Privacy Policy
This policy explains what happens to personal data in connection with the Skilloo app and the skilloo.com website. The short answer, unusual for an AI product, is: almost nothing — and everything that does happen is listed here, completely.
1. Controller
The controller responsible for the processing described in this policy is:
Skilloo GmbH
Sophie-Ressl-Weg 13
84034 Landshut
Germany
Managing Director: Christian Haas
Email: info@skilloo.com
Phone: +49 (0) 151 44244386
Full company details are in the Impressum (legal notice). Skilloo GmbH has not appointed a data protection officer, as none is legally required.
2. The app collects no personal data
The Skilloo app collects no personal data. This is not a promise bolted onto the product afterwards; it is the product's architecture:
- No account. Skilloo requires no registration, no email address, and no login.
- No Skilloo servers. Voice synthesis and storage of your content happen on your device; AI generation runs where you chose — on your device, or on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (section 3.4). There is no Skilloo backend your data could be sent to.
- No tracking, no analytics upload, no third-party SDKs. The app transmits no usage data, no crash reports, and no advertising or tracking identifiers to Skilloo GmbH or anyone else. The technical connection data (such as your device’s IP address) that necessarily accompanies the network features listed in section 3 is described there.
- An empty App Store privacy label. Skilloo’s privacy label states “Data Not Collected” because there is nothing to declare.
Section 3 lists every situation in which data leaves your device in connection with the app: the five network functions of the app itself (sections 3.1 to 3.4 and 3.6), each visible to and controlled by you, and the content report that you send yourself from your own email app (section 3.5). For completeness, it adds the strictly local diagnostics feature, which involves no transfer at all (section 3.7), the Apple Watch app, which exchanges data only between your own devices (section 3.8), the Apple TV app (section 3.9), and the functions on the device and of the operating system (section 3.10). None of them gives Skilloo GmbH access to your personal data, except a report you choose to send us. This section describes the app; the skilloo.com website is covered in section 5.
3. Network connections of the app — the complete list
3.1 iCloud sync (optional, PRO)
Sync is off by default and is part of Skilloo PRO. If you enable it, the app synchronizes your content into the private database of your own Apple iCloud account. It is available on every platform, including Apple TV.
| Data | Your Skilloo content (such as your shows, characters, stages, episodes, messages, ratings, settings, and generated media), transferred between your device and your personal iCloud account. |
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| Purpose | Keeping your content in sync across your own devices. |
| Legal basis | Consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You enable sync yourself on each device and can turn it off again at any time in the app (Art. 7(3) GDPR). |
| Recipient | Apple, as the operator of your iCloud account, under your own agreement with Apple. The data resides in the private database of your account. Skilloo GmbH has no access to it — technically none, not merely as a matter of policy. |
| Storage | In your iCloud account, under your control, until you delete the content, in the app while sync is on or in your iCloud settings; turning sync off stops the exchange but leaves content already in your iCloud account there. Skilloo GmbH stores nothing. |
3.2 Voice-model downloads
Skilloo’s voices run entirely on the device. The voice models themselves are downloaded on demand through Apple’s Background Assets service.
| Data | The technical request data needed to deliver the download — including your device’s IP address — transmitted to Apple’s content-delivery infrastructure. |
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| Purpose | Downloading voice models so that speech synthesis can run on your device. |
| Legal basis | Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR — the download is necessary to provide the function you request. |
| Recipient | Apple (Background Assets / content-delivery network), which processes these requests under its own privacy terms. |
| Storage | Skilloo GmbH stores nothing. The downloaded model is stored locally on your device. |
3.3 Purchases through the App Store
Skilloo PRO is available exclusively as an auto-renewable in-app purchase through Apple’s App Store. The entire purchase runs with Apple.
| Data | Purchase and subscription data, processed entirely by Apple. The app itself only learns whether an active subscription exists. |
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| Purpose | Concluding, providing, and managing your subscription, including restoring purchases. |
| Legal basis | Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR — performance of the contract. |
| Recipient | Apple, under Apple’s Media Services Terms and Conditions and as an independent controller; depending on the region, Apple acts in its own name as commissionaire (in Europe through Apple Distribution International Ltd.) or as agent for Skilloo GmbH (in other regions such as the United States through Apple Inc.). Skilloo GmbH never receives your payment data — no card numbers, no billing address, no bank details. |
| Storage | Your subscription status is stored locally on your device. Payment data remains with Apple under Apple’s terms. |
3.4 Private Cloud Compute (Apple)
AI generation in Skilloo can run on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute — Apple’s server infrastructure for Apple Intelligence. Whether it does is your own decision: during setup the app asks explicitly where your episodes and chats should be written and recommends Private Cloud Compute; the choice can be changed at any time in the app’s settings and is not tied to a subscription. If you choose “On this device only”, no AI request leaves your device. This is the only situation in which AI processing leaves the device; voice synthesis, image creation, and video rendering always run on the device, and your content is stored only on your devices and, with iCloud sync, in your own iCloud account (section 3.1). Apple decides on which devices Private Cloud Compute is offered.
