This Privacy Policy describes how RexyView ("we," "our," or "the app") handles information when you use our application. We are committed to your privacy. This policy is written in plain language because you deserve to understand it.
RexyView does not collect your personal data. We do not have servers that receive your viewing activity. We do not sell data. We do not run analytics on how you use the app. We do not use your data to train any machine learning or artificial intelligence models. Your content stays between you and your own media servers (Plex, Jellyfin or Emby). A few features you choose to use talk to other services, such as plex.tv, iCloud or a subtitle provider, and each is described below. On supported platforms, you can optionally send a bug report from Help & Feedback — the attached diagnostic log contains app and device details and app events, designed to leave out titles, server addresses, account names and other personal content. You can review the log before sending.
RexyView collects and stores the following data locally on your device only:
RexyView, the developer, never receives this data. Apart from the iCloud features you turn on and the services described below, it stays on your device and is used only to make the app function.
RexyView communicates directly between your Apple device and the media servers you add (Plex Media Server, Jellyfin or Emby). These connections use each server's standard API. Your library content, watch history, and playback activity are processed entirely between your device and those servers — they do not pass through RexyView's infrastructure because RexyView has no infrastructure. One exception is Plex Relay: if a Plex server can't be reached directly from where you are, Plex may route the connection through Plex's own relay servers, under Plex's privacy policy. When you download a video that Apple devices can't play as it is, RexyView asks your server to convert it; that conversion happens on your server.
Find Subtitles: when you search for subtitles in the player, RexyView asks your media server to search. Your server, not RexyView, sends the title and language to its subtitle provider (on Plex, OpenSubtitles; on Jellyfin and Emby, the subtitle plugin the server's owner installed), under that provider's own privacy policy. The subtitle you choose is saved on your server.
Plex: you sign in on plex.tv in your browser with a short code. RexyView never sees your Plex password. RexyView contacts plex.tv to find the servers your account can use. When you add a title to Favorites on a Plex server, RexyView saves it to your Plex Watchlist using Plex's online service, so it is stored in your Plex account. Plex Home users are listed from plex.tv. When you switch to a Plex Home user, or enter a parent's Plex PIN to unlock profile settings, the PIN is sent to plex.tv to check it. So the check also works offline, RexyView keeps a salted hash of a parent's PIN on that device only, never the PIN itself.
Jellyfin and Emby: you enter your user name and password in RexyView. They are sent directly to your server (or, if you choose Emby Connect, to Emby's sign-in service at connect.emby.media) to obtain an access token. RexyView keeps only the token, in your device's Keychain — never your password.
On your home network, RexyView can look for servers on your Wi-Fi (with your permission for local network access). This stays on your network and nothing is sent to us.
Watch Together (SharePlay): when you start Watch Together on a FaceTime call, RexyView shares the title’s name, year and its identifiers on your server with the people on the call through Apple’s SharePlay, so their RexyView can find the same title on a server they can use. The video itself is never sent to them, and nothing is sent to us.
iPhone remote: an iPhone or iPad can control RexyView on an Apple TV on the same Wi-Fi. They talk to each other directly on your local network, after you enter a code shown on the Apple TV. Nothing leaves your network and nothing is sent to us.
My Videos: videos you import from your own files (Files, Photos, Finder) are copied into RexyView on your device. They are never sent to a media server or to us. If you turn on Sync My Videos with iCloud, they are stored in RexyView’s folder in your own iCloud Drive, under Apple’s privacy policy, so your other devices signed in to the same iCloud account can show them.
If you add your own TMDB API key in Settings, RexyView sends an actor's name and your key directly to The Movie Database (themoviedb.org) to fetch their photo. Your key is stored in your device's Keychain. RexyView does not intermediate, log, or store the results of these requests beyond the local device cache. TMDB's own privacy policy applies to those requests.
Trivia: when you open Trivia on a title, RexyView looks up its Wikipedia article. It sends the title's IMDb, TMDB or TVDB ID (or its name and year) to Wikidata and Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation, under the Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy. Nothing about you is sent. Where Apple Intelligence is available, the fun-fact cards are written on your device by Apple's on-device model; the article doesn't leave your device. The article and cards are kept in the device cache for up to a month.
Requests: if a server’s owner turns on Requests, the list of requests (titles, notes and the names people give) is stored in the owner’s own iCloud, end-to-end encrypted, and shared only with people who open the owner’s link. RexyView’s developer has no access to it. When you search for a title to request, what you type is sent to Plex’s online catalog (plex.tv) with your Plex sign-in, or to TMDB if you added your own TMDB key, under their privacy policies.
If you open a title's IMDb page, it loads from imdb.com inside the app. Anything imdb.com stores while it's open, such as cookies, is erased when you close it. Trailers hosted on YouTube or other sites open in that site's app or your web browser. Those sites' own privacy policies apply. RexyView doesn't share anything with them beyond opening the page you chose.
Handoff: if Handoff is on in your device's settings, the title you're looking at can be passed to your other Apple devices signed in to the same Apple ID, through Apple, so you can pick up where you left off.
