Privacy policy

Popvue is a video player for the IPTV playlist you already have from a provider. It does not provide, sell or host any channels, films, series or other content: everything you watch comes from the playlist you add.

Popvue has no accounts, and its developer runs no servers and receives nothing from the app. What you add and do in Popvue is kept on your iPhone: your playlists and their sign-in details, the catalogues and TV guides they download, your profiles, favourites, watch history and progress, reminders, downloads and settings.

Xtream Codes passwords, guide links you add and PINs are kept in the iPhone's Keychain, and PINs only in a form that cannot be read back. Like other apps' data, most of what Popvue keeps is included in your iCloud or computer backups, among it your playlists' server addresses and usernames, your M3U links and the first guide link each one names, and stream addresses. M3U links, guide links and stream addresses often contain your username and password. Artwork, guide files and downloads are kept out of backups.

If you use Copy stream link on a film or an episode, its stream address, which includes your login, is put on the clipboard.

Removing a playlist deletes its password, guides, downloads, catalogue and watch progress from your iPhone.

To play your playlist, Popvue connects directly to the servers of the provider you entered. It sends them your username and password to sign in, download the catalogue and TV guide and play streams, as Xtream Codes and M3U playlists require. If your provider's address begins with http:// rather than https://, this travels unencrypted.

Channel logos, posters, subtitles and TV guides are loaded from whichever websites your provider's playlist, or a guide link you add, points to.

What your provider does with this information is covered by its own terms and privacy policy.

To show artwork, descriptions, cast and episode lists your playlist leaves out, Popvue asks the public services below. None of them receives your login or your playlist's address. Like any website, each sees your iPhone's IP address, the app's name and version, and the version of iOS.

v3-cinemeta.strem.io

The titles of films, series and TV programmes Popvue shows you, or their IMDb numbers when your provider supplies them, to find their details and artwork. Popvue also fetches its lists of popular titles and genres, which carry nothing about you.

images.metahub.space

A title's IMDb number, to fetch its logo and background picture.

api.tvmaze.com

The name of a film or series, and up to eight cast names from your playlist, when you open its page, to find episode lists and cast photos.

youtube.com

When a title has a trailer, its picture comes from YouTube, and the trailer plays in YouTube's own player, which may store YouTube or Google cookies on your iPhone. Google's privacy policy applies to it.

Popvue Pro is sold through the App Store. Apple handles the payment and your Apple Account, and Popvue never sees your payment details: it only learns whether you have Pro, checks this on your iPhone and remembers the answer. When Popvue asks you to rate it, that request is shown by Apple too. Apple's privacy policy applies to both.

Popvue looks for Chromecast devices on your Wi-Fi only after you first tap the Cast button, which is when iOS asks whether Popvue may find devices on your local network.

When you cast, Popvue sends the TV the stream's address, which includes your provider login, with its title, a subtitle and the address of a picture. The TV then plays the stream directly from your provider.

Popvue includes Google's Cast software, which starts with the app whether or not you cast. Popvue turns off its optional analytics logging, so it sends Google no device identifier. Google says the Cast software still collects some diagnostic data in every app that uses it, such as approximate location and performance data, and how its device list and controls are used when you cast. Google says this data is not linked to you or used to track you. Google's privacy policy applies to it.

After a channel plays, Popvue tells Siri its name and its playlist's name, so Siri can suggest it. Your favourites and Continue watching titles are added to your iPhone's search with their names and pictures, never their stream addresses. Profiles with a PIN are left out of both.

The Favourites widget and reminder countdowns on the Lock Screen show channel names and programme titles from a copy kept on your iPhone, and the widget makes no internet connections. Reminders are notifications scheduled on your iPhone; Popvue does not use push notifications.

If you use Face ID or Touch ID after forgetting a PIN, iOS checks it, and Popvue only learns whether it succeeded.

Popvue has no advertising and no analytics or crash reporting of its own, and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites. Your information is never sold, and never shared for advertising. The only diagnostic data that leaves your iPhone is what Google's Cast software sends, described above.

Popvue is not directed at children, and it collects no personal information from anyone, children included. Parental controls in Settings let you lock content behind a PIN.

popvue.app is a plain site with no accounts, no forms, no analytics and no advertising, and it sets no cookies of its own. Like any website, the server that delivers it sees your IP address and your browser's name and version for as long as it takes to send the page. The Download links take you to the App Store, where Apple's privacy policy applies.

If this policy changes, the new version will be in the app and on this page, with a new date at the top.

Popvue is published by the developer named on its page in the App Store. If you have a question about this policy or your data, write to support@popvue.app, or use Contact support in Popvue's Settings, under About.