Your work stays under your control.

The short version

A LumaTake account is required and is created the first time you continue with Apple or Google. We keep the limited account, device, and purchase information described below. Your recordings, projects, captions, transcripts, and exports remain local files unless you deliberately stream or share them. LumaTake has no advertising, cross-app tracking, or product-usage analytics.

Who we are

LumaTake is made by Luminous Digital Visions, LLC. It's a Mac app for recording your screen, camera, and audio, going live, and editing — all on your own machine. In this policy, "we", "us", and "LumaTake" mean Luminous Digital Visions, LLC. You can reach us any time at support@lumatake.com.

What LumaTake collects

We process the following information to operate LumaTake:

• Account identity: the name and email supplied by Apple or Google, the provider identity, and LumaTake's own account and identity identifiers.
• Device and session data: a random installation identifier, your Mac's device name, app/platform details, session status, and sign-in and last-used times so you can recognize and revoke signed-in devices.
• Purchase history: signed App Store transaction records, product and subscription status, and account-binding information used to verify access and restore the correct subscription.
• Connected-feature data: the minimum authorization, capability, resource, request, and moderation metadata needed for a service you choose to connect.

We use this information for app functionality, account and session security, subscription verification, support, and connected features. We do not use it for advertising or tracking.

Accounts & sessions

You can create or enter your account with Continue with Apple or Continue with Google. There is no LumaTake password or separate registration form. A first successful provider sign-in creates the account; later sign-ins create a device session. You may link both providers after verifying each one. We do not merge accounts merely because email addresses match.

LumaTake stores its session credentials in the macOS Keychain. Google account sign-in is separate from a YouTube connection, and Apple sign-in is separate from the Apple Account that pays for your App Store subscription.

Where your recordings live

Recordings and projects stay on your Mac. Recordings are saved as standard video files in ~/Movies/LumaTake/, and projects and settings live in ~/Library/Application Support/LumaTake/. They are your files: they don't expire, they aren't locked to a subscription, and you can move, back up, or delete them like any other file. Use Reveal Recordings in the app to open the folder in Finder.

On-device processing

Editing, captions, teleprompter processing, noise removal, click zooms, privacy blur, and visual effects run locally on your Mac. macOS may download optional Apple language or speech models when a feature needs them. LumaTake does not upload your source media to its account service for processing.

macOS permissions

To do its job, LumaTake may ask macOS for Screen Recording, Camera, Microphone, or Speech Recognition access. Screen Recording, Camera, and Microphone access are used only for the sources you choose to capture.

Speech Recognition supports on-device captions and teleprompter voice follow. The Mac App Store edition does not request Accessibility access or provide global caret-following capture.

Granting these permissions does not send anything to us. You can review or revoke them at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Purchases & subscriptions

LumaTake is sold through the Mac App Store, and subscriptions are handled by Apple's StoreKit. When you subscribe, restore a purchase, or manage billing, Apple processes the transaction and payment details. We do not receive your card number, billing address, or Apple Account password. LumaTake sends signed purchase records to its account service to verify status and associate the subscription with the correct LumaTake account.

To restore, use the Apple Account that made the purchase and choose Restore Purchases. Apple restoration is separate from LumaTake account sign-in. Deleting a LumaTake account does not cancel an Apple subscription; cancellation remains an Apple billing action.

Apple's handling of your purchase is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy. To manage or cancel, open System Settings → your name → Media & Purchases → Subscriptions; for refunds, use reportaproblem.apple.com.

Publishing exported videos

When you publish to a connected platform, LumaTake sends the media and post details you select to that service. Depending on the destination, delivery can use a direct upload or temporary media staging, while the backend handles authorization, scheduling, and publishing requests. This sharing is separate from local editing and transcription.

Connected comment and inbox tools process the post, conversation, message, and account information needed to display and carry out your actions. Replies are written or approved and sent by you. Provider permissions and reply windows apply. See the social publishing features.

Livestreaming to other services

If you choose to go live, LumaTake sends your stream directly to the destination you set up, such as YouTube, Twitch, or a custom RTMP service. Encoded media travels directly from your Mac to that destination; LumaTake's account service handles account and connection requests and does not relay or store the video. The destination's privacy policy and terms apply once data reaches it.

When you connect a service, LumaTake or its backend may process authorization, channel or Page capability, live-resource, and chat metadata needed for the action you request. Meta-connected live, publishing, and inbox features use eligible Pages or professional accounts and the permissions you grant. Instagram Live Producer is started and ended in Instagram. Instagram and custom stream keys are kept only for the current app session.

Optional Unsplash background search sends your search words through LumaTake's account service to Unsplash. Results may be cached briefly, currently for up to 15 minutes. Search words are not taken from your recordings, projects, captions, or transcripts.

Apple and Google process sign-in information; Apple processes App Store purchases; the streaming destination processes media and account activity you send to it; Unsplash processes background-search requests; and the service providers listed below process the limited infrastructure and email-delivery data needed to host, secure, and operate LumaTake's account service and send account or support email.

Connected services

Each service below is optional and connects only when you choose to connect it. Connecting a service gives LumaTake only the permissions that service's consent screen shows you. Tokens kept on our server are encrypted, are never sent to your Mac, and are removed when you disconnect the service or delete your LumaTake account. Nothing we receive from these services is sold, shared for advertising, or used to build profiles.

YouTube

LumaTake uses YouTube API Services. By connecting YouTube you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google's handling of your data is described in the Google Privacy Policy. LumaTake accesses your channel, broadcasts, streams, live chat, your playlists, the status of videos it uploaded, and comments on your own videos. This data stays on your Mac. On your behalf, LumaTake uploads and schedules the videos you choose, sets their thumbnail, playlist and captions, and posts the comment replies you write and send; it never replies automatically. Comments are shown only while the comments window is open and are not stored. LumaTake keeps a local list of your own uploads (title, video link, file name and size, date) to show recent publishes and to warn you before the same file is published twice. To revoke access, disconnect YouTube in LumaTake or remove LumaTake at Google Account permissions.

