Terms / AGB
hüt abig is a public, independent, experimental project for comparing films and series available to viewers in Switzerland.
Working legal draft: This page is transparent project documentation, not a substitute for advice from qualified Swiss counsel. Operator identity, postal contact, and commercial data licences must be completed before any paid launch.
1. Scope
By using the site, you understand that rankings, availability, ratings, awards, runtimes, and certifications may be incomplete, delayed, or incorrect. Ranked lists include only catalogue titles with an IMDb audience rating; titles without IMDb scores are excluded from ranking views.
2. Public-project status
The service currently has no paid subscription and no guarantee of continued operation. Watched, saved, language, and analytics choices are stored locally in the browser. A user account is optional: if you sign in (with a one-time code sent by email, a password, or a passkey), hüt abig stores your email address and syncs your library and settings (watched and saved titles, lists, ranking weights, language, display name, and taste-sharing codes) in its database in the AWS Frankfurt region, so they are available on your other devices. You can delete the account and its cloud data in the app at any time; titles stored on the device stay there.
3. Analytics and privacy
hüt abig counts visits with Google Analytics 4, in the app and on the static pages, in one of two tiers. Minimum (“Only the essentials” in the app’s “Cookies and statistics” banner) applies unless you choose “Agree”, including before you answer the banner and when the browser blocks storage: Google Analytics receives the page address and title, the referring page, screen size, language, browser and operating system, which app features are used (for example filters, opened titles, the quiz and Movie Night), scrolling and clicks on links to other sites, and an approximate location that Google derives from the IP address (Google states that Google Analytics 4 does not store IP addresses). The visit is identified by random IDs kept only in this browser tab’s storage and deleted when the tab closes: no cookie is set, and nothing on the device recognises you on your next visit. Because Google receives the IP address and a random ID, this data is pseudonymous, not anonymous. Full measurement, only if you choose “Agree”, additionally lets Google Analytics set its _ga cookies, stored for up to two years, so returning visits are recognised. The choice is stored locally in the browser and can be changed at any time under “Analytics settings” in the app; the static pages have no banner and follow it. In both tiers, Google signals, advertising storage, ad-user data, and ad personalisation remain disabled, and no user ID is sent. Google may process analytics data outside Switzerland, for example in the USA. AWS and third-party infrastructure may process ordinary technical request data. Amazon CloudFront records standard server access logs (requested address, time, referring page, browser identifier and IP address) in the AWS Frankfurt region; they are used only to count visits in aggregate and to keep the service secure, set no cookies, are not passed on or combined with other data, and are deleted automatically after 90 days.
4. Third-party data
Ratings and metadata remain the property of their respective sources. IMDb, TMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, TVmaze, awards datasets, and streaming-provider data are governed by source-specific terms. hüt abig is not affiliated with those services.
5. Research and licensing
IMDb non-commercial datasets and privately collected experimental ratings are used for research and non-commercial evaluation. Commercial publication requires appropriate licences or replacement sources.
6. Data reuse
hüt abig’s published datasets, the Streaming-Index (/data/streaming-index.json) and the data status (/data/status.json), may be cited and reused free of charge with a link to huetabig.ch as the source. This covers hüt abig’s own counts, ranks and summaries only; third-party ratings and metadata stay under their sources’ terms (section 4).
7. No warranty
The service is provided “as is”, without a warranty of accuracy, availability, fitness for purpose, or continued Swiss streaming availability.
8. External services
External links lead to independent providers with their own terms, prices, privacy practices, and regional restrictions.
9. Acceptable use
Do not interfere with infrastructure, automate abusive traffic, bypass access controls, or misrepresent third-party ratings as original hüt abig data.
10. Changes
Sources, methodology, and these terms may evolve with the public experiment. Material changes should be recorded with a new effective date.