1. Introduction
Welcome to Cavin ("Cavin", "the App", "we", "us", or "our"). Cavin is a mobile application built for the figure skating community. It provides tools for choreography planning together with a technique-focused content community where skaters, coaches, and enthusiasts share and discuss skating-related content.
This Privacy Policy explains what information Cavin handles, how that information is used, the limited circumstances in which it may be shared, and the rights available to you. It applies to the Cavin mobile application on all supported platforms and to any related services we make available.
Cavin is designed with a privacy-forward architecture. The majority of the data generated while you use the App, including the content you create, your activity records, and your preferences, is stored locally on your device rather than on remote servers. We ask you to read this Policy carefully so you understand how this design affects your data.
By downloading, installing, accessing, or using Cavin, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of it, please discontinue use of the App and remove it from your device.
Contact: service@cavin.info
2. Eligibility and Age Requirement
Cavin is rated and intended exclusively for individuals who are 18 years of age or older. On first launch, the App presents an age confirmation screen, and access is not granted until you affirm that you meet this requirement.
We do not knowingly permit the registration or participation of anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, you must not install, access, or use Cavin under any circumstances, and you must not attempt to circumvent the age confirmation gate. Additional detail on our approach to minors is provided in Section 10.
3. Information We Collect
We collect only the categories of information described below. We do not sell personal information, and we do not collect information for advertising profiling purposes.
3.1 Account and Profile Information
When you choose to create an account, you may sign in using Sign in with Apple. Through this method, Apple provides us with a stable, App-specific identifier, and you may choose whether to share or hide your email address using Apple's Private Email Relay feature. We do not receive your Apple password or any other Apple account credential.
Once signed in, a profile is created for you containing a display nickname, which you may edit at any time, and a profile avatar, either randomly assigned or selected from your device photo library.
Cavin deliberately does not collect gender, date of birth beyond the 18+ confirmation, body measurements, relationship status, physical appearance descriptors, or any other sensitive personal characteristic. No feature in the App recommends content or people based on such attributes, because we do not have them.
3.2 User Generated Content
Cavin is a community product, and the content you create is central to it. This includes the posts you publish, including any text and media they contain, the comments you leave, the chat messages you send, and the interaction records generated by your activity, such as likes, saves, follows, and community memberships.
3.3 Tool Content
Cavin provides tools that let you plan choreography by working with a piece of music and marking timing points within it. The projects you create with these tools, including the project name, the audio source you chose, and the markers and labels you add, are saved so that your work is preserved between sessions.
3.4 Device Permissions
Cavin requests device permissions only at the moment you actively use the feature that needs them, and each permission is limited to that purpose.
- Media access. Requested when you choose to select an existing file from your device, for example when attaching media to a post or setting an avatar. We access only the specific files you select. We do not scan, index, or upload your media library.
- Camera. Requested when you choose to capture a photo or record a video directly while creating a post, instead of selecting an existing file. The camera is activated only while you are in that capture screen and is never accessed in the background.
- Microphone. Requested together with the camera so that video you record includes sound. It is used only for the duration of that recording. Cavin does not record audio at any other time and does not listen in the background.
Anything you capture is treated as your content: it is saved to your device and is published only if you choose to complete and submit the post. If you cancel before publishing, the capture is discarded.
Every permission is optional. You may decline or later revoke any of them in your operating system settings, and the App remains usable. If camera or microphone access is declined, you can still create posts using files already on your device or built-in sample content.
3.5 Information We Do Not Collect
Cavin does not collect location data of any kind. The App has no location feature and does not request or use GPS, Wi-Fi triangulation, Bluetooth beacons, IP-based geolocation, or any other means of determining where you are. We also do not request access to your contacts, calendar, or health data.
3.6 Device and Technical Information
To keep the App stable and correctly rendered, we may process limited technical information such as device model, operating system version, screen dimensions, system language setting, App version, and locally generated crash or error records. This information is used for diagnostics and compatibility, and is not linked to your identity for marketing purposes.
3.7 Purchase and Virtual Currency Records
Cavin offers consumable coin packs through the platform in-app purchase system. All payment processing is handled entirely by Apple or Google. We never receive, see, or store your card number, bank details, or billing address. What Cavin retains locally is your coin balance and a transaction record showing the time, type, and amount of each credit or debit.
3.8 Safety and Moderation Records
When you submit a report against a post, comment, message, or user, or when you block another user, we record the action, the reason category you selected, and the identifier of the reported item so that the action can be enforced and reviewed.
4. How We Use Information
We use the information described above for the following purposes and no others:
1. Delivering core functionality. Operating the tools, displaying community content, saving your work, and delivering the messages you send.
2. Maintaining your account and session. Recognizing you across launches, restoring your profile, and preserving your data after the App is closed and reopened.
3. Personalizing your experience. Prioritizing content related to the creators, topics, and categories you have chosen to follow or browse. This personalization is interest-based and driven only by your own explicit actions. It never uses location, demographic, biometric, or appearance-derived signals.
4. Organizing content. Grouping and labeling community content so that it can be browsed and searched by subject.
5. Safety, moderation, and integrity. Reviewing reports, enforcing blocks, hiding violating material, deterring spam, and protecting the community from abuse.
6. Product improvement and troubleshooting. Diagnosing crashes, correcting display problems, and improving performance.
7. Transaction management. Crediting and debiting coins and maintaining an accurate transaction record.
8. Legal compliance. Meeting obligations under applicable law and responding to valid legal process.
4.1 Legal Bases for Processing
For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and other jurisdictions with comparable frameworks, we rely on the following legal bases: performance of a contract for delivering the features you request; consent for optional device permissions such as media, camera, and microphone access, which you may withdraw at any time in system settings; legitimate interests for security, abuse prevention, and product improvement, balanced against your rights; and legal obligation where processing is required by law.
5. Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your personal information. We do not rent, trade, or share it with data brokers, and we do not disclose it to third parties for their own independent marketing.
Information may be shared only in the following circumstances:
5.1 Sharing With Other Users
Content you publish is inherently visible to others. Your nickname, avatar, posts, comments, and the messages you send are visible to the audience you selected when creating them. Communities in Cavin are public, so anything posted inside one is visible to its members.
Please exercise care and do not include home addresses, phone numbers, financial details, government identifiers, or the personal information of other people, including minors, in anything you publish.
5.2 Platform Providers
Apple and Google process your in-app purchases and, where applicable, your authentication. Their handling of your data is governed by their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review.
5.3 Service Providers
Where we engage vendors for functions such as crash diagnostics or infrastructure, they act strictly on our instructions under written agreements, may use the data only to perform the contracted service, and may not repurpose it.
5.4 Legal and Safety Disclosures
We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or lawful governmental request; to enforce our Terms of Use or Community Guidelines; to detect, prevent, or address fraud, security incidents, or technical problems; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Cavin, our users, or the public. Suspected child sexual abuse or exploitation material is reported to the appropriate authorities and hotlines without notice to the account holder.
5.5 Business Transfers
If Cavin is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or asset sale, user information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify affected users and ensure any successor honors commitments no less protective than those in this Policy.
5.6 Aggregated and De-identified Data
We may produce and share statistics that cannot reasonably identify any individual, such as aggregate usage trends across the App. We will not attempt to re-identify such data.
6. Data Storage, Retention, and International Transfers
6.1 Local-First Storage
Cavin is architected as a local-first application. Your profile, your saved projects, your activity and interaction records, your chat records, your blocked user list, your transaction record, and your App preferences are written to your device's protected application storage. Uninstalling the App will permanently erase this locally held data, and it cannot be recovered by us.
6.2 Retention Periods
We retain information only for as long as it serves the purposes described in this Policy:
- Profile and account data are retained while your account is active.
- Content you post remains available until you delete it or delete your account.
- Transaction records associated with completed purchases may be retained for the period required by tax, accounting, and consumer protection law.
- Moderation and safety records, including reports and enforcement actions, may be retained for a limited period after resolution to prevent repeat abuse and to support appeals.
- Diagnostic and crash records are kept for a short rolling window and then discarded.
6.3 International Transfers
Cavin serves a global user base. Where any information is transferred across borders, we implement appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses or equivalent mechanisms, so that your information continues to receive a level of protection consistent with this Policy and applicable law.
7. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you may hold some or all of the following rights. We honor these requests for all users globally, regardless of jurisdiction, wherever technically feasible.
7.1 Access and Portability
You may review your profile, your published content, your activity records, your transaction record, and your saved projects directly within the App. For a structured copy of information held about you, contact service@cavin.info.
7.2 Correction
Your nickname and avatar may be edited at any time from the profile editor. Posts and comments you authored may be deleted and re-created with corrected content.
7.3 Deletion
You may delete the content you have created at any time. You may also delete your entire account through Settings, then Delete my account. This action requires a secondary confirmation and, once confirmed, permanently erases your profile, your saved projects, your transaction record, your chat records, and your community activity from the device and disassociates your account identifier. Deletion is irreversible and unspent coins are forfeited without refund. A separate option to clear all local data is available if you wish to reset the App without deleting your account.
7.4 Withdrawal of Consent
Device-level permissions such as media, camera, and microphone access may be revoked at any time through your operating system settings, and the corresponding features will simply become unavailable while the rest of the App continues to work. You may also disconnect Sign in with Apple through your Apple ID settings. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
7.5 Objection and Restriction
You may object to or request restriction of certain processing based on legitimate interests. Where you do so, we will evaluate the request and either honor it or explain the compelling grounds that require continued processing.
7.6 Non-Discrimination
We will never degrade your experience, deny you service, or charge you differently for exercising any privacy right.
7.7 Making a Request
Send requests to service@cavin.info with enough detail to identify your account. We respond within thirty days, or sooner where the law requires. We may ask for reasonable verification before acting on a request in order to protect your account from unauthorized changes. If you are unsatisfied with our handling, you may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
8. Data Security
We apply administrative, technical, and physical safeguards proportionate to the sensitivity of the information involved. These include reliance on platform-provided secure application storage, minimization of the data we collect in the first place, encrypted transport for any data in transit, access controls limiting internal access to personnel with a legitimate need, and periodic review of our security posture.
The single most effective safeguard in Cavin's design is that most data never leaves your device. Nevertheless, no method of electronic storage or transmission is perfectly secure. You play an important role by keeping your device locked, keeping your operating system updated, protecting your Apple ID, and not sharing your device with others. If we become aware of a security incident affecting your information, we will notify you and the relevant authorities as required by applicable law.
9. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cavin's core experience does not rely on advertising cookies, cross-site trackers, or third-party advertising identifiers. We use only local storage mechanisms strictly necessary to remember your session, preferences, and saved work between launches. If any web-based page is presented inside the App, such as a support page, its use of cookies will be disclosed on that page.
10. Children's Privacy and CSAE
10.1 Strictly 18 and Over
Cavin is an adult-only service. It is not directed to children, is not designed for children, and contains no features intended to appeal to children. Access requires affirmative confirmation that the user is at least 18 years old.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn that we have collected such information, we will delete it and terminate the associated account promptly. Parents, guardians, or any other person who believes a minor has provided information to Cavin should contact service@cavin.info immediately with the relevant details, and we will act without undue delay.
10.2 Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE)
Cavin maintains an absolute, zero-tolerance position on child sexual abuse and exploitation. This position is non-negotiable and is enforced without exception.
Prohibited conduct. The following are strictly forbidden anywhere in Cavin, including posts, comments, images, videos, avatars, nicknames, and messages:
- Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in any form, including photographic, video, illustrated, animated, computer-generated, or AI-generated depictions.
- Sexualization of minors, including content that presents a minor in a sexualized manner, emphasizes the sexual characteristics of a minor, or frames a minor as an object of sexual interest. Because skating content may feature young athletes, we treat any sexualizing commentary about or framing of such content as a severe violation.
- Grooming, solicitation, or any attempt to establish contact with a minor for a sexual purpose, or to move such contact to another platform.
- Sextortion, sexual coercion, or threats to distribute intimate imagery of a minor.
- Trafficking, advertising, requesting, trading, or linking to CSAM or to services that facilitate the abuse of minors.
- Normalization or glorification of sexual interest in minors, including coded language, emoji substitutions, hashtags, or references intended to signal such interest.
Enforcement. Any account found to engage in the above conduct is terminated immediately and permanently, without warning and without refund of any unspent coins or prior purchases. We preserve relevant evidence as permitted by law, report confirmed and credible cases to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to other competent law enforcement authorities and hotlines in the relevant jurisdiction, and cooperate fully with lawful investigations. We take reasonable measures to prevent the offending party from creating new accounts.
How to report. Every post, comment, message, and user profile in Cavin carries a Report control with dedicated reason categories covering child safety. Reported content is hidden from your view immediately, and our team reviews reports on a priority basis. Child safety reports are escalated ahead of all other queues. You may also report directly and confidentially to service@cavin.info with the subject line "CSAE Report". Please include the content location, the account involved, and any context that helps us act quickly. Reports made in good faith will never result in penalties against the reporter.
Prevention by design. Cavin includes no dating, matchmaking, anonymous pairing, nearby-user discovery, or stranger-connection features. Chat exists only as a supporting tool for technical discussion and cannot be used to reach users you have no shared community with, which materially reduces the surface for unsolicited contact. The mandatory age gate, the absence of any minor-oriented content category, and the 18+ store rating collectively reinforce this prevention posture.
