Stinger — stingerprompt.com · Last revised: September 12, 2026
First Light Holdings, LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company ("First Light Holdings," "we," "us," or "our"), publishes the Stinger app and operates the website at stingerprompt.com (the "Site"). This policy covers two different things, and it is written to keep them separate rather than blur them: the Stinger app that runs on your Mac, and the Site, including the customer portal where you manage your licence and billing.
This policy tells you what each one sends, collects, and stores, who else sees any of it, and how long it is kept. Where we do not do something — we say so plainly rather than leaving it to be assumed.
Stinger is a Mac app that displays your script on screen while you talk to a camera, in one of three modes: a fixed pace, scrolling while you speak, or following the words you say using on-device speech recognition. Your scripts and any rehearsal recordings are plain files stored on your own Mac; if you turn on iCloud script sync, your scripts are also kept in your own iCloud Drive, as described below. The app does not require an account or sign-in.
The Site sells Stinger under a licence key and runs a customer portal where you manage that key, your Macs, your card on file, and your renewal. The Site also runs a free 7-day trial, a contact form, and ordinary marketing pages.
Two optional features, Voiceover and Practice Partner, are part of Stinger Premier and send data to a third-party provider when you use them, as described in "Premier Voice Features" below.
**What the app sends, always on.** When you activate a licence, the app sends your licence key and an instance name it builds from your Mac's name and the first 8 characters of a hardware identifier — for example, "David's MacBook Pro · A1B2C3D4." Because your Mac's name often contains a person's name, this instance name can identify you. The app checks that licence again roughly every three days while it runs, sending the same licence key and instance identifier. If you deactivate a Mac, the app sends the licence key and instance identifier once more to release that seat. The app also checks daily for updates by requesting stingerprompt.com/appcast.xml; that request carries no identifying information about you or your Mac.
**What the app sends, only if you turn it on.** If you enter a KBD Machine URL and token in Settings, the app sends that token to fetch your scripts — nothing about the scripts themselves is uploaded, only fetched. If you turn on the phone remote, the app serves a control page from a small web server on your own Wi-Fi; nothing is sent over the internet, and nothing leaves your local network. If you turn on "Keep my scripts in iCloud" (it is off by default), your Scripts folder is kept in your own iCloud Drive, under your own Apple Account and Apple's terms and privacy policy, so the same scripts appear on your other Macs signed in to that Apple Account. Only scripts are synced this way: your licence record, any KBD token, and any API keys stay in a private folder on each Mac. First Light Holdings never receives your scripts.
**What the app never sends to us.** Your scripts, your rehearsal recordings, your camera preview, and your voice (when using Voice or Track scroll mode) are never sent to First Light Holdings. They stay on your Mac unless you choose otherwise: iCloud script sync keeps your scripts in your own iCloud Drive, and Premier's Voiceover and Practice Partner send script text or practice audio to the provider described below. The app runs no analytics, no telemetry, and no crash reporting.
**What the trial collects.** Starting a free trial requires an email address. We record that email address, the instance name and hardware identifier described above, the app version, the time you started the trial, and — as our record of consent — the time, IP address, and browser or app agent used. We add that email address to our contact list, tagged as a trial, for the short series of emails described in "How We Use Your Information" below.
**What the customer portal and checkout collect.** When you buy Stinger or sign in to the portal, we collect your email address, a one-time sign-in code we send to that address, your licence key and its status, the Macs activated against it, a payment-profile reference from our payment processor together with your card's last four digits and expiry as returned by that processor, your billing postal address for tax purposes, and records of charges, tax collected, and receipts. Portal sign-in sessions are recorded with their creation and expiry time.
**What the website collects from visitors.** The Site runs Google Analytics, which uses cookies and collects information such as pages viewed and general location. The customer portal sets a session cookie after you sign in; the rest of the Site sets no cookies of its own beyond Google Analytics. If you join our launch list, we record your email address, your answers to any optional questions, and — as evidence of consent — the time, IP address, and browser user agent for both your initial signup and your confirmation. Emails we send carry an open pixel and click-tracked links, and we record opens and clicks against your email address. If you use the contact form, we receive your name, email address, and message as an inbound message to us; this does not add you to any list or tag you for marketing.
We use the licence key and instance identifier to enforce that each licence works on two Macs, and to let you activate, validate, and deactivate Macs from within the app.
