Privacy policy
Short version: Matte has no account, no ads and no tracking. Your playlists and what you watch stay on your devices and, if you turn on sync, in your own iCloud. The developer runs no server that receives them.
1. Who is responsible
Gurwinder Singh, Waldstr. 148, 63263 Neu-Isenburg, Germany. Email: info@getovr.app. This policy covers the Matte app for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV and this website.
2. Data that stays on your device
Playlist addresses, logins and server details you enter are stored in the Apple Keychain on your device. Favourites, history, playback progress, profiles (including optional PINs) and settings are stored in the app’s local storage. Recommendations are calculated on your device. None of this is sent to the developer.
3. Your playlist providers and media servers
Matte connects directly to the playlist, programme-guide (XMLTV) and stream addresses you enter, and to your own Plex, Jellyfin or Emby server. If you sign in with Plex, the sign-in runs through plex.tv. These providers receive your IP address and the requests needed to load lists and play streams, under their own privacy policies. The developer has no access to these connections.
4. iCloud sync (optional, Matte Pro)
If you turn on iCloud sync, profiles, favourites and progress are stored in your private iCloud database (Apple CloudKit), and saved logins can sync through iCloud Keychain. Apple processes this data on your behalf under Apple’s privacy policy. The developer cannot read your private iCloud data. You can turn sync off in Settings at any time.
5. Optional services with your own key
If you add your own TMDb API key, Matte sends title names or search terms and your key to The Movie Database (TMDb, USA) to load posters and trending titles. If an OpenSubtitles key is configured, the title being played is sent to OpenSubtitles to find subtitles. Both only happen once you set them up.
6. Purchases
Subscriptions and one-time purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store. The developer receives no payment details, only the purchase status Apple confirms to the app and anonymous sales reports.
7. Anonymous usage statistics
Matte can send anonymous usage signals to TelemetryDeck GmbH (Germany) so we can see which features are used and where the app breaks. These are fixed events such as “screen opened”, “playback started” or “purchase completed”, plus app version, OS version and device type, linked to a hashed, anonymous identifier. No names, playlists, channels, stream addresses, logins or what you watch are sent. You can switch this off at any time in Settings → “Share anonymous usage”. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in a working, improving app).
8. Crash reports from Apple
If you agreed in your device settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple provides anonymous crash reports and usage figures to the developer.
9. This website
The website is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA; certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework). When you open a page, Cloudflare processes your IP address and technical request data to deliver the page and protect it from attacks; Cloudflare does not publish a fixed retention period and keeps this only as long as needed for operation and security. The site sets no cookies, uses no analytics and loads no third-party scripts or fonts. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
10. Email
If you email us, we use your address and message only to answer you, and delete them when the request is done unless the law requires us to keep them.
11. Your rights
You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and to object (Art. 15–21 GDPR). You can also complain to a supervisory authority, for example the Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HBDI), Postfach 3163, 65021 Wiesbaden, Germany, https://datenschutz.hessen.de.
12. Children
Matte collects no personal data from children. Kids profiles only filter what is shown on the device.
13. Changes
We update this policy when the app changes. The date at the top shows the current version.