Privacy Policy & Data Sources

MalayalamMovies aggregates data from multiple trusted sources to provide accurate OTT release information:

• •Wikidata — Structured data including titles, cast, crew, and release dates, released under CC0.
• •Wikipedia — Synopses and plot information used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Each title page credits the Wikipedia article it came from.
• •Platform Catalogs — OTT release information is gathered from platforms' own public catalog pages, never by logging into or scraping behind any platform's paywall.
• •News & social feed — the What's happening page and the “What's happening” section on title pages list recent items from sources we choose to follow: headlines from news sites' public RSS feeds, public posts from selected Instagram Business and Creator accounts (read through Instagram's official API), and videos from public YouTube channel feeds. We show only the headline or the opening of a caption, a thumbnail and the source's name, and every item links to the original. We never copy full articles or log in anywhere to read them. Items are kept for up to 30 days and then deleted.
• •YouTube — the Shorts & series pages list Malayalam short films and web series published on YouTube. Their titles, release dates, lengths, view counts, channel names and thumbnails come from YouTube API Services; cast and crew are read from the video's public description and checked by our team. We don't host or embed these videos: every one opens on YouTube, where watching it is subject to the YouTube Terms of Service and Google's Privacy Policy. By using these pages you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. View counts and channel details are refreshed daily, and we keep no data from YouTube for longer than 30 days without refreshing it.
• •Manual Curation — Our team continuously verifies and updates release dates to ensure accuracy.

Cast and crew photographs and media are sourced and credited as follows:

• •Cast and crew photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and are mostly CC BY-SA. Each photograph is credited to its photographer with its licence in the “Image credits” list on the title's page. Images are resized for display purposes.
• •Posters & logos — Film and show posters, platform logos and promotional images are not freely licensed. They remain the property of their respective owners and are shown here only to identify the title or service they belong to. Rights holders can ask for removal at any time through our takedown form.
• •Feed images — thumbnails on the What's happening feed are loaded straight from the original post or article (Instagram, YouTube or the news site); we do not copy or store them. They belong to whoever published them.
• •MalayalamMovies is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any streaming service or copyright holder.

We respect intellectual property rights and comply with all applicable licenses and attributions:

• •Content from Wikidata (CC0) can be used freely; content from Wikipedia requires attribution under CC BY-SA 4.0.
• •Per-item credits are displayed on each title's page, including photographer names and image licenses.
• •Film posters are shown to identify the titles they belong to. They are not licensed to us, and this site may display advertising. If you own the rights to a poster or image and want it removed, use our takedown request form — we review every request and remove the image promptly.

You can browse the whole site without an account. We collect information only in these cases:

• •Account — if you sign up, your email address, name and a securely hashed password (we never store your password itself). If you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address and profile picture from Google; we never see your Google password.
• •Your activity — your watchlist and the titles, platforms, genres and people you follow, your region preference, and your votes (“worth watching” / “skip”).
• •Reviews — the rating, headline and text you write. Reviews are held for approval and, once approved, are shown publicly with your display name.
• •Messages — what you send through the contact, report and takedown forms: your name, email address, message and the page it concerns.
• •Technical data — like any website, our servers and analytics tools see your IP address, browser and device type, pages visited and referring page.

We do not ask for payment details, phone numbers or government IDs, and we do not sell your personal information.

We use a small number of cookies and similar technologies:

• •Essential — a secure session cookie that keeps you signed in, and a security cookie that protects sign-in forms. Without them, accounts would not work.
• •Umami — counts which pages are visited and how people find the site (referring site, country, device type), in aggregate. It sets no cookies and doesn't identify or follow you across sites. See the Umami privacy policy.
• •Microsoft Clarity — records anonymised heatmaps and session replays (clicks, scrolling, page layout) so we can find confusing pages. Clarity masks form fields such as passwords. See the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
• •Advertising — see the next section.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; the site still works, though you may need to sign in each visit.

MalayalamMovies is free to use and may show advertising to cover its running costs:

• •Ads are provided by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies, including device identifiers, to show and measure ads, and may personalise them based on your visits to this and other websites.
• •Our ads are clearly labelled “Advertisement” and we do not choose them by your account details — we never share your email address, watchlist or reviews with advertisers.
• •You can opt out of personalised ads at Google Ad Settings, or through aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.com. Where the law requires consent (for example in the EEA, UK and Switzerland), you are asked for it before personalised ads or non-essential cookies are used.
• •Read more in Google's advertising policy.

We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the content of third-party ads or the sites they link to.

If you have an account, we send you emails only for things you have asked for:

• •Watchlist alerts — when a title on your watchlist reaches an OTT platform (on by default for accounts; you can turn it off).
• •New-release round-up — a daily summary of new OTT releases (off unless you turn it on).
• •Account emails — such as password resets.
• •Emails are sent through Resend. Every alert has an unsubscribe link, and you can change your choices any time in Settings.

To run the site, data passes through the following providers, each under its own privacy terms:

• •Hosting & database — the site and its database run on a virtual server in Microsoft Azure; images are stored with Cloudflare R2.
• •Umami — cookie-free visitor statistics.
• •Google — AdSense and optional Google sign-in.
• •Microsoft Clarity — usage analytics, as above.
• •Resend — sending email alerts and account emails.
• •YouTube (Google) — movie trailers are embedded in YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), and short films and web series link out to YouTube; their thumbnails and channel pictures load from YouTube's servers. This site uses YouTube API Services. We use no YouTube sign-in and access no information about your YouTube account. See the YouTube Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy; you can review access granted to apps at Google security settings.
• •Feed images — on the What's happening feed and title pages, thumbnails load directly from Instagram (Meta), YouTube (Google) and news sites, so those servers see your IP address and browser, as with any image from another site. We ask your browser not to tell them which page you were on, and we share nothing else with them.
• •Links out — platform, social and news links take you to sites we do not control.

You are in control of your information:

• •Access, correction & deletion — you can edit your preferences in Settings. To have your account, watchlist, votes and reviews permanently deleted, or to get a copy of your data, contact us through the contact form and we will act on it within a reasonable time.
• •Withdraw consent — turn off email alerts, clear cookies, or opt out of personalised ads as described above.
• •Retention — we keep account data until you ask us to delete it. Messages are kept for as long as needed to deal with them. Routine backups are rotated and expire automatically.
• •Security — passwords are hashed, access to the database is restricted and traffic is encrypted. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong, unique password.
• •Your rights — we handle personal data in line with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and, for visitors from Europe and the UK, the GDPR rights of access, correction, deletion and objection.
• •Children — the site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.

Posters, stills and logos belong to their owners. If you hold the rights to an image shown here, submit a request on our copyright & takedown page. We review every request and remove the image promptly where it comes from the rights holder.

The same applies to the What's happening feed: if you publish a news site, run an Instagram account or YouTube channel we follow, or appear in an item, you can ask us to hide an item or stop following a source, and we will do so promptly. We only follow public professional accounts — of films, studios, music labels, media and public figures — never personal or private ones.

Short films and web series are listed with a link to the creator's own YouTube video, so every view counts on their channel. If you made one of them, or run the channel, and would rather it wasn't listed — or want a credit corrected — use the same request form and we will update or remove it.

We may update this policy as the site changes — for example when we add new features or advertising partners. The date at the top shows when it was last revised. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept the updated policy.