Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 October 2026

Short version: we collect no personal data, we set no cookies, and the app sends nothing anywhere. The site only remembers your theme and language choice, in your own browser.

The app

ScreenCraft is a desktop application that runs entirely on your device. It has no accounts, no telemetry, no crash reporting and no cloud features. Recordings, edits, captions and exports stay on your computer. The app performs two kinds of network activity: an update check at startup (one small request to this website that sends only the app version, which can be turned off in About, Privacy & Updates) and an optional, user-initiated download of a speech-recognition model (see below).

This website

This website is hosted on Cloudflare. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-focused service that provides aggregate traffic statistics (page views, referrers, country, browser and device type). It does not use cookies, does not fingerprint visitors, and does not track you across sites. We cannot identify individual visitors. Cloudflare also processes ordinary server logs (such as IP addresses) to deliver and secure the site, as described in the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.

We do not run advertising, social-media trackers, or embedded third-party widgets. The site loads no external fonts or scripts. If you pick a theme or language, that choice is saved in your browser's local storage on your device only (see the cookie policy).

GitHub star count

The star count in the header is fetched by our own server from GitHub's public API and cached for an hour. Your browser only talks to this site; GitHub never sees your IP address from that request.

Downloads

Installers are served from GitHub. GitHub may process your IP address when you download; see the GitHub Privacy Statement.

Update check

At startup the app can request https://screencraft.mdnlabs.dev/latest.json to see whether a newer version exists. The request includes the app version in its User-Agent and nothing else about you or your computer. This website is served by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, receives the IP address of a request; see the sections below. If a newer version exists the app tells you and offers a download link; it never downloads or installs anything by itself. If you press Download in that window, the app fetches the installer from this website and saves it to your Downloads folder; it still does not install it. You can turn the check off in the app under About, Privacy & Updates; it is then only made when you press Check now.

Optional model download

If you use on-device captions, the app downloads a Whisper model file from Hugging Face the first time. That request is made directly from your device to Hugging Face, whose privacy policy applies. No audio or project data is sent.

Your rights

Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing to access, correct or delete. If you contact us (for example by opening a GitHub issue), the content you submit is handled by GitHub under its terms.

Children

The site and app are not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect any personal information.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above will be updated and the change recorded in the public repository history.

Contact

Open an issue at github.com/MarshallNickolauson/ScreenCraft.