Independent Australian software studio — publisher of SceneNest
Effective date: 11 October 2026
SceneNest helps you search for movies and television shows, save them to personal watchlists, and view where they are available to stream. This policy explains how SceneNest handles information when you use the mobile app.
SceneNest is published by VSJ Frontier, operating from Australia.
Your watchlists, saved titles, viewing preferences, notes, titles recently opened from search, and cached title information are stored locally on your device. You can use SceneNest fully offline without signing in.
This includes the streaming services you choose under My Streaming Services, and the plan you pick for them. When you are signed out, that choice stays on your device.
Deleting the app normally deletes its locally stored data. Device backups may retain a copy according to your Apple backup settings.
If you sign in, SceneNest syncs your library to your account so it appears on your other signed-in devices. Signing in for the first time uploads the watchlists you already have on that device — they join your account rather than being replaced by it.
What is sent: your list names, which titles are in which list, each title’s basic information (name, year, poster, genres, rating, age rating, how long it runs, its season and episode counts, and its IMDb and provider identifiers), the priority you give a title within a list, each title’s personal tracking: watch status, which seasons of a series you have marked watched, where applicable when it was most recently marked watched, your Like/Dislike/Love preference, and your My note. My note is one private note per title, even when the title is in several lists. We also sync your complete My Streaming Services selection and any selected plan tier, and the My Watch Time figure you set — roughly how many hours a week you expect to watch — so they are available on your other signed-in devices. Your Country / Region also syncs to your other signed-in devices so they use the same streaming market. When you upgrade, your existing saved country is used automatically if your account has no country yet. An existing account country takes priority; a new device’s default stays local until you choose or confirm it. This uses a country setting, not your GPS location, and is never shared with your family group. We also sync which of your lists you have marked as a priority list, so the planner can base its subscription advice on the titles you actually mean to watch. This is your own setting: a list shared with your family group can be a priority list for you and not for another member, and your answer is never visible to them. For saved titles, SceneNest also syncs the latest streaming-availability snapshot, the country it applies to, and when it was checked so your By Service view stays consistent across your signed-in devices. We also sync public series release information when available: the last listed aired episode, the next listed episode and date, season counts and dates, whether the series is ended or in production, and when that information was observed. These are catalogue facts, not a record of episodes you have watched.
For a service you have described further under My Streaming Services, we also sync whether it comes included with something else, is prepaid to a renewal date, or is a plan you can cancel month to month; that renewal date; and, only if you choose to enter it, the monthly amount you pay and its currency. For a plan you pay month to month, if you choose to enter it, we also sync the day that plan is paid until, whether that day is an estimate, and the plan you were on when you entered it. If you tell us you cancelled a service and when your access ends, that is the same day. We use this only to give more accurate advice about which subscriptions are worth keeping, never to infer or estimate a price you have not told us. Separately, if the planner suggests a service you have kept anyway, we remember that answer for a few months so it does not ask again too soon — this record says only “not now” or “I’m keeping it” and for which service, and carries no financial information of its own. If you confirm that you cancelled a service, when the planner suggests it or when you remove a monthly service from My Streaming Services and answer yes, we keep a record of that: which service, when, what you told us it cost at the time, and, when it recorded one, how many saved titles retired with it — so the app can show you how long your services were off and, where you entered a price, what that saved. This record is never created from a service simply disappearing from your selection on its own; only from you confirming it. If you add the service back, the record shows that gap rather than continuing to count past that date.
What is not sent: plot synopses, your search history, and the titles you recently opened from search. These stay on the device.
Sync is used only to deliver your own library and service preferences to your own devices. It is not used for advertising, profiling, or sharing with third parties.
If you create or join a Family Sharing group, SceneNest stores the group name, your group role, and the account relationship needed to authorize the group. An Owner may choose individual lists to share. The selected list’s name, titles, basic title information, priority, and latest country-specific streaming-availability snapshots and public series release information are sent to SceneNest and made available to the other signed-in members of that group. Changes to that selected list can sync between members’ devices. Every member of the group can see the display name, group role and joining date of every other member, including a member who has not added a title, and each member’s device keeps a copy of that list. SceneNest records which member added a title to a shared list, and shows that to the group. For a title you added to a shared list, the group can also see when you have finished or dropped it, so household subscription advice stops keeping a service for it; you can undo that by changing your status. This applies only to titles you added to a shared list. It does not reveal your status on any other title, or your seasons, progress, reaction, note, or viewing history. Your watch status on titles you did not add to a shared list, which seasons you have watched, your Like/Dislike/Love preference, your My Watch Time figure, and your My note remain private to your own account and devices; they are never shared with the group.
