Privacy Policy

Section 01Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how Take One: Vocal Studio (the "App") handles information. The App is developed and published by Barak Scharovsky, an individual developer based in Munich, Germany ("we", "us", "the developer").

The App is an iPhone recording studio. You record or import a performance, an on-device AI model separates it into vocal and instrumental parts, and you mix, tune, caption, master and export the result. It was designed so that the private work of making music stays private — which is why the App has no backend service for your content.

This policy applies to the App itself and to the website at take-one.studio. It does not apply to Apple's services, or to any third-party app or service you choose to share your finished work with. By using the App you agree to this policy.

Section 02Information We Collect

We do not collect your recordings or any content you create in the App. There is no account to create, no profile, no upload, and no analytics of what you record.

Summary of data handling

Video and audio recordings	Created and stored on your device only. Never transmitted to us.
Imported media	Read from Photos or Files with your permission, copied into the App's own storage on your device. Never transmitted to us.
Separated stems, mixes and masters	Generated on your device. Never transmitted to us.
Caption and lyric text	Transcribed on your device from your audio. Never transmitted to us.
Project settings (fader levels, effects, tuning edits, caption styles)	Stored on your device alongside the project. Never transmitted to us.
Name, email address, phone number, contacts	Not requested and not collected by the App.
Location	Not requested and not collected. The App does not use location services.
Advertising identifiers	Not used. The App contains no advertising and no third-party advertising or tracking SDKs.
Payment details	Never seen by us. Any purchase is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store.

Information Apple may provide to us

Two categories of information can reach us indirectly, through Apple, and only in a form that does not identify you:

• Crash and performance diagnostics. If you have turned on Share With App Developers in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements, Apple may share crash logs and performance data with us. These reports describe what the software was doing when it failed. They do not contain your audio, video, lyrics or project files.
• App Store metrics. Apple provides aggregate, anonymised sales and usage figures — installs by territory, App Store impressions, crash counts, ratings and reviews. We cannot identify individual users from these.

You can stop the first category at any time by turning off analytics sharing in iOS Settings. The second is provided by Apple in aggregate and is governed by Apple's own privacy policy.

Information you send us directly

If you email us for support, we receive whatever you choose to put in that email — typically your email address, your message, your device model and iOS version, and any file or screenshot you attach. We use it only to answer you. See Data Retention for how long we keep it.

Section 03Permissions We Use

iOS asks for your permission before the App can use the camera, microphone or your photo library. You can grant, deny or revoke each of these at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security, or in Settings → Take One. Each permission is requested only at the moment a feature needs it, and each is used only for the purpose described below.

Camera

Used to record video of your performance. The camera is active only while you are on the recording screen and only while a take is running. Video captured this way is written to the App's own storage on your device. It is not streamed, uploaded or previewed anywhere outside the App.

If you decline camera access, you can still import existing videos and work with audio, but you cannot record new video in the App.

Microphone

Used to capture the audio of your performance while recording, and to drive the live input meter and gain controls so you can set a level before you commit to a take. Audio is captured only during an active recording session or while the recording screen's meter is live. It is written to your device and processed there.

If you decline microphone access, the App cannot record. Recording requires it.

Photos

Used for two separate things, which iOS treats as two separate permissions:

• Reading — so you can import a video you have already shot into the App. iOS lets you grant access to your entire library or to selected items only; selected-items access is fully supported and is the more private choice. We read only the item you pick.
• Adding — so that when you export a finished video, it can be saved to your camera roll. This is used only at the moment you choose to save, and only for the file you are exporting.

The App does not scan, index, catalogue or analyse your photo library. It does not read items you have not selected.

Local network, contacts, calendars, health, motion

The App does not request any of these and does not use them.

Section 04On-Device AI Processing

Take One: Vocal Studio uses machine-learning models to separate a recording into vocal and instrumental parts, and to transcribe sung or spoken words into timed captions.

These models run entirely on your iPhone. The separation model ships inside the App and executes on Apple silicon using the device's Neural Engine and GPU. Caption transcription uses the on-device speech recognition provided by iOS. In both cases your audio is read from your device's storage, processed in memory and on the device's processor, and the results are written back to your device.

Because of this:

• No audio, video or text is sent to us, or to any third party, for AI processing.
• The App works with no internet connection. Airplane mode does not reduce what it can do.
• Nothing you record is used to train, fine-tune, evaluate or improve any model. We have no mechanism to receive your content, so we could not do this even if we wanted to.
• There is no queue on a server, so there is no waiting on anyone else's capacity and no copy of your work sitting in someone else's infrastructure.

Processing time and battery use depend on your device and the length of your recording. This is a consequence of doing the work locally, and is the trade we made deliberately.

Section 05No User Accounts

The App has no sign-up, no sign-in, no username, no password and no user profile. You do not need an account of any kind to use any feature.

Because there is no account, there is no user record to be breached, sold, subpoenaed or transferred, and there is nothing for us to link your activity to. We do not use Sign in with Apple, social logins, email links or any other identity system.

The App does not create a persistent advertising or analytics identifier for you, and does not use device fingerprinting.

Section 06No Cloud Processing of Recordings

We operate no server that receives, stores, processes or relays your recordings. There is no upload step anywhere in the App, and no background sync of your media to us.