Facebook and Instagram

When you connect Facebook, our server keeps your Facebook and Page tokens encrypted and uses them to go live, publish and schedule the posts you create, and show and answer comments and messages on your Pages and linked Instagram professional accounts. New messages and comments that Meta sends us are kept encrypted for at most 7 days so your Mac can pick them up; older history is read from Meta when you open a conversation and is not stored. For each conversation we keep the other person's Page- or Instagram-scoped ID (encrypted) and the time of their last message to apply Meta's reply window; idle conversations are deleted after 8 days. A post's caption is kept encrypted until the post is published or fails, then erased, and its media is held in private temporary storage only until Meta confirms the post (at most 48 hours after a scheduled post's time). Replies are sent only when you send them. Disconnect Facebook in Settings → Connections, or remove LumaTake in your Facebook settings under Apps and Websites.

LinkedIn

When you connect LinkedIn, LumaTake receives your LinkedIn name, photo and email, and publishes the posts and videos you create, as you or as a Page you manage. Comments on your Page posts, with the commenters' names and photos, are shown only to the Page's managers in LumaTake. Tokens are kept encrypted on our server. We keep no LinkedIn member data beyond LinkedIn's limits (48 hours for social activity, 24 hours for most profile data). Disconnect LinkedIn in Settings → Connections.

TikTok

When you connect TikTok, LumaTake reads your TikTok account's basic profile and posting options and uploads the videos you choose to post, either directly or as drafts. Tokens are kept encrypted on our server. Disconnect TikTok in Settings → Connections, or remove LumaTake from the apps connected to your account in TikTok's settings.

Kick

When you connect Kick, LumaTake reads and changes your channel's title and category and starts your live sessions. The stream key is handed to your own Mac for that session and is never kept on our server. Chat messages are kept encrypted for 24 hours so LumaTake can show them and carry out the replies and moderation you choose. Tokens are kept encrypted on our server. Disconnect Kick in Settings → Connections.

Twitch

Twitch connects from your Mac directly; no LumaTake server is involved. Twitch tokens stay in your Mac's Keychain, and the stream key is read into memory only when a stream starts. Disconnect Twitch in LumaTake or under Connections in your Twitch settings.

Service providers

We use a small number of providers to run LumaTake. They process data only to provide their service to us:

• Contabo, which hosts our account server and its database.
• Cloudflare, which provides DNS, hosts this website, checks website forms for abuse (Turnstile), stores our encrypted backups, and temporarily stores media for Facebook and Instagram posts.
• Amazon Web Services, which delivers our email (Amazon SES).

Retention & account deletion

We keep account and session data while your account is active and as needed to provide and secure the service. Short-lived operational records are retained only as needed for delivery, abuse prevention, reliability, and legal obligations. Limited purchase ownership records may be retained to prevent a subscription from being claimed by another account.

Delete your account in Settings → Account & Data. LumaTake revokes its sessions and applicable provider credentials and deletes or irreversibly anonymizes personal account data, subject to records we must retain. Recordings and projects already on your Mac remain there. Account deletion does not cancel billing through Apple; cancel separately under Apple subscriptions.

Our database is backed up daily. Backups are encrypted and kept for 90 days, then deleted. So that restoring a backup can never bring a deleted account back, we keep a separate, encrypted deletion record for 120 days. It holds only the internal account ID, the deletion time and a keyed fingerprint of each sign-in identity; never a name, email address, device or purchase.

Delete your data

• Your LumaTake account: open LumaTake, go to Settings → Account & Data, and choose Delete Account. This also disconnects every connected service and withdraws LumaTake's access at Facebook.
• Facebook and Instagram data only: disconnect Facebook in Settings → Connections, or remove LumaTake in your Facebook settings under Apps and Websites. When you remove it on Facebook, Facebook tells us, we delete the data we hold from that connection, and Facebook shows you a confirmation code you can use to check the status.
• No access to the app, or no account (for example a waitlist sign-up or a support message): email support@lumatake.com from the address concerned and we will delete it.

Recordings and projects are files on your Mac; delete them in Finder.

This website

The site you're reading, lumatake.com, is a set of marketing pages hosted by Cloudflare. We do not set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. Cloudflare may process standard request data such as IP address and requested page for delivery, security, and reliability.

Both website forms are checked by Cloudflare Turnstile, which looks at your browser and IP address to tell people from automated abuse. We send your IP address to Turnstile with that check. Our server also counts submissions per network in memory for up to an hour to limit repeated attempts; it does not store IP addresses.

Beta waitlist. We keep your email address (encrypted), the version of the consent you gave and when you gave it. We send one email to confirm the address; if you don't confirm within 7 days, the address is deleted. A confirmed address is used only to email you about LumaTake's launch and early access, and is deleted 2 years after your latest consent, or sooner when you use the remove link in any of our emails.

Contact form. Your name, email address, topic and message are forwarded by email to our support inbox, with your address as the reply-to, and are not kept anywhere else. We keep the email in our support inbox as support correspondence.

A diagnostic archive is created locally and reaches us only if you choose to attach and send it. Third-party links are governed by their own privacy policies.

Terms of use

LumaTake is licensed to you under Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement. When you connect a service, that service's own terms also apply to what you publish or stream there.

Children's privacy

LumaTake is a general-purpose creative tool and is not directed at children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can review and address the request.

Changes to this policy

If we change how LumaTake works in a way that affects this policy, we'll update this page and change the "last updated" date at the top.