it.

Site activity

What
Pages you view, what you tap, your device and browser, and your IP address and the area it points to.
From
Your browser, through PostHog, Google Analytics and Vercel Analytics.
Why
To see what works, fix what breaks, and count visitors.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
PostHog: up to 1 year. Google Analytics: up to 14 months. Vercel Analytics keeps no IP address, and its visitor code lasts 24 hours.
Opt out
Cookie preferences, in the footer. In the EEA, UK and Switzerland it runs only if you agree.

Ticket clicks

What
Which Get Tickets or Get Passes button you used and where it led. With analytics on, a scrambled code made from your IP address.
From
Your browser.
Why
Partner and revenue reporting.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
While we use it for partner and revenue reporting.

Ad data, collected by Mediavine and its partners

What
Cookie and device IDs, IP address, pages you visit here and on other sites, and ads you see or tap.
From
Your browser, on our pages, by Mediavine and the ad companies it works with.
Why
To show and measure ads, including ads based on your interests.
Sold or shared
Yes.
Kept
Set by Mediavine and each partner. See Mediavine's privacy policy.
Opt out
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, above.

Security and errors

What
Your IP address, and technical details when something breaks.
From
Your browser and our servers.
Why
To block abuse and fix bugs.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
IP addresses we use to block abuse stay in memory and are never saved. Error reports: up to 90 days.

Browser notifications, if you turn them on

What
The delivery address and keys your browser gives us.
From
Your browser.
Why
Alerts for films you track.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
Until you turn them off, or ask us to delete them.

Screening tips, if you send one

What
Your tip, plus your email and city if you add them.
From
You.
Why
To check the tip and reply.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
Until you ask us to delete it.

Partner requests, if you send one

What
Your name, business and contact details.
From
You.
Why
To reply and set up your listing.
Sold or shared
No.
Kept
Until you ask us to delete it.

Sensitive information

Only your device's exact position, and only if you tap Use my current location.

We use it only to show screenings near you and send local alerts. We do not sell or share it.

  • We do not knowingly sell or share data of anyone under 16.
  • We do not use your personal information to train AI models.

The rest of this policy has the full detail, starting with Information We Collect.

Information We Collect

Information you provide

  • Email address: when you subscribe to screening alerts or to The Weekly, our Thursday email.
  • City preference: optionally provided during signup to personalize your alerts and The Weekly.
  • Event submissions: if you submit a screening tip via our submission form.
  • Browser notifications (optional): if you turn on notifications from your alerts page and allow them in your browser, we store the delivery address your browser issues for them, the encryption keys needed to send to it, your browser's user-agent string, and when it was last used. We only send them for films you track, and only once your email address is confirmed. Turn them off at any time from your alerts page or in your browser's site settings.

Information collected automatically

  • IP address: used for rate-limiting API requests to prevent abuse. IP addresses used for rate-limiting are retained in memory only during the active session and are not persisted to any database. When you subscribe, we also keep a salted hash of it, as described under Signup record below.
  • Signup record: when you subscribe, we keep evidence that you agreed: the version of the signup wording you saw, the address of the page you signed up on, a salted one-way hash of your IP address (not the address itself), your browser's user-agent string, and whether you signed up from the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, where the form asks for your consent through checkboxes. We also note how you found us: the campaign tags in the link you arrived by and the page that referred you, if your browser shares it. Data Retention below says how long each part is kept.
  • Usage analytics: we use PostHog, a privacy-focused analytics platform, along with Google Analytics, to understand how visitors use SeeItEarly. These collect page-view and interaction data. We do not record browsing sessions. You can turn analytics off at any time from the cookie preferences banner, which stops all of it except one thing: when you sign up, our server still counts the signup steps (form sent, confirmation email sent, address confirmed) in PostHog, without your email address and without linking those counts to you or to each other. If analytics is on, they may also carry a code derived from your address that cannot be turned back into it, so we can tell one signup from another. Your email address is never sent to PostHog.
  • Outbound click data: when you click a "Get Tickets" or "Get Passes" button, we record the click in a click log: the event, its source, the destination site, and the type of page you clicked from (the page's address itself is not kept). With analytics consent, a salted one-way hash of your IP address is stored with it; if you have declined analytics, or arrive through a link where we cannot see your choice (such as an email), we keep only the event, source and destination. Records from before August 28, 2026 were made under our older practice and held the IP address itself. We have since erased every one of those addresses, along with the page URLs kept beside them, so no click record holds either. These records support our partner and revenue reporting, and we keep them while we use them for it.

