Privacy and sharing
Your privacy level controls who can view the movie data published on your user pages and through read-only user API endpoints.
Choose a privacy level
Open Settings → Account → General, select a value under Privacy, and select Submit.
| Setting | Who can view your user data |
|---|---|
| Not visible | Only you while signed in to your account. |
| Visible to users | You and other signed-in Movary users. |
| Visible to everyone | Signed-in users and visitors who are not signed in. |
The Admin role does not override Not visible; another administrator cannot view a private user page merely because they are an administrator.
Data covered by this setting
The privacy check applies to pages below /users/<username>/, including:
- Your dashboard and statistics.
- History and watchlist pages.
- Movie, actor, and director lists.
- Movie and person detail pages shown in your user context.
It also applies when the API reads a user's history, watchlist, or played movies. API operations that change data still require a personal token belonging to that user.
Privacy changes who can view the data; it does not delete or transfer ownership of anything. Use Personal data when you want to export or permanently delete your information.
Share a user page
User-page URLs contain your username, for example:
https://movary.example/users/username/history
Recipients can open the URL only when your privacy level permits it. Changing your username changes these URLs, so previously shared links using the old username stop working.