| Data | The content of the specific AI request. For an episode: the description of the show (such as its title, logline, genre, world, storylines, and running gags), the descriptions of the characters involved, the episode plan, the summaries of earlier episodes and parts, the lines written so far, and any line you add from the audience. For a chat with a character, including the messages a character sends you on its own: your messages and the recent course of the chat, the name, short description, and language from your profile in the app’s settings, the description of the character, and the facts that the app’s search finds in your own content — such as shows, episodes, earlier lines, and the ratings you have given to episodes. Skilloo adds no identifier; the connection runs through Apple’s system and carries its technical connection data. |
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| Purpose | AI generation with a larger model than the one available on the device. |
| Legal basis | Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR — providing a function you expressly enable after prior notice and can switch off again at any time. |
| Recipient | Apple (Private Cloud Compute). Under Apple’s published commitments, request data is not stored, is not accessible to anyone — not even Apple —, is not used for training, and the security architecture is publicly documented and open to independent verification (Apple Security Research). Apple processes the request under its privacy terms for Apple Intelligence; Skilloo GmbH receives neither the request nor the result. |
| Storage | Under Apple’s design, requests are processed transiently and not retained. The result is stored only on your device. |
| Fallback | If Private Cloud Compute is unreachable, throttled or too slow, the app finishes that one request on your device; your chosen setting stays unchanged, and the origin is recorded on the episode or message. |
| Quota | Apple limits the daily use of Private Cloud Compute per user. Once the limit is reached, generation runs on your device until the reset; the app’s settings show the status. |
3.5 Reporting content by email
Every episode and every line can be reported to us from the app. The app does not send the report itself: it opens a prefilled email in your own email app, and you decide whether to send it. On Apple TV the app shows a QR code instead; scanning it with your phone opens the same prefilled email there, and the Apple TV sends nothing.
| Data | What the prefilled email names: the title of the show, the number and title of the episode, for a reported line its number, speaker, and text, the model that generated the content, the app version, and the date of creation — plus anything you add, your email address, and the technical data of an email. |
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| Purpose | Reviewing the reported content and improving the app’s safeguards. |
| Legal basis | Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR — our legitimate interest in handling reports and keeping the app safe; where you write about a contract with us, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. |
| Recipient | Skilloo GmbH, through your own email provider and ours, IONOS (section 6). Nothing is sent unless you send the email. |
| Storage | As described for email contact in section 5.3. |
3.6 Pages of skilloo.com in the app
The legal texts and the support pages open in a view inside the app that shows only pages of skilloo.com. This happens only when you tap a link. On Apple TV the app shows the texts directly and offers a QR code that opens the page on your phone.
| Data | The technical access data of a website visit, including your device’s IP address. |
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| Purpose | Displaying the page you opened. |
| Legal basis | As described for the website in section 5. |
| Recipient | Our hosting provider, as described in section 5.1. |
| Storage | As described in section 5. |
3.7 Optional diagnostics — local only
Diagnostics are off by default. This is the rare case of a diagnostics feature with no upload at all.
| Data | If enabled, the app stores MetricKit summaries provided by the operating system: aggregate performance and stability metrics. No content, no conversations, no identity data. |
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| Purpose | Making the app’s performance and stability visible on the device itself, for example to help troubleshoot a problem. |
| Legal basis | Consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Diagnostics can be turned off at any time in the app’s settings (Art. 7(3) GDPR). |
| Recipient | None. The data never leaves the device. It is not transmitted to Skilloo GmbH or to anyone else. |
| Storage | Only locally on the device; removed at the latest when the app is deleted. |
3.8 Apple Watch — only between your own devices
The optional Apple Watch app is a companion to Skilloo on your iPhone: it plays episodes and messages of your characters and lets you ask a character a question. For this, data moves only between your own paired devices.
