Skip The Critics
What real people actually think. Tomatoes are for critics...
Every night we scour social media, read the real comments, by the real audience, and show you exactly what they think. No paid shills here.

Privacy Policy

Effective July 10, 2026. SkipTheCritics.com is owned and operated by Level Ten Media LLC (“we,” “us”).

The short version

We run a review-scores site, not a data business. There are no user accounts. We don’t sell personal information. And the social media posts our scores are built from are analyzed and immediately discarded — we never store who said something or what they wrote, only anonymous aggregate statistics.

What we collect from you as a visitor

Analytics. We use Google Analytics to understand site traffic (pages visited, approximate location, device type). This uses cookies or similar identifiers, and Google processes that data under its own privacy policy. We see traffic in aggregate; we don’t use it to identify you.

Contact form. If you write to us, we receive the email address and message you choose to send, delivered through Resend (an email service). We use it to reply — nothing else. Our contact endpoint also briefly notes the network address of senders, held in memory only, to prevent spam flooding.

Hosting logs. Our host (Vercel) keeps standard, short-lived server logs — the ordinary plumbing of any website.

What we do with social media content

Our scores and summaries are derived from public social media posts about movies and games. Here is exactly how that works: our system reads a public post, classifies it (for example, “positive about the acting”), and then discards the text. What we keep is derived data only — sentiment labels, topic tallies, and counts.

We never store post text, usernames, handles, author identities, or anything that links an opinion back to the person who expressed it. Our summaries are written by our own system from aggregate statistics and cannot quote anyone, because the text is gone before the summary is written. If you posted about a movie last night, your words are not sitting in our database — a single anonymous tally mark is.

Services we rely on

Vercel (hosting), Neon (database), Google Analytics (traffic measurement), Resend (contact email delivery), and public data interfaces of social platforms. Movie and game metadata (titles, posters, release dates) comes from third-party providers including TMDB and IGDB. Each processes data under its own terms.

Cookies

The site itself sets no tracking cookies of its own. Google Analytics sets its measurement identifiers. The admin area sets a session cookie that only matters if you are us.

Children

The site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Your choices and rights

You can browse with analytics-blocking tools without losing any functionality. If you have emailed us and want that correspondence deleted, ask via the contact form and we will delete it. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights over personal data; requests via the contact form will be honored to the extent the law requires — which, given how little we hold, is usually a short conversation.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with an updated effective date. Material changes to what we collect would be noted prominently on the site.

Contact

Questions about this policy: use the contact form.