An Owner can remove a member, and a member who is not the Owner can leave. A member who is removed or leaves loses access to the group’s shared lists, and those lists are removed from their device the next time it connects to SceneNest; what a device had already downloaded stays on it until then. For the members who remain, the titles that person added stay on the shared lists with their name, and so does whether they had finished or dropped each one. Removing a member also cancels the group’s unused invite codes.
Family Sharing does not make every list public: lists you do not select remain private to your own account and devices. Your personal tracking remains personal and is not shared with the group. Invite codes are one-time, expire, and are shown only to the Owner who creates one; SceneNest does not email them or retain their readable value after creation. Family Sharing is not used for advertising, profiling, or sharing outside the group you chose.
You can use SceneNest without an account. If you choose to sign up or sign in, Microsoft Entra External ID processes your email address, password or other selected sign-in method, basic account profile, authentication events, and security information needed to operate the account. When you create an account you are asked for a display name, which is the name other members of a Family Sharing group see; you choose what it says, and it does not have to be your real name. SceneNest receives limited profile information — that display name, your email address, and an optional profile-picture URL — plus authentication tokens. The app may display that provider picture or, when it is unavailable, initials derived from your display name. Passwords are handled by Microsoft Entra and are not available to or stored by the SceneNest app.
SceneNest does not collect or store your first or last name. Sign-up does not ask for them, and your account record holds only the display name you chose. If you sign in with Google or another provider that includes a first or last name in the sign-in response, the app uses it only in memory, to work out a name to show you when you have not set one — it is never written to your account and never leaves your device.
Founding members. If you have an account when SceneNest Pro starts, the date your account was created decides whether the app offers you the founding discount on your first year of Pro. This uses the account record SceneNest already keeps; nothing new is collected, and the offer is made in the app, not by email.
Authentication tokens are held in operating-system-protected storage and used only to maintain your session and prepare for future protected features. The current catalogue and configuration requests do not send those tokens to the SceneNest service.
When you search, open title details, refresh streaming availability, or load discovery content, the app sends the search or title request and a country code to the SceneNest service. The service needs this information to return relevant catalogue and regional streaming results.
The service may process limited technical information, such as request timing, outcome, and IP-derived network information, to operate, secure, and diagnose the service. Search and title responses may be cached temporarily for reliability and performance.
Home’s Inspired by your favourites row works the same way. It is built from titles you watched and explicitly reacted Love to, but that choice never leaves your device: the app sends the service only one existing catalogue title’s id at a time, asking “what is related to this title” — never your account, your watchlists, which titles you loved, or which results you already have. Deciding what to show you, and excluding anything you already saved, watched, or disliked, all happens on the device.
Import from IMDb reads an export file you choose from your device. The file itself never leaves your device: the app sends the service only the IMDb title ids from it, a few at a time, with a country code, so it can look up those titles. The file’s ratings, rating dates, list names and notes are not sent. The app reads them on the device to decide which imported titles to mark as watched, when (a title’s rating date becomes its watched date), and whether you loved, liked or disliked it (from the rating). Those results are saved like ones you set yourself and sync with your library if you are signed in; the rating number itself is not saved. The service does not keep which ids you sent or link them to you or your account; it keeps a shared lookup from an IMDb id to its catalogue title, used for everyone, so the same title is not looked up twice. The imported titles are then saved to your lists like any other title.
To decide whether SceneNest is useful enough to keep running, we count a few things that happen in the app. The app sends the SceneNest service a short message when:
Each message contains only what happened, the date, the app version, whether the device is an iPhone, iPad or Android device, and a random usage number created on your device for this purpose. It never contains your titles, lists, streaming services, searches, name, email address or account.
The usage number is separate from everything else SceneNest uses. It is not your account, and not the number used for rate limiting or push notifications. It is not a device or advertising identifier either. The messages are sent without your sign-in, so they cannot be connected to your account. The service keeps only a one-way hash of the usage number, and does not keep your IP address with these records. We use them only to count how many people reach the Planner’s advice and how many are still using SceneNest a month later. They are never used for advertising, never sold or shared, and never combined with other information about you.
Usage records are deleted automatically 120 days after they are created. Uninstalling the app deletes the usage number, and a reinstall starts a new one.
You can turn this off at any time in Account → Share anonymous usage counts. When it is off, the app sends nothing more.
To protect the service from automated abuse, SceneNest uses Apple’s App Attest. On its first search, the app asks the device’s secure hardware to create a key and asks Apple to certify that it belongs to a genuine, unmodified copy of SceneNest. The app sends the resulting certification, and a short signed value with later searches, to the SceneNest service.
This confirms that a request comes from the real app on real Apple hardware. It does not identify you, and it is not linked to your account, your email address, or your watchlists. The service stores an identifier for the key and a counter used to detect replayed requests. Apple’s role is described in Apple’s own privacy documentation; SceneNest does not receive any advertising identifier, hardware serial number, or other device identifier through this process.
