SlateX and Privacy

SlateX is designed to protect your information and to let you choose what you share.

What is personal data at SlateX?

At SlateX, we firmly believe in and respect fundamental privacy rights and believe that these fundamental rights should not differ depending on the country or region in which you live. Personal data includes any data relating to an identified or identifiable individual: data that can identify you directly (such as the account identifier Apple provides) is personal data, and data that cannot identify you directly but can identify you through reasonable inference (such as your script notes, on-set photos and continuity comparison records) is also personal data. Depending on what you enter, project records and the various preset lists you maintain in the App may contain the names, roles or other identifiable information of actors, stand-ins, directors, cinematographers, sound recordists and other crew members. You, or the production company you represent, should determine, based on the actual purposes of processing and applicable law, the permissions and lawful bases required to enter, use, sync and deliver this information.

Your Privacy Rights at SlateX

You may, under applicable law, exercise rights of access, correction, copying, transfer, restriction of processing and deletion in respect of the personal information we actually process, and where processing is based on consent you may withdraw that consent as the law provides. You can manage camera, photo library and microphone permissions in the system settings, and you can manage a project’s iCloud storage allowance and delete your account within the App. Turning the iCloud allowance off does not automatically clear the projects that have already synced to iCloud; after account deletion, the scope of deletion, the original files and the copies not yet synced are as described in the “Data Retention” section of this Policy.

You can exercise your privacy rights by:

Right to Access: View your shooting records, on-set photos, and script reports via the Script, Scene, and Entry pages within the App

Right to Rectification: Directly edit the information in Scene, Shot, and Takes within the App.

Right to erasure: Delete a specific project, Scene, or Takes within the App, or delete the data associated with your current account by deleting your account. Your photo and display name are shared across the three apps VocaX, SlateX and EncoX. Deleting the account in one of those apps does not delete this shared profile information; when you delete the last account you are still using, your photo and display name will be deleted as well. That deletion is pushed from this device through Apple’s synchronization mechanism; Apple decides when the push arrives, and we cannot confirm on your behalf that it has completed.

Right to data portability: you can view and edit your records within the App; exporting PDF, ALE, CSV and FDX is not restricted by subscription status within the current version. If you request to access, copy or transfer your personal information under applicable law, you may make that request through the contact details listed in this Policy, and we will handle your request on the basis of the data we actually hold, the technical measures available to us and applicable law

Permission controls: this App requests camera, microphone, photo library, Bluetooth, local network and notification permissions, used respectively for you to shoot continuity photos or videos on your own initiative, to capture sync sound while you record video, for you to choose photos or videos on your own initiative to import into a project, to connect third-party Bluetooth timecode generators, to carry out near-field material sync between devices, and to notify you when a timecode device disconnects or reconnects. Once you enable the relevant notifications, those notifications are scheduled by this App on your current device and appear in that device’s system Notification Center; their display and delivery are affected by the device’s notification permissions and system settings. You can revoke these permissions at any time in the device’s system settings

SlateX’s project material is saved on the current device by default; only after this device is allowed to put projects into iCloud and an iCloud account is available on it are eligible new projects saved to the iCloud private database under your account. Projects that have already entered iCloud are not deleted automatically because you turn that allowance off; please use the viewing and deletion features the App provides, according to where each project is located.

Personal Data SlateX Collects

We process information according to the actual need to provide the script supervision, recording, shooting-support, device-sync and user-support features. Project material stays on your device by default; once you turn on the relevant iCloud feature, the projects within its scope enter your private database. The specific data categories, purposes and rights are described below.

Your creative content is not used for model training

SlateX’s continuity support analysis uses a pre-trained on-device model, on supported devices, to process the on-set images you select. The images the analysis needs are processed on the device, and the projects and material you save are managed under the “Where your data is stored” section of this Policy. We do not send on-set images to an online model-training service in order to provide this analysis.

Local records when offline

SlateX’s local recording features do not depend on a network: even without a network, you can still view and edit content already saved on your device. iCloud sync, local network sync between devices, and the confirmation of subscription entitlements before you create a new record or continue recording can be completed only when the relevant conditions are met.

