1. About this policy
Anemone 3 is a wedding-day app for iPhone and Apple Watch from Kevin Stauss, operating as Silicron Code. On the App Store it’s called Anemone: Wedding Day Timeline. This policy covers version 3.0 and later. The original Anemone app (version 1) has its own privacy policy.
The short version: I don’t run a server for Anemone, and I don’t collect your data. There are no accounts, no analytics, no ads, and no tracking. What you enter lives on your devices and in your own iCloud account. It goes somewhere else when you share it, or when the app asks one of Apple’s services for a map route or a forecast.
2. Your weddings and iCloud
Everything you add to a wedding is stored in the app’s database on your iPhone. That includes the timeline and venues, the shotlist, contacts, notes, and the PDFs and photos you attach. Your settings are stored on the device too.
If you’re signed in to iCloud, Anemone uses Apple’s CloudKit to keep a copy of your weddings in the private iCloud database of your own Apple Account, so your other devices see the same weddings. I can’t see into that database. Apple stores it under Apple’s Privacy Policy and your iCloud settings. If you aren’t signed in to iCloud, your weddings stay on the iPhone.
The app also keeps one small marker in your iCloud Keychain that says the sample wedding has already been added, so a second device doesn’t add another copy. It holds nothing else.
Weddings usually include details about other people, like the couple, the planner, and the vendors. Add and share only what you have a right to use.
3. Sharing a wedding
When you choose Collaborate Live, Anemone moves that wedding into a shared zone in your iCloud database and creates an iCloud share for it. You send the invitation however you like (Messages, Mail, or a link). Anyone who accepts can see and edit the whole wedding, including its contacts, notes, and attached files, and their changes sync back through iCloud. The shared wedding stays in the iCloud account of the person who shared it. When something changes, Apple’s push service sends the other devices a silent notice to fetch the update; the wedding’s contents aren’t in that notice.
You can stop sharing from the wedding’s Share screen, and deleting a wedding you shared ends the share for everyone. To leave a wedding someone shared with you, swipe it in the wedding list and tap Leave. If you’re offline, the change takes effect once the request reaches iCloud. Stopping a share can’t take back what someone already saw, exported, or screenshotted.
Send a Copy, PDF export, and CSV export create a file that you pass along through the share sheet. Whoever receives the file gets what’s in it, and it isn’t linked back to your wedding. The app deletes its temporary copy of the file when the share sheet closes, and clears any leftover export older than 24 hours the next time it opens. Opening an .anemone file or importing a CSV happens on your iPhone.
4. Location, maps, and weather
Location access is optional and only used while you’re using the app. Anemone asks for a single reading, accurate to about a hundred meters, in two places: the drive time from where you are to the first venue on the timeline, and the “Your location” weather reading and next-hour rain on the Weather tab. It doesn’t track you in the background, and your location is never saved to a wedding or synced to iCloud. You can turn it off in the Settings app and still use venue addresses for everything else.
A few features ask Apple’s services for information:
- Searching for a venue sends what you type to Apple Maps.
- Drive times send the start and end coordinates, and the planned departure time, to Apple Maps. Anemone also looks up a venue’s time zone from its coordinates.
- Forecasts send the venue’s coordinates, or your location for the “Your location” reading, to Apple’s WeatherKit.
Apple handles those requests under its own privacy policy. Anemone keeps recent drive times for up to a day and recent forecasts for up to a week in a cache on your iPhone, so it doesn’t have to ask again.
Golden hour, sunset, and the other sun times are calculated on your iPhone using SunKit, an open-source library that does the math offline. Nothing is sent anywhere for those.
If you open directions in Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Waze, Anemone hands that app the destination and, when it has one, your starting point. Calling, texting, emailing, or opening a vendor’s Instagram opens the app you picked, and that app’s privacy practices apply.
5. Contacts, photos, and files
Import from Contacts asks for access to your contacts. Anemone reads names, phone numbers, email addresses, company names, and job titles to show you a list on your iPhone, and only the people you pick are copied into the wedding. Your address book isn’t uploaded or kept anywhere else. iOS also lets you share only some contacts with the app, and you can change that in the Settings app at any time.
When you attach a photo or a PDF, the system picker gives Anemone only the item you chose. The app doesn’t get access to the rest of your photo library or files.
6. Notifications, widgets, and Apple Watch
Event reminders and leave-by alerts are scheduled on your iPhone. They aren’t sent from a server. Some are marked Time Sensitive, and they can show wedding and event names on your Lock Screen.
The widgets and the Live Activity read a small snapshot of the day’s schedule from storage the app shares with them on your iPhone. They can show event names, times, places, and leave-by times on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Dynamic Island. If that isn’t something you want someone nearby to see, you can change what the Lock Screen shows in the Settings app.
If the Anemone app is installed on your paired Apple Watch, your iPhone sends it the day for today’s wedding or the next one coming up (the sample wedding, if you haven’t added one yet). That covers the couple’s names, the events with their times and places, leave-by times, and the shotlist when you have access to it. It travels directly between your iPhone and your watch using Apple’s WatchConnectivity. Anything you check off on the watch goes back to the iPhone and syncs from there. The watch keeps only that one day, and its complication shows the next event.
7. Purchases
Apple handles payment for Premium and for tips. Anemone uses StoreKit to check what you’ve bought on this Apple Account so it can unlock Premium, and I never see your name or payment details. Apple sends developers sales reports that don’t identify you. You can manage or cancel a subscription in the Settings app under your Apple Account.
8. What Anemone doesn’t do
Anemone has no accounts, no analytics or crash-reporting SDK, no advertising, and no tracking across other apps or websites. Nothing is sold or shared for advertising. SunKit is the only third-party code in the app, and it never goes online.
If you’ve turned on Share With App Developers in the Settings app (Privacy & Security, then Analytics & Improvements), Apple may send me crash reports and usage statistics that don’t identify you. You can turn that off whenever you like.
9. Keeping and deleting your information
Your weddings stay until you delete them. Swipe a wedding in the list and tap Delete, and the deletion syncs to your other devices through iCloud. Deleting the app removes the copy on that iPhone but leaves the iCloud copy in place. To remove that too, open the Settings app, tap your name, then iCloud, and delete Anemone’s data from your iCloud storage. Device and iCloud backups follow Apple’s settings.
Cached drive times and forecasts expire on their own, as described above, and iOS can clear them sooner when it needs space.
10. If you email me
When you write to me for support, I get your email address, your message, and anything you attach. I use it to answer you and for nothing else, and I don’t add you to a mailing list. Please don’t send wedding files or other people’s details unless I need them to fix your problem.
11. This website
This site serves its own styles, scripts, and images and uses system fonts. It doesn’t load advertising or analytics scripts. The website host receives ordinary request information, like your IP address and the page you asked for, to serve the page. Links to the App Store, email, social, or donation sites follow those services’ privacy practices.
12. Children and changes
Anemone is made for people who work weddings. It isn’t directed at children under 13, and since the app doesn’t collect personal information, it doesn’t collect any from children. If you think a child has emailed me personal information, let me know and I’ll delete it.
This version took effect on September 26, 2026. If the policy changes, I’ll post the new version on this page and update the date at the top.
13. Contact
Kevin Stauss / Silicron Code
Email: kevin@silicroncode.com