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[Privacy Policy] Sieve: IMDB ratings on Indian OTT platforms
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PRIVACY POLICY

What informaton does this extension collect?

  • As a user is browsing movies / shows on an OTT platform's website, this extension scrapes the web page to identify the movies / shows being shown to the user

How is this information used?

  • Once the movies / shows on the web page have been identified, their IMDB rating and related information is retrieved via a web request to a third-party, and the ratings are displayed to the user next to the movie tile.

What information does this extension share with third-parties?

  • The extension sends a movie's title and year of release to omdbapi.com, which is an API service providing movie ratings from IMDB and similar providers. omdbapi.com sends the IMDB rating (and some related info) back

For any questions, send me an email at [email protected]

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