Account & Sync

When you use Sign in with Apple, Apple provides a stable, opaque identifier used to distinguish your account in SlateX; that identifier may be linked to an individual and is not the same as anonymous data. The only item we request from Apple is your name — we never request your email address, your identity token or your authorization code, and we have no way to obtain them. The name you agree to share on the authorization panel is returned only once, at the first authorization, and this App uses it only as the initial value of the Nickname field: if your profile already carries a name, yours is the one that stands and the name returned this time does not apply. Once it is stored, it is tied to the nickname you entered yourself: it travels the same sync channel as the profile, is visible across the three apps under the same Apple Account, and you can change it at any time and restore it as well. If Apple returns no name, that field stays empty and the interface shows the localized default appellation for your device’s language. The display name you choose to share and the photo you set voluntarily are used for profile display within the App and, once you turn on the relevant iCloud feature, sync to your private database. Your nickname and photo are also written into a single profile record that the three apps VocaX, SlateX and EncoX share and that likewise lives only in your own iCloud private database. The account identifier and the related sign-in state may be stored in the Keychain; whether it syncs between devices and when it is deleted depend on the system configuration and the actual process. Signing in with Apple and setting up your profile in this App do not require you to submit a phone number to us directly.

Access boundaries of the iCloud private database

The FDX scripts, record entries and footage you import are, by default, stored only in this device’s local storage. Whether a project goes into iCloud is decided by one overall allowance on this device: once that allowance is given and an iCloud account is available on this device, newly created projects are written into your own iCloud private database, and this App on your other devices under the same Apple Account can access them too; without that allowance, or when no iCloud account is available on this device, newly created projects stay only on this device. A project that has already gone into iCloud stays in your own iCloud private database as it is when you turn the allowance off; it is not moved back to this device automatically. On-set photos carry image data in this record, and an original file is saved separately in the device’s local file area; video is saved only on this device and does not go into your own iCloud private database with the project. The copy that stays on the device stays only on this device; the copy that goes into iCloud is stored in your own iCloud private database, where the encryption and storage security measures are provided by Apple under its own terms, and we make no commitment on its behalf. In neither case do we keep this professional content, we cannot read its contents, and we cannot independently recover these records for you; the device’s system backup may keep separate older copies.

Zero-Tracking Commitment and Diagnostics

We do not integrate any third-party behavioral tracking components. Using SlateX can generate device-local records and system diagnostics; we see those records only when you take them out yourself and hand them to us.

When you use Get Support in the App, the diagnostic records on this device are placed into an email draft as an attachment. They contain crash and hang reports, together with troubleshooting information such as the App version, device model and system version. Until you press send, they stay only in your own draft — you can see them and remove them before sending; unless you send, nothing leaves this device. The message you send arrives at our support mailbox carrying your sender address, and how long it and its attachment are kept on our side is determined by the settings of the receiving account. This attachment does not contain your scripts, script-supervision notes or media content, and it does not contain account identifiers or device identifiers.

Data Controller Role Definition

You, or the production company you represent, should determine, according to the purposes of processing, the responsibilities of those involved and applicable law, the permissions and lawful bases for using scripts, on-set records and the personal information of cast and crew. We provide recording, analysis, storage and sync features, and we do not acquire ownership of the professional content you enter by providing the software. For the material we actually receive or process, including account management information and the technical support communications and attachments you send on your own initiative, we process it on the basis of performing the service, handling requests, maintaining security, meeting legal obligations or another lawful basis permitted by applicable law; where the law requires consent, we obtain it as required.

For the personal information whose purposes and means of processing we determine in order to provide the account, verify purchased entitlements, keep requests secure and provide customer support, the entity responsible for processing is Axiom One LLC; you can exercise the rights listed in this section through support@slateprotocol.com. Where processing relies on legitimate interests, you may object as provided by law. The complete postal address is set out in the “Contact Us” section of the Terms of Service.

