What this app keeps, and doesn't

Privacy policy · effective 29 August 2026.
Firelight is made and run by Sunaina Roy Chaudhuri, an individual (sole proprietor) in India. Questions, requests, and complaints: [email protected].

The one promise

Everything the app knows about you, it learned from you. You can inspect and correct the memory it kept, and you can burn the room down whenever you choose. There is no email address, no phone number, no advertising, no analytics, no trackers, and nothing is ever sold or shared for anyone else's purposes.

What it keeps

All of this lives as plain, readable files in your own room on the server, and all of it is used for one purpose: making and playing your visualisations.

  • What you say. The microphone is on only while you are speaking to the app. Your speech is sent to the server, turned into text, and the recording itself is not stored — only the words.
  • Your conversations and transcripts with the guide, including the edits you make to them.
  • Memory notes — the app's short notes about what you said you want. The what I know screen shows every page it uses; each is editable and deletable.
  • Your tracks — the scripts it writes for you and the audio it makes of them. They stay in your library until you delete them.
  • Your settings — voice, pace, sound bed, and the like.
  • Your account — a random identifier and a one-way hash of your passphrase. Not your name, not an email address, not a phone number.
  • Usage counts — how many tracks were made this month and how much AI work each took, so the monthly allowance and running costs can be measured. These records carry numbers, not content.

What it never collects

No email, phone number, contacts, location, photos, or device identifiers. No advertising or analytics software is in the app. Your network address is seen briefly by the server to slow down brute-force attempts and is not kept.

Who does the work

Three outside services are involved, each receiving only what it needs:

  • OpenAI — turns your speech into text and reads your scripts aloud. It receives your recorded speech and the text of your tracks.
  • Anthropic (Claude) — holds the conversation with you and writes your scripts. It receives your conversation and the memory notes relevant to it.
  • Railway — hosts the server your room lives on. Its servers are in the United States.

Both AI providers are used through their business interfaces, whose terms bar them from training on what you send. Because these services run outside India, your data is processed abroad; this is the only reason it leaves the country.

Who can read your room

You. Sessions are locked with the passphrase only you know. The person who runs the server could, in principle, access the machine — as with any small service — but rooms are private by design and no one is in the business of reading them. If that trust matters to you, it should: this app holds inner life, and it is built by someone who treats that as sacred. Your data would be disclosed to anyone else only if the law required it.

How long it stays

Until you erase it. Generated audio is cached under anonymous content fingerprints; identifiable cache is removed with your room, and unreferenced cache files are purged after 30 days. Server backups, where kept, roll off within 30 days, so an erased room disappears from them too.

Erasing yourself

In your room, "erase my room" deletes your entire folder — memory, tracks, session logs, usage counts, account — immediately and permanently. No copy is kept and it cannot be restored.

Your choices and rights

  • See what the app holds about you — the what I know screen and your library.
  • Correct it — edit or delete any memory page or transcript.
  • Erase all of it — "erase my room". Withdrawing your consent is the same act: stop using the app and erase your room.
  • Ask — write to [email protected] about anything here. You will get a reply within 30 days, usually much sooner. If you are in India and unhappy with the answer, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Your passphrase

It is stored only as a one-way hash and it is the only key to your room. Because the app holds no email or phone number, a forgotten passphrase cannot be recovered or reset — the room is simply locked forever. Keep it somewhere safe.

Age

Firelight is for adults. It is not meant for anyone under 18, and it does not knowingly hold data about anyone under 18. If you believe it does, write in and the room will be erased.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will appear here with a new effective date, and any change that matters will be shown in the app before it takes effect.

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