NewsThread Privacy Policy

Effective date: March 22, 2026

NewsThread is an Android news reader that helps you compare how different outlets cover the same story. This release is designed to keep the core reading and matching experience on your device whenever possible.

What the app does

• Fetches news feeds through a Cloudflare Worker used by NewsThread.
• Downloads article content and images when needed to power the reading experience.
• Runs semantic matching, clustering, and bias visualization logic on-device.
• Can send tracked-story notifications when you allow notification permission.

What data NewsThread does not collect for this release

• No account registration or sign-in is exposed in the shipped app.
• No advertising identifiers are used.
• No third-party analytics SDKs or crash-reporting SDKs are bundled for release telemetry.
• No cloud backup of app preferences is enabled in this release.

Network requests and third-party services

NewsThread makes network requests to retrieve news feeds, resolve article links, load article pages, and download images. Those requests may pass through NewsThread's Cloudflare Worker or directly to third-party publishers whose content you choose to view.

Standard web infrastructure may process technical request data such as IP address, user-agent, and request timing to deliver content and operate the service. NewsThread does not use this release to build advertising profiles or sell personal data.

Permissions used by the shipped app

• Internet / network state: Required to load feeds, images, and articles.
• Post notifications: Required only if you allow tracked-story alerts.
• Boot completed / foreground service: Required for background refresh workers.

Future enhancements

The codebase may contain dormant dependencies related to future account or backup features, such as optional Google Drive backup. Those features are not active or exposed in this release.

Your choices

• You can control article text fetching and background analysis behavior from Settings.
• You can decline notification permission and still use the rest of the app.

Contact

For questions about this policy, open an issue at github.com/lweiss01/news-thread/issues.