Privacy Policy

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.

Information We Collect

Information you provide

• Email address: when you subscribe to our weekly digest newsletter.
• City preference: optionally provided during signup to personalize your digest.
• Event submissions: if you submit a screening tip via our submission form.

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.
• Usage analytics: we use PostHog, a privacy-focused analytics platform, to understand how visitors use SeeItEarly. PostHog collects anonymized page-view and event data. You can turn analytics off at any time from the cookie preferences banner.
• Outbound click data: when you click a "Get Tickets" or "Get Passes" button, we log the event source to understand which listings are most useful.

How We Use Your Information

• To send you the weekly screening digest if you subscribe.
• To personalize content based on your city preference.
• To monitor and improve the site's performance and content.
• To prevent abuse through rate-limiting.

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes.

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).
• Resend: transactional email delivery (confirmation emails, system alerts) (privacy).
• Beehiiv: marketing newsletter platform. Subscriber email addresses are synced to Beehiiv for digest delivery, referral programs, and growth analytics. Unsubscribing on either side propagates to the other within 30 seconds (privacy).
• Google AdSense: advertising on the site. See the "Advertising (Google AdSense)" 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 your approximate coordinates) 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, and a browser local-storage entry (sie-consent) that remembers your cookie-banner choices.
• Analytics: PostHog product analytics and Vercel Analytics collect anonymized page-view and event data. 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: Google AdSense serves advertising on parts of this site and sets cookies as described in the "Advertising (Google AdSense)" 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 AdSense section below.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

SeeItEarly uses Google AdSense, which serves advertising on this site. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on SeeItEarly. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting 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, SeeItEarly uses Google Funding Choices as its IAB TCF v2.3-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP). Non-essential advertising and analytics cookies are gated behind the CMP banner; the site respects the user's choices for the cookie lifetime and honors Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals where legally recognized. You may change your preferences at any time via the consent banner's "Manage options" link. For visitors outside the EEA/UK/CH the CMP does not render; AdSense serves personalized or limited ads per your region's default rules, the choices you make in the cookie preferences banner, and any GPC signal your browser sends.

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. SeeItEarly does not sell personal information for money, but Google AdSense's use of advertising cookies qualifies as "sharing" under CPRA.

To opt out of sharing for advertising: the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link in the site footer brings you to this section. You have three ways to opt out. First, directly: open the cookie preferences banner (it appears on your first visit, and the "Cookie preferences" link in the site footer reopens it anytime), choose Customize, turn Advertising off, and save. Your choice is stored on your device in local storage (the sie-consent entry) and takes effect immediately, with no page reload. Second, automatically: if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal (via a GPC-enabled browser or extension), Google AdSense honors it at the request level in states where the law recognizes GPC and serves non-personalized ads, which stops the cross-context sharing of your data. Third, by request: email us (below) and we will process your opt-out.

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 click the link inside before any marketing email is sent. Unconfirmed addresses are never contacted beyond the one-time confirmation.
• At signup you choose your delivery preferences: the weekly Thursday digest, instant alerts for your city, or both. 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 and propagate to both SeeItEarly and our newsletter platform (Beehiiv) within 30 seconds.
• 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, IP address, user agent, and the version of this policy in effect, so we can prove consent if challenged.

Data Retention

Subscriber data is retained as long as your subscription is active. If you unsubscribe, we retain only your email address (marked as inactive) to prevent sending you further emails. You may request complete deletion of your data by emailing us.

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.