Effective 21 August 2026. Written for parents first, clubs second.
Three things matter more than the rest, so they go first.
Invert Eye is made by Vaughn Ray Edmonds, trading as Invert Systems (ABN 44 869 392 328), in Goulburn, New South Wales.
Invert Systems is a sole trader, which means there is a named person accountable for your child's information rather than a company you cannot reach. That person is me.
Contact: vaughn@invertsystems.com.au
Your gymnastics club decides which coaches use Invert Eye and which gymnasts are recorded. We provide the software and hold the small amount of information described below.
A coach films a skill — a vault, a beam routine — on a phone or iPad, then plays it back frame by frame, draws lines on it to show a shape or an angle, and records a spoken explanation. It is the same thing a coach has always done with a whiteboard, done with the actual footage.
This is the part parents ask about, so it is the part we are most specific about.
When a coach films your child, the video is saved in the phone or iPad's own photo library, exactly like any other video on that device. Invert Eye stores a reference to it — a pointer saying "the clip at this position in this device's library" — never a copy.
It does not travel to us, and there is no button in the app that sends it to us.
Whose device that is depends on your club. Some clubs film on equipment they own; some coaches use their own phones. Either way the footage is governed by your club's policies, and either way it does not reach us — but if you want to know which applies to your child, your club can tell you, and it is a fair question to ask.
When a coach exports a clip with their voice-over on it to show your child, the finished video is handed to the device's normal share sheet. Where it goes from there — AirDrop, Messages, saved to Photos — is the coach's choice on the club's device, and it does not pass through us. How the club handles footage after that point is governed by the club's own policies, not this one.
A small text record for each clip, so the coach's library is searchable. For each clip:
To show the coach a list of gymnasts to choose from, we also hold, from your club's records: your child's name, their current class, and whether consent has been given for video. We do not receive or store your child's date of birth, address, contact details, medical information, or anything about fees.
We also keep a record of which devices a club has set up, the name the club gave each one ("Beam iPad") and when each was last used, so a club can remove a lost or stolen one's access.
When someone sets up a new device, we briefly record the internet address the request came from, purely to stop automated guessing of setup codes. These records are deleted after a day.
In Australia. Our database is in Sydney, and the servers that read and write it run in Sydney.
Consent for video is recorded against your child in your club's own records, and Invert Eye reads it — it never decides it.
When consent is withdrawn, the records described above are deleted. When a device stops belonging to a club — the coach disconnects it, or the club removes its access — the club's roster and consent answers are deleted from that device too. Any footage already saved to the device that filmed it, or already shared by a coach, is the club's to remove, and you should ask them directly — we cannot reach into a device we do not hold.
The clip records are kept while your child is training with the club and using them is useful to their coaching. When a club stops using Invert Eye, or when consent is withdrawn, they are deleted.
Children cannot use Invert Eye. It is a tool for coaches, on club-owned phones and iPads, and there is nothing in it for a child to sign up to.
We hold children's information only because a coach needs to know whose skill they are looking at. We deliberately hold as little as possible: an ID, a name, a class, and a consent answer. We asked for nothing else and we do not want anything else.
Indefinitely keeping video of children is a liability rather than a feature, and we have designed the product on that basis.
No system is perfectly secure, and we will not pretend otherwise.
You can ask us to see what we hold about your child, to correct it if it is wrong, or to delete it. Ask your club first — for most things they can act immediately — or write to us directly at the address above. We will respond within 30 days, and we do not charge for it.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, tell us first so we can put it right. If you are still unhappy, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner — oaic.gov.au, 1300 363 992.
Invert Eye can be configured so that clips a coach specifically marks as worth keeping are stored in a club library rather than only on one device. No club is using this, and it is switched off everywhere. It is described here only so this policy is complete rather than surprising.
If a club ever turns it on, we will update this policy and tell the club before any footage is stored, and the protections above — Australian storage, consent enforced, withdrawal deletes the actual files — apply to it in full.
If we change it, we will update the date at the top and tell clubs. If a change means we would handle your child's information in a genuinely different way, we will tell clubs before it takes effect, not after.
A business our size currently sits outside parts of the Australian Privacy Act 1988, under an exemption for small businesses. That exemption has been under review for years and the direction of travel is one way, and we would rather not write two policies. More to the point, "we are too small to have to care" is not a sentence anyone should have to read in a document about their child.
So this policy is written to the Australian Privacy Principles standard now.