Fireweed privacy policy — Pronghorn Labs

Fireweed is a web browser for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Pronghorn Labs does not collect, store, share or sell any information about you through it. Fireweed has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and we run no servers that your data passes through. Like any browser, it connects to other services on your behalf; this policy says which, and what each receives.

What stays on your device

Browsing data. Each Space, such as Personal and Work, keeps its own cookies, logins, cache and site data on your device. Burning a tab or a Space deletes that data, except for sites you have marked fireproof.

History. Fireweed remembers the pages you visit in each Space, up to the most recent 5,000, so it can suggest them as you type and show them under History. History is kept on your device only and never synced. Burning a Space erases its history, burning a tab erases that site’s, and History’s Clear button removes any span you choose. Private tabs are never added to it.

Open tabs are remembered on your device, by address and title, so they come back after you quit.

Private tabs keep their cookies and site data in memory only. Nothing from them is written to disk, and it is all deleted when the last private tab in a Space closes.

Rule suggestions. When you move the same site to another Space by hand a few times, Fireweed offers to make a rule. It counts those moves on your device for a week, and a burn forgets them.

Reader. Copies of articles you keep offline, their text and images, are stored on your device and left out of device backups.

Spotlight. Your saved and pinned sites are added to your device’s Spotlight index so you can find them from there. History and tabs are never indexed.

Listen turns articles into speech on your device. Article text is never sent anywhere to be read aloud.

What syncs through your iCloud

If you are signed in to iCloud, Fireweed uses it to keep your devices in step: your Spaces, rules, saved sites, pinned sites, fireproof sites, search engines and settings, Reader display preferences, and the addresses and titles of your open tabs (not private ones), so your other devices can show them, in iCloud key-value storage; and your Reader library (saved links, folders, tags, reading progress and which articles are kept offline), in your private CloudKit database. Apple stores this in your iCloud account under its privacy policy. We cannot see it. You can turn off iCloud for Fireweed in your device’s settings.

Handoff. When Handoff is on in your device’s settings, the page in front of you (never a private one) is offered to your other devices signed in to the same Apple Account, through Apple.

What other services receive

Each of these receives your IP address and the usual details of a web request, such as the time and the browser’s name and version, and handles them under its own privacy policy.

Websites you visit, and sites whose icons Fireweed fetches for your tabs and saved sites. Saving a page to the Reader, or keeping it offline, downloads that page and its images.
Your search engine. A search from the address bar goes to the engine you chose: DuckDuckGo (the default), Google, Bing, Ecosia, Kagi, Brave Search, or an engine you add yourself. As you type in the address bar of an ordinary tab, Fireweed asks the built-in engine you chose for suggestions, sending what you have typed so far, without cookies; private tabs never do this, and you can turn it off with Settings › Search engine suggestions. Fireweed also fetches each engine’s icon from its website about once a month.
oisd.nl. If you turn on ad and tracker blocking, Fireweed downloads oisd’s public block list about once a week. Only the list is requested; nothing about the sites you visit is sent.
Web extensions you add yourself run on the pages you visit and may send data to their makers under their own terms. Fireweed adds none.
Hugging Face. Listen’s natural voice is an optional download of about 300 MB, made only if you choose it. It comes from Hugging Face (huggingface.co), a third-party service that hosts the open-source Kokoro voice model, and Hugging Face receives your IP address and the details of the download under its privacy policy. Once downloaded, the voice works without a network connection.

What Apple may collect

Apple handles the download and, if you have agreed to it in your device’s settings, may share anonymous crash and usage reports with developers. We use them only to fix problems. That is governed by Apple’s privacy policy. Email you choose to send us reaches us with whatever you put in it; we use it only to answer you.

Children

Fireweed collects nothing from anyone, including children.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Fireweed is made by Pronghorn Labs, part of Prairie Fire, LLC, in Colorado. Questions: hello@pronghornlabs.net.