Anime Finder Privacy

Privacy Policy

This privacy notice explains what personal information Anime Finder collects, why we use it, how long we keep it, and who we may share it with.

Last updated: 27 April 2026

Children and young users

Age and younger users

Anime Finder is not intended for children under 13.

By creating an account, you confirm that you are at least 13 years old. If you are under 18, you should use Anime Finder with permission from a parent or guardian.

In simple terms, we use your information to let you create an account, manage your anime list, use profile features, receive account emails, keep the website safe, and contact us for support.

Please do not add sensitive personal information, such as health, religious, political or other special category information, to your username, profile, contact messages or anime reports.

What information we collect, use, and why

Information we collect

To provide and operate Anime Finder

  • Names and contact details, such as your email address and username.
  • Account information and registration details.
  • Website user information, including user journeys and cookie tracking.
  • Information relating to compliments, complaints, contact messages or anime reports.
  • Public profile information, anime list entries, anime watch status, scores or ratings, favourites, likes, follows/followers, profile settings, personalised recommendation data, IP address, browser/device information, session cookies and security logs.

For user accounts and account features

  • Username, email address, password hash/authentication data, login/session information, account settings and profile visibility settings.
  • Anime list data, favourites, likes, follows/followers and personalised recommendation data.
  • Information used for security purposes, such as login activity and security logs.

To protect Anime Finder from misuse

  • Names and contact information connected with accounts, contact messages or reports.
  • Customer or user accounts and records.
  • IP addresses, browser/device information, security logs, login activity, spam prevention data, abuse reports, and records needed to investigate misuse of the website.

To comply with legal requirements

  • Contact information.
  • Any other personal information required to comply with legal obligations.
  • Account records, contact messages, anime data reports, security logs, and information needed to respond to legal requests or protect our legal rights.

For queries, complaints or claims

  • Names and contact details.
  • Account information, customer or user account records, and correspondence.
  • Contact form messages, support requests, anime data reports, username, email address, relevant account/profile information, and records of our replies.

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Your data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for collecting and using your personal information. Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights.

Your right of access

You can ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification

You can ask us to correct information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.

Your right to erasure

You can ask us to delete your personal information.

Your right to restriction

You can ask us to limit how we use your personal information.

Your right to object

You can object to the processing of your personal data.

Your right to data portability

You can ask us to transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you.

Your right to withdraw consent

When we use consent as our lawful basis, you can withdraw your consent at any time.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month. To make a data protection rights request, contact us using the email address at the top of this privacy notice or through our Contact page .

Our lawful bases

Why we are allowed to use your information

To provide and operate Anime Finder

Contract: we use information so we can provide Anime Finder account and website features to you.

Legitimate interests: operating, maintaining and improving Anime Finder; providing profiles, anime lists, favourites, likes, follows/followers and recommendations; keeping the website secure; preventing spam and abuse; and understanding how users interact with the website so we can fix problems and improve the service.

For user accounts and account features

Contract: we use information to create, manage and secure your account.

Legitimate interests: managing user accounts, protecting accounts from misuse, keeping login and session systems secure, preventing spam or abuse, maintaining profile visibility settings, and providing personalised Anime Finder features.

To protect Anime Finder from misuse

Legitimate interests: protecting Anime Finder, our users and our systems from spam, bots, unauthorised access, fraud, malicious activity, harassment, misuse of accounts, and other harmful or unlawful behaviour.

To comply with legal requirements

Legal obligation: we use information when we have to comply with the law.

For queries, complaints or claims

Contract: we may use information to deal with account or service-related requests.

Legitimate interests: responding to support requests, contact form messages, anime data reports, complaints and legal claims; keeping records of our replies; resolving disputes; improving the website; and protecting Anime Finder and our users.

Where we get personal information from

Data sources

  • Directly from you.
  • Suppliers and service providers.
  • Website users through account registration, profile settings, anime list activity, favourites, likes, follows/followers, contact forms and anime reports.
  • Automatically through the website when users visit or interact with Anime Finder, such as IP address, browser/device information, session cookies and security logs.

