Spirit Candle — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 14 October 2026 (usage data and crash reports)

Your recordings stay on your iPhone. Spirit Candle has no accounts and no ads. Nothing you record, say or type is sent to us or to anyone else. The only data the app sends is anonymous usage data (if allowed) and crash reports, described below.

What stays on your iPhone

• Room recordings made while the candle burns, camera videos, your notes and marked moments, and magnetic-field readings are stored only in the app's private storage on your iPhone.
• If you tell the candle your name, it is remembered only on your iPhone.
• While the candle listens, a rolling voice buffer of up to four seconds is kept in memory and cleared when listening stops.
• Your settings and the spirits you have met are stored on your iPhone.

This data leaves your iPhone only when you choose to save a video to Photos, export a recording or share it — and then only to the place you choose. iCloud or device backups you have turned on may include the app's data, under Apple's terms.

Usage data and crash reports

To fix problems and improve the app, Spirit Candle sends a small amount of technical data to its developer's own logging service (GoodLogs, hosted on Cloudflare):

• Usage data (only with "Share usage data" on): which screens and features you use (for example "candle lit", "Night vision turned on", "a session lasted 4 minutes with 9 words"), your settings choices, the kind of question you asked (for example "name", never its words), the app version, iPhone model, iOS version and app language, tied to a random id created for this install. It is not linked to your name, Apple ID or any other app.
• Crash and error reports (always): what went wrong (error codes, a technical call stack), the screen it happened on, counts and timings, the app version, iPhone model and iOS version. These carry no install id.

Neither ever includes your recordings, videos, notes, what you say or type, names, photos, contacts, magnetic-field readings or your location. The service sees your IP address when the data arrives, as any internet service does; it is used only to tell the country and is not stored.

Your choice. In the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland and other places where the law requires consent, usage data is off until you say yes when the app asks. In the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore it is on by default. Either way you can turn it off at any time in the app's Settings → Privacy → "Share usage data"; turning it off also forgets the install id.

Purpose and legal basis. Usage data is used only to understand which features work and to improve the app (your consent, or our legitimate interest where consent isn't required). Crash and error reports are used only to keep the app working (our legitimate interest in providing a working app). The data is never sold, never used for advertising or tracking across apps, and never shared with anyone else. It is kept only as long as it is needed for these purposes, and deleted on request.

Your rights. You can ask what we hold about your install id, or ask us to delete it, at the address below (Settings → Privacy shows nothing personal, so tell us roughly when you used the app and your iPhone model).

Permissions

• Microphone — to record the room and hear your questions while the candle burns.
• Speech recognition — to understand your questions. Recognition runs on your iPhone (on-device only); audio is not sent to Apple or to us.
• Camera — to film your room in Camera mode.
• Photos (add only) — to save your videos. The app cannot see your photo library.

Each permission is optional. You can change them at any time in the iPhone's Settings app.

Deleting your data

Delete a single session from the Shelf, or everything at once in the app's Settings → Delete All Sessions. Deleting the app removes all of its data from your iPhone.

Children

Spirit Candle contains horror themes and sudden sounds and is not directed at children.

Entertainment

The candle's words, voices, spirit stories and visual effects are generated by the app for entertainment. They are not evidence of anything supernatural.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date. Questions: support@spiritcandle.vunpeko.com.