Short version: Your footage files are never uploaded or stored on any server, whether from the Mac app or the iPhone companion app. To perform AI editing, the app extracts small image frames from your clips and sends them to Anthropic's API — they are not retained. We collect only basic, anonymized usage analytics, account information, and (if you enable notifications on the iPhone app) a push token used solely to deliver that notification. If you apply for our done-for-you editing service, we also collect what you enter on that form, and any footage you later send us to edit. We do not sell your data to anyone.
Account information. When you get a license key, Lemon Squeezy (our payment processor) collects your name and email address. Slice of Life is currently free, so no payment method is requested or collected. If you previously bought a paid plan, Lemon Squeezy also collected your payment details at that time — we received only a license key and a masked record of the order, and never see your full payment details.
License key. Your license key is stored locally on your Mac in the app's data directory. It is sent to our Cloudflare proxy server to verify your license when the app makes AI calls and to check your subscription status and credit balance. A one-way hash of your license key (not the key itself) is used to store your credit balance, plan tier, and subscription status server-side, so your balance stays accurate and tamper-resistant across devices — this record persists for as long as your license remains active, unlike the short-lived 24-hour verification cache described in Section 5.
Usage analytics. The app and website use PostHog to collect anonymized usage events — things like "render started", "render completed", and "credits remaining". These events help us understand how the app is used and where to improve it. Analytics are tied to a random device identifier, not your name or email. Our PostHog analytics use memory-only persistence (no cookies). Our advertising pixels — described under "Advertising and conversion measurement" below — do set cookies.
Session replay. The website also uses PostHog session replay to record anonymized mouse movement, clicks, and scrolling on our public marketing pages, so we can see where visitors get stuck. The one form on the site is the editing-service application; every input field is masked in the recording, so what you type into it is not captured. Checkout happens entirely on Lemon Squeezy's site, which this does not record. Replay data is tied to the same anonymous identifier as other analytics, never your name or email.
Advertising and conversion measurement. When we run ads, our website loads the Meta (Facebook) Pixel and the Google Ads tag to measure which ads lead to visits and sign-ups, and to build audiences for retargeting. These set cookies and share a limited set of events (such as page views, and when someone reaches a download or checkout page) with Meta and Google. They never receive your footage, and no payment details pass through them. If you are visiting from the EU, the UK or the EEA, neither tag is loaded at all — we do not ask for advertising consent, so rather than set these cookies without it we leave them switched off for you. We work that out from your browser's own timezone, which means no IP lookup and nothing extra stored; if we cannot read it, or your browser hides it, we treat you as being in the EU. This covers our advertising tags only — the Vimeo players embedded on this site still load and set their own cookies wherever you are, as described in Section 5.
Editing service applications. If you apply for our done-for-you editing service, the form collects your email address and your channel — a handle, a channel name, or a link — plus your name if you choose to give it. An earlier version of the form also asked how often you publish, roughly how much raw footage you shoot per video, and anything else you wanted to tell us. We store this in our own database on Cloudflare, and a copy is emailed to us through Resend so that we see it. We use it only to assess and reply to your enquiry. We do not add you to a mailing list, and we do not sell or share it.
Footage you send us for editing. If you go on to become an editing-service client, you send us raw footage for us to edit. This is the one situation in which your video reaches us rather than staying on your own machine. We use it solely to produce your videos, and vetted contractors working on your project may access it under the same confidentiality terms that bind us. We do not use client footage to train anything, and we do not share it with anyone outside the project. Section 14 of our Terms covers the rest of that relationship, including the portfolio right you can opt out of.
Bug reports. If you use the in-app bug report button, your message is sent directly via your email client to sliceoflifetech@gmail.com. We receive only what you choose to type.
Slice of Life Companion, the optional iPhone app, lets you send footage from your phone to the Mac app. It has no login or account system of its own — it only uses the same license key already tied to your Mac app, and only if you choose to enter one.
To perform AI editing functions, the app sends small image frames (extracted from your footage) and short text prompts to Anthropic's API via our Cloudflare proxy. For some features — such as narration classification, Shorts selection, and the YouTube kit's titles, description, and chapters — this includes excerpts of your transcribed narration text. These requests are used only to generate editing decisions in real time; we do not store this content on our own servers, and Anthropic's data handling is governed by Anthropic's Privacy Policy. We do not instruct Anthropic to retain or use your data for training.
All of these providers are based in, or process data in, the United States. If you use Slice of Life from outside the US — including the EU or UK — your data is transferred to and processed in the United States. There is no adequacy decision covering these transfers generally, so each provider relies on its own safeguards — in most cases the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, and for some the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. The specific safeguard and how to obtain a copy are set out in each provider's privacy policy linked above, and you can also ask us and we will point you to the current terms.
Local app data (config, a cached credit balance, export history, thumbnails) lives in your Mac's Application Support folder and is entirely under your control. Deleting either app removes its local data. Our Cloudflare license-verification cache expires after 24 hours. The server-side credit/license ledger (Section 1) persists for as long as your license remains active, and is deleted upon request (Section 7). A push notification token (Section 2) is retained only as long as notifications remain enabled, and is discarded if you turn them off or delete the iPhone app. PostHog analytics are retained per PostHog's standard retention policy. An editing-service application is kept until you ask us to delete it (Section 7). Footage you send us to edit is kept while we are working on your project and for a period afterwards, and is deleted on request.
Why we process what we do. We process your signup email and licence record to provide the software you asked for (performance of a contract). We use analytics, session replay and advertising measurement to understand how the product and site are used and to reach people who might want them, on the basis of our legitimate interests. We process an editing-service application in order to respond to your enquiry and, if you become a client, to carry out the work you have asked us for. The advertising tags do not run at all for visitors in the EU, UK and EEA, as described in Section 1. You can object to the analytics and advertising processing at any time by contacting us, and most browsers can block the cookies they set.
Your rights. Wherever you live, you may ask us to give you a copy of the personal data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to how we use it, or provide it in a portable form. Contact sliceoflifetech@gmail.com and we will action it. Where data sits with a provider rather than with us — your signup email is held by Lemon Squeezy — we will forward the request on your behalf. We do not charge for this and we will not treat you differently for asking.
Analytics data. PostHog is configured not to build a profile of you and not to set cookies on this site. It does record anonymised session replays of website visits, which can include what was on screen; form inputs are masked. We do not attempt to link that data to a named individual, but we cannot promise a recording never contains something identifying. Ask us and we will delete yours.
If you are in the EU or UK and you think we have handled your data badly, you may complain to your national data protection authority as well as to us.
The app is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.
Material changes to this policy will be noted in the app's release notes and reflected with an updated effective date above.
Questions or data requests: sliceoflifetech@gmail.com