How We Use Your Information

  • To send you The Weekly and the screening alerts you subscribe to.
  • To personalize content based on your city preference.
  • To monitor and improve the site's performance and content.
  • To prevent abuse through rate-limiting.
  • To show the ads that keep the site free, through Mediavine.

We do not sell your email address, and we do not rent or hand over our subscriber list for anyone else's marketing. Ads are the exception: Mediavine and its partners collect data on our pages to show ads, and California law calls that selling and sharing. You can opt out. See Your California Privacy Rights.

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services to operate SeeItEarly. Each is linked to its own privacy policy governing data they process on our behalf:

  • Vercel: website hosting, serverless functions, and first-party analytics (privacy).
  • Turso (libSQL): cloud-hosted SQLite for subscriber, event, and analytics data (privacy).
  • Sentry: error monitoring for our server code. When something breaks on our servers, technical details of the failure (such as the stack trace and request metadata) are sent to Sentry so we can diagnose and fix it. The Sentry SDK does not run in your browser (privacy).
  • PostHog: privacy-focused product analytics (privacy).
  • ConsentManager: the consent management platform Mediavine supplies with its ad service. It records your advertising choices, publishes them to advertisers via the IAB Global Privacy Platform, and renders the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" control (privacy policy).
  • Grow by Mediavine: loaded as part of Mediavine's ad service (privacy policy).
  • Comscore: audience measurement used by our advertising partners (privacy policy).
  • Google Analytics: aggregate audience measurement, used to report visitor and session totals (privacy).
  • Resend: email delivery for confirmation emails, system alerts, screening alerts, and The Weekly. Resend also processes the delivery and engagement signals described under "Email Communications" below (privacy).
  • Browser push services: if you turn on browser notifications, they are delivered through the push service run by your browser's maker (for example Google for Chrome, Mozilla for Firefox, and Apple for Safari). Each notification is encrypted before it leaves our servers, so the push service can deliver it but cannot read what it says.
  • Beehiiv: newsletter platform. We keep a copy of our subscriber list there (your email address and, if you gave one, your city) so that unsubscribing on either side reaches the other automatically, normally within moments (privacy).
  • Mediavine: advertising on the site. See the "Advertising (Mediavine)" section below for details (privacy).
  • Google Maps Platform: the interactive venue maps on our city pages (privacy).
  • OpenStreetMap (Nominatim): location search. When you type into a location search box, or share your device location to find nearby events, the text you typed (or the coordinates your device shared) is forwarded through our servers to the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Nominatim geocoding service to find matching places. These requests are sent from our servers, so your IP address is not shared with OpenStreetMap (privacy).
  • CARTO: map tiles. When you open the optional map view on a movie's showtimes page, the background map tiles are loaded by your browser directly from CARTO, which serves OpenStreetMap-based imagery. This map view is off by default and loads only when you select it. Because your browser fetches the tiles itself, your IP address is visible to CARTO for those requests (privacy).
  • TMDB (The Movie Database): movie posters, ratings, and metadata. SeeItEarly uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB (privacy).

