Privacy Policy
Effective date: 2 November 2026
AnyCue: Teleprompter for Video (“AnyCue”, “the app”) is an iPhone teleprompter. This policy covers the app and the website at anycue.app. It says what information leaves your iPhone, who gets it and why, and what you can do about it.
The short version: your scripts and your videos stay on your iPhone. We don’t run a server that receives them, and we don’t have accounts, so we never learn your name or email unless you write to us. If you allow it, the app sends usage statistics that don’t include your name or email (you can turn them off at any time), and purchases go through Apple.
Who we are
AnyCue is published by Evgenii Balabanov, a self-employed developer (autónomo) registered in Spain, NIE Z1593790X, Avenida Gaspar García Laviana 50, 33210 Gijón, Asturias, Spain (“we”, “us”). He’s the controller of the personal data described here under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Spain’s data protection law (Ley Orgánica 3/2018, LOPDGDD). You can reach us at support@anycue.app. We haven’t appointed a data protection officer: the law doesn’t require one for processing on this scale, and that address reaches the person responsible.
What stays on your iPhone
Most of what you put into AnyCue is stored only on your device, inside the app’s own storage:
- your scripts and their titles;
- your recorded videos, their titles, length and size;
- text and camera settings, such as font, size, scroll speed, mirroring and which camera you use;
- your onboarding answers (stored on the device as well as sent as usage data, see below);
- whether you have Pro, so the app doesn’t show you as Free while it checks with the App Store.
None of this is uploaded to us. AnyCue has no cloud sync of its own. Like other app data, it can end up in an iCloud or computer backup of your iPhone if you back the phone up; Apple, not us, holds those backups. When you delete AnyCue, this data goes with it, except videos you saved to Photos or shared to other apps yourself.
Two things on the device work a little differently.
Shared text. When you share text or a link into AnyCue from another app, the share extension saves it in a folder that only AnyCue and its extension can open. The app turns it into a script the next time it opens and then deletes the file. A shared link is stored as text; AnyCue doesn’t open the link or download the page.
The free plan’s video count. To count the free plan’s videos (5 to start, then 2 a month), the app keeps in your iPhone’s keychain how many videos you’ve saved, the date the first 5 ran out and the count for the current month. Keychain items usually survive deleting and reinstalling the app, so the count normally stays after a reinstall. It’s set to “this device only”, so it doesn’t move to a new phone through a backup or iCloud Keychain, and it never leaves the device. We can’t see or reset it.
Camera, microphone, Photos and files
AnyCue asks for the camera and microphone to record your videos. While the recording screen is open you’ll see the camera preview and a microphone level meter, but the app saves nothing until you press Record, and what it records stays on your iPhone.
To save a video to Photos, AnyCue asks for permission to add to your library. That permission lets it add videos only; it can’t see the photos and videos already there.
When you import a script from a file, you pick the file in Apple’s file picker and the app reads only that file. When you share a video, it goes wherever you send it through Apple’s share sheet; we don’t get a copy.
You can change any of these permissions at any time in the iPhone’s Settings app.
What leaves your iPhone
Usage data (PostHog)
Only if you allow it. The last screen of onboarding, “Help improve AnyCue”, asks whether the app may share usage stats. Nothing is sent before you answer, and nothing is sent if you choose Not now; the analytics code isn’t even started until you allow it. While Share usage stats is on, the app sends usage events to PostHog, an analytics service, which stores them for us on its EU Cloud in Frankfurt, Germany. We use them to see which features people use, where people get stuck, and how the free plan and the upgrade screen work.
An event is a short label with a few details. The kinds of events the app sends:
- the app being installed, updated, opened and sent to the background;
- going through onboarding, including your answers about what you film and how you set up your phone, and whether you skipped a step;
- creating a script and how it was started (typed, duplicated, shared from another app, imported from a file, pasted);
- saving a video, with its length rounded to a range such as “1 to 3 minutes”;
- using features such as Text only or Picture in Picture;
- seeing the upgrade screen and what opened it, hitting the free plan’s monthly limit, and buying or restoring Pro (which plan, its price and currency);
- changes to a Pro subscription that Apple reports to the app: a renewal, auto-renew turned off, a billing problem, expiry or a refund.
We may add or rename events as the app changes, but they stay in these categories: how the app and its features get used, plus purchases.
