Privacy · 23 October 2026

Privacy policy

This policy explains how data is handled when you use the ShortReady website, app and support services.

Controller and contact

The controller is Florian Kintzel, Rohlsdorfer Weg 49b, 23689 Techau, Germany. Email: F.Kintzel@gmail.com .

Website and GitHub Pages

This website uses static HTML, locally hosted images and CSS. There is no account, form, checkout, analytics or advertising integration and no remotely loaded fonts. We do not use cookies or browser storage for the website features. Contact information and media are not automatically uploaded.

GitHub Pages hosts this website. To deliver and secure pages, the host processes technical connection information such as IP addresses, requested resources, request times and ordinary browser and HTTP information. The providers are GitHub B.V. or GitHub, Inc. A website without its own trackers can still involve personal-data processing by its host.

Our legitimate interest in providing a secure information and support website is the basis under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. GitHub also processes data for its own security and operational purposes. Processing may take place outside the EU, particularly in the United States. GitHub describes adequacy mechanisms, including the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and Standard Contractual Clauses. The applicable safeguard depends on the recipient and processing operation.

GitHub determines retention of its operational data according to its stated purposes and legal requirements. We do not operate an additional visitor database. See GitHub’s privacy statement for recipients, retention, rights and transfer safeguards. External links are contacted when you deliberately open them.

Processing in the app

Import, projects and editing

ShortReady copies videos you choose through Files or Photos into a local working copy and leaves the original unchanged. Project files can contain video and audio references, text, caption and timing information, cut decisions, styling and Brand snapshots. These support your requested editing and later continuation. ShortReady provides no own server account or own video upload for this workflow.

Analysis and Apple system capabilities

Audio preparation is local. Recognition and offered text tasks use supported Apple system capabilities. Speech recognition requires on-device execution; missing capability produces an understandable limitation rather than a silent external Speech fallback. Operating-system downloads, permissions and Apple’s own processing must be distinguished from the local project folder. Recognition availability depends on the device, system and selected language.

Existing face-position analysis assists caption placement; it is not a feature for identifying people. Face positions, caption text and timing information are not sent to servers as ShortReady analytics.

Exports, file providers and backup

An export creates a new video and, where enabled, caption files. Intentionally saving or sharing can transfer data to Photos, a chosen file provider, another app or a recipient. Cloud file providers and operating-system backup can also transfer data. Their settings and terms are separate from an upload to ShortReady servers.

Local projects remain until you manage or delete them. Export files are kept in a temporary app area with limited retention; active playback and delivery protect the file they need from scheduled cleanup. Save results you want to keep outside this temporary area. Deleting a project does not automatically delete files saved elsewhere or copies in backups. Operating-system removal and provider backups have their own retention rules.

Purchases, status and diagnostics

Apple StoreKit handles subscriptions and purchases. ShortReady checks verified access and does not provide its own payment processor. A local counter manages the Free export allowance. ShortReady does not use its own server analytics for your media or transcripts. Operating-system diagnostics and messages you choose to send to support are separate processes. See Apple’s privacy information .

For a conservative native review request, the app stores local identifiers and dates of successfully delivered videos, usage days, and the app versions and dates of past request attempts. A last-observed timestamp supports consistency checks. It does not create a rating profile or learn your stars or whether you submitted a review. Apple decides whether to display its review prompt. This local bookkeeping does not upload media or transcripts to ShortReady.

Purposes and legal bases

Requested editing, storage, export and access management provide the app service under Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where personal data is processed. Article 6(1)(c) may apply to legal obligations. Security and abuse prevention rely on Article 6(1)(f). An operating-system permission does not replace the legal data-protection assessment. Only process other people’s or sensitive content when you are entitled to do so.

Email support

When you contact us, we process your reply address, message and information you deliberately provide to deal with your request. Please do not initially send private videos, transcripts, payment details or particularly sensitive information. The confirmed contact address uses an ordinary Gmail mailbox. For EEA users the provider is generally Google Ireland Limited; Google services may process data outside the EU, particularly in the United States. The mail service is governed by its terms and privacy policy . Google separately describes its transfer safeguards .

Contractual and pre-contractual enquiries are handled under Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. Other relevant enquiries rely on our legitimate interest in answering them under Article 6(1)(f). Messages are deleted when the matter is resolved and no necessary evidential or statutory retention remains. Where retention is required, further use is restricted to that purpose.

Your rights and complaints

Where the relevant legal conditions apply, you have rights of access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability and objection to processing based on legitimate interests. Any consent can be withdrawn for the future without changing the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. Use the contact above and provide only the information necessary to identify your request.

You may complain to a supervisory authority, particularly in the EU member state where you habitually live or work or where an alleged infringement occurred. For the establishment in Schleswig-Holstein, the State Commissioner for Data Protection at the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein is a contact: datenschutzzentrum.de .

We do not use profiling or automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on this website. You do not need to contact support to read the site. Without necessary contact information we may be unable to answer a particular enquiry.