Privacy — ArcLight

On your Mac

Camera, screen and microphone access is used only to build your program, which goes to your displays, to ArcLight Camera, to your recordings and to streams you start. macOS asks your permission for each, and you can change it at any time in System Settings.

The teleprompter's voice tracking uses Apple's on-device speech recognition, and your voice is never sent anywhere. The first time, macOS may download Apple's speech model for your language.

Recordings save to Movies ▸ ArcLight, or a folder you choose. Shows are files you save. To protect your work from a crash, ArcLight keeps recovery copies in your Library folder (Application Support ▸ ArcLight) and deletes them after 30 days.

ArcLight Camera

ArcLight Camera sends your program to the apps you choose it in, such as Zoom, Teams or Meet. When ArcLight isn't sending a show, it shows your real camera instead, the one you last put on air. What those apps do with the video is up to them.

What goes online

Update checks. The copy from our website checks arclightlive.com/versions.json when it opens and once a day, and whenever you choose ArcLight ▸ Check for Updates…. It's an ordinary web request that names the app's version and nothing about you or your shows. If you choose to update, the new version downloads from arclightlive.com. Turn the checks off in Settings ▸ General ▸ Updates. The App Store version never checks; the App Store updates it.

Live streaming. When you go live, your program's video and sound go only to the destinations you set up, such as YouTube, Twitch or your own server. Stream keys are kept in your Mac's Keychain.

Subscription. In the App Store version, the trial and subscription go through Apple, and Apple handles payment. We never see your payment details.

Web graphics. The animated graphics in a show run from files inside the show and can't load anything from the internet.

Help and links. Help and other links in the app open in your web browser.

AI agents

AI access is off until you turn it on in Settings ▸ AI. Agents such as Claude or Codex connect to ArcLight through a private connection on your Mac, not over the network. Once connected, an agent can read and change your open shows and run them. ArcLight asks you before an agent can see a camera or screen; while a show plays, an agent can see the program.

An agent can also ask ArcLight to download an image from a web address, or take a picture of a web page. Web page pictures load in a private session with no cookies or logins, and a page on your Mac or your local network needs your OK first.

What an agent sends to its AI provider, such as Anthropic or OpenAI, is between you and that provider, under their privacy policy.

On this website

This site uses no cookies, no analytics and no tracking, and it doesn't ask for personal information. Its pages load fonts from Google Fonts, and the home page loads an animation library from cdnjs, so those services see the request, as with any web page. Downloads come from this site; the App Store version comes from Apple, under Apple's privacy policy.

Questions

Write to hello@arclightlive.com.