We use your email address and portal account information to let you sign in to the customer portal, manage your Macs, update your card, cancel renewal, and view receipts, and to send you receipts and renewal emails. If a renewal charge is declined, we retry it on day 3 and day 7, and cancel the subscription on day 14 if it still has not succeeded.
We use trial signup information to run the trial itself (one per Mac and one per email address, seven days, no grace period) and to send you the short series of emails about the trial described above. A trial that does not become a purchase receives no further mail after that series ends.
We use Google Analytics data to understand how visitors use the Site. We use contact-form submissions to respond to you.
We do not use any of the above to train any AI model, and we do not sell it.
We share information with the following providers, each of whom processes it to help deliver the app, the Site, or the portal:
A database and storage provider — holds the licence, activation, subscription and contact records behind the licence server and portal. An application hosting provider — serves the Site and the portal. A transactional email provider — delivers receipts, renewal notices, trial emails, and portal sign-in codes. Authorize.Net (a Visa solution) — payment processing; card numbers are handled by Authorize.Net and are not stored by us. Google LLC — Google Analytics on the Site only; the app runs no analytics. We do not publish the names of our infrastructure providers; each processes the information only to deliver the app, the Site, or the portal.
When a Premier customer uses Voiceover or Practice Partner, a third-party speech-recognition and speech-synthesis provider processes the script text or microphone audio those features send. We do not name that provider publicly. If you turn on iCloud script sync, Apple stores your scripts in your own iCloud Drive under its own terms; that storage is between you and Apple, and we have no access to it.
We do not sell your information. We may disclose it if required by law or legal process, or if we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request. If First Light Holdings is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Stinger Premier includes two features, Voiceover and Practice Partner. They are available only to Premier customers, and they send data only while you use them.
Voiceover sends the text of your script to a third-party speech-recognition and speech-synthesis provider to generate spoken audio. Practice Partner streams your live microphone audio to that same provider during a practice session and receives synthesized speech in return. We do not know, and do not control, how long that provider retains what is sent to it.
Your scripts and rehearsal recordings stay on your own Mac until you delete them (and, if you turn on iCloud script sync, your scripts are also kept in your own iCloud Drive); we never see or store them, and the app never removes them on its own.
Your licence and activation records are kept on our servers while your subscription or lifetime licence is active, and afterward for as long as tax and accounting rules require us to keep records of the charges tied to them. Deactivating a Mac removes that Mac's activation record.
If a Mac is lost, wiped, or sold without being deactivated first, you can remove it from your licence yourself in the customer portal, which deletes its activation record the same way a deactivation would.
Trial signup and launch-list records are kept while you remain on our contact list, and are removed on request as described below. Portal sign-in sessions are kept for their recorded creation and expiry period.
On request, we delete the activation records, licence record, and launch-list or trial consent records tied to your email address. Deleting your licence record ends your access to the app and the portal under that key. We retain records of charges, tax collected, and receipts for as long as tax and accounting rules require, even after such a deletion request.
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information described in this policy, including encrypting data in transit and storing your licence and secrets (such as your KBD token) in a private file on your Mac that only your user account can read. No internet-based service or data transmission can be guaranteed completely secure, and we cannot promise that yours will never be accessed without authorization.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access the personal information we hold about you, correct it, request its deletion, object to or restrict certain processing, and receive a copy of it. To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details below. We may ask you to confirm your identity before acting on a request, and we will respond within the time required by applicable law.
If any information we hold about you is incorrect, contact us and we will update it. You can deactivate your own Macs and manage your card and renewal directly in the customer portal. For any other correction or deletion request — including removing your email address from our launch list or trial records — contact us at hello@stingerprompt.com and we will act on it as described in "Data Retention" above.
We do not sell your personal information, and the Site does not run any advertising tag that shares it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Google Analytics on the Site is used for our own understanding of Site traffic. If you have questions about how state privacy law applies to your information, contact us at hello@stingerprompt.com.
Questions about this policy or your information can be sent to:
First Light Holdings, LLC — 4030 Wake Forest Rd, Ste 349, Raleigh, NC 27609, USA — hello@stingerprompt.com.
We may update this policy as our practices, the app, or the Site change. We will post any changes on this page with a new revision date at the top. If a change materially affects what your subscription costs or covers, we will also email the address on your licence.
If you have questions about this policy or about your information, contact us at hello@stingerprompt.com.