| Data | From your iPhone to your Apple Watch: the names of your characters, the titles of shows and episodes, the spoken text of lines and messages, the voice generated for them, and the pictures of the characters. From your Apple Watch to your iPhone: a question you enter on the Watch, as text, and the information which messages you have listened to. The Watch app itself records no audio. |
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| Purpose | Playing episodes and messages and asking questions on the Apple Watch. |
| Legal basis | Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR — providing the function you use. |
| Recipient | None. The transfer runs between your paired devices through the connection Apple provides between iPhone and Apple Watch; Skilloo GmbH receives nothing. If you dictate a question, the speech is recognized by the dictation of watchOS — a system function of Apple under Apple’s privacy terms; the Skilloo app receives only the resulting text. The answer is generated on your iPhone, where you chose (section 3.4). |
| Storage | Only on your Apple Watch and your iPhone. The Watch keeps pictures and voice only as long as the character or message they belong to is shown there; deleting the app removes them. |
3.9 Apple TV
On Apple TV, Skilloo works in one of two ways, decided by the device: where Apple’s on-device language model is available on the Apple TV, episodes and chats are written on the Apple TV or, at your choice and where Apple offers it, on Private Cloud Compute (section 3.4); otherwise the Apple TV writes nothing and only plays start episodes and, through iCloud sync (section 3.1), episodes from your other devices. In both cases:
- Voices are synthesized on the Apple TV (section 3.2).
- If you dictate with the remote, the speech is recognized by Apple’s dictation under Apple’s privacy terms; the app receives only the resulting text, and dictation never sends anything by itself.
- The Top Shelf on the Home Screen can show the titles and stage pictures of missed or pinned episodes. Everyone in the room can see them; a switch in the app’s settings turns this display off.
- tvOS keeps the data of each user profile separate. tvOS may remove locally stored app data when storage runs low; with iCloud sync, your content returns from your iCloud account.
- Reports are made by QR code (section 3.5); there is no web view, and legal texts are shown in the app with a QR code (section 3.6).
Skilloo GmbH receives nothing from your Apple TV.
3.10 Functions on the device and system functions
The following functions involve no transfer to Skilloo GmbH or to anyone else on the part of the app:
- Name check. The lines the AI writes and the names you give to your own stages are compared on your device with name lists contained in the app, so that real persons and existing works are not portrayed. The lists contain only names; nothing is transmitted, and a line that fails the check is only marked on your device.
- Crisis notice. On iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro, before you send a line or a message, the app checks it on your device for phrases indicating self-harm and, if it finds one, shows help lines staffed by real people. Nothing is logged or transmitted.
- System functions. Notifications are scheduled locally on the device. Widgets, Spotlight search, Siri and Shortcuts, Image Playground, dictation, and the translation of lines into the language of a character’s voice are functions of Apple’s operating system; they are provided under Apple’s own terms, and the operating system may download the language data they need from Apple.
4. Sharing
Shows and characters can be shared as cards with a link of the form https://skilloo.com/s/… (show) or https://skilloo.com/c/… (character). The character string at the end is the ID of the show or character, generated at random. It contains no personal data — no device information, no user identifier, nothing that could identify you or the person you share it with. Opening such a link in a browser is an ordinary visit to this website, to which section 5 applies; on a device with Skilloo installed, it opens the app. Episodes are shared as video files through the share function of your operating system; the file goes only where you send it, and Skilloo GmbH receives nothing.
5. The skilloo.com website
5.1 Hosting and server logs
skilloo.com is a static website hosted by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany. IONOS processes data on our behalf as a processor; a data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is in place.
When the site is accessed, the web server automatically processes technical access data in server logs: IP address, date and time of the request, requested resource, HTTP status, transferred data volume, referrer URL, and browser/operating-system identifier (user agent). The purpose is the reliable delivery of the website and its stability and security, including detecting and defending against attacks and misuse. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR — our legitimate interest in a secure, functioning web presence. Log files are typically deleted within eight weeks at the latest, in line with IONOS’s log rotation. The logs are not merged with other data sources and are not used to identify visitors.
5.2 Storage in your browser — no cookies
This website sets no cookies and loads nothing from third parties — no external fonts, scripts, or images. It stores a small number of values directly in your browser:
skilloo-theme(localStorage): your chosen display mode (light/dark).skilloo-lang(localStorage): your chosen language.skilloo-entrance(sessionStorage): a flag ensuring the entrance animation plays only once per tab; it contains no personal data and is deleted when the tab is closed.skilloo-consent(localStorage): records the choice you make in the cookie banner, so that it can be honored on later visits.
