Privacy Policy
Lighthouse Privacy Policy
Lighthouse is local-first. Your information stays on your device by default, there is no required account, and nothing is sold or sent to advertising trackers. Sharing is optional and only happens when you choose it.
The short version
Lighthouse is a personal organization and reflection app. You enter and manage your own information directly in the app, and it stays on your device unless you deliberately share it.
There is no developer-run account system, no advertising, and no sale of your data. This page explains the details in plain language; it is not legal advice.
What is stored, and where
Information you create in Lighthouse — alters and system details, fronting history, journals, mood check-ins, calendar and routine entries, messages, and medication notes — is stored locally on your device, encrypted at rest with keys held in your device's Keychain.
You are not required to submit personal information to the developer to create or use the app.
No analytics or tracking
The app contains no analytics, no crash-reporting SDKs, no advertising code, and no third-party libraries. It makes no network requests on its own behalf. This website likewise sets no cookies and runs no tracking scripts.
Optional sharing (Apple CloudKit)
Lighthouse includes optional, user-initiated sharing. If you choose to share selected categories with friends, that sharing uses Apple CloudKit and a sharing link under your own Apple account.
When a shared category is updated, those updates may sync through your iCloud / CloudKit environment so the people you shared with stay current. Shared categories can include mood, calendar, journals, and medication — depending on what you choose to share. Sensitive fields travel in CloudKit's encrypted fields, and you can revoke access at any time.
Anything handled through CloudKit is processed by Apple as part of iCloud, under Apple's own privacy terms. If you never use sharing, your data never goes to CloudKit.
Backups
Backups are files you create and keep yourself, protected by a passphrase and strong encryption (PBKDF2, AES-GCM). The developer cannot open them — and neither can anyone else without your passphrase, which cannot be recovered if lost.
What Lighthouse does not do
- We do not sell your data.
- We do not run third-party advertising or tracking SDKs in the app.
- We do not require an account to use the app.
Scope — and what this is not
Lighthouse is an organizational and reflective tool, including for people managing dissociative identity disorder (DID) or similarly complex internal organization needs.
It is not a medical service, a diagnostic or treatment tool, or an emergency resource. If you are in crisis, please contact local emergency services or a crisis line.
Children
Lighthouse is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes & contact
We may update this policy as the app's features change. When we do, we will update the "last updated" date above.
Questions about privacy? Use the contact form — it reaches the developer directly without exposing an email address. You can also use Settings → Send Feedback inside the app.