Terms of use

Last updated August 20, 2026

The short version

Whatzon is free. It tells you when television shows come back. It gets those dates from somebody else, and sometimes they are wrong, late or missing — so please do not plan anything important around us. We will do our best, we promise nothing, and if a show slips past you we are very sorry but we are not liable for it. If that trade is not for you, no hard feelings: close the account and we will delete your data.

The rest of this page says the same thing more carefully, because that is what a terms page is for.

1. What this is

Whatzon is a free service that keeps a list of television shows you follow and emails you when one of them gets a return date, or when a date it already had changes. That is the whole product.

By creating an account or using the site, you are agreeing to what is on this page. If you do not agree with it, the honest answer is that Whatzon is not for you — and that is fine.

2. It is free, and it will probably carry advertising

There is no charge, no trial, and nothing to cancel.

Whatzon is expected to carry advertising in order to stay free. When that happens, the ads are chosen and served by third-party advertising providers, not by us. We do not control which ads you see, we do not vouch for what they advertise, and buying something from an advertiser is a transaction between you and them that we are not part of. What those providers do with cookies and data is described in the privacy policy.

If advertising ever turns into a paid tier, the terms for that will be written before it launches, not retrofitted into this page.

3. Your account

You need an email address and a password. That is all we ask for, and it is all we want.

• You must be at least 13. Whatzon is not built for children and does not knowingly collect their information.
• Use an email address you actually control. The entire product is an email we send you; a typo means you get nothing, and somebody else may get your show list.
• Your password is yours to look after. Anything done through your account is treated as done by you. If you think somebody else is in it, change the password and tell us.
• One human per account. Accounts are for people, not for shared logins or resale.

You can delete your account yourself, at any time, from the profile screen. It takes your password and it takes effect immediately.

4. What we promise (this is the important bit)

We promise to try. We do not promise to be right.

Return dates come from a third-party show database that we do not own and cannot correct. Networks change their minds, announcements get retracted, listings arrive late, and shows are sometimes missing from the catalog altogether. When that source is wrong, Whatzon is wrong, and neither of us finds out until afterward.

So, plainly:

• Whatzon is provided “as is” and “as available”, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
• We do not guarantee that dates are correct, that emails arrive, that they arrive on time, or that the site is available at all. It runs on one server, maintained by one person, and sometimes that person is asleep.
• We may change, pause, break or discontinue any part of it, including the whole of it, without notice. We would rather not, and we would try to tell you first, but we are not promising to.
• It is a convenience, not a system of record. If missing a broadcast would genuinely matter to you, check the network.

5. Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Whatzon and the person who runs it are not liable for anything that arises out of your use of the service. That includes, without limiting it: a missed episode or premiere, a date that turned out to be wrong, an email that never arrived or arrived late, an outage, lost data, or anything you decided to do on the strength of what this site told you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim relating to Whatzon is zero dollars, which is also the amount you have paid us.

Some places do not allow certain warranties to be disclaimed, or certain liability to be excluded — most notably for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Where the law says a right cannot be signed away, it is not signed away here, and nothing in this section is intended to limit rights you have as a consumer that cannot lawfully be limited. If any part of this section is held unenforceable, the rest of it still applies as far as it lawfully can.

6. Using it decently

Almost nobody needs this section. It is here for the person who does.

Please do not: scrape or bulk-download the catalog; hammer the site with automated requests; try to break into anything; use the AI search in a loop to burn through its daily budget; resell or redistribute the data as your own product; or use Whatzon to do anything illegal or to harass anybody.

And if you write something on here — a review, or anything else — do not post anything unlawful, defamatory, hateful, obscene, threatening, or aimed at a person rather than a television program. Do not post somebody else's writing as your own, do not post other people's personal information, and do not use a review as an advertisement.

We may suspend or delete an account doing any of that, without notice, and we do not have to explain ourselves at length.

7. Other people's things

• Show data and artwork come from our data provider and ultimately from the broadcasters. They own it; we display it.
• Show titles, network names and logos belong to their owners. They are used here to say which show is which. Whatzon is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any network, studio or streaming service, and nothing here should be read as suggesting otherwise.
• Whatzon's own name, wordmark and design belong to us.

If you own something here and think it should not be, write to us and we will sort it out.

8. Anything you post

If Whatzon ever lets you write something that other people can read — a review of a show, most likely — this section is the deal for it.

• It stays yours. We do not claim ownership of anything you write.
• You give us permission to show it. By posting, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, display and distribute it on Whatzon and to quote it when talking about Whatzon. Nothing more than that: we will not sell it, and we will not license it on to anybody else.
• You are promising it is yours to post — that you wrote it, that it does not infringe anyone's rights, and that it does not break section 6.
• We can take it down. We may remove or edit anything, at any time, without notice and without explaining ourselves — in particular anything offensive, abusive, off-topic or unlawful. We are not obliged to host anything, and deciding not to is not censorship of a person, it is a choice about one page.
• Delete your account and what you posted comes down with it. Your reviews stop being visible the moment the account is closed, and they are erased when the account is purged. The timing is the same as for the rest of your data and is set out in the privacy policy.

Other people's reviews are their opinions, not ours. We do not check them for accuracy and we do not endorse them. Section 5 applies to them exactly as it applies to everything else here.

If something posted here infringes your copyright or another right you hold, write to support@whatzon.show and tell us what it is, where it is, what right you hold and how to reach you. We will look at it and take it down if it should come down. If something posted here is about you and should not be, write to privacy@whatzon.show.

9. What we will email you

Only two things: alerts about shows you chose to follow, and the occasional message you asked for, such as a password reset or a confirmation of an email change.

Nothing changed means nothing sent. There is no newsletter and no daily digest. You can turn alerts off per show, mute a single return, or delete the account entirely — all from inside the app, without asking anyone.

10. Ending it

You can leave whenever you like, from the profile screen, and your data goes with you. What happens to it and how quickly is set out in the privacy policy.

We may suspend or close an account that is breaking section 6, or if we have to shut the service down. If Whatzon is ever discontinued, we will make a reasonable effort to tell account holders first.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update this page. If a change is significant, the “last updated” date changes and we will say so on the site. Continuing to use Whatzon after that means you are fine with the new version; if you are not, section 10 explains the door.

12. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of Whatzon will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Monroe County, New York, and both of us consent to those courts having personal jurisdiction and to venue there. New York is where Whatzon is operated from; where its servers happen to sit does not change this.

If you are a consumer somewhere whose law gives you rights that cannot be overridden by an agreement like this one, this section does not take them away from you.

13. Talking to a human

Questions about these terms, or anything else: support@whatzon.show.
Anything about your personal data: privacy@whatzon.show.