Terms of Service

Effective October 7, 2026.

1. Welcome

ParentFilter is a place where parents tell other parents what a film contains, and a set of tools that skip, mute, or blur moments during your own family's playback of films you already have. It is run by All Things Considered LLC, 7101 Craig St, Overland Park, KS 66204 ("ParentFilter", "we", "us"). By creating an account or using the site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, don't use the service — the public film pages are still there to read.

When you create an account we ask you to tick a box saying so, and we keep a record of which version of these terms you agreed to and when.

2. Who can use ParentFilter

You must be at least 13 years old to have a ParentFilter account. Creating an account is your confirmation that you are. This is a site for parents, not for children; if we learn that an account belongs to someone under 13, we delete the account and the personal information that came with it — see the Privacy Policy for how to tell us.

3. Your account

There is no password. You sign in with a one-time link we email you, or with Google, so your email address is the key to your account: keep that mailbox secure, and tell us if you think someone else has used your account. What happens under your account is your responsibility until you tell us — including how the people in your household use it.

4. Your content and the license you grant us

"Your Content" means the ratings and other contributions you submit to ParentFilter.

4.1 You keep ownership

You own what you write. Nothing here transfers ownership of your reviews, ratings, or other contributions to us.

4.2 The license

By submitting Your Content to ParentFilter, you grant All Things Considered LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sublicensable (solely as described in 4.3), transferable (only to a successor who takes over the service under section 11), perpetual and irrevocable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt, translate, publish, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, excerpt, and create derivative works of Your Content, in any medium now known or later developed, for the purposes of:

operating, displaying, and promoting the Service, including displaying Your Content on public pages of the Service and in listings, search results, and previews;
combining Your Content with content submitted by other users to produce aggregate ratings, counts, statistics, distributions, and other derived measures, and publishing those aggregates;
using Your Content — including in aggregate or de-identified form — as input to, and as a prior or reference signal for, ParentFilter's own automated and machine-learning analysis of films, and publishing the results of that analysis; and
archiving Your Content and keeping records of moderation decisions and corrections.

4.3 Sublicensing is limited

We may sublicense the rights in 4.2 only to service providers acting on our behalf and under contract (for example hosting, search, and content-analysis providers), and only for the purposes in 4.2. We will not license or sell Your Content to third parties for the purpose of training their general-purpose AI models, and we will not include Your Content in any dataset offered or sold to third parties for that purpose.

4.4 Filter guides

A "filter guide" is a timing file the Service helps you produce from your own lawful copy of a film — scene timestamps, category labels, and severity levels. It never contains the film itself.

Guides created by the Service's analysis are part of the Service. When you analyze a film, the finished guide is stored on the platform and added to the shared guide library as Your Content licensed under 4.2, so other subscribers' players can use it. It is not attributed to you to other users; we keep an internal record of the contributing account.

Your shelf — the copy saved to your own account together with your household's filter choices — is private, and the license in 4.2 does not apply to your choices. For your shelf we take only what hosting requires: the right to store it and serve it back to your own account.

Guides are provided within the Service, not as files. Library and shelf guides are provided to you for one purpose: steering playback of a copy of the film you lawfully have. You may not bulk-download, scrape, extract, republish, or redistribute guides outside the Service, and you may not use them to build a competing catalog or dataset.

4.5 Aggregates and derived measures are ours

Aggregate ratings, scores, statistics, and other measures we derive from many users' contributions, and the results of our own analysis, are ParentFilter's content and not Your Content. Nothing in 4.2 gives you rights in them; nothing in this section gives us rights in Your Content beyond the license granted.

4.6 If you delete

You may delete Your Content at any time. On deletion we will remove it from public display within 7 days and stop using it under 4.2(a). Aggregate ratings, statistics, and analysis outputs already derived from Your Content may remain, because they cannot be disentangled from other users' contributions — but they will contain no part of your text and will not identify you. Copies may persist in backups for up to 30 days and in our moderation records where we are required or reasonably need to keep them.

4.7 Your promises

You represent and warrant that: (a) Your Content is your own original expression, or you hold all rights necessary to grant this license; (b) Your Content does not copy or paraphrase any other publication's review, parents' guide, content listing, or editorial description; (c) Your Content does not infringe anyone's rights or violate any law; (d) you have not been paid or otherwise compensated by anyone to submit it, except as permitted and disclosed under our reviewer guidelines; and (e) Your Content reflects your own actual experience of the film you are rating.

4.8 Moral rights

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you waive, and agree not to assert, any moral rights or rights of attribution or integrity in Your Content in connection with the uses licensed above. Where such rights cannot be waived, you consent to those uses.

4.9 We are not obliged to publish

We may decline to publish, may remove, and may stop displaying any of Your Content at any time and for any reason, including under our house rules below. We have no obligation to monitor, and we do not undertake to review every contribution.

