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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 3 September 2026

Cilevi is a screen recorder and video editor for Windows, made by Doment Digital FZE LLC ("Cilevi", "we", "us"), a limited liability establishment registered in the Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, trade licence number 4431328.01, with its registered address at Business Centre, Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. This policy explains what Cilevi records, where that data lives, what (if anything) leaves your computer, and what rights you have.

In short

1. What Cilevi records, and why

Cilevi only records when you start a recording (the red button, the F9 key, or the tray menu) and stops when you stop it. Between recordings the app captures nothing that is stored, with three exceptions:

During a recording, depending on the options you have switched on, Cilevi captures:

Why we record these: to make the video you asked for. Cilevi has no other use for any of it.

2. Where your recordings are stored

All of it is saved locally, on your computer:

Cilevi does not upload, back up or copy any of these files anywhere. If you delete a file, it is gone as far as we are concerned; we never had a copy.

3. The keyboard shortcut hook

Cilevi lets you start, stop and pause a recording with the F9 and F10 keys even when another app is in front. To make this work, the recorder registers those two keys as global hotkeys and also installs a keyboard hook as a fallback for systems where the hotkeys are already taken by another app. Outside a recording, the hook only looks for F9 and F10 and ignores everything else. Nothing is stored. Some security software reports any keyboard hook as a keylogger; this is what the hook is for and all it does.

4. Captions and speech recognition

The editor can create captions from the speech in your recording. It uses the speech recognition built into Windows, which runs on your computer. Cilevi does not send your audio to any server to do this. Whether Windows itself sends anything is governed by your Windows privacy settings and Microsoft's privacy statement, not by us.

5. What leaves your computer

Today: nothing. The current version of Cilevi makes no network connections of any kind. It has no analytics, no crash reporting, no usage tracking and no advertising.

When we switch on licence activation and update checks, the app will connect to our servers only for the following, and this policy will describe it here:

Neither of these ever sends recordings, screenshots, pointer data, key presses or file names.

6. Data we hold about customers

If you buy Cilevi, the store or payment provider you buy from (for example the Microsoft Store or our online checkout provider, named on the checkout page) collects your payment details. We never see your card number. The provider gives us:

We use these to deliver your licence, to answer support requests, to send you notices about the licence you bought (such as a security fix), and to keep the accounting records the law requires.

If you email us, we keep the emails so we can help you and so we can look back at what was said.

We will only send you marketing email, such as news about new features, if you have opted in, and every such email has an unsubscribe link.

7. Legal bases (for people in the EU, the UK and similar jurisdictions)

Everything the app records on your computer is processed by you, on your device, for your own purposes. We are not a processor or controller of your recordings, because we never receive them.

8. How long we keep data

9. Who we share data with

We do not sell personal data and we do not share it with advertisers.

10. International transfers

We are in the United Arab Emirates and our servers may be in the UAE, the European Union or the United States. If you are in the EU or the UK, your data may be transferred outside your region. Where the law requires it, we rely on standard contractual clauses or an equivalent safeguard for that transfer.

11. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, to receive a copy of it, to object to or restrict how we use it, and to withdraw consent. You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority; in the EU that is the authority of the country you live in, in the UK it is the Information Commissioner's Office, and in the UAE it is the UAE Data Office.

For the data on your own computer, you do not need us: you can open, copy or delete it yourself.

To exercise any right about the data we hold, email [email protected]. We will answer within thirty days.

12. California residents

We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act, and we have not done so in the preceding twelve months. You have the rights to know, to delete, to correct and to non-discrimination described above, and you can exercise them by email.

13. Children

Cilevi is not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has given us personal data, email us and we will delete it.

14. Security

Anything the app sends to our servers travels over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). Data on your computer is protected by your Windows account; keep your computer and your account secure. If we learn of a breach affecting your data we will tell you and the relevant authority as the law requires.

15. Recording other people

You are responsible for what you record. In many places you need the consent of the people whose voice, image or screen you capture, and in some places recording a conversation without everyone's consent is a crime. Please check the law where you and they are before you record a call, a meeting or another person. Cilevi is a tool for making videos of your own screen, and it is not to be used for covert surveillance.

16. Changes to this policy

When we change this policy we update the date at the top. If the change is material, Cilevi will show you the new policy when the app starts and ask you to read it before continuing. Older versions are available on request.

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