Cutscene Labs keeps only what the site needs to work: your account, what you write, and the groups and blocks you set up. There are no ads. We never sell your data or give it to anyone to sell things to you. You can delete your account, and what you wrote, at any time.

Cutscene Labs is a small US company registered in Maine. Questions go to hey@cutscene.me.

• Your account. The name you go by. For a full account, the email, GitHub or Google login you signed in with, and its picture. For a quick account, a made-up name and, if you set one, a PIN (kept scrambled, never as the number).
• Your messages. What you write in the open room, in groups and in direct messages, so the chat can show what was said.
• Groups and blocks. The groups you start or join, and the people you block.
• Reports. A report you file, with your reason and the message it is about, and reports others file about you.
• Sign-ins and alerts. Your signed-in sessions, and, if you turn on alerts, the address your phone gives us for them. An alert carries no words from your messages.
• Game scores, if you play Magellan’s Disappearing Atlas.
• Basic server logs (which page was asked for, the result, the kind of browser), to fix problems.

• The open chat room: everyone signed in.
• A group: the people in it.
• A direct message: the two of you.

We don’t read private messages. We look at a message when someone reports it to us, or if the law requires it.

• No ads, and no advertising trackers.
• No selling or renting your data, and no sharing it for marketing.
• No reading your private messages for any other reason than a report or the law.

The site runs on servers we rent from Hetzner. If you sign in with GitHub or Google, they tell us your login, your picture and, when they have checked it, your email. Phone alerts are knocked through your phone maker’s alert service (Google or Apple), which sees only that there is something new.

Open Account and tap Delete my account. Your account goes, with the messages you wrote, the groups you own (and everything said in them), your place in other groups, your blocks and your sign-ins. It cannot be undone.

Two things stay: a report someone filed about your account, kept for safety; and backup copies, which are cleared in time. You can also ask us to delete it: write to hey@cutscene.me.

Cutscene is for people 13 and older. Children under 13 come in only through a group run by a grown-up who invites them and looks after them there. A quick account asks for no real name and no email.

If you think a child under 13 is using Cutscene without a grown-up, or you are a parent who wants to see or delete your child’s data, write to hey@cutscene.me and we will act on it.

You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to hey@cutscene.me. We answer within 30 days, usually much sooner.

If this changes, the new version goes on this page with its date. Last changed 26 October 2026.