Privacy Policy
LAST UPDATED 29 SEPTEMBER 2026
CutCat lets you mark scenes as you watch and filters the ones other viewers marked. This page says exactly what it collects, why, and what it never touches.
What we collect
- Your Google account email and user ID. Signing in uses Google. We receive your email address and a Google account identifier so your markings can be attributed to you, and so you cannot vote on your own.
- The markings you create. For each one: which service and video it belongs to, its start and end time, the category you chose, any word you typed, and whether it mutes or skips.
- Your votes on other people's markings, and counts of how many markings and votes you have made.
What stays on your own machine
Held in your browser's extension storage, and never sent to us:
- Your sign-in session.
- Where you dragged the widget on each service.
- Which filter groups you have switched on or off.
- A local count of your markings and votes, shown in the extension popup.
- A copy of the filter categories, and a marking waiting to be retried if a save failed.
What we never collect
- Your viewing history, or any record of what you watch.
- Any video, audio or image from the services you use it on. The extension cannot read protected video, and nothing is ever captured or uploaded.
- Anything at all from pages other than Netflix. The extension only runs there.
- Payment details, contacts, location, or your accounts with the streaming services.
Why we collect it
Markings exist to be shared. Yours are shown to other viewers, who vote on whether they are right, and approved ones filter playback for everybody. Your account identifier is what makes that possible: it attributes a marking to its author, stops self-voting, and lets you edit or delete your own.
Who else sees it
Other users of CutCat see your markings and their timings, along with their vote counts. They do not see your email address. Reviewers and administrators can see who submitted a marking, in order to moderate it.
We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers, or transfer it to anyone for their own purposes. Data is stored with Google Firebase, using Firestore and Firebase Authentication, which processes it on our behalf.
How long we keep it
Markings and votes are kept while the extension is in use, because other viewers depend on them. You can delete any of your own markings at any time from the panel behind the gear icon. To have your account and everything attached to it removed, write to the address below and we will delete it.
Permissions, and why each is needed
identitysigns you in with Google.storagekeeps the local settings listed above.- Access to
netflix.complaces the widget over the player, reads how far through a video you are, and mutes or skips a marked stretch. Nothing is read from any other site.
This website
Everything above is about the extension. This site is separate, and it counts how many people press its buttons, so we can tell whether the page is doing its job. That counting uses Google Analytics through Firebase.
- What is recorded is which button was pressed, and whether you are reading on a phone or a computer.
- Google Analytics sets its own identifier in your browser and records the usual details of a visit, including a shortened form of your IP address.
- No marking, no account and nothing about what you watch is involved. Reading this site needs no account and creates none.
- If your browser asks sites not to track you, nothing is counted at all.
Children
CutCat is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect, the date at the top will change and the extension's listing will say so.