Automated Decision-Making & Profiling Policy
Effective Date: 2026
Last Updated: 2026
This Automated Decision-Making & Profiling Policy explains how automated systems, profiling, recommendation systems, ranking signals, moderation tools, fraud prevention systems, payment risk checks, advertising personalisation, safety signals, account security systems, and related automated processing may work on Playflick.com, operated by Playflick™ Media .ltd.
This policy should be read together with our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Privacy Objection & Restriction Request Policy, Cookie Policy, Cookie Settings & Consent Preferences, Search, Rankings & Recommendations Policy, Advertising Policy, Moderation Policy, Fraud Prevention & Risk Review Policy, Appeals Policy, and Account Suspension & Termination Policy.
1. Who We Are
Operator: Playflick™ Media .ltd
Website: https://playflick.com
Business Address:
41 Norman Avenue
London
N22 5ES
United Kingdom
Privacy Support Email: hello@playflick.com
Contact Page: https://playflick.com/contact-us
2. Purpose of This Policy
Playflick may use automated systems to operate, protect, personalise, moderate, improve, and secure the platform.
This policy explains:
- What automated decision-making and profiling may involve
- How automated systems may affect recommendations, advertising, safety, and fraud review
- How moderation and account decisions may use automated signals
- When human review may be available
- What controls or privacy rights may apply
- How users may appeal or request review where available
3. What Automated Decision-Making Means
Automated decision-making means using technology to help make decisions or take actions without direct human review for every individual case.
Automated systems may support:
- Content recommendations
- Search ranking
- Ad personalisation
- Spam detection
- Fraud prevention
- Security alerts
- Content moderation
- Payment risk checks
- Account protection
- Platform integrity checks
4. What Profiling Means
Profiling may involve analysing or predicting certain preferences, interests, behaviour, activity patterns, risks, or likely relevance based on user activity and platform signals.
Profiling may use information such as:
- Watch activity
- Search activity
- Likes, saves, follows, or subscriptions
- Comments, tags, or interactions
- Device, browser, or app signals
- Approximate location or region where permitted
- Language and account settings
- Payment or fraud signals where relevant
- Creator, advertiser, or business activity
5. Recommendations and Discovery
Playflick may use automated systems to recommend videos, creators, films, series, trailers, news, communities, comments, playlists, or other content.
Recommendation systems may consider:
- Content metadata
- Watch activity
- Search activity
- User preferences
- Engagement signals
- Content quality signals
- Safety and policy signals
- Language or region settings
- Freshness and relevance
Recommendations are not guaranteed and may change over time.
6. Search, Rankings, and Trending
Playflick may use automated systems to organise search results, ranking lists, trending sections, category pages, discovery feeds, and related navigation features.
Automated ranking systems may consider relevance, freshness, engagement, quality, user settings, safety signals, policy restrictions, spam signals, and platform integrity factors.
More information is available in our Search, Rankings & Recommendations Policy.
7. Advertising Personalisation
Playflick may use automated systems to help select, personalise, measure, limit, and improve advertising where permitted.
Advertising systems may consider:
- Account settings
- Cookie or consent choices
- Content being viewed
- General interests or activity signals
- Approximate location or region where permitted
- Device or browser signals
- Advertiser targeting settings where allowed
- Ad safety and policy rules
Users may have controls related to cookies, consent preferences, and marketing choices where available.
8. Moderation and Safety Systems
Playflick may use automated tools to help detect, flag, restrict, remove, or review content, comments, messages, tags, profiles, ads, links, livestreams, or account activity.
Automated moderation may help identify:
- Spam
- Scams or phishing
- Malware links
- Harassment or threats
- Hate or extremist content
- Child-safety risks
- Copyright or rights signals
- Policy-violating uploads or metadata
Automated moderation systems may make mistakes. Users may appeal eligible decisions where available.
9. Fraud Prevention and Risk Review
Playflick may use automated systems to help detect fraud, account abuse, payment risk, payout risk, fake accounts, suspicious referrals, chargeback abuse, wallet misuse, advertiser risk, and platform manipulation.
Automated risk systems may consider:
- Account activity patterns
- Login and device signals
- Payment and payout signals
- Refund and chargeback history
- Referral or promo code activity
- Marketplace or storefront activity
- Reports and enforcement history
- Third-party provider risk signals
More information is available in our Fraud Prevention & Risk Review Policy.
10. Account Security Automation
Playflick may use automated systems to help detect account compromise, suspicious login activity, credential abuse, unusual security changes, or unauthorised access.
Automated account security actions may include:
- Login alerts
- Password reset prompts
- Email verification prompts
- Two-factor authentication prompts where available
- Temporary account locks
- Restrictions on payment or payout changes
- Session invalidation
11. Payment and Billing Automation
Playflick or its payment providers may use automated systems to process payments, verify payment methods, detect failed payments, assess risk, retry eligible payments, prevent fraud, issue receipts, and support refunds or chargebacks.
