SayCam Privacy Policy
1. Who provides SayCam
SayCam is an iPhone caption camera provided by individual developer CHENG CHAI. Contact thisisblueboxteam@gmail.com with product questions or privacy requests.
This policy covers the app, model downloads, this website, and support communications. SayCam does not require an account and currently offers no developer-operated cloud video storage or cloud transcription service.
2. Videos, audio, and captions
With your camera and microphone permission, the app records the images and sound you choose and recognizes captions on your device. On-device recognition does not send your recordings, videos, or captions to a developer-operated transcription server. We do not obtain this content to train models.
Original clips are saved to Photos with your permission. Captions, project names, caption styles, editing and restore records, and Photos asset references are stored in the app so you can review, edit, and export. Temporary media files may be created during editing or export, and the app cleans them up when they can safely be rebuilt. A local copy may be kept when safe storage of the original cannot be confirmed, to avoid losing your only copy.
3. Photos and sharing
Within the Photos access you grant, the app reads material in Photos and saves originals or the captioned exports you choose to save. You can grant access to selected items only, but some History projects may then be unable to reopen.
If you turn on iCloud Photos or device backups, Apple may sync or back up data according to your settings. This does not mean we create or gain access to a cloud media library. When you use the Share Sheet, the receiving app or service handles the content under its own privacy policy.
4. Models, system services, and network connections
The app includes an on-device recognition model. Preparing Apple speech resources, downloading another model you select, or retrieving a video from iCloud may require an internet connection. Apple, Hugging Face, and related file-delivery services provide model files and may process your IP address and necessary connection information. Model download requests do not include your videos, audio, or captions.
The current version does not enable third-party advertising or remote product analytics. The app may keep limited feature counters and system diagnostics on your device. Using the app does not automatically send these counters to us. If you allow Apple to share diagnostics and crash reports, Apple may provide relevant diagnostic information to developers under those settings.
5. This website
This website (saycam.bluebox.works) uses no analytics or tracking tools, sets no cookies, and stores no data in your browser. Cloudflare hosts the site and processes the data a connection needs, such as your IP address, under its own privacy policy. We have turned off the site’s runtime logging.
6. Support communications
If you email us, we receive your email address, your message, and any images or files you choose to attach. We use them to reply and resolve the issue. Support mail uses Google Gmail, which processes the email and may involve international transfers. We keep correspondence only as long as needed to resolve the issue, for necessary follow-up, or as the law requires, and delete it when it is no longer needed. Please avoid sending unnecessary sensitive information, and redact private details from screenshots.
7. Permissions, retention, and deletion
You can change camera, microphone, Photos, and related speech permissions in iPhone Settings. Withdrawing a permission can limit some features.
Deleting a History record removes that project’s captions, editing records, and related temporary files from the app. It does not delete videos in Photos. If you delete the original clips from Photos, the related History project can no longer be edited normally, but you can still remove its History record.
Deleting the app, rather than only offloading it, removes the app’s data from your device. Videos in Photos, and any device or cloud backups you turned on, must be managed separately in those services. We cannot remotely access or restore your local videos.
You may email us to request access, correction, or deletion of information you supplied to support. To prevent unauthorized requests, we may first verify necessary information.
8. Updates to this policy
Before a future version adds advertising, analytics, or other data practices, we will update this policy and any necessary store disclosures, and obtain any required consent. This page shows the current effective date.