These values remain in your browser and are never transmitted to us. Theme and language are strictly necessary preference storage under § 25(2) no. 2 of the German TDDDG and require no consent; the consent record is itself necessary to respect your decision; the entrance flag contains no personal data at all. Details are in the Cookie Policy.
5.3 Email contact
If you write to info@skilloo.com, we process the data you provide (your email address, the content of your message, and its metadata) to handle your enquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to a contract or precedes one, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR — our legitimate interest in answering messages addressed to us. Correspondence is deleted once the matter is fully resolved, unless statutory retention duties (for example under commercial or tax law) require longer storage.
5.4 Analytics — currently none
This website currently uses no analytics, no reach measurement, and no tracking of any kind. If we activate reach measurement in the future, it will run only after consent given via the cookie banner (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25(1) TDDDG), and the choice can be changed at any time via “Cookie settings” in the footer.
6. Recipients and third-country transfers
Personal data is disclosed only to the recipients named in this policy: IONOS as our processor for website hosting and for our email, and Apple as an independent controller for App Store purchases, voice-model delivery, your iCloud account, and Private Cloud Compute (section 3.4). A content report reaches us only if you send it, through your own email provider (section 3.5).
We do not initiate transfers of personal data to third countries. Where Apple processes data on its global infrastructure, that processing takes place within your own relationship with Apple and under Apple’s terms and safeguards. A request to Private Cloud Compute is sent only on your own explicit choice (section 3.4); Apple processes it under its published commitments and privacy terms, and Skilloo GmbH receives neither the request nor the result.
7. Your rights under the GDPR
First, the practical reality: because the app stores your content exclusively on your device, Skilloo GmbH generally holds no personal data about you as an app user at all. You exercise control directly — content can be deleted in the app, and deleting the app removes all locally stored data; if you have enabled iCloud sync (section 3.1), content already synced to your own iCloud account is not removed by deleting the app — delete it in the app beforehand or manage it in your iCloud settings. On Apple TV, the app is deleted in the system settings or on the Home Screen. In the interest of transparency: the app does not offer a combined one-tap export of all data or a single “erase everything” control; deleting the app — together with any content synced to your iCloud account — remains the complete way to erase everything.
With regard to the data we do process (website server logs, email correspondence, and content reports you send us, sections 3.5 and 5), you have the right to:
- access (Art. 15 GDPR),
- rectification (Art. 16 GDPR),
- erasure (Art. 17 GDPR),
- restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
- data portability (Art. 20 GDPR), and
- objection to processing (Art. 21 GDPR).
Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR): where processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR — such as the website’s server logs or the handling of a content report — you may object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation.
Withdrawal of consent (Art. 7(3) GDPR): any consent you have given can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future — in the app by turning off iCloud sync or diagnostics; in the system settings of your device for system permissions; and on the website via the cookie settings. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before it.
No obligation to provide data: you are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide personal data. Visiting the website merely requires the technical access data described in section 5.1, without which the site cannot be delivered; providing an email address is necessary only if you wish to contact us or send a report and receive a reply (sections 3.5 and 5.3).
Right to lodge a complaint: you may complain to a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement. The authority competent for Skilloo GmbH is the Bavarian Data Protection Authority: Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA), Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach, Germany.
No automated decision-making: Skilloo makes no decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you (Art. 22 GDPR). The AI generation in Skilloo runs on your device or on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, serves entertainment, and decides nothing about anyone.
8. Age requirement: 18+
Skilloo is directed exclusively at adults; use of the app requires being at least 18 years old. The offering is not directed at children, and Skilloo GmbH does not knowingly collect or process personal data of minors — indeed, given the architecture described above, the app collects no personal data from anyone.
9. Information for users in the United States
Skilloo GmbH does not sell personal information and does not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising within the meaning of the CCPA/CPRA. The app collects no personal information in the first place, and the only personal information processed in connection with the website — server logs and email correspondence (sections 5.1 and 5.3) — is never sold or shared with anyone. No opt-out is required, because no sale or sharing occurs.
10. Changes to this policy
We will update this policy whenever the app or the website changes in a way that affects it — for example, before any activation of reach measurement (section 5.4). The version of 12 October 2026 describes Skilloo as an app for AI sitcoms; it describes the content report (section 3.5), the Apple TV app (section 3.9), and the functions on the device (section 3.10) for the first time. The current version, with its date, is always published on this page. Material changes affecting the app are additionally presented in the app before they take effect.
11. Contact
Questions about privacy: info@skilloo.com, or by post to Skilloo GmbH, Sophie-Ressl-Weg 13, 84034 Landshut, Germany.