Privacy Policy

Skene is a workspace for actors and writers, run by Ermias Genet, an individual based in New York City (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what Skene collects, why, who else handles it, and the choices you have. Questions go to privacy@skene.studio.

Who's behind Skene

Hi! I'm Ermias, an actor and software engineer in New York City. I built Skene to learn my own lines, I'm super proud of it, and I want other actors to have it too. It's an independent project made to help fellow actors in this challenging industry. I've found it helpful in a lot of moments: whenever I'm on the subway without a script, when I catch myself covering up my next lines, and when I just need a little hint to get back on track. I hope you enjoy Skene as much as I do. If you have any questions about this policy, feel free to email me!

The short version

• We store your account and the scripts you bring in only so you can rehearse them. They're yours.
• Your voice never reaches us when you rehearse. Speech recognition is done by your browser. The only recordings we keep are audition takes you choose to save, and other users can't see them.
• To format an imported script, its pages are sent to our AI provider, Anthropic. Anthropic doesn't train on them, and retains them on its backend for up to 30 days for safety and abuse monitoring.
• We don't use your scripts, your voice, your takes or your rehearsals to train AI.
• During the beta, we record how Skene is used, such as which features and modes you use and for how long, in our own database, to learn what to improve. Anonymously, never your scripts' words or anything you say.
• No ads, no third-party trackers, and we never sell your information.
• We email you about your account. News about Skene (new features, plans and offers) comes only if you've agreed to it, and you can turn it off anytime in your profile.
• You can delete your account, and everything in it, from your profile at any time.

What we collect

Skene collects only what it needs to work: to sign you in, securely store your scripts and settings, and help you learn your lines. We don't sell your information, use it for advertising, or claim your scripts.

Your account

Your email address or phone number, and your password if you set one (stored only as a secure hash by our database provider). We also keep account settings and the date you accepted this policy.

Your scripts

The scripts you bring in or try, the edits you make to them, and your rehearsal settings for each one: the role you play, where you left off, and how your lines are shown. How we handle them is below.

Your audition takes

The videos you record in Audition and choose to save, with your picture and voice, a still from each as its cover, and what you name them, how long they are, their size and which lines they cover. How we handle them is below.

The beta waitlist

When you join the waitlist: your email address, what kind of actor you are, how many scripts you rehearse, and, if you followed a link we shared, which one (for example, a post on Reddit). We use these to choose testers and to tell you when you're in.

Technical information

Like most websites, our hosting and database providers log basic request information, such as IP addresses, browser type and the time of each request, to run and secure the service. The free trial briefly keeps the number of pages read per IP address, in memory, to limit abuse. When you create an account or make a choice about news emails, we look up the country your connection comes from (our host works it out from your IP address, which we don't keep), to ask in the way your local law asks, and keep the country with a record of your choice. We use cookies only to keep you signed in, never for advertising or to follow you across other sites.

During the beta

Skene is in beta, and testing it with you is how we learn what works. While you use Skene, it records what you do in it, in our own database with no third-party trackers. This includes:

• how you rehearse: when the mic is on and for how long, how many lines you run, and which settings and modes you use and for how long (how your lines are shown, how closely Skene listens, what Next does);
• when you ask for help: revealing a line, a hint, calling “Line!”;
• your scripts: how many you bring in and open, their file type and number of pages, and what reading them with AI cost us;
• when you use Skene offline, and for how long;
• the kind of device and browser you use (such as “Safari on an iPhone”), and errors you run into, such as the microphone failing or an import going wrong.

These records never include the words of your scripts or anything you say. If you go offline, they wait on your device and are sent when you reconnect.

They're anonymous: they aren't linked to your account, your email or your scripts. Each is labelled only with the kind of actor you are and how many scripts you rehearse a month, from your waitlist answers, and we look at them only in total or in groups of at least five testers.

You can also send us feedback from your account menu, your profile or any script, and answer a short interview when you leave or when the beta ends. From inside a script, you can choose to include where you were in it and your settings (never the line's text). Feedback and interview answers are optional. Interview answers are anonymous, labelled the same way as the usage records.

The feedback you send is linked to your account: we record your email address, what you wrote, and your device type (such as “Safari on an iPhone”). We use it only to look into problems, improve Skene and reply to you.

We use all of this only to understand how Skene is used, fix problems, decide what to build next, and work out what Skene costs to run and could fairly cost you. Only we can see it.

Your voice

When you rehearse with voice, or use Audition's prompter, your browser listens and turns speech into words using its built-in speech recognition. Skene compares those words with your script in the page itself; we never receive or store that audio or what you said. Depending on your browser, its maker may process the audio under its own privacy policy: for example, Google for Chrome and Apple for Safari. The one exception is an audition take you choose to save, described next.

Your audition takes

Audition (being tried out by some accounts during the beta) records self-tapes with your device's camera and microphone, only after you allow them in your browser and press record. A take is recorded on your device, and nothing leaves it unless you press Save; a take you delete or download instead is never sent to us.

A saved take, with a still from its first moments as its cover, is uploaded to your account, in private storage at our database provider, Supabase, which other accounts can't open, so other users can't see it. We use your takes only so you can watch, rename and export them: we don't share or publish them, or use them to train AI. They're sent nowhere else. If you send a take to anyone, such as a casting office, that's between you and them.

How we handle your scripts

Your scripts are saved to your account in our database, which lets each account read only its own scripts, so other users can't see them. We use them only so you can rehearse them: we don't sell them, publish them or use them for anything else, and they stay yours.

