Privacy Policy

Courtesy translation. The German version is the legally binding one.

Last updated: 10 November 2026

This policy covers the website https://vibebackgrounds.com and the Mac app Vibe Backgrounds. The app is a virtual camera: it cuts you out of your webcam picture, places you over an animated scene, and shows up as a camera in Teams, Zoom and similar apps.

1. Summary

Your camera picture is processed only on your Mac. It is not uploaded, and I never receive it.
The app has no user account.
The website sets no cookies and uses no analytics or tracking. It loads nothing from third parties; the fonts are hosted on the website itself.
The website is on a server at Hetzner in the EU. The server keeps no access log; your IP address is not stored.
When you load a scene from the internet in the app, that scene's servers see your IP address.
When you buy, the seller processes your data: Apple in the Mac App Store.

2. Controller

Controller within the meaning of Art. 4 (7) GDPR:

Mario Olivio Flores
Grunewaldstr. 27
10823 Berlin
Germany
Email: hello@vibebackgrounds.com
Phone: +49 176 45945974

I have not appointed a data protection officer; I am not required to (Art. 37 GDPR, § 38 BDSG).

3. Website

Hosting at Hetzner

The website is a static page. It sits on a server that I rent from Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany. The web server Caddy serves it there.

Data: When you open the site, your browser sends technically necessary details to the server: your IP address, the address requested, the referring page and the browser identifier. The server needs them to send you the page.
Purpose: Serving the website.
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. My legitimate interest is making the website available.
Recipients: Hetzner Online GmbH as a processor. A data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is in place with Hetzner.
Retention: None. The server keeps no access log. Your IP address is processed only for the duration of the connection and is not stored.
Third country: No transfer. The server is in a Hetzner data centre in Falkenstein, Germany.

Cookies and Device Access

The website stores nothing on your device and reads nothing from it: no cookies, no local storage, no analytics, no tracking, no embedded third-party content. Consent under § 25 (1) TDDDG is therefore not needed, and there is no cookie banner.

Links

The website links to the Mac App Store.
Those providers receive data from you only once you click such a link.

4. Contact by Email

Data: Your email address, your name if given, the content of your message, and attachments.
Purpose: Answering your request, and support.
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR where the request concerns a purchase or a licence; otherwise Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. My legitimate interest is answering requests.
Recipients: my email provider Gandi SAS, 63-65 boulevard Masséna, 75013 Paris, France (privacy policy: https://www.gandi.net/en/contracts/privacy-policy) as a processor (Art. 28 GDPR).
Retention: I delete requests no later than 12 months after they are settled. Messages that must be kept as business correspondence are deleted once the statutory six-year period ends (§ 147 (1) nos. 2 and 3, (3) AO, the German Fiscal Code; the legal basis is then Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR).

5. App: Processing on the Mac

The app accesses your camera once you allow it in macOS. The picture and the cut-out are computed only on your Mac. The app uploads no video or audio, there is no user account, and the app sends me no usage statistics.

I process no personal data of yours in this part. The GDPR details on purpose, legal basis, recipients and retention therefore do not apply here.

The app passes the finished picture as a camera signal to the app you choose for it, for example Teams or Zoom. What that app does with the picture is governed by its provider's privacy policy.

The 15-day trial is counted on your Mac; no data is transmitted for it.

6. Scenes from the Internet

As a background you can load a local HTML file or a link to a Claude artifact, which is a page on claude.ai. The app shows the scene in a built-in browser view (WebKit).

This opens connections to third-party servers, which see your IP address:

For a Claude artifact, the app fetches the page from claude.ai. Its operator Anthropic receives your IP address and the usual details of a page request.
A scene can itself load further content, for example scripts from content delivery networks such as cdn.jsdelivr.net. This also applies to local HTML files. Each of those servers receives your IP address.
Like any web page, a scene can store data in the built-in browser view's storage.

You alone decide which scene is loaded. I receive no data from these connections and have no influence over what the server operators store. The respective operator is responsible; for claude.ai, Anthropic's privacy policy applies. The servers may be outside the European Economic Area, in particular in the USA.

The scene does not receive the camera picture. The app places your cut-out over the scene only after the scene has been rendered.

If you want no connection to third-party servers, use a local HTML file that loads nothing from the internet.

7. Purchase in the Mac App Store

In the Mac App Store, Apple is your contracting party and processes the payment: Apple Distribution International Limited, Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland. Apple's privacy policy applies to the purchase: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/

Apple is the controller for this processing. I receive neither your name nor your email address or payment details from Apple, only aggregated sales figures. If you have agreed in macOS to share diagnostic data with app developers, Apple provides me with crash reports that carry no name.

The App Store version needs no licence key and no activation.

8. Purchase via the Website

Buying isn't open yet. When it opens, this section names the company that handles the sale and payment.

9. Licence Activation

The licence key is not in use yet. This section applies once buying opens.

10. Transfers to Third Countries

Website. Hosting involves no transfer to a third country. Hetzner processes the data in the EU.

Apple Distribution International Limited is based in Ireland; Apple's privacy policy governs transfers within the Apple group.

Connections opened by a scene you load (section 6) are not transfers by me.

11. Obligation to Provide Data

You are under no legal or contractual obligation to provide me with data. Without the technically necessary connection data the website cannot be opened, and without activation the website version of the app cannot be used after the trial.

I make no automated decisions within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR and create no profiles.

12. Your Rights

You have the following rights towards me:

Access (Art. 15 GDPR)
Rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
Erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
Restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
Data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
Withdrawal of consent with effect for the future (Art. 7 (3) GDPR). At present I base no processing on consent.

Objection (Art. 21 GDPR): Where I process data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, you may object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation.

An email to hello@vibebackgrounds.com is enough.

For data that Apple or the operator of a scene process
under their own responsibility, you can also contact those companies directly.

13. Complaint to the Supervisory Authority

You may lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR), for example where you live. The authority responsible for me is:

Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information) Alt-Moabit 59–61 10555 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 30 13889-0 Email: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de

14. Changes

I update this policy when the app, the website or the law changes. The current version is at https://vibebackgrounds.com/privacy.