ProfessorCut Privacy Policy

Effective October 8, 2026

ProfessorCut films and edits on your iPhone. Your videos stay on your phone unless you choose to send one to another phone in a shoot. This policy explains what leaves your phone, why, how long it's kept, and how to delete it.

Your videos

• Recordings are saved on your phone and edited on your phone. We don't keep a copy of your videos.
• When you send a clip to someone else's shoot, it travels directly between phones nearby, or through our cloud storage when the phones aren't nearby. Clips sent through our storage are encrypted in transit and deleted automatically within 4 days.
• Finished videos are saved to your phone. Sharing them anywhere is up to you; ProfessorCut doesn't post for you.

What we collect

• Your account: when you sign in with Apple, your name (if you share it), your email address (or Apple's private relay address, if you choose to hide yours), and an identifier from Apple. We use them to run your account.
• Identifiers: an account ID and a random ID for each phone, so your phones and shoots work together.
• Shoots: details of the shoots you start or join, such as the category, times, scenes, who joined, and information about each clip (when it was recorded, which phone recorded it, whether it was sent), but not the video itself.
• App activity: actions such as tagging a moment, connecting phones nearby, and your choices on screens like the AI consent screen, so features work and we can see where things go wrong.
• Diagnostics: error reports when something fails, such as an export or a transfer. They can include your phone's random ID and technical details, such as file names on your phone. Kept for 30 days.
• Server logs: each request to our servers is logged with your account ID, what was requested, and how long it took. Kept for 30 days.

ProfessorCut's automatic editing (AI)

ProfessorCut asks for your permission before its first automatic edit. If you allow it, then during an edit:

• Single still frames from your clips, and short excerpts of what was said, are sent to our AI service provider to describe what's happening and choose the cuts.
• Speech is transcribed on your phone, so the audio itself never leaves it. Full videos are never sent.
• We don't store the frames or excerpts, and we've turned off logging of these requests with the provider. We keep only counts of how many edits you've run, for usage limits.
• If you choose "Not now", nothing is sent, and you can still edit by hand.

What we don't do

• We don't sell your data or share it with advertisers.
• We don't track you across other apps or websites, and there are no ads.
• We don't use third-party analytics or advertising tools in the app.

Who processes your data

We use a small number of service providers to run ProfessorCut: cloud hosting and storage, and an AI service for automatic editing. They process data only to provide those services to us. Sign-in is handled by Apple.

How long we keep it

• Clips sent through our storage: deleted within 4 days.
• Error reports and server logs: 30 days.
• Your account, shoots and app activity: until you delete your account.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account in the app (Delete account). That deletes your account, the shoots you started and everything stored about them, your sign-ins, and your app activity, and it removes clips waiting in our storage. Clips you already sent to other people's shoots stay with those shoots, since they belong to them now. On the phone you delete from, the videos of shoots you started are deleted too. Error reports and server logs expire on their own within 30 days.

Children

ProfessorCut isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their personal information. Gyms and families often film young athletes; those videos stay on the phones that recorded them unless someone sends them to a shoot.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit, access to your account's data is limited to you and the shoots you belong to, and our storage isn't publicly accessible.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date above.

Contact

Questions or requests: [email protected]