Your content is stored in your own iCloud private database, and access control is managed by Apple’s account system and encryption mechanisms. SlateX does not hold the keys to decrypt your database.

SlateX’s Use of Personal Data

We process data locally based on the necessity of providing professional script supervision services:

Functional Fulfillment: Parse scripts, manage shooting entries, and generate digital script reports.

On-device Processing: Utilizes the built-in iOS visual analysis capabilities for image feature extraction and matching.

User-initiated export: The App will only process data into script reports in PDF, ALE and CSV format and screenplay files in FDX format when you actively click share or export.

Continuity Comparison and On-Device Machine Learning

SlateX’s intelligent features (such as entry comparison) are powered by Apple’s Vision framework and run locally on your device. This means that your on-set photos are analyzed on this device itself and do not need to be handed over to us.

Script Parsing & File Handling

When you import an FDX script or export a script report (in PDF, ALE, CSV and FDX formats), the parsing and generation themselves are completed on your device, and there is no need to send content to any external service; these processes therefore remain available as usual on a set that is offline or where the signal is poor, and export performs no entitlement check at all. Before you create a new record or continue recording, the subscription entitlement has to be confirmed: that confirmation is carried out by Apple’s StoreKit reading, locally on your device, the verified purchase records under your App Store account, and SlateX does not obtain your transaction credentials or receipts, and still less does it send your script, your script supervision notes or your footage anywhere as a result. To enforce the 14-day free recording period across your own devices, SlateX keeps two very small values — the start date of the free period, and the subscription status most recently verified — in your iCloud Keychain, and Apple syncs them between your devices; these two values do not contain, and do not point to, any script, script supervision, photo or video content.

SlateX’s Sharing of Personal Data

At SlateX, the scope in which we process your professional content is limited to providing you with the script supervision, recording, shooting-support and user-support features: your script content, script supervision entries and continuity materials are, by default, kept only on your device and in your own iCloud private database, and we do not keep this content and cannot read its contents. These boundaries apply to the professional content you enter in the App. When you actively export, share, or submit technical support materials to us, the relevant content may leave the original device.

Features completed on-device

SlateX’s intelligent features are all completed locally on-device and offline, and none of the processing requires external services to perform computations. Please note, however, that if you actively use the iOS system-level share feature to send data to a third-party app, that transmission is not controlled by SlateX.

iCloud private database

Once you allow this device to put projects into iCloud, eligible new projects are saved through CloudKit to the private database under the current Apple Account. Turning that allowance off does not automatically delete the projects that have already synced. A project may be written by the device responsible for recording it, and appears on other devices as a Read-Only Copy. You can manage the corresponding records through the project management features the App provides; this synced copy should not be treated as a delivery backup that you have kept independently.

Local network sync between devices

Only when you turn on “As Remote Camera” in settings does this App transfer the on-set materials you select between the devices taking part in this connection over a local network, and it accepts the shooting and recording control commands that a host device taking part in this connection sends to this device; the connection requires encryption to be enabled, and during device discovery a camera identifier randomly generated on this device is shown, which contains no name of yours and is not reused across accounts. When you use system sharing or iCloud features on your own initiative, the data is handled additionally according to the channel you choose. Please confirm that the devices participating in the sync and the personnel using them are entitled to receive the relevant materials and to operate this device’s shooting in the way described above; access permissions on the receiving device and subsequent use are the responsibility of the person or production company actually managing that device. You can turn this switch off at any time to stop this sync; it stops on its own and resets to off when you sign out, delete your account, or switch to another Apple Account, and revoking the “Local Network” permission in system settings stops it the same way.

Unsolicited sensitive data

When seeking technical support, please do not proactively send screenshots or files containing script content, actor photos, or production budgets. If you nonetheless proactively send such content, we will view it only to the extent necessary to handle your issue, and will process and retain it according to the standards for handling ordinary business communications.

Protection of Personal Data at SlateX

For the account management material, support emails and related attachments that we actually receive, we use technical and management measures suited to how sensitive the data is and to the processing activity, so as to reduce the risk of unauthorized access, disclosure or loss.

