Camfident

Camfident Privacy Policy

Effective date: 10 November 2026

Camfident helps you get comfortable on camera through gentle, step-by-step practice and turns your recordings into short social videos. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use the Camfident iOS app. The short version: your recordings and progress stay on your iPhone, and we never receive them.

Summary

Who we are

Camfident is published by Burhan Çelebi, an individual developer who offers the app through his own Apple Developer account. In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" mean Burhan Çelebi. We do not run servers that receive your recordings or the videos you create in the app. Our only server is the content server for the optional AI content creator described below, and it receives only the limited information listed in that section.

Information processed on your device

Camera and microphone. Camfident uses the camera and microphone only to record your practice takes, and only after you give permission. The blurred self-preview is created live on your device.

Recordings and results. Your practice recordings (15–60 seconds), transcripts, speech metrics (such as pace in words per minute, pauses, and filler sounds or words), your 5-day journey progress and the videos you edit are stored only on your device, in the app's private storage.

Preferences. Settings such as language and theme are saved on your device in the app's standard settings storage (UserDefaults).

None of this information is sent to us.

Speech recognition and analysis

Captions and transcripts are created with Apple's Speech framework, and Camfident requires on-device recognition. If your device does not have an on-device speech model for the selected language, Camfident simply does not create a transcript. The app never sends your audio to a server for transcription.

When iOS asks for speech recognition permission, the system dialog may include Apple's standard wording about speech processing. That text is written by Apple and shown for every app; it does not change the fact that Camfident only allows recognition on your device.

Pace, pauses and filler analysis are calculated on your device.

How your data is protected

Magic B-Roll (Pixabay)

Magic B-Roll is an optional Camfident Pro feature. To search for stock videos, the app sends only a few short keywords (for example "coffee"), a language code and the app's API key to the Pixabay video API (pixabay.com). This happens only when you ask for clips in the B-roll tool, or after you have agreed once, in an in-app prompt, that automatic editing may add clips. If you decline, no keywords are sent automatically. The selected clips are downloaded to your device.

No audio, video, transcript or identifier is sent to Pixabay. As with any internet request, Pixabay's servers receive standard connection data such as your IP address. Pixabay's privacy policy and Content License apply to its service and content. Clips are credited to their creators: the Pixabay contributor's name is shown in the app.

AI content creator

The Studio includes an optional content creator that writes a short script for your video (a hook, a main idea and a call to action) on a topic you type or pick.

On your device. On devices that support Apple Intelligence, the text may be written by Apple's on-device model. In that case, nothing leaves your device.

Through our content server. Otherwise, or in addition, when you tap Write the app sends only the topic text, the app language, your plan (free, Pro or Pro Plus) and a random install identifier to Camfident's content server, which is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. The server forwards only the topic and the language to the API of OpenAI, L.L.C., which generates the text, and the text is returned to the app. No recordings, audio, video, transcripts, names or contact details are sent. Please do not include personal or sensitive information about yourself or others in the topic.

What the server stores. The server stores only a one-way hash of the install identifier together with usage counters, to enforce fair-use limits: 1 AI hook per week on the free plan, 4 AI scripts per month with Pro and 15 with Pro Plus. These counters are deleted automatically after about 40 days. The install identifier is a random value created by the app; it does not contain your name, Apple ID or contact details.

OpenAI and Cloudflare. OpenAI processes the requests under its API data-usage terms: by default, data sent through the API is not used to train OpenAI's models, and it may be retained for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring. As with any internet request, Cloudflare receives standard connection data such as your IP address. See the OpenAI privacy policy and the Cloudflare privacy policy.

Trending topics (Pro). For trending topics, our server reads the public Google Trends daily feed for the region of your app language and turns it into general topic ideas. The app's request to our server contains only the language.

Offline. If the content server cannot be reached, the app writes the script on your device from built-in templates, and nothing is sent.

Saving, exporting and sharing

Videos are rendered and exported on your device with Apple's AVFoundation. A video is saved to your photo library only when you tap save. For this, Camfident asks only for "add only" Photos access, so it cannot see your existing photos. A video or data backup is shared only when you choose a destination in the iOS share sheet. Once you share something, the privacy practices of the app or service you share it with apply.

Purchases

Camfident Pro subscriptions are bought and processed by Apple through the App Store. We never receive your payment card details. The app checks your subscription status with Apple's StoreKit on your device. Apple gives developers sales reports that do not identify you personally. Apple's privacy policy applies to your purchases.

What we do not do

Information Apple may share with developers

If you have chosen in iOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple may provide us with aggregated, anonymous crash and usage statistics under Apple's own privacy policy. You control this in Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements. The app itself does not collect this information.

Permissions

You can allow or revoke camera, microphone, speech recognition and Photos access at any time in the iOS Settings app under Camfident. Some features do not work without the related permission.

Deleting your data

Your rights

Depending on where you live, laws such as the EU and UK GDPR, Turkey's Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK, Law No. 6698) or US state privacy laws give you rights to access, correct, delete or port your personal data. Apart from the hashed install identifier and usage counters of the AI content creator, which do not include your name or contact details and are deleted automatically after about 40 days, we do not collect or store your personal data, so we usually have nothing to provide or delete: your data is on your own device, where you can export or delete it at any time. If you have a question or want to exercise a right, contact us through the support page. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

Camfident is rated 4+. The app does not ask anyone for personal information such as names or contact details, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. Parents can manage camera access, purchases and app use with Apple's Screen Time and Family Sharing.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will publish the new version at camfident.app/privacy and in the app, with a new effective date. If a change significantly affects how data is handled, we will make this clear before it applies.

Contact

For questions about this policy, please visit our support page: camfident.app/support.