Privacy Policy

Mediasmith — Convert Video, Images & Audio

Last updated: August 21, 2026

1. Data Controller (Verantwortlicher)

Eduard Bruch

Kleinfeld 28c

21149 Hamburg, Deutschland

2. Summary

Mediasmith ("the App") converts and cleans up video, images and audio on your Mac. It is a sandboxed macOS application that has no network entitlement. That is not a policy promise — it is a technical fact enforced by macOS. The App cannot open a network connection, contact a server, or upload a file, because the capability was never requested and the operating system would refuse it.

Consequently: no personal data is collected, transmitted, or shared with anyone. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. The developer never sees your files, your file names, or anything about how you use the App.

3. Your Files

The App reads the image files you explicitly give it — by dragging them in, choosing them in the open panel, or opening them with the App from Finder — and writes new image files where you tell it to. Both happen entirely on your Mac.

Files are read, processed on your Mac and written back to disk. They are never copied anywhere else.
The App can read image metadata (EXIF, including GPS coordinates recorded by a camera or phone) because removing that metadata is one of its features. This happens locally. The metadata is never inspected, logged or transmitted by the developer.
The macOS sandbox restricts the App to the files and folders you have selected. It has no access to your Photos library, your Documents folder, or anything else you have not handed it.
Original files are never modified or deleted. Output is written as new files, and a file that would collide with an existing one is given a numbered name instead.

4. What Is Stored On Your Mac

The App stores its own settings locally, in the standard macOS preferences store for the application. This never leaves your device except as part of a backup you choose to make (for example Time Machine or iCloud device backup, both governed by Apple's own terms).

Your saved presets and the current pipeline of operations.
Output settings: format, quality, metadata policy, filename pattern.
A security-scoped bookmark for the output folder you chose, and for a watermark image if you selected one. A bookmark is how macOS lets a sandboxed app keep access to a folder you picked across restarts. It grants access only to that specific location.
Window state, whether the welcome screen has been shown, and a counter of completed batches used to decide when — if ever — to show a rating prompt.
A cached flag recording whether the paid version has been unlocked.

Deleting the App and its preferences removes all of this. None of it is ever sent anywhere.

5. Purchases

Mediasmith is a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store. There is no in-app purchase and no subscription, so the App contains no purchase or payment code at all. Buying it is handled entirely by Apple. The developer never sees your name, your email address, your Apple Account, or any payment details, and no payment information is transmitted to the developer at any point. Apple's handling of that transaction is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy.

6. Required Reason APIs

In line with Apple's privacy manifest requirements, the App declares exactly one API category with a required reason: NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategoryUserDefaults with reason CA92.1 — reading and writing settings that belong to this app alone. No data types are declared as collected, and no tracking domains are declared, because there are none.

7. Legal Basis and Your Rights (GDPR)

Because the developer does not collect or process any personal data, there is no processing to which a legal basis under Art. 6 GDPR would attach, and there is no data for the developer to disclose, correct or erase.

Your rights under Art. 15–21 GDPR — access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection — remain available to you, and you may exercise them at any time using the contact address below. In practice a request will be answered with confirmation that no personal data concerning you is held. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; for Hamburg this is the Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit.

8. Children

The App is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, regardless of age.

9. Changes To This Policy

This policy may be updated if the App changes. The "last updated" date above reflects the current version. If a future version of the App ever gained a network capability, this policy would be revised before that version shipped, and the change described plainly.

10. Contact

Eduard Bruch

Kleinfeld 28c, 21149 Hamburg, Deutschland

E-Mail: support@eduardbruch.com