Cookies & Similar Technologies

SeeItEarly uses the following categories of cookies and similar technologies:

  • Essential: session management, subscription status, a 60-day referral-attribution cookie (sie_ref) set when a visitor arrives via a referral link, a region cookie (sie-region) our server sets from your request's country so the correct consent experience loads, a location cookie (sie-location) holding your area for 30 days, seeded from your request's IP-derived city on a first visit and replaced by any city or ZIP you search, or by your device's exact position if you tap Use my current location, and a browser local-storage entry (sie-consent) that remembers your cookie-banner choices. If you confirm your email address on this site, a signed sign-in cookie (sie-verified) keeps this browser signed in to your alerts for up to 180 days; a 15-minute cookie (sie-verify-challenge) ties an emailed sign-in code to the browser that asked for it; a 15-minute cookie (sie-alerts-link) carries the link from a "Manage preferences" email to your alerts page so it never stays in the address bar; and a 10-minute cookie (sie-email-ref) records which of our emails a visit came from.
  • Analytics: PostHog product analytics, Vercel Analytics, and Google Analytics collect page-view and interaction data. Google Analytics runs only on seeitearly.com. For EEA, UK, and Swiss visitors these are gated behind the Consent Management Platform described below; for other regions they run by default unless you turn Analytics off in the cookie preferences banner.
  • Advertising: Mediavine and its advertising partners serve advertising on this site and set cookies as described in the "Advertising (Mediavine)" section below.

We do not use cross-site tracking cookies of our own, and we do not sell or share your browsing history with third parties except as described in the advertising section below.

Advertising (Mediavine)

SeeItEarly uses Mediavine (Journey by Mediavine) to serve advertising on this site; it replaced Google AdSense on 2026-08-21. Mediavine works with a rotating set of advertising partners who bid on each ad slot, and those partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads, including ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Mediavine's own privacy policy, which lists the partners it works with, is available at mediavine.com/privacy-policy.

To opt out of personalized advertising, use the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" control described in the California section below, or the industry-wide opt-out tools below. Our own cookie preferences banner does not control advertising. If you also use Google services elsewhere, personalization can be managed at Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info.

For visitors in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, consent is collected by ConsentManager, the Consent Management Platform (CMP) that Mediavine supplies with its ad service, using the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF). Non-essential advertising and analytics cookies are gated behind its consent window, and the site respects your choices for the lifetime of the consent cookie. Our own cookie preferences banner is not shown in those regions. Outside the EEA/UK/CH, ConsentManager records your advertising choices and publishes them to advertisers using the IAB Global Privacy Platform, and Mediavine and its partners serve personalized or limited ads per your region's default rules, the choices you make in that control, and any Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal your browser sends. To change your choices at any time, . If a content blocker stops it from opening, email us (below) and we will record your choice by hand.

Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA / CPRA)

California residents have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request deletion, to correct inaccurate information, and to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Ads on this site count as selling and sharing under California law: Mediavine and its partners collect data on our pages and bid on our ad space in real time. We do not sell your email address.

To opt out of selling and sharing for advertising: . It opens Mediavine's privacy choices. Mediavine, our advertising provider, may also show the same control near the bottom of the page in the states whose laws provide this right. Your decision is recorded as an IAB Global Privacy Platform (GPP) signal, which Mediavine reads before selecting ads. This is the control that actually stops the cross-context sharing described above, so it is the one to use.

Two further routes. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal (via a GPC-enabled browser or extension), our advertising provider honors it in states where the law recognizes GPC. Or email us (below) and we will process your opt-out by hand. If the control described above does not appear for you (a content blocker or a script failure will stop it), email us and we will process the opt-out that way.

For clarity about what the cookie banner does and does not cover: our own cookie preferences banner controls analytics only (PostHog, Google Analytics and Vercel Analytics). Advertising consent is handled by Mediavine's consent manager through the control described above, not by that banner.

We will never discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights: prices (everything here is free), features, and service quality are the same whether or not you opt out. We do not knowingly collect, sell, or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that would require a "Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information" link under the CPRA. How long we keep each category of information is described in the "Data Retention" section below.

To exercise any other right (access, delete, correct, portability): email privacy@seeitearly.com with your request. We will respond within 45 days per CPRA § 1798.130. You may also designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf.

