These Terms govern your use of Cinema Log (“the service”) at thecinemalog.com. By creating an account or using the service you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the service.
Your account
- You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age required by your jurisdiction) to use Cinema Log.
- You’re responsible for keeping your password safe. Tell us right away if you suspect unauthorized access.
- One account per person. Don’t impersonate other people or pretend to be affiliated with anyone you’re not.
Acceptable use
Cinema Log is for keeping a personal log of films you’ve seen and sharing it with friends. Don’t use it to:
- Post content that’s illegal, harassing, hateful, sexually exploitative, or that violates someone else’s rights.
- Spam, scrape, or attempt to extract data via automated means beyond reasonable use of the public-facing pages.
- Reverse-engineer, probe, or attack the service’s security.
- Resell access to the service or use it as a backend for another product.
- Upload malware, run cryptominers, or otherwise misuse our infrastructure.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules, with or without notice depending on severity.
Your content
You own what you create. Your logs, ratings, notes, Best Of picks, and profile content stay yours. By posting content to the service, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to store and display it as needed to run the service, for example showing your activity to people who follow you, subject to the privacy toggles in Settings.
You’re responsible for the legality of content you post. Don’t upload anything you don’t have the right to share.
Third-party content
Cinema Log displays film metadata (titles, posters, backdrops, descriptions, ratings) sourced from third parties, primarily The Movie Database (TMDB) and OMDb. That content remains the property of its respective rights holders.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB. Posters and backdrops are displayed under TMDB’s attribution-required API terms.
Copyright complaints (DMCA)
We respect copyright. Almost all film artwork and metadata on Cinema Log comes from third-party providers (TMDB, OMDb), but if you believe material on the service infringes a copyright you own or control, you can ask us to remove it.
Send a written notice to legal@thecinemalog.com with the subject line “DMCA Notice” and include all of the following:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
- The URL or a description specific enough for us to locate the material you want removed.
- Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
We’ll review complete notices and remove or disable access to material that we determine, in good faith, to be infringing. We also terminate the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.
Counter-notice. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address with your signature, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake, and your consent to jurisdiction of the federal court for your district (or, if outside the U.S., any district where we may be found).
The service is provided “as is”
We do our best to keep Cinema Log running, but we make no warranties about uptime, accuracy, or fitness for any particular purpose. The service is provided “as is” and “as available.” Use it at your own risk.
We may change, suspend, or shut down features (or the entire service) at any time. We’ll try to give reasonable notice for material changes that affect existing data.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Cinema Log is not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the service. Our total liability for any direct damages is capped at the greater of (a) $50 USD or (b) the amount you’ve paid us in the last 12 months, which, since the service is currently free, is $0.
Termination
You can delete your account any time from Settings → Account. A 30-day grace period applies before permanent deletion. See our Privacy Policy for how we handle data after deletion.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or for any other lawful reason, with or without notice.
Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that isn’t resolved informally will be heard in the state or federal courts located in California, and you consent to that jurisdiction.
Changes to these terms
We’ll update the “Effective” date at the top whenever these Terms change. For material changes we’ll show a notice in the app before the new version takes effect. Continued use after the new effective date means you accept the updated Terms.
Contact
Questions about these Terms, email legal@thecinemalog.com.