Each event also carries technical details: app version and build, iOS version, iPhone model (a model code such as “iPhone14,4”, never the name you gave your phone), screen size, language setting, time zone, whether you’re on Wi-Fi or cellular data, whether the app came from the App Store or TestFlight, whether you have Pro, and a session ID that groups the events of one visit.
The events are tied to a random ID that PostHog’s code creates on your iPhone the first time it runs. It isn’t Apple’s advertising identifier, and it isn’t linked to your name, email or Apple Account. Deleting the app deletes it, and a reinstall gets a new one.
PostHog receives your IP address when the app connects, as any internet server does. The app tells PostHog not to work out a location from it, and we’ve set our PostHog project to discard IP addresses instead of storing them.
The app doesn’t record which screens you view, what you tap or type, or your screen. It sends no crash reports to PostHog.
Purchases (Apple)
Subscriptions go through Apple’s App Store. Apple handles your payment and billing details; we never see your card, your Apple Account or your billing address. Apple tells the app whether you have an active purchase, and that’s what switches Pro on. We keep no purchase records of our own outside the App Store.
While Share usage stats is on, the app reports purchases and subscription changes as usage events (see above): the plan, its price and currency, and whether a subscription renewed, had auto-renew turned off, ran into a billing problem, expired or was refunded. They carry the same random ID as the other usage data, never Apple’s transaction ID or your Apple Account, and they stop when you turn usage stats off.
The website
anycue.app is a static site. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from third parties. Like any web server, the company that hosts it, Cloudflare, sees your IP address and browser details while it serves the pages and protects the site from attacks. We don’t get those logs and don’t use them for anything.
Emails you send us
If you write to support@anycue.app (the app’s Contact Support button opens your mail app with this address), we get your email address, your message and anything you attach. We use it only to answer you and to fix what you report.
Apple
Apple runs the App Store and processes your purchases under its own privacy policy. If you’ve turned on “Share with App Developers” in your iPhone’s Analytics & Improvements settings, Apple shares crash reports and app usage statistics with us in a form that doesn’t identify you. You control that setting, not us.
What we don’t collect
- the text of your scripts or their titles;
- your videos, recording titles, or anything the camera or microphone picks up;
- the contents of files you import or text you share into the app;
- your name, email, phone number or contacts (unless you email us);
- your precise location, or a location worked out from your IP address;
- Apple’s advertising identifier (IDFA).
AnyCue shows no ads. It doesn’t track you across other companies’ apps or websites, and we don’t sell or rent your information to anyone.
Why we use it, and on what legal basis
If you’re in the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, data protection law requires a legal basis for each use. This is ours:
| What | Why | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Usage data (PostHog), including purchase events | Find out which features get used and where the app gets in people’s way, and how many people subscribe, renew and cancel, so we can improve the app | Your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)), given on the “Help improve AnyCue” screen or by turning on Share usage stats in Settings. You can withdraw it at any time by turning the switch off; that doesn’t affect what was sent before. |
| Purchase processing (Apple) | Sell and unlock Pro, handle renewals, restores and refunds | Performing our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b)) |
| Support emails | Answer you and fix problems | Our legitimate interest in helping users, or our contract with you when it’s about a purchase (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f)) |
| Records we must keep | Tax, accounting or legal claims | Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) or legitimate interest in defending legal claims (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
Usage stats are off until you allow them. The events contain no name, email or content, we don’t store IP addresses, nobody uses the data for advertising, and withdrawing takes one switch.
Do you have to give us any of this? No law or contract requires you to. Allowing or refusing usage stats changes nothing in how the app works. The only data the app can’t do without is what Apple needs to process a purchase, and Apple collects that, not we; without it there’s no Pro, but the free plan keeps working.
Automated decisions. We make no decisions about you by automated means that have legal or similarly significant effects, and we don’t build profiles of you.
Who receives the data
We use these companies to run the app. Each one gets only the data described above.
- PostHog, Inc. stores usage data for us in its EU Cloud. Privacy policy: https://posthog.com/privacy
- Apple Inc. and its affiliates sell the app and its purchases and provide the App Store, under their own terms. Privacy policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
- Google (Gmail, via Cloudflare Email Routing) hosts our support mailbox. Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Cloudflare hosts the website (Cloudflare Pages) and processes visitors’ IP addresses to serve it. Privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
PostHog, our email provider and our web host act as our processors under data processing agreements. Those agreements bind each of them to use the data only on our instructions, to protect it at least as well as this policy and Apple’s App Store rules require, not to use it for their own purposes, and to delete it when we stop using their service. Apple acts as an independent controller for the App Store and payments.
