Matinee privacy policy
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Matinee is a home screen for Google TV and Android TV. It has no account, no ads and no analytics. What it reads on your TV stays on your TV; the only requests it makes are for the weather and an optional speed test.
What Matinee reads on your TV
The apps installed on the TV, to show them on the home screen, and the HDMI inputs with the names connected devices report over HDMI-CEC.
With notification access, which you grant in the TV's settings: the title, subtitle, cover image and position that apps publish while they play, to show what you last played, and Play Store notifications about available updates. Notifications from every other app are ignored and never read. You can turn "last played" off, and nothing is recorded while it is off.
Network state, memory use and storage, to show the network icon, the RAM meter and device details.
The Wi-Fi network name, only if you turn on "Show Wi-Fi network name". Android gives the network name only to apps with location permission, so Matinee asks for it then. Matinee never reads your location, and the name is shown on screen, not stored or sent.
All of this is kept in storage only Matinee can access, and none of it is backed up or sent anywhere. Clearing "last played" in settings, or uninstalling Matinee, deletes it.
Home button (accessibility permission)
Some TVs keep the Home button for their built-in launcher. If you turn on "Home button opens Matinee", Matinee uses an Android accessibility service for one thing: noticing when the remote's Home button is pressed so it can open Matinee instead. It does not read screen content, text you type or any other key, and it sends nothing anywhere. Matinee explains this and asks for your agreement before opening the accessibility settings, and you can turn it off there at any time.
Freeing up memory
When you press "Free up", or turn on automatic freeing, Matinee closes apps from your app list that are waiting in the background. TV system services are never closed, and apps you mark "Never close" are skipped.
What leaves your TV
Weather: Matinee sends the latitude and longitude of the city you chose, and the text you type when searching for a city, to Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) to get the forecast. It never uses or sends your device's location.
Speed test: when you move to the network icon, Matinee downloads test data from Cloudflare's public speed test (speed.cloudflare.com) for about three seconds. Nothing is uploaded and the result stays on the TV.
Both services see your IP address, as any website you visit does. Matinee adds no account, identifier or personal information to these requests. Nothing else is sent, and Matinee has no server of its own.
What Matinee does not do
No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no third-party SDKs and no device identifiers. Matinee is not directed at children and collects no personal data from anyone.