Privacy policy
The short version
Circle Take doesn't collect your data. No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. Reports stay on your phone unless you share them, or choose to work on a production with your crew. Crew sync is end-to-end encrypted, so what you log never reaches us in a form we can read.
On your device
Productions, reports, presets, and settings live in the app's local storage on your phone. So does the voice log — a record of recent things you said or typed and what they were logged as, kept so you can spot and report mistakes. You can clear it in Setup › Voice log. Reports leave the device only when you share them yourself, or when you turn on crew sync (below).
Working with your crew
Sharing a production with your crew is off until you turn it on. When it's on:
Nearby — phones on set talk directly over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, on an encrypted link. While you're sharing, nearby phones running Circle Take can see that a session is open and whose it is (your name), so the right crew can find it. The production's name isn't broadcast.
Online — so crew who aren't in range still stay in step, changes are also relayed through Apple's iCloud (CloudKit), in a public database that belongs to the app, not in anyone's iCloud storage. Everything written there is encrypted on your phone with a key only the production's members hold; neither we nor Apple can read your reports. What stays visible to the service is what it needs to deliver them: random identifiers for the production and each phone, when records were written and how big they are, the six-digit share code while one is active, and the iCloud account identifier Apple attaches to every record. Leaving a production, or stopping sharing, deletes the records your phone wrote (a few small join records may remain).
Permissions
Circle Take asks for these only when you first use the feature that needs them, and works without any of them:
Microphone and Speech Recognition — when you tap the mic, Circle Take listens until you stop and turns what you said into report entries. Recognition runs on the phone wherever iOS supports it; where it doesn't, iOS sends the audio to Apple's speech service, under Apple's privacy policy. Circle Take never stores the audio.
Camera — used only while you're jamming timecode from a monitor or slate, to read the running numbers, and while measuring camera height with LiDAR. Frames are read on the phone and never saved.
Local Network — only when you share a production or join one, to find crew nearby.
iCloud — used only for crew sync online, as described above. It needs an Apple ID signed in on the phone; nothing is stored in your iCloud Drive.
Notifications — optional local alerts when a roll is running out. They're scheduled on the phone; nothing is sent from a server.
Siri and Apple Intelligence
If you log through Siri, Siri handles your request under Apple's privacy policy and passes the words to Circle Take on your phone. Phrases the app's own rules can't read may be interpreted by Apple's on-device language model, which runs entirely on the phone.
Beta testing
If you test Circle Take through TestFlight, Apple shares with us the details TestFlight describes when you join — such as your name and email if we invited you, crash reports, and any feedback or screenshots you choose to send. We use these only to fix and improve the app.
Your data
We don't collect your data, so there is nothing for us to share, sell, or retain. Encrypted crew-sync records can be removed by leaving the production (or stopping sharing, if you started it). Email you send us is used only to answer you. If you have questions about any of this, write to us and a person will answer.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.
Contact
Scratch Test · [email protected]