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Privacy Policy

Last updated October 10, 2026

Circle Take doesn't collect, store or share any personal data. There's no account, no analytics and no tracking. Your footage, audio, scripts and transcripts stay on your Mac.

What stays on your Mac

  • Your camera clips, recorder files and scripts. Circle Take reads them where they are and never uploads them.
  • What it makes: the XML files, transcripts and reports go into a CircleTake folder inside your project.
  • Its working files: transcripts it can reuse, your list of favorite and recent projects, and your settings. These live in Circle Take's own folder on your Mac.
  • The speech model that does the transcribing. It runs on your Mac, not on a server.

When Circle Take goes online

  • Downloading the speech model. The first time you use Circle Take, it downloads its speech model (about 3.1 GB) from Hugging Face, which hosts it. Like any download, Hugging Face's servers see your IP address. Circle Take sends nothing else.
  • Buying or restoring Circle Take Pro. Purchases go through Apple's App Store. Apple handles your payment and Apple ID; we never see them. Apple tells Circle Take only whether Pro has been bought.

That's all. Circle Take doesn't contact us or anyone else.

Crash reports

If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in your Mac's settings, Apple may send us anonymous crash reports. That's Apple's system, and you can turn it off in System Settings, under Privacy & Security, then Analytics & Improvements. Beta testers using TestFlight can also send feedback, which goes through Apple too.

Removing your data

Delete Circle Take to remove the app, its speech model and its working files. The XML files and transcripts it wrote into your projects stay until you delete them.

Children

Circle Take is a tool for video editors and isn't directed at children.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.

Questions

Circle Take is made by Zadie Studio, LLC. Email circletake@zadie.com with any questions about privacy.