Last updated: August 4, 2026
Stagestruck is a personal tracker and recommendation tool for musical theater. This policy covers what we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have. We keep it short because the app collects little.
Your ratings, logs, and notes are private to your account, and that privacy is enforced at every layer of the app, not just hidden from view. No other user can see them. Community features work only on aggregates: a show's average rating and review count are visible, but the individual ratings behind them, and your identity, are not.
Comments you post are public, along with the public name you chose. Everything else you record stays private to your account.
We may use and share information in aggregate form, for example how many people have logged a show, how highly a show is rated, or how popular a show is in a region. Aggregates are always drawn from many accounts together and never include your identity, your individual ratings, or anything that could reasonably be traced back to you.
This can include sharing demand counts with industry partners, such as the producers who plan tours and the venues that book them, so shows reach the cities that want them.
We rely on a small number of infrastructure providers to host the app, store data, handle sign-in, process payments, and receive crash reports from the phone apps. They process data only to provide those services. We do not use advertising networks, and we do not sell or share your personal information.
Show pages link out so you can listen, watch, or buy a ticket: Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music for recordings, streaming services for filmed productions, and ticket sellers such as Ticketmaster and TodayTix for live runs. Some of these are affiliate links, which may earn us a small commission at no extra cost to you. Where that is the case we say so on the page, next to the links themselves.
Following a link to one of those services does not send your Stagestruck identity to them. They will see the ordinary things any website sees when you arrive, and what happens after that is covered by their privacy policy rather than ours.
Paying us is the exception. When you pay while signed in, we tell Stripe which Stagestruck account the payment is for, and we keep only what we need to connect that payment back to you. Your card details go to Stripe and never reach us. If you pay without signing in, we send nothing that identifies you.
In the phone apps the payment goes through the App Store or Google Play instead, and the same rule holds: we never see your card details. To match a purchase to your account we pass your account id to RevenueCat, the service that handles our in-app purchases.
Your journal can show your theaters on a map. The map background loads from OpenFreeMap, a third-party tile service, and your browser requests only the tiles for the area on screen, which is roughly where your theaters are. Those requests carry no account information and nothing about which theaters are yours. If you never open the map, no tile request is made.
We use cookies to keep you signed in and to remember your time zone so dates read correctly on the day you expect. Before you have an account we also remember which site or link brought you here, so we can tell where people are finding us. That one is set by us and read only by us, and it is cleared once you make an account. There are no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
You can edit or remove your ratings, logs, and notes at any time inside the app. To delete your account, open Settings and choose Delete your account. It happens right away, and we cannot undo it afterwards. Everything attached to your account goes with it, apart from records of any payment you made, which we have to keep. Data retention below says why.
You can also download a copy of everything you have added, at any time and at no cost, from the same Settings page or from this link. That covers your log, your ratings, your notes, the shows you saved, your votes and suggestions, and your settings.
We keep your data while your account is active. When you delete your account, your personal information goes with it, apart from the one exception in the next paragraph. Aggregate statistics your activity contributed to may persist, since they no longer identify you: counts of how many people used the app on a given day, for example, hold no record of who those people were.
Payments are that exception. Tax and accounting rules require us to keep a record of money that changed hands, and we may need one to answer a dispute, so if you ever pay us, the record of that payment outlives the account it belonged to. We keep it for those reasons and use it for nothing else. What stays is a payment reference and the details of the transaction itself. It does not carry your name or your email, and once your account is gone it is no longer attached to anyone.
Stagestruck is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. Larger changes will be noted in the app.
Questions about privacy? Email privacy@stagestruck.app.