Privacy policy
Your privacy, plainly.
1. Who we are
The data controller, within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, Regulation (EU) 2016/679), is [to be completed: operator name], [to be completed: postal address]. This policy covers the Newsbike app (iPhone, iPad and CarPlay) and this website, www.newsbike.app.
For anything about your data, write to privacy@newsbike.app. We read it, a person answers, and we reply within one month at the latest.
2. In short
- No account. We never ask for your name, your email address or a password.
- No tracking, no advertising, no analytics, in the app or on this website. No cookie is set, so there is no cookie banner.
- To make your brief we receive your language and time zone. Local weather is part of Custom Brief: only a subscriber who turns it on sends an approximate location (or a city) and units. A free listener never sends a location.
- If you subscribe to Custom Brief, we keep the choices you made (topics, countries, sports, stocks, voice) so the brief can be ready in the morning. You can delete them in the app.
- Payments are handled entirely by Apple. We never see your card or your Apple Account.
3. What we process, why, and on what legal basis
| When | Data | Purpose | Legal basis | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You open the app and ask for today's brief | Language of your phone, time zone, the day, and your IP address, which reaches our server with any request | Choosing and delivering the right brief (language, edition, "today" where you are); keeping the service secure | Performance of the service you asked for (Art. 6(1)(b)); our legitimate interest in security (Art. 6(1)(f)) for the IP address | The request itself is not stored. The server's access log, which contains the IP address, is kept 14 days |
| You have Custom Brief and turn on local weather (free listeners cannot: they hear the world's weather and nothing about where they are is sent) | An approximate location: the app sends coordinates, and our server rounds them to a tenth of a degree (about 10 km) before using them. Or the name of a city that you typed. And your units (°C or °F) | Writing the weather chapter for your area | Your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)), given in the iOS location prompt or by typing the city. You can withdraw it at any time by turning weather off in Settings or in iOS | The brief for an area is shared with other listeners of the same area and is deleted after 14 days. It is filed under the rounded area and the place name, never under your name or device |
| You subscribe to Custom Brief | Apple's signed proof of your subscription, from which we take an identifier of the subscription (not your Apple Account) and its expiry date | Checking that you are subscribed, and delivering what you pay for | Performance of the contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) | While the subscription is active, plus 7 days |
| You make choices in Custom Brief | Topics and their order, countries (up to three), sports and competitions (up to six), stocks and coins, voice, language, edition, and counters of briefs made (to apply daily limits) | Preparing your brief before you wake up | Performance of the contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) | While the subscription is active, plus 7 days. Deleted at once if you use "Remove my saved choices" in the app |
| You use the app | The last brief, your preferences, and the time of your morning reminder: all on your device only | Offline listening and your settings | Not applicable: we do not receive this data. It is stored on your device because it is strictly necessary for the service you asked for | Until you delete the app or its data |
| You turn on the morning reminder | The time you choose | A notification at that time | Your consent (iOS notification prompt) | On your device only. Nothing is sent to us or to a push service: it is a local notification |
| You visit this website | What every web server receives: your IP address, the page requested, the date and time, and your browser's description of itself | Delivering the pages and keeping the site secure | Our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) | 14 days. The IP address is shortened before it is written to the log |
| You write to us | Your email address and what you tell us | Answering you, and keeping a record of requests about your rights | Our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)); legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) for rights requests | About 12 months after the last message, longer only where the law requires |
The text of a brief is written from public news sources and contains nothing about you. Neither your IP address nor any identifier of yours is ever put in a request to the companies that write and voice the brief.
4. What we never do
- We do not create accounts, profiles of your behaviour or advertising identifiers, and we do not use cookies or similar trackers.
- We do not use analytics or crash-reporting services that identify you, in the app or on this site.
- We do not sell, rent or share your data for advertising, and we do not use it to train artificial-intelligence models.
- We take no automated decision about you that has legal or similarly significant effects (Art. 22 GDPR). The only automation is choosing which brief to play.
- This website loads nothing from another company: its fonts, images and scripts come from our own server, so your visit is not disclosed to a third party.
5. Who receives data
We use a few service providers (processors) who act only on our instructions:
| Provider | Role | What it receives |
|---|---|---|
| [to be completed: hosting company and address] | Hosting of our server | All the data described above, in the servers located in [to be completed: country of the servers] |
| OpenAI | Writes the brief | Instructions and the topics to write about (and, for Custom Brief, the chosen topics, countries, sports and symbols). No identifier, no IP address, no location finer than a place name |
| ElevenLabs | Speaks the brief | The text to read aloud. Nothing that identifies you |
| Open-Meteo | Weather forecasts and city search | From our server, never from your phone: coordinates rounded to about 10 km, or the city name you typed |
| Apple | Distribution of the app, payments and subscriptions, and notifications on your device | Governed by Apple's own privacy policy. We receive from Apple only the signed proof of a subscription, described above |
Authorities may receive data if the law requires it. We do not otherwise give your data to anyone.
6. Transfers outside the European Union
Some of these providers are based in, or process data in, the United States. Where that is the case, the transfer relies on the European Commission's adequacy decision for the EU–US Data Privacy Framework if the provider is certified under it, and otherwise on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the Commission, with the safeguards our contract with each provider describes. You can obtain a copy of these safeguards by writing to privacy@newsbike.app.
7. How long we keep data
The table in section 3 gives the period for each kind of data. The numbers come straight from our server's settings: the shared briefs and weather files for 14 days, a subscriber's saved choices for the life of the subscription plus 7 days, and access logs for 14 days. After that, the data is deleted automatically.
8. Your rights
You have the right to access your data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its processing, to receive it in a portable format, and to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting what was done before. You may also give instructions about what happens to your data after your death.
- In the app: Settings → "Remove my saved choices" deletes what we hold about a Custom Brief subscription. Turning off local weather in Settings or in iOS stops any location being sent.
- By email: write to privacy@newsbike.app. Because we have no account, we cannot tell who you are from your email address. To find your data we may ask for the original transaction identifier of your subscription (shown by Apple in your purchase receipt). We do not ask for identity documents.
- We answer within one month. It is free.
If you think we have not respected your rights, you may complain to a data protection authority, in particular that of your country of residence, your workplace or the place of the alleged infringement. The list of European authorities is at edpb.europa.eu. In France it is the CNIL (cnil.fr). We would appreciate the chance to put things right first.
9. Security
Connections to our server and to this website are encrypted (HTTPS). Subscriptions are verified against Apple's signature. What a subscriber types is reduced to a closed list of values before it is used, and access to the server is restricted. We will notify the competent authority within 72 hours of learning of a breach that endangers your rights, and you too where the risk is high.
10. Children
Newsbike is not directed at children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data. Since the app needs no account and collects almost nothing, a parent who has a concern can write to us and we will delete what we hold.
11. Changes to this policy
When we change what we do with your data, we change this page first and update the version and date above. If a change matters (a new purpose, a new kind of data), we will say so in the app before it applies. Earlier versions are available on request.