Privacy policy
Your words stay yours.
Skapa Ord collects nothing about you. Your speeches stay on your devices and in your own iCloud.
In short
- Skapa Ord collects no personal data. There’s no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, and no code from other companies in the app.
- Your speeches are stored on your devices. If you use iCloud, they’re kept in step through your own private iCloud storage, which we can’t read.
- The optional Thoughts run entirely on your device. Your speech is never uploaded to be read.
- This website sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads nothing from other companies’ servers.
Who we are
Skapa Ord is made by Glenn Abrahamsen (“we”, “us”). We are responsible for the Skapa Ord app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and for this website. Where data protection law calls for one, we are the controller of the little personal data described here.
What the app collects
Skapa Ord doesn’t collect personal data, keep it on any server of ours, sell it, or share it. It contains no analytics, advertising or tracking code, and no software development kits from other companies. It doesn’t track you across apps or websites, and you don’t need an account to use it.
Your speeches
Everything you write in Skapa Ord, such as your speeches, their parts and notes, your material, and your rehearsal marks and timings, is stored on your device, inside the app.
If iCloud is turned on for Skapa Ord, your speeches are also kept in your private iCloud database, through Apple’s CloudKit, so they stay in step across your Mac, iPhone and iPad. That storage belongs to your Apple Account. Apple looks after it under Apple’s privacy policy, and we have no access to it.
On each device, Skapa Ord also remembers where you were in a speech on stage, the text size you chose in Rehearse, and your settings. These never leave that device.
Thoughts, dictation and spelling
Thoughts, the optional help, uses Apple’s on-device language model, part of Apple Intelligence. Your speech is read on your device, and is never sent to us or to anyone else for this. You can turn Thoughts off in Settings.
Spelling is checked by your device’s own spell checker. If you dictate with the keyboard’s microphone, that’s Apple’s dictation, which Apple’s privacy policy covers. Skapa Ord receives only the finished words, just as if you had typed them.
Printing uses your device’s print sheet. A paper copy or PDF goes only where you send it.
What Apple tells us
Apple handles downloads and any purchase through the App Store, and tells us nothing that identifies you. We see only totals, such as how many people downloaded the app in a country.
If you’ve chosen to share analytics with app developers, in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements, Apple may give us crash reports and aggregate statistics. These don’t identify you, and we use them only to find and fix problems. You can turn this off at any time in the same place.
This website
This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics, tracking or advertising. It doesn’t load fonts, scripts or anything else from other companies’ servers. The small script on the home page only runs the demo of the stage, in your browser, and remembers nothing.
The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes the technical details every browser sends with a request, such as your IP address and the kind of browser you use, to deliver the pages and protect the site against attacks. That rests on our legitimate interest in running a secure website. We don’t use it to identify anyone. You can read how Cloudflare handles it in Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
When you write to us
If you email us, we receive your address and whatever you write, and use them only to answer you. We keep the conversation while it’s useful for helping you, and delete it whenever you ask.
Children
Skapa Ord isn’t made for children under 13. It collects nothing from anyone, children included.
Your rights, and deleting your data
Under data protection laws such as the GDPR, you have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, and to have it corrected or deleted. You can also restrict or object to how it’s used, and ask for a copy. We hold no data from the app. For emails you’ve sent us, write to privacy@skapa-ord.com.
Your speeches are yours to delete at any time:
- Delete a speech in the app, and it’s deleted on every device kept in step by your iCloud.
- Delete the app from a device to remove everything it keeps there.
- To remove what’s kept in iCloud, open your iCloud storage settings on any of your devices, choose Skapa Ord, and delete its data.
You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority, such as the one in the country where you live.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be here, with a new date at the top. If Skapa Ord ever began to collect anything, this page would say so before it did.
Contact
Questions about privacy go to privacy@skapa-ord.com. Questions about using the app go to support.