Affiliate Links

Some outbound links on SeeItEarly contain affiliate tracking parameters. When you click an affiliate link and make a purchase or sign up for a service, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate relationships do not influence which events we display or how we rank them. All events are shown based on availability and relevance, regardless of affiliate status.

Our affiliate programs include ticketing partners (such as Fandango and Ticketmaster) and the Amazon Associates Program: as an Amazon Associate, SeeItEarly earns from qualifying purchases. See our Disclosures page for the full list of programs and how affiliate links are labeled.

Email Communications & CAN-SPAM Compliance

  • Double opt-in. New signups receive a confirmation email and must confirm, by clicking the link inside or by entering a code we email them on our site, before any marketing email is sent. If the confirmation goes unanswered, we send one reminder within a few days and nothing more. An address still unconfirmed after seven days is suppressed, and we stop sending to it.
  • At signup you choose your delivery preferences: The Weekly (our Thursday email), instant alerts for your city, or both. Tracking a film is narrower: it signs you up for that film's alerts only, and The Weekly and city alerts are offered, unchecked, on your confirmation page. You can change these any time on your confirmation page or by replying to any email.
  • Every email includes a one-click unsubscribe link and honors the List-Unsubscribe header so Gmail / Apple Mail / Outlook built-in unsubscribe buttons work immediately.
  • Unsubscribe requests are honored immediately on SeeItEarly and propagate to our newsletter platform (Beehiiv) automatically, normally within moments. If you ever receive mail after unsubscribing, tell us and we will fix it directly.
  • We do not use misleading subject lines or false header information. Every email identifies SeeItEarly as the sender and includes our physical mailing address.
  • We record at signup the date, source page, a salted one-way hash of your IP address (never the address itself), user agent, and the version of this policy in effect, so we can prove consent if challenged.
  • Delivery and engagement tracking. Our email provider (Resend) reports whether each message was delivered, bounced, or reported as spam. Two optional signals are also measured:
    • Link clicks. Links in our emails are rewritten to route through link.seeitearly.com before redirecting you to the real destination, which lets us see which links were clicked.
    • Opens. A 1x1 transparent image is embedded in each email. Loading it tells us the message was opened. Most email apps let you block remote images, which prevents this. Some apps (notably Apple Mail with Mail Privacy Protection) load it automatically, so open counts are approximate.
    We use these only in aggregate and per subscriber to gauge engagement, so we can stop emailing people who never engage. We do not sell them, and they are never used for advertising.

Data Retention

Subscriber data is retained as long as your subscription is active. About 30 days after a full unsubscribe, however you unsubscribed, we delete the location, attribution and engagement details from your record: city and saved cities, coordinates, how you found us, and the latest open and click dates. We keep your email address, the unsubscribe record, and the evidence that you had consented, so we never email you again and can show we had permission while we did. We also keep the films you tracked, switched off, with any city you set on them, and our log of each email we sent you with its delivery, open and click dates. If our emails to you bounce or are marked as spam, or you never confirm your signup, your record stays as it is until you ask us to delete it. The 30-day window exists so an accidental unsubscribe (they happen, some mail scanners follow links) stays fully reversible. You may request immediate and complete deletion at any time by emailing us.

Outbound click records (described under "Information We Collect") are kept while we use them for partner and revenue reporting. New records store at most a one-way hash of your IP address, never the address itself. Records from before August 28, 2026 held the address, and we have erased those rather than converting them, so the addresses are gone rather than disguised. Deletion requests are honored for anything that can be associated with you.

Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate data.
  • Request deletion of your data.
  • Object to or restrict processing of your data.
  • Data portability.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@seeitearly.com.

Children's Privacy

SeeItEarly is a general-audience service intended for users aged 13 and older. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Our Terms of Service require all users to represent that they are at least 13 years old.

If you believe we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13, please contact us at hello@seeitearly.com and we will promptly delete it.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. Continued use of SeeItEarly after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, use our contact page or email hello@seeitearly.com.

Privacy officer: SeeItEarly's owner is the person responsible for protecting the personal information we hold. Reach them at privacy@seeitearly.com.