Movie Maker Studio

Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 9, 2026

Movie Maker Studio Pro is built so that your production stays yours. Assembly, rendering and export all happen on your own computer. This page says exactly what leaves it, when, and why.

Who this covers

This policy covers Movie Maker Studio Pro v7.3.2, the Windows desktop application, however you bought it: the Microsoft Store, Gumroad or Lemon Squeezy. It also covers the free browser edition at moviemakerstudio.iacolettisoftware.com, described further down.

What stays on your computer

Your generated clips, your reference photographs, your script and shot prompts, your soundtrack, your project files and your finished productions. Assembly, transitions, the timeline, preview, rendering, sound normalization and export all run locally and involve no network connection at all. Everything lives in one folder on your own disk: the manifest, the reference photos, every clip and its sidecar, the soundtrack, the prompts, the reviews and the exports, which are never overwritten.

Your API keys are stored on your computer only. They are sent to the provider they belong to and to nobody else. They are never sent to Iacoletti Software, never included in usage reporting, and never written into a project file.

The AI features

Movie Maker Studio generates your production, so unlike an editor it needs a provider for its main work rather than for optional extras. Everything below runs on a key that you supply and pay for directly, and the cost meter shows what you have spent as it accrues.

• Writing the script and the shot prompts. Your menu choices, the descriptions you typed, and your character, vehicle and location details are sent so the script and each shot prompt can be written.
• Reference photographs. Your descriptions of the cast, vehicles and locations are sent to be photographed.
• Filming each clip. Each shot prompt is sent, together with the reference photographs that shot uses.
• The soundtrack. When you ask for one, your lyric and music directions are sent.
• The AI reviews. Frames sampled from the finished cut are sent to each reviewer you enable. Whole clips are never uploaded.

These calls go from your computer directly to xAI, Google or Anthropic. Iacoletti Software is not in that path, does not receive the material, and never sees your keys. What you send is governed by that provider's own privacy policy: x.ai/legal/privacy-policy, policies.google.com/privacy and anthropic.com/legal/privacy.

What we record about you

The application reports how it is used, so that faults can be found and fixed and so that support can identify your licence. It never includes your video, your audio, your narration scripts, your typed text, or your API keys.

• Your email address and order number, supplied by the store when you activate. This is how an installation is tied to the purchase that paid for it.
• The last six characters of your licence key and the number of devices activated. Never the whole key.
• An install identifier, created at random on first run.
• Your IP address, used to derive an approximate location: country, region and city. Not street level.
• A profile of your computer: operating system, processor count, memory, graphics hardware, screen size and system language.
• Usage: which steps ran, whether they succeeded, how long they took, error text when something fails, and counts such as the number of clips and the resolution chosen.

If you bought from the Microsoft Store, none of the identity above applies to you. That edition has no licence key and Microsoft does not pass your identity to us, so what we hold is the anonymous install identifier, your approximate location, your machine profile and your usage. Microsoft holds your purchase, not us.

You can switch this off. Reporting can be turned off entirely, and everything already collected can be cleared, from inside the application. Doing so does not affect your licence.

Why we collect it

To support you when you write to us and to know which licence you hold. To find and fix defects, using the error text and the machine profile that produced them. To understand which features are used and which are abandoned. To handle a refund or a complaint without making you explain your purchase first. Under the UK and EU General Data Protection Regulation our lawful basis is legitimate interest for analytics and defect diagnosis, and performance of a contract for anything tied to your licence.

What we do not do

We will not send you marketing email. We will not sell your data, rent it or trade it. We will not share it with advertisers or data brokers. We will not build an advertising profile of you, and we will not use your data to train models. It is shared only with the infrastructure that stores it on our behalf: Vercel for hosting and Google for the spreadsheet where the records are kept. They act on our instructions and for no purpose of their own.

How long we keep it

Analytics for 24 months. Records tied to your licence for as long as your licence is active, and for seven years afterwards where tax and accounting law requires it.

Your rights

If you are in the UK, the EU, or another jurisdiction with comparable law, you may ask us to show you what we hold, correct it, delete it, provide it in a portable form, or stop processing it. Write to iacolettisoftware@gmail.com and we will respond within 30 days. You may also complain to your national data protection authority. Asking us to delete your data does not cancel your licence, and cancelling your licence does not by itself delete your data.

Payment

Purchases are handled by the store you bought from: Microsoft, Gumroad or Lemon Squeezy. They are the merchant of record and they handle payment, invoices, taxes, refunds and chargebacks under their own terms. Iacoletti Software never sees your card details.

The free browser edition

Movie Maker Studio, Web Edition runs the same pipeline in a browser tab. Your media is processed there and your files are not uploaded to a server. It needs the same provider keys as the desktop edition, and it sends the same material described above, because generating a production is what it does.

The website itself records ordinary web analytics: pages viewed, referring site, approximate location from your IP address, and which links were pressed.

Children

This software is not directed at children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date.