No. Every system Doberman installs stores footage locally on a hard drive inside the NVR (network video recorder) on your property. Nothing is uploaded to the cloud. Your footage stays on hardware you own, in your home or business, and only you can access it.
This is different from consumer cameras like Ring, Arlo, and Nest, which upload footage to company servers. With those systems, a third party holds your recordings. If their servers go down or the company changes its terms, you could lose access. With local storage, none of that applies.
The cameras connect to the NVR over Ethernet cable, and the recorder writes footage directly to a surveillance-grade hard drive. The system works entirely on your local network. It does not need an internet connection to record, and it does not send footage anywhere externally.
Remote viewing through the UniFi Protect app does use an encrypted connection to let you watch cameras from your phone when you are away from home. But the footage itself is never stored on any external server - it streams directly from your NVR to your device.
If privacy matters to you, local storage is the only approach that keeps you fully in control. No cloud account required, no data leaving your property, and no third party with access to your recordings.