Privacy policy

seats.movie is two things: a Chrome extension that shows a 3D preview of a cinema hall on BookMyShow and District seat-selection pages, and this website, which finds the best seats still free for a movie in your city. Neither has accounts, and neither asks for your name, phone number or payment details. Bookings and payments always happen on BookMyShow or District, under their privacy policies.

The Chrome extension

Information we collect

We do not collect, store, sell or share any personal information. The extension has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking.

What the extension reads

When you open a seat-selection page on a supported booking site, the extension reads the seat map shown on that page: seat rows and numbers, prices, which seats are available or taken, and the screen position. This is used only inside your browser to draw the 3D hall and calculate distances and viewing angles. It is never sent to us or to anyone else.

What is stored

Your hall adjustment settings (seat width, row spacing, step height, screen distance, screen shape) are saved in your browser’s local storage on your device. You can clear them by removing the extension or clearing its data.

Network requests

The extension makes only these requests, all to the booking sites themselves:

• the artwork image of the movie you are booking, from the booking site’s image server, to show it on the 3D screen;
• on District, the public page of that movie, to find its poster image address.

These are ordinary requests like the ones your browser already makes when you use those sites. The extension talks to no server of ours and sends us nothing.

Actions on the page

When you press “Find the best seat”, the extension selects seats on the booking page for you. It never proceeds to payment, never books, and never enters any information.

This website

What we store, on your device

• Your city: a cookie (sm_city, one year), so we open your city next time.
• Layout test: a cookie (ab_pick_card, 90 days) that keeps the same version of the results page for you while we test which one works better.
• Recent cities and your usual show time: in your browser’s local storage.
• Small reminders for this tab, such as whether the city picker already opened and, if you shared it, your location for sorting by distance: in session storage, gone when you close the tab.

Clearing your browser data for seats.movie removes all of it.

Your location

We only ask for your location when you choose “Use my current location” or sort cinemas by distance. For finding your city, rough coordinates are sent once to our server, rounded, used for that one lookup and not stored. For sorting by distance, the distances are worked out in your browser; your coordinates aren’t sent to us.

Show and seat data

When you open a city, movie or show, our server fetches the listings and live seat maps from BookMyShow for you. Your request (which city, movie or show) passes through our server and Cloudflare, which keeps standard request logs for security and reliability. We don’t tie these requests to you.

Analytics

The website uses Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors use it, such as pages viewed, clicks and scrolling. Clarity may set cookies and record anonymised interaction data, handled under Microsoft’s privacy statement. Clarity is not part of the extension and receives nothing from it.

It also uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages and links are used (including which email or campaign brought you, from the link’s utm tags). Google Analytics sets cookies and processes data under Google’s privacy policy. Neither tool receives your name, email or bookings, and both run only on seats.movie.

Other services

• Cloudflare hosts the site.
• BookMyShow’s image servers deliver posters and cinema logos, and Google Fonts delivers fonts, so they see your IP address like any website you visit.
• On the extension page, the explainer video is hosted on YouTube and loads only when you press play.

Mobile waitlist

If you join the waitlist for the mobile version, we store the email address you enter, the phone type you pick (Android or iPhone, optional) and the time you signed up. It is kept in a Cloudflare database and used only to tell you once when the mobile version is ready. It is not shared, sold or used for other email. To be removed, ask through sunithvs.com/contact. The extension never asks for an email address.

Third parties

We don’t use advertising trackers, and we don’t sell or share data with third parties. Your use of the booking sites is covered by their own privacy policies.

Children

seats.movie is not directed at children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published on this page with a new date.

Contact

seats.movie is built by Sunith VS. Questions about this policy can be sent through sunithvs.com/contact.