When RexyView opens, it asks Apple's App Store whether a newer version is available, so it can let you know. The request contains only RexyView's App Store ID and your store region — nothing about you, your servers or what you watch.
If you turn on HomeKit scenes in Settings, RexyView asks for permission to use HomeKit, reads the names of your home's scenes so you can pick them, and runs the scenes you choose when playback starts or stops. HomeKit data stays on your device. It is never sent to us or anyone else, and never used for advertising or any other purpose.
If you allow notifications, RexyView tells you when a download is ready to watch or has failed. These notifications are created on your device. If Family Sharing is on, RexyView also shows viewing-time requests and answers from your family, delivered through Apple's iCloud push service. RexyView has no servers of its own and sends no marketing notifications. You can turn notifications off at any time in your device's Settings.
RexyView is distributed through the Apple App Store and uses Apple services including StoreKit for optional tips, AVFoundation for playback, and the Apple Keychain for secure token storage. Your interactions with these services are governed by Apple's own Privacy Policy, available at www.apple.com/legal/privacy.
On supported platforms, RexyView includes an optional bug report feature accessible from Help & Feedback. If you choose to use it, the app composes an email (on Mac, a share sheet you can send by email) with a diagnostic log attached. This log includes:
The log is designed not to include your IP address, server addresses or names, library content, titles, file names, account names, passwords or access tokens. Some error messages from Apple's system can name the server they were connecting to, so please review the full contents of the attachment before choosing to send it. RexyView never sends the log on its own — it is only sent when you explicitly compose and send the bug report yourself. On Apple TV, the Diagnostics screen shows your server's name and address so you can troubleshoot; it is only shared if you choose to photograph or send it. When you send it, we receive your email address and message along with the log.
RexyView is set up and managed by an adult who owns or has access to a media server. Children can use it through profiles a parent creates, with rating limits, bedtime and viewing limits the parent controls. RexyView, the developer, does not collect any information from children. A child's profile name, photo, viewing time and requests for more time stay on the family's own devices and, if Family Sharing is on, in the family's own iCloud, which the developer cannot access. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or the applicable minimum age in your jurisdiction). If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has sent us information, for example by emailing us, please contact us and we will delete it.
Because we do not collect or store your data on our servers, there is no central database that can be breached. The data that RexyView does store — your preferences and auth tokens — uses Apple's standard security mechanisms including Keychain encryption and app sandboxing. While we take reasonable measures to protect data stored on your device, no method of electronic storage is 100% secure. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your device and your media server account credentials.
Since your data is stored on your own devices and in your own iCloud, you have control over it at all times. You can:
This website (rexyview.com) sets no cookies and uses no tracking, advertising or analytics. Its fonts are hosted on rexyview.com itself, so viewing a page doesn't contact Google or any other third party.
The only thing the site saves in your browser is one small value in local storage, and only after you tap OK on the notice about this, so that the notice doesn't keep coming back. Nothing is saved if you don't tap OK. Under the EU ePrivacy rules and the UK's PECR, this is storage that is strictly necessary for something you asked for, so it doesn't need consent. It holds no personal information, is never sent anywhere, and you can remove it at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser.
The site is hosted by Netlify. Like any web host, Netlify processes your IP address and browser details to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse, under Netlify's privacy policy. Our legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in running a working, secure website.
If you use the contact form, your name, email address, message and any images you attach are stored by Netlify so we can read and reply to them. We use them only to answer you and delete them when they're no longer needed. You can ask us to delete them at any time at rexyviewapp@gmail.com.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or other jurisdictions with similar privacy laws, you have the following rights:
In practice, because RexyView collects almost no personal data and stores nothing on our servers, most of these rights are satisfied automatically. If you contact us via email, that email address and message content is the only personal data we may hold. You can request deletion at any time by emailing rexyviewapp@gmail.com.
If you are a California resident, you have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), including the right to know what personal information is collected, the right to delete personal information, and the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. Because RexyView does not collect, sell, or share personal information, these rights are satisfied by default. You can contact us at rexyviewapp@gmail.com to exercise any of these rights.
RexyView, the developer, does not store personal data on any servers of its own. App data stays on your devices, your own media servers and your own iCloud. If you email us or use the contact form on rexyview.com, your message is handled by our email provider (Google Gmail) and website host (Netlify), which are based in the United States, so it may be transferred to and stored in the United States under their safeguards.
Where GDPR applies, our legal basis for any minimal data processing, such as support emails, contact-form messages and bug reports you send us, is legitimate interest in providing customer support. We do not process data for marketing, profiling, automated decision-making, or any other purpose.
The data controller for RexyView is its independent developer, who publishes the app under the name RexyView. To protect the developer's own privacy, a personal name and postal address are not published here; they will be provided to a data protection authority, or to you where the law requires it, on request. You can reach the data controller at rexyviewapp@gmail.com for any privacy-related request or to exercise your rights under applicable law, and we will reply within one month.
If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update the Last Updated date at the top of this document. For significant changes, we will make reasonable efforts to notify users within the app. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Continued use of the app after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at rexyviewapp@gmail.com or through our contact page.