Privacy Policy — Beam Audits
Last updated: 10 July 2026
Beam Audits ("the app") is made by CXC Group Limited, a company registered in England and Wales ("we", "us"). This policy explains what data the app handles and where it goes. The short version: your data stays on your device unless you choose to share it.
What the app stores
Everything you create in Beam Audits — audits, item details, photos, client contact details, site addresses, notes and settings — is stored locally on your device in the app's own database. Photos you capture are saved as files inside the app's private storage.
What we collect
Nothing automatically. The app has no user accounts and no sign-in, and your day-to-day audit work never reaches our servers. The one exception is entirely in your hands: if you publish an audit as a Beam Link (see below), that audit's content is uploaded to our sharing service so the person you send the link to can view it. The app does not use analytics, advertising or tracking of any kind.
Camera, microphone and media
Beam uses your camera for photos and video during an audit, and your microphone for the video's audio. You can also add only the photos you select from your library. Captured media is stored in the app's private storage. Embedded location data is removed from photos before they are saved. Media leaves your device only when you choose to include it in a backup or publish it as part of a Beam Link.
Backups
You can export a backup of your audits, photos and videos as a single file. The backup is created on your device and handed to your device's share sheet — you choose where it goes (for example AirDrop, iCloud Drive or email). We never receive a copy. Any service you choose to store a backup in is governed by that service's own privacy policy.
Website launch list
If you join the launch list on this website, we store the email address you enter, the time you joined and the page you signed up from — solely to send you a single email when Beam launches. The list is deleted after that email is sent. It is never shared or used for marketing. The web server also holds your IP address in memory for about an hour to limit repeat submissions; it is not kept in our records. To be removed at any time, email hello@beamaudits.app.
Reports
PDF and Excel reports are generated entirely on your device. Sharing a report with a client is your choice, made through your device's share sheet — or as a Beam Link, described below.
Beam Links (shared audit links)
"Beam it" publishes a read-only copy of one audit to a web link you can send to a client. This only ever happens when you tap it. Publishing uploads that audit's content to our sharing service, hosted on Cloudflare: item details and notes, the site address, surveyor and sign-off names, photos, site videos (including their audio) and the PDF report. If you use the "hide client" option, client identity and sign-off details are left out of the published copy.
Links expire automatically after 30 days, and the published content is deleted after expiry. You can revoke a link from the app at any time, which makes it inaccessible immediately. The publish request also carries a random identifier generated by your app installation (not your device's advertising or hardware ID), which we use to prevent abuse of the sharing service, and our servers briefly hold the publishing connection's IP address — for about two days — as part of rate limiting. People who view a Beam Link are not tracked, profiled or required to sign in.
Subscriptions
If you purchase a subscription, payment is handled by Apple through your App Store account — we do not see or store your payment details. We use RevenueCat, a subscription management service, to validate purchases; it processes an anonymous app-generated identifier and purchase receipt data for this purpose. See RevenueCat's privacy policy for details.
Your data, your responsibility
Because your data never leaves your device unless you share or back it up yourself, you are in control of it. Deleting the app deletes all data stored in it. If your audits contain other people's personal information (such as client contact details), you are responsible for handling that information in line with the data protection law that applies to you — including when you publish it as a Beam Link.
Data protection rights
For data stored on your device, use Beam to edit or delete it, or delete the app to remove all local data. For a published Beam Link, revoke the link to make it inaccessible immediately; otherwise its content is deleted automatically after 30 days. Our sharing service retains the publishing IP address for about two days for rate limiting, and RevenueCat processes the subscription data described above. For access, correction or deletion questions, email hello@beamaudits.app.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of the app adds features that change how data is handled (for example optional accounts or sync), we will update this policy and note the changes here before those features go live.
Contact
CXC Group Limited · Registered in England and Wales no. 14770351 · Registered office: 4 Gordon Smith Close, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, HP22 5ZW