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Privacy Policy

By envie studio

Last updated: October 7, 2026

1. Who We Are

Fireside is a desktop client for Firebase (Firestore, Authentication and Storage), developed and operated by envie studio ("we", "us", or "our"). For privacy questions, contact us at fireside@envie.studio.

2. Google User Data

You can connect Fireside to your Google account with Google Sign-In. When you do, you choose to grant the app these permissions:

• Your email address and basic profile (name): shown in the sidebar so you can tell which Google account a project belongs to.
• Firebase (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase) and Google Cloud Platform (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform): used to list the Firebase projects and databases you have access to, and to read, create, edit and delete Firestore documents, Firebase Authentication users and Cloud Storage files when you ask the app to.

How this data is handled:

• Every request goes directly from your computer to Google's APIs. Your Firebase data is shown in the app and is never sent to envie studio or to any other third party.
• The refresh token Google issues is stored only on your computer, encrypted with your operating system's secure storage (the Keychain on macOS, DPAPI on Windows), so you stay signed in. Short-lived access tokens are kept in memory only. Neither is ever sent to our servers.
• We do not use Google user data for advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not use it to train AI or machine-learning models.
• Humans at envie studio cannot read your Google user data. The only exception is if you deliberately send it to us yourself, for example in a support email.

Fireside's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

You can disconnect at any time by removing the Google account in Fireside, which deletes its stored tokens from your computer. You can also revoke Fireside's access in your Google Account permissions.

3. Service Accounts

If you connect a project with a service account key file instead, Fireside remembers where the file is on your computer and reads it locally to call Google's APIs. The key is never uploaded to us.

4. Purchases and Licensing

Fireside is sold through Polar, which acts as the merchant of record. Polar collects your name, email, billing address and payment details to process the purchase, and issues your license key. Polar's privacy policy applies: https://polar.sh/legal/privacy.

To activate and check your license, the app sends Polar:

• Your license key
• A random identifier generated for your computer when the app is first activated
• Your computer's name and operating system (for example "MacBook Pro (macOS)"), so you can recognize your devices in Polar's customer portal

The app checks the license when it starts, at most once a day. It also sends your license key to envie.studio to show how many devices the key is active on. We don't store it; only the device count is sent back.

After a purchase, we may add your name and email to our email list on Loops, to send purchase-related emails and occasional product updates. Every email has an unsubscribe link.

5. Updates

Fireside checks for new versions by downloading a small update file from downloads.envie.studio, hosted on Cloudflare. Like any web request, this exposes your IP address to Cloudflare. No personal data is sent with it.

6. Website

envie.studio uses Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics tool that doesn't use cookies, to count page visits. The site is hosted on Cloudflare.

7. What We Don't Do

• We don't include analytics, tracking or crash reporting in the app
• We don't sell your personal data
• We don't share your data with third parties for marketing

8. Data Retention

• On your computer: connected accounts, tokens, settings and your license stay until you remove them in the app or uninstall it.
• Purchase and license records: kept by Polar for as long as required for tax and accounting.
• Email list: kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.

9. Your Rights

Depending on where you live (including under the GDPR), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or export the personal data we hold about you, and to object to how it's used. To make a request, email fireside@envie.studio. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

10. Children

Fireside is a developer tool and isn't intended for children under 16.

11. Changes to This Policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the date above. Significant changes will also be announced in the app's release notes.