Independent Australian software studio — publisher of SceneNest
Effective date: 15 August 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, and its IMDb and provider identifiers), your per-list priority, each title’s personal tracking: watch status, 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 so it is available on your other signed-in devices. 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.
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 are then 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. Your watch status, Like/Dislike/Love preference, and My note remain private to your own account and devices; they are never shared with the group.
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.
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.
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 recording errors and crashes. It is stored only on your device 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.
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. 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. Email the contact below to request full account and sign-in identity deletion, or if the cloud-data option is not in your installed app version. 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 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.