Payment automation may be affected by banks, card networks, payment providers, app stores, fraud processors, and legal requirements.
12. Creator and Advertiser Systems
Automated systems may support creator and advertiser tools.
These systems may affect:
- Creator analytics
- Revenue estimates
- Content eligibility
- Monetisation review
- Ad campaign approval
- Ad delivery and reporting
- Invalid traffic detection
- Marketplace or storefront risk review
Creator analytics, advertiser reports, and revenue estimates may be delayed, estimated, adjusted, or corrected.
13. Automated Systems May Make Mistakes
Automated systems are not perfect and may incorrectly classify content, accounts, payments, activity, links, ads, or user behaviour.
Mistakes may happen because of:
- Limited context
- Ambiguous content
- Technical errors
- False positive signals
- False negative signals
- Changing policy rules
- New abuse methods
- Incomplete data
14. Human Review
Playflick may use human review for certain reports, appeals, safety issues, legal issues, payment issues, risk reviews, verification reviews, moderation decisions, or account actions.
Human review may not be available for every automated action, ranking outcome, recommendation, ad delivery decision, spam filter result, or platform signal.
15. User Controls
Users may have controls that affect certain automated processing where available.
Controls may include:
- Cookie settings
- Consent preferences
- Notification preferences
- Marketing email opt-outs
- Watch history settings where available
- Search history settings where available
- Recommendation controls where available
- Advertising preference controls where available
- Privacy rights request processes
Some processing may still be necessary for security, fraud prevention, payment processing, safety, moderation, legal compliance, and platform operation.
16. Privacy Rights Related to Automated Processing
Depending on applicable law, users may have rights related to certain automated decision-making, profiling, direct marketing, personalisation, or objection and restriction requests.
Users may be able to:
- Object to certain processing
- Request restriction of certain processing
- Opt out of direct marketing
- Manage cookie or consent preferences
- Request access to certain personal data
- Request correction or deletion where applicable
- Request review of certain eligible decisions
More information is available in our Privacy Policy and Privacy Objection & Restriction Request Policy.
17. Appeals and Decision Review
If an automated or assisted decision affects content, account access, monetisation, payment, payout, advertising, marketplace features, or other important access, users may be able to appeal where Playflick provides an appeal process.
Appeals may be available for:
- Content removal
- Account restrictions
- Monetisation restrictions
- Ad rejections
- Payment or payout restrictions
- Marketplace or storefront restrictions
- Verification decisions where available
Appeals are handled under our Appeals Policy.
18. Limits on Disclosure
Playflick may not disclose all automated system details, ranking factors, fraud rules, moderation thresholds, security signals, provider signals, or detection methods.
Limiting disclosure helps protect users, security systems, fraud controls, safety tools, and platform integrity from abuse or evasion.
19. No Guaranteed Rankings or Outcomes
Automated systems may influence recommendations, rankings, ads, search visibility, content eligibility, safety review, fraud review, or account features.
Playflick does not guarantee:
- Specific search placement
- Specific recommendation placement
- Specific view counts
- Specific ad delivery
- Specific monetisation outcomes
- Specific creator analytics results
- Specific audience reach
- Specific revenue or payout amounts
20. Reports and Questions
Users may contact Playflick about automated decisions, profiling concerns, recommendation concerns, advertising personalisation, moderation errors, fraud review concerns, or privacy rights questions.
Contact:
Email: hello@playflick.com
Contact Page: https://playflick.com/contact-us
Please include:
- Your account email
- The feature, content, account, payment, ad, or decision involved
- A clear explanation of the issue
- Any screenshots, notices, references, or supporting information
- Whether you are asking for privacy review, appeal review, or support review
Do not send passwords, full payment card numbers, bank passwords, or one-time login codes.
21. Privacy and Data Retention
Playflick may process and retain automated processing records, profiling signals, recommendation signals, ranking signals, moderation signals, fraud signals, security signals, advertising signals, decision records, support messages, appeal records, privacy request records, and enforcement records.
These records may be retained for account operation, personalisation, safety, fraud prevention, security, legal compliance, moderation, appeals, audits, analytics, and platform integrity.
More information is available in our Privacy Policy, Data Retention Policy, and Evidence Preservation Policy.
22. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Automated Decision-Making & Profiling Policy from time to time.
Changes may reflect new recommendation systems, moderation tools, advertising tools, fraud controls, safety systems, privacy rights, legal requirements, or platform updates.
Your continued use of Playflick after changes become effective means you agree to the updated policy.
23. Contact Us
For automated decision-making questions, profiling concerns, recommendation concerns, privacy rights requests, appeal requests, or policy enquiries, contact:
Playflick™ Media .ltd
41 Norman Avenue
London
N22 5ES
United Kingdom
Privacy Support Email: hello@playflick.com
Contact Page: https://playflick.com/contact-us
Website: https://playflick.com
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