Privacy

Updated October 1, 2026

ForeLight is built so your shoots, your clients and your calendar stay on your iPhone. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no ForeLight servers.

What stays on your iPhone

• Your calendar. ForeLight reads the events you choose to treat as shoots so it can build a brief for each one. It never writes to your calendar and never sends your events anywhere.
• Shoot details you add (shoot type, location type, notes) and your settings.

What leaves your iPhone

To get a forecast, ForeLight sends a location (latitude and longitude, never a name or an event) to these services:

• Apple Weather (WeatherKit), the National Weather Service and Open-Meteo for the forecast
• NOAA Tides and Currents for tides
• NASA GIBS for GOES-West satellite imagery
• Apple Maps for maps, places and drive times

Those requests carry no identifier for you. Each service has its own privacy policy.

If you connect a Google calendar

You can optionally sign in to Google so ForeLight can read a Google calendar that is not on your iPhone. ForeLight then reads your calendar events directly from Google with read-only access. The sign-in token is stored in your iPhone's Keychain and is never sent to us. You can disconnect at any time in Settings.

Permissions

• Location: conditions for where you are.
• Calendar: briefs for your booked shoots.
• Camera and motion: only for the sun finder, which overlays the sun's path on the camera view. Nothing is recorded or saved.

Children

ForeLight is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone.

Contact

Questions: chris@goodeyephotography.com.