How long we keep information

Retention

We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this privacy notice.

Account information, including your email address, username, password hash, account settings and profile settings, is kept while your account remains active.

Public profile information, anime list entries, anime watch status, scores or ratings, favourites, likes, follows/followers and personalised recommendation data are kept while your account remains active, unless you delete or change that information earlier.

Contact form messages, support requests and anime data reports are usually kept for up to 24 months after the last response or action, unless we need to keep them longer to deal with a dispute, legal request, abuse report or security issue.

Security logs, login activity, IP addresses, browser/device information and spam prevention records are usually kept for up to 180 days, unless we need to keep them longer to investigate abuse, protect the website or comply with legal requirements.

Transactional email records, such as delivery logs for login links, verification emails, password reset emails and account notices, are kept only as long as needed for delivery, security, troubleshooting and record keeping.

Backup copies may retain deleted or changed information for a limited period until they are overwritten or deleted during our normal backup rotation.

We may keep some information for longer if required by law, to protect our legal rights, to resolve disputes, or to prevent abuse of Anime Finder.

Who we share information with

Processors and other recipients

VPS hosting provider / server infrastructure provider: Statnet, Poland/EU

Statnet provides VPS/server hosting used to run Anime Finder’s website, application, database, files, backups and related infrastructure. They may process technical information such as account data stored in the database, IP addresses, server logs, security logs, contact form data, anime list data, profile data and other information needed to operate the website.

Transactional email / SMTP provider: dPoczta / dhosting.pl, Poland/EU

dPoczta / dhosting.pl provides email hosting and SMTP delivery services used to send transactional emails from Anime Finder, such as login links, verification codes, password reset emails, account security notices and support replies. They may process email addresses, email content, delivery information and related technical logs.

Embedded video provider: YouTube / Google

Anime Finder may display YouTube trailer thumbnails and embedded YouTube trailers. Trailer thumbnails may be requested from YouTube/Google servers before the full video player is loaded. When this happens, Google may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser/device information and request details.

The full YouTube video player is loaded when you choose to load or play a trailer. At that point, YouTube/Google may process additional information such as cookie identifiers and video interaction data according to Google’s own privacy terms. Where possible, we use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embed mode.

Others we may share personal information with

  • Relevant regulatory authorities.
  • Organisations we are legally obliged to share personal information with.
  • Publicly on Anime Finder where you choose to make profile information, anime lists, favourites, likes, follows/followers or other public activity visible, depending on your profile settings.

Sharing information outside the UK

International transfers

Where necessary, we will transfer personal information outside of the UK. When doing so, we comply with the UK GDPR and make sure appropriate safeguards are in place.

For further information or to obtain a copy of the appropriate safeguard for any of the transfers below, please contact us using the contact information provided above.

Statnet

Category: VPS hosting provider / server infrastructure provider

Country: Poland

Transfer mechanism: The country or sector has been assessed as providing adequate protection to data subjects, also known as Adequacy Regulations or UK data bridge.

dPoczta / dhosting.pl

Category: Transactional email / SMTP provider

Country: Poland

Transfer mechanism: The country or sector has been assessed as providing adequate protection to data subjects, also known as Adequacy Regulations or UK data bridge.

YouTube / Google

Category: Embedded video provider / online video platform

Country: United States / global infrastructure

Transfer mechanism: Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), or other appropriate safeguards used by Google/YouTube for international transfers.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies

Anime Finder uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, keep users logged in, protect forms and accounts, remember basic preferences, and keep the website secure.

Some cookies are strictly necessary for the website to work, such as session and security cookies. We may also use cookies or similar technologies connected with embedded content, such as YouTube trailer thumbnails and YouTube trailers.

If we add analytics, advertising, tracking pixels or non-essential cookies in the future, we will update this notice and, where required, ask for your consent before using them.

How to complain

Complaints

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice or through our Contact page .

If you remain unhappy with how we have used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint