Privacy Policy

This policy covers the Hookin app for iPhone and the website hookin.id. Both are run by Hookin Studio, Jakarta, Indonesia, the data controller under Indonesia’s Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 27 of 2022, “UU PDP”). Contact: halo@hookin.id.

This policy is published in Indonesian and English. If the two differ, the Indonesian version applies.

• Hookin has no accounts. You never sign up or log in.
• Your videos, photos, voice recordings, subtitles and projects stay on your iPhone. We never receive them.
• Hookin shows ads from Google AdMob. Google’s ad software in the app collects some device and usage data, described under “Ads by Google AdMob”.
• Hookin never asks to track you and requests only non-personalized ads.
• The website sets no cookies and runs no analytics.

Hookin does its work on the iPhone. The following is created and stored only there, in storage other apps can’t read, and is never sent to us:

• Photos and videos you choose. Hookin copies them into its own storage so drafts survive a restart. Subtitle files (.srt, .vtt) you add are kept the same way.
• Subtitles from speech. Apple’s speech recognition turns a video’s speech into subtitles on the iPhone. Hookin allows only on-device recognition, so audio is not uploaded. If it isn’t available, you can add a subtitle file or type the subtitles.
• Translation. Subtitles are translated to Indonesian with Apple’s translation on the iPhone. iOS may download a language pack from Apple the first time.
• Your voice. Voice recordings you make for a part are saved with that project.
• Hooks, framing and wording. Suggested hooks, framing that keeps a speaker in view, and wording suggestions from Apple’s on-device model (on iPhones that have it) are all worked out on the iPhone. Framing finds where faces are in the frame; it doesn’t recognize who anyone is.
• Channels, queue and settings. Channel defaults, the post queue, posted marks, saved templates and the reminder time.
• Local diagnostics. Off unless you turn them on in Settings. They count creation and export steps, never your content, and leave the iPhone only if you share the summary yourself.

Hookin’s project storage is excluded from iCloud and computer backups. Parts you export are saved to your Photos library, where iCloud Photos syncs them if you use it.

Each one is optional and asked for only when you first use the feature that needs it. You can change them in the iPhone’s Settings app under Apps, then Hookin.

• Photos. To save exports to your library, to open parts saved there when you share them, and to notice which ones you deleted. Limited access is enough.
• Microphone. To record your voice over a part when you choose Voice.
• Speech Recognition. To turn a video’s speech into subtitles on the iPhone.
• Notifications. For the daily reminder you set on the Channel page. The iPhone schedules it; no server sends it.

Videos and subtitle files you pick in the Files app need no permission. Hookin reads only the files you choose.

Hookin is free and shows ads served by Google AdMob, a service of Google LLC. Google’s ad software (the Google Mobile Ads SDK) runs inside the app and sends Google:

• your IP address, which Google uses to estimate your approximate location, such as your city
• device identifiers limited to this app or to apps from the same developer; Hookin never asks for permission to track, so Google doesn’t get the iPhone’s advertising identifier
• which ads you were shown and how you interacted with them, such as taps and video views
• app launches and performance data, such as launch time and hangs
• crash logs and other diagnostic data

Google uses this data to show and measure ads, limit how often you see the same ad, prevent fraud and abuse, and improve its services. Hookin requests only non-personalized ads. They’re chosen from context, such as the app and your approximate location, not from a profile of what you do in other apps and websites.

Where the law requires consent before ads are shown, for example in the United Kingdom, Hookin first shows Google’s consent message. Your choice is stored on the iPhone, and you can change it later in Hookin’s Settings.

We don’t receive the data Google collects in a form that identifies you; we see totals, such as how many ads were shown. Google handles its data as described in the Google Privacy Policy and in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

• You download Hookin from Apple’s App Store. If Hookin ever offers a purchase, Apple handles the payment, and Hookin learns only whether a purchase is active.
• If you allow your iPhone to share analytics with app developers (Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements), Apple gives us crash reports and usage statistics that don’t identify you.

Only when you send it. Hookin doesn’t post for you. When you share a part or a post, iOS hands the file to the app you pick, such as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or X, and that app’s own privacy policy applies from then on.

• No accounts, forms, cookies, analytics or ads, and nothing is stored in your browser.
• The server that hosts the site, rented from Contabo, keeps a standard access log of each request: IP address, time, the page requested, the referring page and the browser’s user agent. We use it only to keep the site running and secure. Old log files are deleted automatically in rotation.
• If you email us, we receive your address and message and use them only to reply.

Under UU PDP we rely on:

• your consent, for the iPhone permissions above and, where the law requires it, for ads
• our legitimate interest in keeping the website secure, answering your messages, and keeping Hookin free by showing ads

Google may process the data its ad software collects on servers outside Indonesia, under Google’s own privacy commitments. The server that hosts hookin.id may also be outside Indonesia.

• Content on your iPhone: until you delete it in Hookin or delete the app.
• Website access logs: until their log file is deleted in rotation.
• Emails you send us: until your question is settled, or sooner if you ask us to delete them.
• Data collected by Google: as set out in Google’s policies.

Under UU PDP you may ask us to:

• tell you what personal data we hold about you, why, and how we use it
• give you a copy of it
• correct or complete it
• give it to you in a common format, or send it to another controller
• stop processing it, delete it or destroy it
• withdraw consent you gave
• restrict or pause its processing
• not base a decision about you only on automated processing
• compensate you if a breach of the law harms you

Almost everything Hookin handles is on your iPhone, where you can see and delete it yourself (see Support). For anything else, such as emails you sent us, write to halo@hookin.id. We reply within 3 × 24 hours of receiving your request.

If you believe we handled your data unlawfully, you can complain to Indonesia’s personal data protection authority.

Hookin’s storage on the iPhone is protected by iOS data protection, and the website is served only over HTTPS. If a breach affects personal data we’re responsible for, we’ll notify the authority, and you where we can reach you, in writing within 3 × 24 hours.

Hookin isn’t made for children. If you’re under 18, use it with the permission of a parent or guardian.

When this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top.

Hookin Studio, Jakarta, Indonesia. Email: halo@hookin.id.