Our security measures include:

Sync with iCloud is protected by Apple’s encryption mechanisms, and local network sync between devices requires encryption to be enabled

Store script data in iCloud private database (security and encryption managed by Apple).

We do not integrate any third-party tracking SDKs, nor do we collect personal information beyond what is strictly necessary for the App’s functionality.

Continuity comparisons are completed locally on your device, and the photos do not need to be handed over to us.

Secure your account using Sign in with Apple

Boundaries for providing data externally

For professional content that is stored on your device or in your iCloud private database and that we do not actually hold, we are unable to provide a copy of it directly. We handle the relevant requests on the basis of the information we actually hold, applicable law and valid legal process.

Children and Personal Data

SlateX is a professional production tool for film and television sets, and its users are mainly working adults. We are fully aware of the importance of protecting minors’ personal data and set out clear provisions on the applicable age for this App.

Applicable age

Users of this App must be at least thirteen years of age (or the higher minimum age required by the applicable law of your location and by the rules of the relevant platform). SlateX is aimed primarily at film and television production professionals, is not targeted at children, currently operates no separate age-verification process, and does not require users to provide their date of birth. Where the personal information of minors is processed, the applicable special protection requirements must still be observed.

Images of minor actors on set

Film and television sets may record the names, photographs, images, and other personal information of minor actors. You, or the production company you represent, should obtain the necessary authorizations or satisfy other applicable lawful processing conditions based on the laws of the filming location, the relevant contracts, and the actual purposes of processing, and should manage the relevant materials in accordance with the requirements for protecting minors’ personal information. The appearance of a minor actor in on-set records does not by itself mean that the actor is a SlateX account user.

This App does not identify or profile anyone for the purpose of age, and everyone’s data is processed and protected to the same standard described in this Policy. Where applicable law imposes additional notice, consent, guardian authorization or other special protection requirements for the personal information of minors, those requirements prevail. Records involving minors are likewise viewed, corrected or deleted by yourself within the App; if you need assistance, you may contact us in the manner set out in the “Contact Us” section.

No Targeted Ads

SlateX contains no advertising content targeted at children or adults, nor does it build user profiles for advertising purposes.

Transfer of Personal Data Between Countries

Once you turn on iCloud sync for a project, that project’s data will be stored and synced through the iCloud service you use; projects for which sync is not turned on do not go through iCloud. The iCloud service provider, data storage locations, and applicable terms depend on your Apple Account and the corresponding service arrangements. For users of iCloud services operated by local partners in mainland China, the storage and processing of the relevant iCloud data are governed by the corresponding terms and privacy statements of that service.

Apart from the iCloud sync described above, the local network sync between devices that you actively enable, and your own exporting or sharing of content or your submitting of materials to us for technical support, this App completes the processing of your professional content on your device; apart from these cases, your professional content has no other destination that this App initiates.

Data Retention

Personal information actually held by us (for example the technical support communications you send on your own initiative) is retained only for the shortest period necessary to achieve the corresponding processing purpose; where a specific period cannot be determined in advance, the period required to finish handling the relevant request, to keep the dispute and security records that must be retained, and to meet the obligations under applicable law applies instead. Your shooting data is stored in your own personal iCloud private database, and its retention and deletion are controlled by you. You can delete an entire project, or within it specific scenes, shots, takes and continuity entries with the photos and videos they contain, through the project management feature within the App; these changes can be written only on the device that carries the record responsibility for that project, and on other devices that project is a read-only copy. You can also start the deletion process for the data associated with your current account by deleting your account.

After you confirm account deletion in the App, SlateX will carry out the data deletion and local cleanup process associated with your current account. Deletions already synced to iCloud will propagate through Apple’s CloudKit sync mechanism, and the completion time depends on the network, the device, and the status of the iCloud service. Copies on other devices that have not yet been synced, files you previously exported, and backups not managed by SlateX will not be automatically deleted by this operation.

