SplatScene Privacy Policy

Overview

SplatScene is a macOS desktop app for opening, viewing, styling, and exporting 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes. We designed SplatScene to process your files locally on your device whenever possible.

Data We Collect

SplatScene does not collect personal information, does not create a user account, and does not upload your scene files to external servers for processing.

With your permission, the app collects anonymous usage analytics to help us improve SplatScene (see "Analytics and Tracking" below). This is opt-in and can be turned off at any time.

Files and Local Storage

• SplatScene can open files that you explicitly choose through the standard macOS file picker.
• SplatScene can save screenshots, videos, and GIF exports to locations you explicitly choose.
• The app may store local preferences on your device, such as recent files, interface settings, and rendering preferences, to improve the user experience.

Network Access

SplatScene may use outbound network connections for app functionality such as purchase-related services (App Store / StoreKit), anonymous analytics (only after you opt in), or app service communication. It does not operate a public server and does not accept incoming network connections.

Analytics and Tracking

With your consent, SplatScene sends anonymous usage analytics to PostHog, a third-party analytics service, to understand which features are used and to improve the app. What we send is deliberately minimal:

• Event names from a fixed whitelist (e.g. app launched, training completed, scene opened) and a small set of technical properties (app version, macOS version, device type).
• A random, install-scoped identifier generated when the app is installed. It is not your Apple ID, not a device identifier, and is never linked to your identity or to any other app.
• Crash health summaries (a verdict about how the previous session ended) to help us detect stability issues.
• Nothing else: no file paths, project names, photos, scene contents, personal information, or user content is ever sent. Person profiles are disabled and IP addresses are anonymized.

This is not tracking: we do not use advertising identifiers (IDFA), do not collect data that identifies you, and do not share or combine data across apps or with third parties for advertising. SplatScene contains no advertising SDKs and no cross-app tracking technology.

Analytics are off by default for EU/UK users, who are asked on first launch whether they want to enable them (with equally easy Accept and Reject options). Non-EU users can disable analytics at any time. Every user can turn analytics on or off in Settings → Usage analytics; turning them off stops all reporting immediately, and for EU/UK users also deletes the install identifier.

Children's Privacy

SplatScene is not directed to children and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact chris_lin_95@foxmail.com.

This policy may be updated from time to time. Continued use of the app after an update means the revised policy applies.