Privacy policy · Firelit

Firelit is made by Authos LLC, a Georgia limited liability company (“we”). This policy explains what Firelit does with your information. The short version: your chats live on your own computer, and we never see them. There’s no Firelit account.

Your chats stay with you

Firelit’s AI runs on your own computer. It doesn’t run on our servers or anyone else’s. Your messages and replies, and the companion’s memory notes and summaries of your conversations, are stored on your computer, encrypted. If you pair a phone, it keeps an encrypted copy of your own chats. We have no copy and no way to read them.

On your computer, Firelit also keeps:

Paired devices: each paired phone’s public key, name, and which person it belongs to. No chat content.
Owner unlock data, so only you can open your chats on the computer, with Windows Hello, Touch ID, or your Mac password.
Device keys, the keys that identify your devices to each other. They’re kept in your operating system’s secure key storage (Windows Credential Manager, the macOS Keychain, the Android Keystore).
Settings, such as your connection mode, memory mode, and which model you chose.
Your age confirmation: a yes, never your date of birth.
A crisis-help count: the number of times the app showed a crisis-help card in a year, with no content. It stays on your computer; we don’t collect it today. If a law requires us to report a yearly total, we’ll update this policy first.
The model files: the AI model you downloaded.
Export files, if you choose to export your chats. They’re encrypted with a passphrase you choose and saved where you choose.
The hardware check: Firelit reads your computer’s memory, graphics chip, and free disk space to pick a model that fits. The result is kept on your computer.
Your license key, checked on your computer without contacting us.
Error logs: when something goes wrong, the app writes errors to your operating system’s log. They never include your messages, profile, memories, keys, or codes.

On your phone, the app uses the camera only to scan the pairing code. Camera images are read on the phone and thrown away, never saved or sent. The app doesn’t ask for your microphone, contacts, location, or files.

Everything between the app and its AI model stays on the device: the model runs as a program on the same computer, reached only from that computer.

You can delete any message, tell the companion to forget something, edit or remove its memory notes, unpair a phone, or remove the app. Deleted messages are wiped from your devices.

What leaves your devices

Firelit has no analytics, tracking, advertising, or crash reporting in the apps. Only these things go over the internet:

Chats between your phone and your computer are end-to-end encrypted. Only your two devices can read them.
When your phone can’t reach your computer directly (for example, on mobile data), the encrypted traffic passes through a relay server. The relay can’t read your messages. It sees your devices’ public keys, their internet addresses, and when and how much data passes. If you choose “Wi-Fi only,” no relay is used.
Model downloads come from our download server (dl.meetfirelit.com, hosted by Cloudflare). Like any website, it sees your internet address when you download.
Update checks ask the same server whether a new version exists. The request shows which app version you have and your internet address.
The license service (ours, on Cloudflare) is contacted with your license id to check your subscription, show your credit balance, and spend credits on what you choose. It never receives your chats.
If you subscribe, the relay checks with the license service that your devices belong to a subscribed license. For that, we keep your devices’ public keys with your license id while you’re subscribed (relay access).
If you report a reply from the companion, the computer sends us that reply, the reason you chose, which AI model and character wrote it, and the app version. Your phone’s reports go through your computer. Nothing else from your chats is sent, and the report carries nothing that identifies you or your devices. We use reports to improve Firelit’s safety filters and delete them after 90 days. To stop abuse, Cloudflare counts reports per internet address for a minute at a time; we don’t store the address.
Chat backup is off unless you turn it on (subscribers only). If you do, your chats are encrypted on your device, with a key only you hold, before they’re uploaded. We store them but can’t read them. [Open: final wording when the backup design is approved.]

Our website and buying Firelit

Cloudflare hosts our website and downloads. Like any web host, it handles your internet address and browser details to deliver pages.
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page visits. It doesn’t use cookies or track you across sites.
Paddle (Paddle.com) is our reseller and merchant of record. When you buy Firelit, Paddle collects your name, email, billing details, and payment information, and handles sales tax. Paddle’s privacy policy applies to that information. We see your orders in Paddle’s dashboard.
There’s no Firelit account. We keep an anonymous license record for each license key: a license id, Paddle’s customer id, what you own, your subscription status, your credit balance and how it was spent, and when the license was created. We don’t store your name or email address in it.
If you lose your license key, you can recover it with the order number from Paddle’s receipt email. We use it to look up your order with Paddle and don’t keep it.
If you contact support, we keep your emails as long as we need them to help you.
If you install the phone app from Google Play, Google handles the install under its own privacy policy. If you’ve allowed it in Android, Google may share crash and performance reports with us. The app itself sends none.

We don’t sell or share your personal information for advertising.

Children

Firelit is only for adults (18 and older). We don’t knowingly collect information from children.

Your rights

Most of your data never reaches us, so you control it directly on your devices. For the information we or Paddle do hold (purchases, license records, support emails), you can ask to see, correct, or delete it by emailing privacy@meetfirelit.com. Depending on where you live (for example, California or the European Union), you may have additional rights. [Open: the lawyer confirms which laws apply and the wording for each.]

Changes

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date above and say what changed. If a change affects what leaves your devices, the app will tell you before it happens.

Contact

Authos LLC · privacy@meetfirelit.com · 8735 Dunwoody Place, Ste N, Atlanta, GA 30350, USA