Effective date: 3 October 2026 Contact: [email protected]
Summary
Your video never leaves your phone. Recordings are created on your device, saved to your own Photos library, and are never uploaded, streamed, or transmitted to us or to anyone else. There are no accounts, no sign-in, and no cloud storage.
From version 1.1.2 onward, the app sends a small amount of anonymous technical information — crash reports and basic usage counts — so we can fix bugs and understand which features people actually use. That information contains no personal data, no identifiers that point back to you, and never any part of your video or audio.
What changed in this version
Versions 1.1.1 and earlier collected nothing at all. Versions 1.1.2 and later include the anonymous diagnostics and usage analytics described below. Version 1.1.9 adds three more counts of the same kind: the buy and restore buttons being tapped, a purchase not going through, and which in-app setting was changed. Version 1.3.0 also counts the price failing to load on the Pro screen, and sends a technical report when the app recovers from an error — such as a save or a purchase that fails — not only when it crashes. Nothing else about how your recordings are handled has changed, and nothing new about you is collected.
What 15|30 accesses on your device
Camera. Used to record video. Required for the app to function. Camera frames are processed on your device and never sent anywhere.
Microphone. Used to record audio alongside video. Optional — you can deny it and the app will still record silent video.
Photo library (write only). When you save a clip, the resulting video file is written to your Photos library. The app cannot read existing photos or videos from your library.
The rolling buffer
While the buffer is armed, the app continuously holds the most recent 15 or 30 seconds (or your chosen custom length) of video on the device. That buffer is never uploaded. It is kept only so it can be saved when you tap the shutter, and it is discarded when you disarm the buffer or close the app.
What we collect
Crash diagnostics. If the app crashes — or hits an error it recovers from, such as a save or a purchase that fails — we receive a technical report: the error and its stack trace, your device model, the iOS version, the app version, and a short log of the app's own steps just before it (for example which button was tapped — never anything you recorded). This tells us what broke and where.
Usage analytics. We record anonymous counts of a small set of product events — the app being opened, whether camera permission was granted or denied, the buffer being armed, a clip being saved, a save failing, the Pro screen being shown, the price failing to load when the Pro screen opens, the buy or restore button being tapped, a purchase completing or not going through, and which in-app setting was changed (for example "resolution: 4K" — never anything you typed). These are counts, not a diary: they tell us "40% of people saved a clip", not what any individual did.
Both are not linked to your identity. We do not create an account for you, do not assign you an advertising or tracking identifier, and cannot tell who you are from this data.
The website. The page at 1530.today counts four things: that it was opened and which site linked to it, that the App Store button was tapped, and — when the page is opened inside another app's own browser, such as TikTok's — that the warning banner was shown and that the link was copied. It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device, which means it counts visits and not people: we cannot tell whether two visits are the same person, and nothing there is connected to the app you install. Processed by PostHog in the European Union.
What we never collect
We do not sell data, do not share it with advertisers or data brokers, and do not track you across other apps or websites.