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Privacy
PoseCut is a camera. What it records stays on the phone that recorded it. The one thing the app does send us is an anonymous count of which parts of it get used, on a switch you control. This page is the long form of both sentences.
The short version
- No account. There is nothing to sign up for, so there is no name, email or password to lose.
- Your footage never leaves the phone. Takes, reference frames, projects and exports stay in the app's storage on your device. The honest test: in aeroplane mode, every one of those still works.
- We do count usage. Anonymous screen and feature counts, and crash reports, go to an analytics server we run ourselves in the EU. No ad networks, no third-party trackers, nothing sold.
- You can switch that off. Settings → Analytics, one toggle, and the app behaves identically without it.
What the app stores, and where
Recording a take writes a video file into PoseCut's own storage container on the phone. Projects, clip order, trim in/out points and seam settings are a small amount of local metadata sitting next to those files. The ghosted reference is a frame decoded out of a take you already have — it is not a separate thing that goes anywhere.
None of that is sent to us. There is no account system and no sync, and the only thing the app ever puts on the network is the usage stream described further down — which carries counts, never content. Deleting a project deletes its files. Deleting the app takes the lot with it, so export anything you want to keep first.
Permissions the app asks for
Each one is asked for because a specific feature cannot work without it.
- Camera. To show the viewfinder and record takes. The frames are used for preview, for the onion-skin overlay, and for the file written to disk.
- Microphone. To record audio alongside the video. If you decline it, takes record silently and everything else still works.
- Photos / media library. Only when you export. It is what lets the finished cut land in your camera roll. PoseCut does not read your library to look at what is already there.
You can withdraw any of these in your phone's settings at any time. The app will lose the matching feature and nothing else.
Usage counts and crash reports
This is the one part of the app that talks to the network, so it gets the most words. PoseCut sends a small stream of events — which screens get opened, which features get used, and when the app crashes along with the stack trace, OS version and app version that go with it. We read it to learn which parts of the app people actually reach and which ones break. With no account and no access to your footage, it is the only signal we have.
Those events go to Umami, open-source, privacy-focused analytics, which we run ourselves on our own server in the EU. We do not use a third-party analytics company, so the events are not passed on to anyone: no cookies, no cross-app or cross-site tracking, no advertising identifiers, no profile assembled from anywhere else. Our server sees the IP address an event arrives from, as any server must; Umami uses it to derive a country and does not store it.
The device identifier
Each install generates a random identifier for itself, and its events carry it. It is there so a hundred events from one phone read as one person using the app a hundred times, rather than a hundred people using it once.
What it is not: your name, your email, your phone number, your Apple or Google account, an advertising identifier, or any hardware serial. It is a random string with nothing on the other end of it. We cannot contact you with it and we cannot recognise you anywhere else with it. Delete the app and the identifier goes with it — a later reinstall gets a new one, and we have no way to connect the two.
We are calling it an identifier rather than calling the data anonymous, because a persistent identifier of this kind is personal data under the GDPR even when it is attached to nothing. The rest of this page treats it that way.
Turning it off
Settings → Analytics → “Provide analytics & crash reports to make the app better.” Switch it off and the app stops sending. Every feature keeps working exactly as before — the analytics are for us, not for the app.
How long we keep it
Individual events are deleted after 90 days. What survives that is aggregate counts — how many people opened the editor last quarter, and nothing finer — which no longer contain a device identifier and cannot be traced back to one.
What we still do not collect
No advertising or attribution SDKs, no device fingerprinting, no contacts, no precise location, no email address, no phone number, no account of any kind. Your footage is never part of an analytics event — not the files, not thumbnails, not stills, not filenames. An event records that you exported a clip, never what was in it.
We do not sell or share personal information, in the ordinary sense of those words and in the specific sense the CCPA gives them.
TestFlight and the app stores
PoseCut is currently distributed through Apple's TestFlight. Apple handles that distribution and collects its own information about installs, sessions and crashes underApple's privacy policy, not ours. If you send feedback or a screenshot through TestFlight, that goes to Apple and then to us — so treat it as something you have chosen to share, and leave out anything you would rather we never saw.
When the app reaches the App Store and Google Play, those stores will likewise report aggregate download and crash statistics to us. Aggregate means counts and stack traces, not people. Google Play's handling is covered byGoogle's privacy policy.
This website
posecut.app is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics — the counts described above are in the app, not here — and embeds no third-party scripts or iframes. Fonts are served from this domain rather than fetched from a font CDN, so loading a page does not announce you to anyone else.
The host serving these files keeps ordinary server logs — IP address, page requested, timestamp, user agent — for a short period, for security and to keep the site up. That is the whole of it.
Children
PoseCut is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect anything from them, and there is nothing in what the app does collect that could identify a child — or anyone else — in the first place.
Your rights
Under the GDPR and similar laws you have rights of access, correction, deletion, portability and objection over personal data held about you. What we hold is the event stream described above, keyed to a random device identifier and nothing else.
The fastest routes are in your hands: switching the toggle off stops collection immediately, and deleting the app discards the identifier that ties past events together. If you would rather we deleted the events already recorded for your install, write to us — we will need to work out which identifier is yours before we can find them, and we will help you do that.
Your footage is not part of any of this. It is on your phone the entire time: export it, move it, or delete it from within the app.
Changes
If the app gains something that touches this — a sync feature, a new class of event, a third party anywhere in the path — this page changes first and the date at the top moves with it. We will not quietly widen what we collect and leave the old text standing.
Contact
Questions about any of the above go toprivacy@strungchord.com. We are StrungChord Labs, a small studio in Amsterdam, and the reply comes from a person.