Deleting the app deletes the key. If verification is unavailable — an older device, a device that does not support it, or any failure — SceneNest continues to work normally; the request is simply treated as unverified. This feature is used only on iPhone and iPad.
SceneNest keeps a diagnostic log on your device. It records errors and crashes, and a short trail of what led up to them: when the app was opened, resumed or moved to the background, and which SceneNest screens you moved between. Screens are recorded by name only — never a list name, a person’s name, or what you searched for. The log is stored only on your device, is capped in size so older entries are removed, and is never uploaded automatically.
Report a problem, on the Account screen, prepares an email addressed to the contact below containing the app version and build, your device model, operating system version and type, whether you are signed in, your sync status, and that diagnostic log. Error messages in the log can include the names of titles you have saved. Nothing is sent unless you press send in your own mail app, and you can review or edit the message first. If your device has no mail account, the report is offered to the system share sheet instead, and you choose where it goes.
You can also copy the log yourself from Files → On My iPhone → SceneNest, and delete it there.
Push notifications are off unless you turn them on. When you enable Push Notifications on the Account screen and allow notifications at the operating-system prompt, SceneNest stores a push token for that device so it can reach it, and starts telling you when a title you saved becomes available to stream on one of the services you selected.
What the notification contains. When one saved title arrives, the notification names it and the service — for example, “Interstellar is now on Netflix.” When several arrive at once, it says only how many (“3 saved titles are now streaming.”). The notification also carries the identifier of the saved title so that tapping it opens the right page. This text is delivered by Apple and Google, and your device may display it on the lock screen before the device is unlocked. If you would rather a saved title’s name not appear there, you can turn notifications off in the app or restrict lock-screen previews in your device’s own notification settings.
Who handles it. The notification is sent through Microsoft Azure Notification Hubs and delivered by Apple Push Notification service (iPhone and iPad) or Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (Android), acting as delivery providers on our behalf. Its text passes through them. These providers were not previously in the path of any SceneNest information.
What is stored. SceneNest stores each notification-enabled device’s push token, and — so you are not told about the same arrival twice — a record of which of your saved titles have already been notified, on which service, and when. Those records are automatically deleted after 30 days. Your watchlists themselves are not sent to Apple or Google.
How to stop it. Turning Push Notifications off on the Account screen switches notifications off for your whole account, on every device, and takes effect immediately. You can also turn SceneNest notifications off in your device’s own settings. Notifications are never used for advertising, marketing, or profiling; the only thing they are used for is telling you about titles you saved.
SceneNest relies on:
SceneNest does not sell your personal information and does not use third-party advertising SDKs in the mobile app. These service providers are expected to handle information under their own privacy and security obligations.
SceneNest is a general-audience watchlist app and is not directed to children under 13. SceneNest does not knowingly create or collect account profiles for children under 13.
SceneNest uses HTTPS for communication with its service. Information processed by Azure or TMDB may be handled in countries other than the one where you live, subject to those providers’ safeguards and terms.
You can use saved watchlists offline and without signing in. You can stop anonymous usage counts at any time in Account → Share anonymous usage counts. Signing out removes the local account session and stops syncing; it does not delete the External ID account, your local lists, or the copy already in your account. When Account → Delete cloud data is available in your installed app version, you can permanently remove your SceneNest cloud profile, synced lists, and Family Sharing membership by completing two confirmations. This does not delete your Entra External ID sign-in identity or your device’s local lists. If you own a Family Sharing group with other members, ownership transfers to one of them and shared lists remain available; if you are its only member, the group and shared lists are removed.
Account → Request full account deletion permanently removes that same SceneNest cloud data straight away and records a request to delete your Entra External ID sign-in identity. That identity is deleted automatically 14 days later by a separate SceneNest service; the app and the service it talks to cannot delete directory identities themselves. If you sign in and use SceneNest again within those 14 days, the identity deletion is cancelled because you are using the account again; the cloud data already deleted is not restored. If the option is not available in your installed app version, email the contact below to request full account deletion. Your device’s local lists remain unless you delete them or uninstall the app. Operational records retain only one-way hashes and expire after 30 days. To prove that a full-account-deletion request was handled, we also retain the Entra object ID, the request and completion or cancellation times, and Microsoft’s identifier for the deletion call for 30 days; we do not retain your email address or name in those records. To request access or correction, or ask a privacy question, contact the address below.
This policy may be updated as SceneNest adds features. The effective date above will change when the policy changes materially.
Email: scenenest.privacy@outlook.com
To delete your SceneNest cloud data or request full account deletion, see Delete SceneNest cloud data.
SceneNest is currently operated from Australia.