Jellusion privacy policy

Effective 6 September 2026

Jellusion is an Apple TV client for Jellyfin media servers. It is made by Evgenii Baranov.

What the app does with your data

• Nothing leaves your server, unless you turn on the optional intro lookup described below. Jellusion connects only to the Jellyfin server you enter. Your sign-in, your library, what you watch and how far you got are exchanged with that server alone, over the address you gave it, using the Jellyfin API.
• No accounts of ours. Jellusion has no user accounts, no cloud service and no back end.
• No analytics, no tracking, no advertising. The app contains no analytics or crash-reporting software and no third-party SDKs that talk to the network. It does not use the advertising identifier and does not track you across apps or websites.
• Stored on the Apple TV only: the address of each server you added, the access token your server issued at sign-in (kept in the device Keychain), your playback settings, cached artwork, and a snapshot of your Continue Watching list for the Top Shelf. Signing out removes the token and the snapshot; deleting the app removes everything.
• Local network. To find servers on your network the app sends a short discovery broadcast. tvOS asks for your permission first. Nothing is collected from the network.

Optional: intro and credits times

Settings › Skip Intro & Credits has a switch, off by default, that lets the player offer to skip intros, recaps and credits. While it is on, the app looks up intro and credits times on introdb.app and theintrodb.org. It sends the title’s IMDb, TMDB or TVDB id, season and episode number, and runtime. Nothing about you or your server is sent. Shows are looked up on api.introdb.app (IMDb id, season and episode) and, when that service does not know a title or a segment, on api.theintrodb.org (one id and the runtime); films use api.theintrodb.org only. Both go over HTTPS with no account and no key; like any web request they reveal your IP address to the service asked, and what IntroDB or TheIntroDB logs is governed by their own privacy policies, not by this one. Results are kept on the Apple TV for a week so a title is looked up at most once a week per service. Turning the switch off stops every lookup and discards the cached results.

Your Jellyfin server

What your server logs and stores about you is governed by whoever runs that server, not by this app. Jellyfin’s own privacy documentation applies to it.

Children

Jellusion is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is published at this address with a new effective date.

Contact

evgenii@baranov.org