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Terms of Use

Effective October 2026

1. Agreement

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and onNext Media LLC ("onNext," "we," "us," or "our"). They cover the onNext apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android, the onNext widgets, Siri and other voice assistant features, onnext.com, and every other onNext product or feature (together, "the Service").

By using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your information. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.

2. Who Can Use onNext

You must be at least 13 years old to use onNext, or older if your country requires a higher age to use a service like ours without a parent's consent. If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms with you.

You can't use onNext if we have previously removed you from the Service, or if you are barred from using it under applicable law.

3. Guest Mode and Accounts

You can start using onNext as a guest, without signing up. Guests can browse, build a watchlist and track what they're watching. Social features, including friends, messages, chatrooms, clubs and posting, require an account. When you create an account, the things you saved as a guest move over to it.

You can create an account with Apple, Google or your email address. When you do, you agree to:

  • Give accurate information and keep it up to date
  • Keep one personal account, and not share or sell it
  • Not pick a username or profile photo that impersonates someone else or infringes someone's rights. We may change or reclaim a username that does
  • Keep your sign-in secure, and tell us if you think someone has accessed your account without permission

You're responsible for activity that happens on your account.

4. Your Content

"User Content" is anything you add to onNext that other people can see or receive. This includes your profile (name, username, photo), ratings, reviews, Features, lists, messages, chatroom posts, club posts and polls, and suggestions you send to friends.

You own your User Content. To run the Service, we need your permission to use it. So you give onNext a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, display, format, and distribute your User Content, but only to operate, improve and promote onNext. For example, we show your review to your friends, resize your photo, or display a share card you create. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except where:

  • You shared it with others and they still have it (for example, a message you sent to a friend)
  • We need to keep it for legal, safety or security reasons

You confirm that you have the rights to everything you post, and that your User Content follows these Terms.

5. Community Rules

You agree that you will not post, send, or share content that:

  • Is offensive, abusive, harassing, threatening, intimidating, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable
  • Contains hate speech, promotes discrimination, or targets individuals or groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics
  • Constitutes bullying or harassment of any kind
  • Is sexually explicit, pornographic, or contains nudity
  • Promotes, glorifies, or incites violence, self-harm, or harm to others
  • Contains spam, phishing, malware, or any fraudulent or deceptive content
  • Infringes on the intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of any third party, including posting someone's private information without their permission
  • Violates any applicable law, regulation, or legal obligation

You also agree not to:

  • Impersonate any person, brand or organization
  • Get around a block, a privacy setting, or a suspension, including by creating a new account
  • Scrape, crawl or harvest data from onNext, or use bots or other automated means to access or use the Service
  • Copy, modify, reverse engineer, or attempt to extract the source code of the Service, except where the law allows it
  • Interfere with or overload the Service, or try to get access to accounts, systems or data you aren't permitted to access
  • Use onNext for commercial purposes without our written permission
  • File false or abusive reports

6. Reporting, Moderation and Blocking

We use several methods to keep onNext safe and respectful:

  • Automated filters: Profanity filters screen chatroom posts and messages.
  • User reporting: You can report any message, chatroom post, or profile directly in the app.
  • Human review: Our team reviews reports and acts on them within 24 hours. Actions may include removing content, warnings, and suspending or permanently removing accounts.

We may review, remove, or restrict any User Content that we believe violates these Terms, at our discretion and without prior notice. We aren't obligated to monitor all content and aren't responsible for User Content posted by others.

Blocking: You can block any user. When you block someone, they're removed from your friends and you won't see their content in the app. You can manage blocked users in Settings.

7. Information in the App

Show, movie and book information shown in onNext, including titles, descriptions, posters, covers and images, comes from third-party sources including The Movie Database (TMDB), ISBNdb, Open Library and Wikipedia. It belongs to its respective owners. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Where-to-watch information. We gather streaming availability and air dates from many sources, using automated tools that include artificial intelligence. Some descriptions and tags in the app are also written with AI. We work hard to keep this information accurate, but it can be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. Availability often changes without notice, so check with the provider before relying on it.

Third-party services. onNext is not affiliated with or endorsed by any streaming service, network, studio, publisher or retailer shown in the app. Links to other services take you to sites and apps we don't control. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.

TastePrint, Signs and SyncScore. These features are for fun and discovery. They are generated from your activity and aren't psychological, professional or scientific assessments.

8. Our Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, text and graphics, belongs to onNext Media LLC and is protected by law. onNext, onSync, TastePrint, SyncScore, the onNext Sign names and crests, and our logos are trademarks of onNext Media LLC.

We give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your own non-commercial use, as long as you follow these Terms. Anything not expressly granted here is reserved.

If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without any obligation to you.

9. Copyright Complaints

We respect intellectual property rights and respond to notices of claimed infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe content on onNext infringes your copyright, send our designated agent a notice that includes:

  • Your physical or electronic signature
  • A description of the copyrighted work you believe is infringed
  • Where the material is on onNext, in enough detail for us to find it
  • Your name, address, phone number and email address
  • A statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn't authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
  • A statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner

Designated agent: Copyright Agent, onNext Media LLC, 217 King Hill Earlton Rd, Surprise, NY 12176, USA. Email: hello@onnext.com.

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice. Where appropriate, we will disable or remove the accounts of repeat infringers.

10. Apple and Google

If you downloaded onNext from the Apple App Store or Google Play, that store's terms also apply. If you use onNext on an Apple device:

  • These Terms are between you and onNext only, not Apple. onNext, not Apple, is responsible for the app and its content
  • Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app
  • If the app fails to meet any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app
  • onNext, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims about the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, and consumer protection or privacy claims
  • onNext, not Apple, is responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging any claim that the app infringes someone's intellectual property rights
  • You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo, and are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties
  • Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you

11. Notifications and Messages from Us

We may send you push notifications, in-app notifications and emails about your account, your friends, and the shows, movies and books you follow. You can turn off push notifications and non-essential emails in Settings or on your device. We will still send messages that are needed to run your account, such as sign-in codes and important updates to these Terms.

12. Changes to the Service

onNext is always evolving. We may add, change, or remove features at any time. Some features may be labeled beta or experimental, and may not work as expected.

13. Deleting Your Account and Termination

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. Deleting your account permanently removes your profile and personal data, as described in our Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or terminate your account, or limit your access, if you violate these Terms, if required by law, or to protect onNext, our users, or others. When it's appropriate and safe to do so, we'll tell you why. If your account is terminated, your right to use the Service ends immediately. Sections 4 (for content you've shared with others), 7 through 9, and 14 through 18 continue to apply after termination.

14. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that information in the Service, including where-to-watch information, is accurate or complete.

15. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, onNext Media LLC and its owners, employees and partners shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses resulting from your use of or inability to use the Service.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of US$100 or the amount you paid us, if anything, in the 12 months before the claim arose.

16. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless onNext Media LLC from any claims, losses and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your User Content, your misuse of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or of anyone else's rights.

17. Governing Law and Disputes

If you have a concern, please contact us first. Most issues can be resolved quickly that way, and we'll try in good faith for at least 30 days to resolve your concern before either of us goes to court.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in New York, and you and onNext consent to their jurisdiction. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court.

18. General

These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and onNext about the Service. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we don't enforce a provision right away, we haven't waived it. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent. We may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

Nothing in these Terms limits any rights you have under consumer protection laws of your country that can't be waived by contract.

19. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will tell you in the app or by email before they take effect. By continuing to use the Service after changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you don't agree, you can delete your account.

20. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, or need to report a concern, please contact us. onNext is operated by onNext Media LLC, New York, USA.