How they're formatted

When you import a PDF, Word document, text file, photos or pasted text, our server sends it, page by page, to Anthropic's Claude models, which identify each line as dialogue, a character name, a stage direction and so on. Final Draft and Fountain files are read in your browser and aren't sent to Anthropic.

We don't use your scripts, your voice or your rehearsals to train AI, and Anthropic doesn't use these pages to train its models. It retains them on its backend for up to 30 days for safety and abuse monitoring, as set out in its own commercial terms and privacy policy, and may keep them longer if they're flagged for review. We don't log or keep the pages we send; we save only the finished script to your account.

How we use your information

• To provide Skene: signing you in, saving your scripts, takes and settings, and importing scripts.
• To email you about your account: sign-in and confirmation links, security and account notices, and your waitlist place, invitation and the beta; and to text you sign-in codes. These come with having an account.
• To email you news about Skene: new features, updates to plans and subscriptions, and occasional offers. In the United States, agreeing to this policy when you create an account includes these emails. Everywhere else, we send them only if you ask for them, by ticking the box when you sign up or turning them on in your profile. We keep a record of your choice: what it was, when and where you made it, and the country your connection came from. You can stop them anytime, from the unsubscribe link in each one, in your profile, or by emailing privacy@skene.studio, and you'll still get account emails.
• To understand how Skene is used during the beta, as described above, and to improve it.
• To keep Skene secure: telling people from bots, enforcing limits, and preventing abuse.
• To comply with the law when we have to.

We don't sell or rent your information, use it for advertising, or share it except as described here.

Our legal bases

Where the law asks for a legal basis to use your information, such as in the EU and UK, ours are:

• Our contract with you, to run your account, save and import your scripts, save the takes you choose to keep, and send sign-in codes.
• Legitimate interests, to keep Skene secure, prevent abuse and enforce limits, to choose beta testers, and to learn from how the beta is used, in ways you'd reasonably expect.
• Your consent, to email you news and offers about Skene, which you can withdraw anytime.
• Legal obligations, when the law requires us to keep or disclose information.

Who else handles it

We use a small number of service providers, each only for the job described:

• Supabase: our database, file storage and sign-in. Stores your account, scripts, takes and settings, the waitlist, and the beta's usage records and feedback.
• Vercel: hosts the website and runs our server.
• Anthropic: formats imported scripts, as described above.
• Cloudflare Turnstile: checks that sign-ins and trial imports come from a person, using signals from your browser.
• Resend: delivers our sign-in and confirmation emails, the beta's invitations and updates, and news and offers to those who get them.
• Twilio: texts sign-in codes, if you sign in with a phone number.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect the safety and rights of our users or others.

International transfers

Skene is run from the United States, and our providers process information in the United States and other countries. When information about people in the EU, UK or Switzerland leaves those places, we rely on our providers' data processing agreements, which include the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK and Swiss addenda, or on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where a provider is certified. Email us for a copy of the relevant safeguards.

On your device

Skene keeps a few small things in your browser's storage, such as notices you've dismissed, and a scrambled (hashed) form of the email addresses that have signed in there, so signing in again is quicker. Scripts saved on this device by an early version of Skene stay there until you add them to your account or clear them.

So you can rehearse with no connection, Skene also keeps your two most recently opened scripts, with their rehearsal settings, in your browser's storage on each device you use, along with the pages needed to open them. Opening another script replaces the older copy, and signing out deletes them from that device. A script you save with “Save offline” stays the same way until you remove it or sign out. Audition remembers how you set it up for each script (your lines, text size, camera and quality) on that device.

Skene has no ads or third-party trackers, so there's nothing for a browser's Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal to switch off. Skene works the same either way.

How long we keep it

We keep your account, scripts and takes until you delete them. Deleting a take removes it right away, and deleting a script removes it and its takes. Deleting your account from your profile removes your account, scripts, takes and settings from our database and storage right away; copies may remain in our providers' backups for a short time until those are replaced. If we receive a copyright or illegal-content report, we keep the report and what we did about it as a record, as the law expects.

Waitlist entries are kept until the beta ends and for up to a year after, in case we open Skene to more people, unless you ask us to remove yours sooner (a reminder about your invitation has a link that does it at once). Deleting your account also deletes your waitlist entry.

The beta's usage records, feedback and interview answers are kept for up to two years after the beta ends. Usage records and interview answers are never linked to your account. Feedback stays linked to your account until the beta ends, or until you delete your account if that's sooner; after that we keep it without anything linking it to you, and it can no longer be connected to your account or email.

Your choices and rights

• See and edit your scripts and settings in Skene at any time.
• Ask us to delete your waitlist entry, or the beta's records about you while your account exists, at privacy@skene.studio.
• Delete any script or take, or your whole account, from within Skene, and export any take you've saved.
• Turn off news and offers by email in your profile, or from the link in any of them.
• Ask us for a copy of your information, or ask any question about it, at privacy@skene.studio.

Depending on where you live, such as California or the European Union, you may have further rights over your information, including to access, correct, delete or move it, and to object to how it's used. Email us and we'll honor these requests whatever your location, usually within 30 days. If you're in the EU or UK, you can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Security

Information is encrypted in transit, other users can't read your scripts or watch your takes (a take plays through a private link that expires within an hour), and our AI provider is called only from our server. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and will tell you if a breach affects it.

Age

Skene is only for adults 18 and over. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18; if you believe someone under 18 has an account, email us and we'll delete it.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date below, and tell you in Skene or by email before a significant change takes effect.

Contact

Ermias Genet, New York, NY, privacy@skene.studio. See also our Terms of Service.

Last updated November 6, 2026.