Deleting your account will not revoke your sign-in authorization on Apple’s side on your behalf. If you wish to revoke it as well, open your Apple Account in the device’s system settings and stop the authorization for SlateX. This step is provided and managed by Apple; SlateX cannot perform it on your behalf, nor can it confirm whether you have completed it.

When you sign out on your own initiative, delete your account, or the App detects that the “Sign in with Apple” authorization on Apple’s side is no longer valid, SlateX writes a marker reading “You have signed out on your own initiative” into your iCloud Keychain, its value consists of only one character, and it is used only to block the App from silently restoring your account identity before you sign in again. This marker is not cleared automatically: it is deleted only when you yourself sign in to this App again, and until then it persists across installations. The cleanup of your local credentials is retried each time this marker is read; even when that retry succeeds, the marker is not deleted along with it — it must keep blocking the App from silently restoring your previous account identity. Like other Keychain items, it may be synced through iCloud Keychain to your other devices signed in to the same Apple Account; it does not contain, and does not point to, any script, script supervision, photo or video content, we do not receive it, and we cannot read it.

There are several further items in this device’s Keychain that are not covered by the statements above. There is this device’s own random identifier: it serves only to answer the single question “which device is to write the record facts captured on set”; it contains neither your name nor your email address, it does not contain, and does not point to, any media content of yours, and it is not itself synced to other devices through the Keychain — but the claim it makes is written into the project record, and after you allow that project into iCloud this value appears, along with that record, on your other devices under the same account. There is also a marker on this device itself: it records only whether this device still needs to write one more enrollment record into your own iCloud private database, and it likewise does not leave this device. And there is a deletion intent: when you start deleting your account on one device and that run does not complete in a single go, it is split into several separate tokens according to your attribution key in this App, and it appears on your other devices under the same account through iCloud Keychain, so that any one of them can carry the cleanup through on behalf of the device that did not finish it. We do not receive these items, and we cannot read their contents; the transfers by which some of them appear on your other devices are carried out by Apple’s iCloud Keychain mechanism. Whether each of them is cleared when you delete your account or uninstall this app is decided by this App’s cleanup process and by the system’s Keychain management, and this policy makes no item-by-item commitment.

Local Storage Technologies

SlateX uses on-device local storage technologies to implement its core features.

Necessary local storage

To track script progress, save modifications to continuity entries and store your preferences, we write this data locally on your device. When this device’s storage area is cleaned up, the part of the records that exists only on this device may not be recoverable; only the part that has already been saved successfully in CloudKit, and that you can still retrieve, may be re-synced according to the state of the platform. This App does not hold a copy that could recover your device-local records for you.

Media & File Cache

Only the account photo leaves a derived copy in the cache directory of the device sandbox, and that content may be cleared by the system when storage space runs low. Your scripts, shooting records, on-set photos and videos are stored in the App’s own storage area on your device; this App has file sharing enabled, so you can also see and take this content directly in the system’s “Files” app — apart from your taking it in this way on your own initiative, other Apps will not read it automatically, and it will not be cleared automatically because storage space runs low or because a period has been reached; uninstalling the App removes this content from the device, but the device’s system backup may, under Apple’s mechanism, keep a separate copy of this storage area, and the retention and deletion of that copy are determined by Apple’s backup mechanism and are not controlled by SlateX.

Our Companywide Commitment to Your Privacy

We communicate privacy and information-security requirements to the personnel involved in product and user-support work, and we apply access controls and internal management measures appropriate to their job responsibilities.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated Policy will be published within the App and on the official website, and the update date will be indicated. Only to the extent permitted by applicable law will your continued use of this App after a change takes effect be regarded as acceptance of the updated Policy; where applicable law requires that consent be obtained separately, or grants you a right to terminate, we act in accordance with that law. We suggest that you review this page regularly to stay informed of the latest Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding the exercise of your privacy rights, please contact us at support@slateprotocol.com. Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

We will reply as soon as possible after receiving your request. Where applicable law sets a deadline for replying to your request, we will reply within that deadline; if your request is complex or you submit a large number of requests and we need more time, we will tell you the reason and the new deadline.

Last updated: October 29, 2026