Privacy

Newsletter subscribers

If you subscribe, we store your email address — nothing else. No name, no location, no interests.

It is held by our email provider, Resend, and used only to send the weekly digest. We do not sell, rent, or share subscriber addresses, and we do not use them for anything other than the digest you signed up for.

Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. To have your address deleted outright rather than just marked unsubscribed, email ainformed@proton.me and we will remove it.

App and notifications

AInformed can be installed on your phone from your browser. The app saves pages you read, and the latest stories, on your own deviceso they open offline. That copy never leaves your device, and clearing the site's data in your browser removes it.

Notifications are off unless you turn them on. If you do, your browser gives us a push address— a random web address at your browser maker's push service (Google, Apple or Mozilla) that only accepts messages signed by us — plus its encryption keys and the alerts you chose. We store nothing else: no name, no email, no location, no reading history.

These records are held by our database provider, Upstash, and used only to send the notifications you picked. Turning notifications off deletes your record straight away, and we delete it automatically when your browser reports the address is no longer valid (for example after you uninstall the app or clear site data).

Analytics

We use three tools to see which stories are read and how fast pages load. They differ in how much they retain about you, so they are described separately.

Google Analytics — sets cookies, only if you accept

Google Analytics does not load until you click Accept on the cookie banner. If you decline, or never choose, no Google Analytics script runs and no Google Analytics cookie is set.

If you accept, it stores cookies on your device (named _ga and similar) containing a randomly generated identifier. That identifier lets Google recognise the same browser across visits, so we can see returning readers rather than only page counts. It also receives your IP address, which Google uses to derive an approximate location and then discards.

We use it for aggregate reporting only. We do not link it to your email address, we have not enabled Google Signals or advertising personalisation, and we do not use it to build advertising audiences. Google is a separate company and processes this data under its own privacy policy.

You can change your mind at any time with Cookie settingsat the bottom of every page: choosing Decline deletes the Google Analytics cookies and stops it loading. The site works exactly the same either way. Google's browser opt-out add-on or any tracker-blocking extension also works.

Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights — no cookies

These measure page views and loading performance. Both are cookieless and aggregate: they do not store an identifier on your device and cannot recognise you on a later visit.

We run no advertising scripts and sell no data to anyone.

Server logs

Our host, Vercel, records standard request logs (IP address, user agent, requested URL, timestamp) as a normal part of serving the site. These are used for security and debugging, are retained for a short period by Vercel, and are not combined with subscriber data.

Links out

Every article links to the original source. Once you follow a link you are on someone else's site under their privacy policy, not ours.

Your rights

If you are in the UK, EU, or another jurisdiction with data protection rights, you can ask us to confirm what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it. The only thing we hold directly is a newsletter email address, so this is usually a one-line request. Email ainformed@proton.me and we will respond within 30 days.

Analytics data is a separate matter: it is not tied to your name or email, so we cannot look up “your” records in it. To remove yourself from it, decline analytics cookies as described under Analytics above — that stops collection at source, which is more effective than a deletion request after the fact.

Children

AInformed is a general news site, not directed at children. The newsletter is for people aged 16 and over, and the signup form asks you to confirm that. We do not knowingly collect an email address from anyone younger; if you believe a child has subscribed, email ainformed@proton.me and we will delete it.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the date at the bottom of this page changes with it. See also our editorial policy for how the content itself is produced, and our terms of service for the rules that govern using the site.