Privacy Policy

Short version: SceneMark Stories is a local-first app. Your photos, videos, notes, and stories stay on your iPhone. This page explains what the app reads, what it keeps, and what it never does.

What SceneMark Stories uses

Photos and videos you choose

SceneMark Stories reads only the items you pick in the photo picker. It never scans your library. With your permission it keeps preview-size copies, dates, dimensions, video length, and, when a photo carries it, the place it was taken, so a memory can be rebuilt without the original.

Your notes and confirmations

The title, date, note, and the people you name are the material every story is written from.

Contacts, only when you choose one

Naming a person from Contacts copies that one display name into the memory. SceneMark Stories never matches faces against your contacts and never reads your address book on its own.

Speech in selected videos

With your permission, SceneMark Stories transcribes selected videos on your device to pick out a few short phrases for the story. The full transcript is never stored and never leaves the device.

How stories are written

Stories are drafted on your device. A deterministic composer writes the first version from your note and confirmed details; on devices with Apple Intelligence, Apple Foundation Models refine it on the device. This build does not use Private Cloud Compute, so nothing is sent to a server for analysis or writing. Apple's on-device models run under Apple's own privacy rules for Apple Intelligence.

Maps

The map of your memories is drawn by Apple's MapKit. Opening it fetches map tiles from Apple for the places shown, under Apple's privacy policy. The app sends nothing else.

What SceneMark Stories never does

• No accounts, no sign-in, and no analytics or advertising identifiers.
• No automatic naming of faces. Face groupings are local suggestions until you name them.
• No uploads of your media, notes, or stories to SceneMark Stories or any third party.
• No selling or sharing of data.

Sharing and backups

Anything that leaves the app leaves because you shared it: a memory card, a montage video, an exported story, or a backup file. A backup file is a complete copy of your library, including preview images and place data, so treat it as private.

Crash reports

If you opted in to share diagnostics with app developers through iOS, Apple may forward crash reports to the developer. They contain no photos, notes, or stories.

Children

SceneMark Stories is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the “Last updated” date at the top of this page changes with it.

Contact

Questions about privacy: basiliosp@outlook.com