Privacy Policy

Last updated: 28 October 2026

BriefOfToday is built to know as little about you as possible. This page explains, in plain words, what stays on your phone, what the app sends to our server, and why.

No account

There is no sign-up. We never ask for your name, email address or phone number, and the app does not use your contacts, photos, camera, microphone or GPS location.

What stays on your phone

• Stories you save to read later.
• Your tags, and any note you keep private.
• Your theme and display settings.
• What you search for. Search looks through the headlines already on your phone, so the words you type are never sent.

These never leave your phone. If you delete the app, they are gone.

What the app sends to our server

To work, the app talks to our server using a random id created when it is first installed. That id is not linked to your name, your phone number or any identifier from Apple or Google. With it, the app sends:

• Your chosen place: The country and state you picked, so we can show local news. Never your GPS.
• What you switched off, and your news languages: The sources and categories you turned off, and the languages you read the news in (for example English and Hindi), so we can count how many readers use each language.
• Reading signals: A story was opened, liked, disliked or shared (never what you wrote when sharing, or to whom). These help score stories for everyone.
• Notes you choose to share: Only notes you mark as shared. Private notes and tags are never sent. They are not shared with other users.
• Phone details: Platform, OS version, whether it is a phone or tablet, and the maker. Never the actual model or hardware identifiers.
• Notifications: If you chose to allow them, the push address Apple or Google gives the app, which kinds of alerts you want, and your time zone, so alerts stay quiet at night.
• A regular check-in: The app fetches its settings and tells the server it is still installed.
• Session and usage information: A minimum of detail about the app's sessions with our server, and how the app is used. This is used to analyse how the app is used.

How long we keep it

Stories are deleted from our server after a set number of days (currently 14), with their ratings and shared notes. Stories you saved, noted or tagged stay on your phone. Data linked to an install id is kept while the app is in use, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.

Where it is stored

Our server and database run with Amazon Web Services and Supabase. Connections from the app to our server are encrypted (HTTPS).

Children

BriefOfToday is a general news app and is not directed at children under 13.

Your choices

• Turn notifications off at any time in your phone's settings.
• Delete the app to remove everything stored on your phone.
• Email BriefOfToday@icloud.com to ask what we hold for your install, or to have it deleted.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy: BriefOfToday@icloud.com