We may also disclose information if the law requires it, to protect our rights or users’ safety, or to a buyer if the app is ever sold, in which case this policy keeps applying to data collected under it.
International transfers
PostHog keeps our usage data in the EU, although PostHog is a US company and its staff may access it from outside the EU. Where personal data leaves the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, we rely on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, with the UK addendum and the Swiss adjustments, built into our processors’ data processing agreements. You can ask us for a copy of the clauses at support@anycue.app.
How long we keep it
- Usage events: 12 months, then PostHog deletes them.
- Support emails: 24 months after the conversation ends, unless we need them longer for a legal claim.
- Data on your iPhone: until you delete it or the app. The free plan’s video count in the keychain may stay after you delete the app (see above).
Your choices
Allow or withdraw usage stats. The app asks on the last onboarding screen; until you answer, and if you choose Not now, nothing is sent. To change your mind later, open Settings in AnyCue and use the Share usage stats switch. When you turn it off, the app stops recording usage events from that moment; events from the last few seconds before you switched it off may still go out. From the next launch onward the app doesn’t connect to PostHog at all.
Permissions. You can withdraw camera, microphone or Photos access in the iPhone’s Settings app.
Delete everything on the device. Deleting AnyCue removes your scripts, videos and the usage-data ID. To clear the free plan’s video count as well, you’d need to erase the iPhone; that count holds nothing except a date and a few numbers.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask us for a copy of your personal data, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to receive it in a portable format. Where we rely on your consent, as for usage data, you can withdraw it at any time by turning Share usage stats off; where we rely on our legitimate interests, you can object at any time.
To use any of these rights, email support@anycue.app. We’ll answer within one month (or the time your local law sets).
One practical limit: because AnyCue has no accounts and the data we receive doesn’t include your name or email, we usually can’t tell which records are yours. If you send us details that let us find them (for example, the Apple transaction ID from your App Store receipt for purchase records), we’ll act on your request. If we can’t identify you, the law doesn’t require us to collect more data just to do so, and we’ll tell you.
You can also complain to a data protection authority, and you don’t have to write to us first, though we’d welcome the chance to put things right. Because we’re established in Spain, our authority is the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), C/ Jorge Juan 6, 28001 Madrid, https://www.aepd.es. You can equally go to the authority of the EU country where you live or work. In the UK that’s the Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk); in Switzerland, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
California
If you live in California, the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA) gives you the right to know what personal information we collect, use and disclose, to delete it, to correct it, and not to be treated differently for using these rights. We’re well below the thresholds that make the CCPA apply to a business (over $26.6 million in annual revenue, personal information of 100,000 or more Californians, or most revenue from selling personal information), but we treat these as your rights anyway.
In the last 12 months we collected these categories: identifiers (the random ID described above, IP address), commercial information (purchase events: plan, price, currency), and internet or other electronic network activity (usage events). We collected them from the app and from Apple, for the purposes in this policy, and disclosed them only to the service providers listed above.
We don’t sell your personal information and we don’t share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We don’t collect sensitive personal information. To make a request, email support@anycue.app; you can also use an authorized agent.
Brazil
If you’re in Brazil, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) applies. The legal bases are the ones in the table above: your consent for usage data, contract performance for purchases, and legal obligation for records we must keep. You have the rights listed in Article 18 of the LGPD, including confirmation that we process your data, access, correction, anonymization or deletion of unnecessary data, portability, information about who we share data with, and the right to object. Send requests to support@anycue.app. You can also complain to the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD).
Children
AnyCue isn’t made for children, and we don’t knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 14 in Spain (the age set by the LOPDGDD), under 13 in the United States (COPPA), or under the age your country sets for consenting to data processing, which is up to 16 in parts of the EU. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, for example in an email, write to us and we’ll delete it.
Security
The connections to PostHog and Apple are encrypted. Data on your iPhone is protected by iOS, including your passcode and the system’s file encryption. No system is perfectly secure, but keeping your scripts and videos off our servers means there’s nothing of them on our side to leak.
Changes to this policy
When the app changes what it collects, we’ll update this page and the effective date at the top. If a change matters, for example a new kind of data or a new company receiving it, we’ll also say so in the app or the App Store release notes before it takes effect.
Contact
Evgenii Balabanov
Avenida Gaspar García Laviana 50, 33210 Gijón, Asturias, Spain
support@anycue.app