To be precise about what this does and does not mean:

• We do not receive your content. Not for separation, not for captions, not for mastering, not for backup, not for diagnostics.
• iCloud is Apple's, not ours. If you have iOS backup or iCloud Photos enabled, iOS may include App data or exported videos in your own encrypted iCloud backup, under your own Apple Account. That is a feature of your device that you control in iOS Settings. We have no access to it and no visibility into it.
• Sharing is your action. If you export a file and send it somewhere — AirDrop, Messages, a cloud drive, a social platform — that transfer is initiated by you and governed by the receiving service's terms and privacy policy, not ours.

Section 07Local Storage

Your recordings, imported media, separated stems, mixdowns, project settings, caption text and exported files are stored inside the App's own container on your iPhone. That container is protected by iOS app sandboxing: other apps cannot read it, and it is covered by your device's file-level encryption whenever the device is locked with a passcode, Face ID or Touch ID.

The App also stores small preference values — such as your last-used export format or caption style — in the standard iOS preferences store on your device. These contain no personal information and no media.

Nothing in the App's storage is readable by us.

Section 08Exporting and Sharing

Export is always something you start. The App writes the file you asked for — video, mixdown, separate stems, or a caption file — and then hands it to the standard iOS share sheet or saves it where you choose.

Once a file leaves the App, it is outside our control and outside this policy. In particular:

• Saving to Photos places the file in your library, where your own iCloud Photos settings apply.
• Saving to Files places it wherever you select, including third-party cloud providers you have connected to Files.
• AirDrop sends it directly to a device you pick, peer to peer.
• Sending it to a messaging or social app hands it to that company, under their terms.

Please review the privacy policy of any service you share your work with. If your recording contains someone else's voice, image or performance, make sure you have their agreement before you publish it — see the Terms of Use.

Section 09Data Retention

Your content: kept on your device for as long as you keep it. Deleting a take or a project in the App removes its files from the App's storage. Deleting the App removes its entire container, including every project inside it. Neither action affects files you already exported to Photos or Files, and neither affects any backup you may hold — those are yours to manage.

We hold no copy of your content at any point, so there is nothing for us to retain or delete on your behalf.

Support email: if you write to us, we keep the correspondence for as long as needed to resolve your issue and for a reasonable period afterwards in case you follow up — normally no longer than 24 months — then delete it. You may ask us to delete it sooner at any time.

Crash diagnostics from Apple: retained by us only as long as useful for fixing the underlying defect. These contain no personal content.

Section 10Security

The App's security model is deliberately simple: the safest data is data that was never transmitted and never centralised.

• Your content never leaves your device by our action, so it is never in transit to us and never at rest on our infrastructure.
• Files live inside the iOS app sandbox and inherit iOS file protection, which encrypts them at rest when the device is locked.
• The App holds no credentials, tokens or keys belonging to you, because it has no account system.
• The website is served over HTTPS.

The most important security measures for your work are the ones you control: use a device passcode, keep iOS up to date, and think before you share an export. No method of electronic storage or transmission is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security — but we can and do minimise how much there is to secure.

Section 11Children's Privacy

Take One: Vocal Studio is a music production tool intended for a general audience and is rated accordingly on the App Store. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 — or under 16 where that is the applicable age of digital consent.

Because the App has no accounts and collects no personal information from anyone, it does not gather personal information from children through normal use. It does not contain advertising, third-party tracking, social features, chat, user-to-user messaging or links to external content within the app experience.

If a child uses the App, everything they record stays on the device. Parents and guardians should be aware that exporting and sharing a recording sends it outside the App, and should supervise that step. We recommend Screen Time restrictions for younger users.

If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us at support@take-one.studio and we will delete it promptly.

Section 12Your Rights

Privacy laws including the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended (CCPA/CPRA), and Israel's Protection of Privacy Law give you rights over personal data held about you. Those rights include access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising them.

In practice, the App's design means we hold almost nothing to which those rights could attach:

• Access and portability — your content is already in your possession, on your device, in standard formats you can export at any time.
• Deletion — you can delete any project in the App, or delete the App to remove everything at once. We hold no copy to delete.
• Correction, restriction and objection — these apply to the only personal data we may hold, which is support correspondence you sent us.
• Sale or sharing of personal information — we do not sell or share personal information, and never have. We do not use it for cross-context behavioural advertising. There is nothing to opt out of.

To exercise any right regarding support correspondence, email support@take-one.studio from the address you contacted us on. We will respond within 30 days.

Where GDPR applies, our lawful basis for handling support email is legitimate interest in answering you, and our processing of Apple-provided crash diagnostics rests on legitimate interest in fixing defects. If you are in the EEA or UK you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority. If you are in Israel, you may contact the Privacy Protection Authority.

Section 13Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy if the App changes or if the law requires it. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and publish the new version here.

If a change materially reduces the protection this policy describes — for example, if a future version of the App were ever to introduce an optional feature that transmits data — we will say so clearly in the App before that feature is used, and it will require your explicit consent. Continuing to use the App after a change means you accept the revised policy.

Previous versions are available on request from support@take-one.studio.

Section 14Contact

Questions about this policy, or about privacy in the App, go to a person, not a ticket queue.

For help using the App, the Support page answers the most common questions first.