Privacy Policy | Lumee

1. Introduction

Welcome to Lumee (“we,” “our,” or “us”). Lumee is a home-screen widget app with tools for photo memories, important days, weather, calendar, world clock, daily quotes, steps, water, sleep, rest timer, to-dos, Taiwan e-invoice carrier barcode, exchange rates, horoscope and world news. This Privacy Policy explains what data Lumee 3.0 handles, where it is stored, which services it connects to, and how you can manage it.

Lumee requires no account, shows no ads, and contains no third-party analytics or tracking SDKs.

2. Data Stored on Your Device

Photos: Photos you pick with the system photo picker are copied into storage shared by the app and its widgets, used only to display your widgets, and never uploaded to our servers.
Widget settings: Event names and dates, world clock cities, zodiac sign, currencies, Taiwan e-invoice carrier code, water log, rest timer settings, your chosen style and similar settings are stored on your device.
iCloud sync: Widget settings (not photo files) are synced through your iCloud key-value storage so they can be restored on a new device. This data lives in your iCloud account and is handled by Apple.

3. Data That Requires Your Permission

3.1 Location

Lumee uses your location to show local weather. It asks for “While Using” access only and uses roughly one-kilometer accuracy. The app tries to refresh weather when it launches or returns to the foreground:

Coordinates are sent to Apple WeatherKit for weather; if WeatherKit is temporarily unavailable, they are sent to Open-Meteo instead. The weather widget also queries Open-Meteo with the most recent coordinates.
The city name is obtained through Apple’s geocoding service.
If you don’t grant location access or location fails, the app asks ipapi.co for an approximate location based on your IP address (ipapi.co receives your IP address).

Location and city name are cached only on your device and never uploaded to our servers.

3.2 Health Data (Steps, Sleep)

If you use the steps or sleep tools, Lumee requests read-only access to step count, active energy, walking + running distance and sleep analysis in Apple Health to display them in the app and widgets. Lumee never writes health data and never uploads it to our servers or any third party.

3.3 Reminders

If you use the to-do tool, Lumee requests access to Apple Reminders to read the titles of incomplete items and show them in the widget. Lumee does not modify or upload your reminders.

3.4 Notifications

With notifications on, Lumee can send a local morning notification built from weather and horoscope data on your device. If you allow notifications, the app also registers for Apple push notifications and sends the push device token, together with the anonymous user ID, app version and platform, to our server so we can send announcements and refresh widgets in the background.

4. Data Sent to Our Server

Our server receives only the following and never your name, photos, location or health data:

Anonymous user ID: Randomly generated on first launch, stored on your device and in iCloud key-value storage, and registered with our server when the app launches. You can view and copy it in Me → About LUMEE.
Usage statistics: App open and leave events, time spent, and randomly generated visitor and session IDs, used to understand usage and improve the app. There is currently no in-app switch to turn this off; to have it deleted, email us with your user ID.
Push token: As described in 3.4, sent only if you allow notifications.
Feedback: The message you send from Contact Us, the optional email address you enter, and your anonymous user ID.

5. Other Services the App Connects To

These services receive only the request needed to provide content, plus network information such as your IP address that any connection carries, and handle it under their own privacy policies:

Apple WeatherKit — weather data
Open-Meteo — weather data (fallback and widget updates)
ipapi.co — approximate location from IP when location access is not granted
open.er-api.com — exchange rates (only the base currency you choose is sent)
BBC News RSS — world news headlines; tapping a story opens the BBC website in your browser
Cloudflare R2 — downloading style, banner and sticker configuration
Apple StoreKit — in-app purchases and offer code redemption

Horoscope readings and daily quotes are generated on your device without contacting a third party.

6. In-App Purchases

Lumee Pro is purchased through the Apple App Store. Payment, refunds and transaction records are handled by Apple. Lumee checks your entitlement with Apple on the device and never receives your card or payment details.

7. Children’s Privacy

Lumee does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us immediately.

8. Data Retention and Deletion

Photos and widget settings on your device are kept until you delete the widget or the app. Widget settings synced to iCloud can be managed through iOS iCloud storage settings.
The anonymous user ID, usage statistics, push token and feedback on our server are kept until no longer needed to operate the service or until you ask us to delete them. Email us with the user ID shown in About LUMEE and we will delete the related data.

9. Your Rights

You can:

Revoke location, Health, Reminders, Photos or notification access at any time in iOS Settings
Delete widgets, photos and in-app data
Email us to access or delete server data linked to your user ID

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and will update the date on this page; for material changes we will notify you in the app where appropriate. Your continued use of Lumee after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

[email protected]