Last updated: [EFFECTIVE DATE]
This policy explains what personal data Newsido collects, why, who else sees it, how long we keep it and what you can tell us to do about it. We have tried to write it so that a reader can follow it, not only a lawyer. If anything here is unclear, ask us and we will explain it and fix the wording.
Newsido is operated by [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] ("we", "us"), a company registered in the United Kingdom under company number [COMPANY NUMBER], with its registered office at [REGISTERED ADDRESS]. For the personal data described in this policy, [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] is the data controller.
Newsido is not for children. You need to be at least 16 to hold an account. We do not knowingly collect data about anyone younger, and if we find that we have, we delete it.
You can read Newsido without signing up, and we would rather you did that than hand over details you do not need to give us. Without an account we hold no profile for you at all. What still happens is this:
Our Cookies Policy lists every cookie by name.
Signing up with an email address means we ask for, and store:
The date-of-birth step exists because some of what Newsido covers is not suitable for children; you can leave the rest of the profile empty for ever and the app works normally. Your account also records the IP address you signed up from and the last time you were active, which is how we handle account security and abuse.
If you choose "Continue with Google", Google asks your permission and then hands us a small, fixed set of details: a Google account identifier, your email address, your first and last name where your Google profile has them, and the web address of your Google profile picture. We do not receive your Google password, your contacts, your calendar, your search history or anything else in your Google account, and we cannot go back to Google for more later.
From that we create your Newsido account: your name and email are filled in, a username is generated for you, and your profile picture is copied once from Google onto our own storage so that your avatar keeps working if you later change it at Google. We keep the Google account identifier so that we recognise you the next time you sign in. Google's own handling of the sign-in is covered by Google's privacy policy, not ours.
Newsido never asks your browser or phone for GPS. Around You works from an area, and there are three ways it can get one:
If you are signed in, your area is stored against your account; if you are not, it lives only in a cookie on your device. You can change it whenever you like from the Around You banner. To have it removed entirely, clear your Newsido cookies or, if you have an account, email [PRIVACY EMAIL] and we will delete the record. Setting an area from a postcode also fills in the "location" line on your public profile as a region, area and outward code (for example "London, Havering RM3"); a guess from your IP never does.
These records exist because the features would not work without them. Each one is tied to your account, and none of it is shared with advertisers or sold.
We do not build an advertising profile from any of this, we do not track you across other websites, and there is no third-party analytics or advertising code on Newsido.
Two different things happen on Newsido, and it matters that you can tell them apart.
Story analysis. When a story arrives from a public feed, its headline and text are sent to an AI model to be summarised. Depending on how the site is configured this is either a model running on our own server or a commercial provider's API. No reader data is involved — the model is only ever shown the published article.
Ask. If you use "Ask about this story" or Explore › Ask, the question you type is sent, with the relevant story text, to Anthropic's API, which may run a web search to answer it. Your question therefore leaves our servers, and it is processed under Anthropic's own terms as our processor. Your name, email address and account are not sent with it. Please do not type anything into Ask that you would not want to leave our servers — it is a news tool, not a confidential one. Your questions and the answers are also stored against your account so that you can look back at the thread.
No decision with a legal or similarly significant effect on you is made about you by automated means. The AI ranks and summarises news; it does not decide anything about you.
Under the UK GDPR we must have a lawful basis for each use of your data. Ours are:
| What we do | Lawful basis |
|---|---|
| Running your account, your feed, saved stories, Your Day, puzzles, predictions and Ask | Performance of a contract — the terms you accept when you sign up |
| Keeping the site up, preventing abuse and spam, security logs | Legitimate interests — running a service that works and is not overrun |
| Remembering your area, theme and language; counting a story view once | Legitimate interests, and the storage itself is covered in our Cookies Policy |
| Push notifications to a mobile device | Consent — you allow them on the device and can withdraw at any time |
| Improving which sources and stories we publish, using "was this useful?" answers | Legitimate interests — making the product better for readers |
| Answering a legal or regulatory obligation | Legal obligation |
Where we rely on legitimate interests you can object, and we will stop unless we have a compelling reason not to. Where we rely on consent you can withdraw it at any time, without giving a reason, and that does not affect anything done before you withdrew it.
We do not sell personal data and we do not share it for anyone else's marketing. The organisations below see some of it because they do a job for us:
Newsido also draws data from Open-Meteo (weather), Frankfurter (exchange rates), Stooq (oil), GOV.UK (fuel prices), the Office for National Statistics (inflation), the Bank of England (base rate) and data.police.uk (recorded crime). Those are one-way reads of published statistics: no reader data is sent to any of them.
Some of these providers are outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States. Where data leaves the UK we rely on the UK's adequacy findings or on the International Data Transfer Agreement or Addendum, so that your data keeps essentially the same protection it has here.
We will also disclose data where the law requires it, or to protect someone's safety, or to establish or defend legal claims.
Your username, your display name, your profile picture and cover, your bio, your website, the location line described in section 5 and anything you publish are visible to other people. Your email address, phone number, date of birth and IP address are not. Treat the profile as a public page, because that is what it is.
Under UK data protection law you have the right to:
You also have the right to object to our use of your data where we rely on legitimate interests. That is a right in its own right: you do not have to give a reason, and we must stop unless we can show compelling grounds that override yours.
Much of this you can do yourself. Your profile fields are editable in Settings. Notifications can be turned off in Settings or on your device. Your area can be changed from the Around You banner. Your account can be closed from Settings, which deletes it. For anything else, email [PRIVACY EMAIL]. We will reply within one month, and we will tell you if we need longer. We do not charge for this. We may ask you to confirm who you are first, so that we do not hand your data to somebody else.
Please give us the chance to put it right first: [PRIVACY EMAIL]. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data protection regulator, at any time. The ICO is at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF, on 0303 123 1113, and at ico.org.uk.
The site is served over HTTPS, passwords are stored as one-way hashes, session cookies are marked so that scripts cannot read them, and access to the database is limited to the people who need it. No system is perfectly secure; if there is ever a breach that puts you at risk we will tell you and the ICO, as the law requires.
If we change how we use your data we will update this page and change the date at the top. Where a change matters to you we will tell you in the app rather than hope you re-read the page. The current version is always the one published here.
See also our Cookies Policy and Terms of Service.
