Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 3, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how BitTide News ("we", "us", or "the Service") collects, uses, and protects information when you use our website and email digests.

1. Information We Collect

• Account & subscription data: email address you provide to sign in or subscribe to digests, and your selected delivery frequency and language.
• Usage data: page views, request identifiers, referring URLs, browser type, and approximate region. This is used to operate, secure, and improve the Service.
• Cookies: essential cookies for sign-in sessions and language preference. We may use first-party analytics cookies to measure aggregated traffic.
• Feedback you submit: any content and optional contact email submitted via the in-app feedback form.

2. How We Use Information

• To deliver the Service, including news listings, search, and email digests.
• To authenticate you, secure your account, and prevent abuse.
• To send transactional and digest emails you have requested.
• To analyze aggregate usage and improve content selection and ranking.

3. Email Digests

If you subscribe to a daily or weekly digest, your email address is stored solely to deliver that digest. Each email contains a one-click unsubscribe link, and you may unsubscribe at any time.

4. Third-Party Services

We rely on third-party providers for email delivery, hosting, and analytics. These providers process data on our behalf under their own privacy terms. Articles linked from BitTide News are hosted by their original publishers, whose privacy practices are independent of ours.

5. Data Retention

Account and subscription data are retained while your account or subscription is active. Server logs are typically retained for a limited operational period and then deleted or anonymized. You may request deletion of your data by contacting us.

6. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information. However, no method of transmission or storage is fully secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Children

The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

8. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. Contact us to exercise these rights.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

10. Contact

For privacy questions or requests, please use the in-app feedback form on BitTide News.