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Privacy Policy

SceneCap is local-first. Recording content stays on your Mac unless you explicitly choose a cloud AI workflow or export/share a file yourself.

Effective: August 8, 2026 · Product behavior described for the current beta implementation

Recordings and local app data

SceneCap stores recordings, thumbnails, transcripts, Insights, notes, tags, and related metadata on your Mac in the app's recording location. You can choose a different save location. Demo workspace data is stored separately under SceneCap's Application Support folder and can be reset or cleared without deleting real recordings.

SceneCap does not require a SceneCap account and does not automatically upload recordings to a SceneCap-operated content service.

Local AI, cloud AI, and BYOK

On-device WhisperKit transcription processes audio locally. Tiny/base local transcription is available in Free; Pro can unlock additional local model choices.

Cloud processing is off by default. If you enable it, SceneCap sends the data needed for your selected operation directly from your Mac to the provider you choose:

• OpenAI: audio may be sent for cloud transcription; transcript text may be sent for summaries or Insights.
• Anthropic: transcript text is sent for summaries or Insights.
• Google Gemini: audio may be sent for cloud transcription; transcript or other requested input may be sent for summaries or Insights.

These requests are not relayed through or stored by a SceneCap cloud backend. API keys are stored in the macOS Keychain and sent only as required to authenticate directly with the selected provider. Provider processing, retention, billing, and legal terms are controlled by that provider.

Optional product telemetry

Product telemetry is enabled by default for a new install and can be turned off at any time in Settings → Data Controls → Telemetry. The current implementation creates an anonymous installation UUID and permits only a narrow set of event names and short categorical properties. It rejects filenames, file paths, transcript text, search terms, prompts, API keys, tokens, URLs, and other user content.

Current beta behavior: no external analytics sink is configured, so these product events are not transmitted to an analytics service. Turning telemetry off prevents the tracker from producing events. The local activation checklist is separate from telemetry and remains on your Mac so your progress is not reset when you opt out.

Optional crash reporting

Crash reporting is separate from product telemetry and is off unless you opt in. If enabled, SceneCap uses Sentry to send crash and session diagnostics. SceneCap attempts to replace your home-directory path in exception and breadcrumb text before sending, but crash diagnostics can still contain technical device, operating-system, app-version, and failure-context information. You can disable crash reporting in Data Controls.

App Store purchases

Apple processes Pro purchases and refunds. SceneCap receives product and verified transaction information needed to determine entitlement, such as product ID, transaction identifiers, purchase/signing dates, and revocation status. SceneCap does not receive your full payment-card details. A verified entitlement summary is cached locally so a temporary offline state does not lock out a purchaser.

Website data

The website is delivered through Cloudflare, which necessarily processes standard web-request information such as IP address, user agent, requested URL, and security signals under its terms. Cloudflare Web Analytics is enabled across the public website using Cloudflare's automatic script injection and reports aggregate page-view and performance measurements; the current Cloudflare setting excludes visitors located in the European Union from this browser-side measurement. Download buttons first open the website's /download page so Cloudflare can count visits to that page before the browser is redirected to the latest public release on GitHub. These measurements indicate visits and download-link clicks, not whether a download completed. The download page fetches public release metadata from GitHub to resolve the latest DMG. External links, including GitHub and Threads, are governed by those services.

Your controls and deletion

• Disable product telemetry or crash reporting in Data Controls.
• Keep cloud AI disabled and use on-device transcription only.
• Remove provider API keys from the app's AI settings.
• Use Delete AI-generated data to remove transcripts, summaries, Insights, generation history, and usage metadata while keeping video, title, tags, notes, and audio facts.
• Delete recordings in the app or Finder, and clear the demo workspace separately.

See the step-by-step data deletion guide.

Retention

Local content remains until you delete it or enable the app's retention cleanup. Third-party AI providers, Apple, Sentry, Cloudflare, GitHub, and Threads apply their own retention policies to data they process.

Contact and policy changes

For a privacy question, use the contact routes on the Support page. Material changes will be posted here with a revised effective date.