Privacy

Effective 9 September 2026

That is the whole policy. The rest of this page explains what it means in practice, including the one way your content can leave your phone without Breakbook being involved, the one thing this website itself asks you for, and what Apple sees while the iOS test is running.

What Breakbook does not do

• It does not ask you to make an account, and it has no way to identify you.
• It does not send your videos, photos, notes, tags or names anywhere.
• It does not use analytics, crash reporting or advertising.
• It does not include third-party software that collects data about you.
• It does not track you across other apps or websites.

There is no server to talk to. Breakbook has no backend, and the app has no code that uploads your content.

Where your data lives

Everything you create in Breakbook - moves, notes, tags, and the video and photos attached to them - is written to private storage belonging to the app on your device. Move details are kept in a local database file; media is copied into the app’s own folder so that the move keeps working if you later change the original.

Other apps cannot read that storage, and neither can we. Nobody at Breakbook can see your practice footage.

Device backups

This is the one way your content can leave your phone. If you back your device up - iCloud Backup on iPhone, Google’s backup on Android, or a backup to your own computer - that backup can include Breakbook’s data along with every other app’s. Those backups are made and stored by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies, not by Breakbook, and you control them in your device’s settings.

Permissions the app asks for

Breakbook asks for each of these only when you first use the feature that needs it, and you can turn any of them off later in your device settings. Declining one limits that feature and nothing else.

• Camera - to record video for a move. Footage goes straight into the app’s own storage.
• Microphone - to record sound along with that video.
• Photos - to let you pick an existing clip to attach to a move, and to read that clip’s capture date so the move is dated when it was filmed rather than when you imported it. Breakbook reads from your library; it does not write to it.
• Motion - so the camera controls turn with your phone when you rotate it while filming.

Deleting your data

Deleting a move puts it in Recently Deleted, where it waits 30 days before it is removed for good. You can restore it or delete it permanently before then.

Deleting the app removes everything it stored, including any moves still sitting in Recently Deleted. There is nothing left behind on a server, because there is no server. If you have device backups, remove those separately through Apple or Google.

Children

Breakbook is not directed at children, and since it collects no information at all, it collects none from children either.

The form on this website

This website has one form on it, for joining the tests. Android needs it, because its test is a closed one and Play wants your email on a list before it will let you in. iOS does not, because the TestFlight link takes anyone who taps it - unless it is full or between builds. It is hosted by Google, and the email address you type into it is stored by Google under Google’s privacy policy. It is optional, it is the only thing connected to Breakbook that asks you for a way to reach you, and the app itself does not know about it.

The iOS beta

The iOS beta is distributed by Apple through TestFlight, so getting into it goes through Apple rather than through Breakbook. Joining from the link on this site does not tell Breakbook who you are - Apple lists testers who arrive by a public link as anonymous, with no name and no email address. What Apple does pass on is the date a tester installed, how many sessions they have had, and a crash report if the build crashes, under Apple’s privacy policy. The app itself sends nothing anywhere in a beta build either.

Changes to this policy

If Breakbook ever starts handling data differently, this page will be updated and the effective date at the top will change. A change that affects what leaves your device would be announced in the app before it took effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything else, go to kulkoenn@gmail.com.