11. User Generated Content Rules and Handling
11.1 Collection and Storage of UGC
Content you submit is captured at the moment you publish or send it and is stored so that it can be displayed to the intended audience and restored on your device after restart. Media you attach are copies of the files you explicitly selected or captured in the App. Cavin does not access media you did not select or capture.
11.2 Ownership and License
You retain full ownership of the content you create. Everything you write, record, and upload remains yours.
By publishing content in Cavin, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt for display purposes, distribute, and publicly display that content solely for the purpose of operating, securing, and improving the App and its community features. This license is limited to what is necessary to run the service. It terminates when you delete the content or your account, except that residual copies may persist for a short period in backup or moderation systems, and except where another user has already lawfully saved or shared the content in a manner outside our control.
11.3 Your Responsibilities
You are solely responsible for the content you publish and you represent that you hold all necessary rights to it. In particular, be mindful that music and performance footage are usually protected by copyright. Do not upload material you have no right to distribute, and do not publish content in which other people, including minors, appear without appropriate consent.
The following are prohibited: infringing material, sexual or pornographic content, content involving minors as described in Section 10, harassment, hate speech, threats or incitement to violence, doxxing, impersonation, spam, scams, off-platform payment solicitation, malware, and any unlawful material.
11.4 Moderation and Enforcement
Before your first publication, you must review and accept the Community Guidelines. Every piece of content carries Report and Block controls. Reporting hides the content from your view instantly and queues it for team review, typically within 24 hours. Blocking removes all of that user's content from your view immediately, and blocked users can be managed or unblocked from Settings.
Depending on severity and history, enforcement may include content removal, feature restrictions, temporary suspension, or permanent account termination. We aim to notify you when action is taken against your content, except where notice is prohibited by law or would compromise a child safety or criminal investigation.
11.5 Copyright Complaints
If you believe content in Cavin infringes your copyright, send a notice to service@cavin.info including identification of the work, the location of the allegedly infringing material, your contact details, a statement of good faith belief that the use is unauthorized, a statement that the information is accurate, and your physical or electronic signature. We remove verified infringing material and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. Counter-notices may be submitted to the same address.
12. In-App Purchases and Virtual Currency
Coins in Cavin are a consumable digital item used solely to unlock certain digital functions inside the App. Coins carry no monetary value, cannot be exchanged for cash, cannot be transferred between users, cannot be withdrawn, and do not correspond to any physical goods. There are no loot boxes, prize draws, or probability-based rewards of any kind.
All purchases are processed by the platform store. Cavin receives only a confirmation that a transaction completed and never receives your payment credentials. Refund requests must be directed to Apple or Google in accordance with their published policies.
13. Third-Party Links and Content
Cavin may occasionally reference external resources. We do not control these destinations and are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. Once you leave the App, this Privacy Policy no longer applies, and we recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any site you visit.
14. Regional Disclosures
European Economic Area and United Kingdom. You hold the rights described in Section 7 under the GDPR and UK GDPR, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Cavin acts as the data controller for the processing described in this Policy.
California. Under the CCPA as amended by the CPRA, you may request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected, request deletion or correction, and opt out of any sale or sharing of personal information. Cavin does not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under California law, and has not done so in the preceding twelve months. We also do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes beyond those permitted without a right to limit.
Brazil, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and other jurisdictions. Where local law grants rights beyond those described here, we will honor them. Contact us at service@cavin.info to exercise any such right.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our features, our practices, or applicable law. When we do, we will revise the Last Updated date at the top of this document and publish the current version within the App under Settings, then Privacy Policy.
If a change is material, for example a change in the categories of information collected or the purposes for which it is used, we will provide additional prominent notice before it takes effect. Depending on the nature of the change and applicable law, this may take the form of an in-app notice, an interstitial screen on launch, or a renewed consent prompt. Where consent is legally required for a change, we will not apply it to you until you have given that consent.
Your continued use of Cavin after an update takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy. If you do not agree, you may stop using the App and delete your account.
16. Contact Us
For questions, concerns, requests to exercise your rights, copyright notices, or child safety reports, reach us at:
Email: service@cavin.info
Subject line guidance: use "Privacy Request" for rights requests, "Copyright Notice" for infringement claims, and "CSAE Report" for child safety matters so that your message reaches the correct team without delay.
We aim to acknowledge every message within five business days and to resolve substantive requests within thirty days.
Thank you for being part of the Cavin skating community. Protecting your privacy is part of how we protect the ice.