Privacy policy

Last updated: 15 November 2026

What this covers

This policy covers the Fiamia app for iPhone, its extensions (widget, Live Activity and Lock Screen control) and this website. It explains what information the app uses, where it stays and how you can delete it.

Data we collect

None. Fiamia’s developer does not receive, see or keep any information about you or how you use the app. In particular, Fiamia uses no:

• Accounts, sign-ups or log-ins.
• Servers of its own or remote services.
• Advertising, usage analytics or third-party crash reporting.
• Tracking across apps and websites, or advertising identifiers.
• Libraries or SDKs from other companies.

Your candles

Your collection, sessions, notes, ratings, evening journal and photos stay on your iPhone. The brands and names you type stay there too, and are only used to suggest them when you add a candle.

If you turn on Sync with iCloud (Settings → Your data), the same data is also copied to your private iCloud database, run by Apple under your account. Fiamia has no access to that space and cannot read what is in it. Apple’s handling of it is governed by Apple’s privacy policy.

Permissions

Fiamia only asks for a permission when it needs it, and works even if you say no.

• Microphone. Only while Home is visible, the candle is lit and blowing is enabled, to hear you blow on the flame. Audio is processed in the moment: never recorded, saved or sent.
• Camera. Only to read a candle’s barcode. No image is saved or sent.
• Photos. The photos you pick are copied into Fiamia’s archive, or used as the Home background. Fiamia only sees the ones you pick. When you take the wax colour from a photo, the image is only read in the moment and is not kept. The background photo stays on the device and is not synced.
• Notifications. A single notification, when a candle has been burning for 4 hours. It is scheduled on your iPhone, without going through any server.

Siri, Shortcuts and widgets

The actions for Siri and Shortcuts (light, blow out, read the time lit, search your collection) are handled by iOS on your iPhone. The Lock Screen widget and the Live Activity read a small summary of the candle on Home (name, state, time lit, estimated wax), saved in a space shared between the app and its extensions on the same iPhone.

Deleting your data

When you delete a candle, it stays in Recently Deleted for 30 days, where you can restore it or delete it right away. After that it is erased together with its sessions, notes and photos, from iCloud too if sync is on.

Deleting the app removes the data from the iPhone. What is in iCloud can be deleted from Settings › your name › iCloud.

Your rights

Because the developer processes no personal data, there is nothing to access, correct or erase on their side: everything about your candles is in your hands, inside the app. For data stored in iCloud you can exercise your rights directly with Apple. You can always contact the data protection authority in your country.

Children

Fiamia collects no data from anyone, children included.

This website

This site uses no cookies, analytics, or third-party fonts or scripts. The service that hosts it may briefly log technical request data, such as IP addresses, for security and operation.

Changes

If Fiamia ever changes how it uses information, this page will be updated first, with the new date at the top.

Contact

For questions about this policy, write to mcarachino96@gmail.com.

Fiamia is independent and not affiliated with any candle maker.