4.10 Changes to this license

If we materially expand how we may use Your Content, we will tell you before the change takes effect and give you an opportunity to delete Your Content first. The expanded uses will apply only to content you submit or leave up after that date.

5. House rules

When you rate a film or otherwise contribute, you agree to these:

Rate only films you actually watched, and give your own honest opinion.
Don't copy or paraphrase from other guides, reviews, or publications.
Don't submit ratings you were paid or rewarded to submit.
Don't harass anyone, and don't name private people — especially not children.
Don't scrape the site, probe it, or access it with automated tools beyond what robots.txt allows.
Don't interfere with the service or try to get around its limits or security.

We may remove or refuse to display content that we consider obscene, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not it breaks a rule above.

6. Ratings are parents' opinions

Everything on a film page is the aggregate of what individual households reported, plus arithmetic. ParentFilter is not a ratings organization, and its numbers are not official ratings — they are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or derived from the Motion Picture Association or anyone else. We make no promise that any film is right, or wrong, for your family. How we rate explains exactly where the numbers come from.

6A. Guides help you decide. They are not guarantees.

Our guides, report cards and parent guide pages, and the skipping, muting and blurring built on them, are aids to your own judgment — not a promise that a film is free of anything, or that every moment in it was found, labelled right, or timed right. How they go wrong:

Our analysis looks at still pictures taken seconds apart — in parts of a film, ten or more seconds apart — and AI can misjudge what it sees or hears, so a brief moment can slip through.
Some stretches of a film may not have been looked at at all, and a category a guide says it did not check for, or did not screen, was not looked for. A language guide checks words only, not the picture.
A guide is timed to one release of a film. Another cut, ad breaks, or a change to the player you watch on can make a skip early, late, or missed.
A guide is matched to your film by title and running time, and two films can share both.
Ratings and flags from other families are their opinions. A guide another family shared was made from their copy of the film, and a note that a person checked it is their claim, not ours. We review some, not all (section 4.9).

6B. You are the parent in the room.

You decide what your family watches and which filters to use. If it matters that a child not see or hear something, watch the film yourself first, or watch together with the remote in your hand. ParentFilter works best on a film that's mostly fine, with a few moments you'd rather skip; it softens a film, it doesn't remake one. Where your family draws the line is yours to decide, and how your household uses your account is your responsibility.

6C. The extension, our players, and files from other people.

The browser extension, the analyzer, the phone guide and our desktop player work only when you tell them to. They depend on websites, apps and devices we don't control, any of which can stop a guide working — even partway through a film — without warning. A filter file someone gives you is theirs: we didn't make it and can't check it.

6D. Tell us when we miss.

If a guide gets something wrong, tell us: if your plan includes flagging, flag the moment while you watch, and anyone can use "Report an error" at the foot of a film's page. Errors on a parent guide page are handled as our corrections page describes. We can't promise to fix a particular scene guide, or by when.

7. Copyright and the DMCA

If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent — the DMCA page has the agent's details, what a notice must contain, and the counter-notice path if your material was removed by mistake.

We keep a record of every infringement notice we receive and the accounts it concerned, and we will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright.

8. Ending an account

You can close your account and delete your data at any time — the Privacy Policy says how, and section 4.6 says what survives. We can suspend or close accounts that break these terms, and we can stop offering the service; if we do, we will say so rather than go quiet.

9. No warranties

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any rating or aggregate is accurate or complete. We do not warrant that any guide, report card, rating or filter is complete, accurate, correctly timed, or suitable for your family.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, ParentFilter will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the service. Our total liability for all claims relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or fifty dollars.

10A. Missed or mis-timed moments.

To the fullest extent the law allows, you agree that we are not responsible to you for, and you release us from your own claims about, harm or upset caused by a moment a guide or filter missed, labelled wrongly, rated differently than you would have, or skipped, muted or blurred at the wrong time — including your upset at a moment someone in your household saw or heard. This does not cover harm we cause on purpose or through gross negligence, or anything else the law won't let us exclude. Section 10's limit applies to whatever remains.

Some places do not allow some of these limits, disclaimers or releases — for example, limits on liability for personal injury or gross negligence, or on certain implied warranties. Where that is you, they apply only as far as the law allows, and nothing in these terms takes away a right the law says you can't give up.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Kansas, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If ParentFilter is acquired or reorganized, these terms — including the license in section 4 — may be assigned to the successor, who takes them over on the same terms.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change is material we will announce it before it takes effect — on the site, or by email to account holders — and material changes apply from that date forward, not backward. The current version always lives at this address, with its effective date at the top.

When a change matters, we will also ask you to confirm it the next time you sign in or open your account page, and say what changed. You can still cancel a subscription and close your account, and we never stop filtering in the middle of a film over it. The version before this one stays online, word for word — August 31, 2026 — and so will every version from this one on.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms: legal@parentfilter.app. Privacy questions and data deletion: see the Privacy Policy. Copyright notices: the DMCA page.