Plainly — what Settled collects, and what it doesn't.
Settled doesn't use Google Analytics, Firebase, Mixpanel, Crashlytics, or any other third-party analytics or advertising SDK. There are no trackers in the app.
The first time you open Settled, the app generates a random UUID and stores it on your device. This is the only identifier we use. It isn't tied to your Apple ID, phone number, name, email, or anything else that identifies you — and we have no way to link it back to you.
The app sends us anonymous events using that UUID — "app opened", "story opened", "time spent reading that story". We use this in the aggregate to understand how Settled is being used (for example, "are people still opening the app a week after they install it?"). Nothing in these events can be traced to you.
On a server we run, hosted by Hetzner in Germany. All traffic is TLS-encrypted. We don't share the data with anyone, don't sell it, and don't use it for advertising.
The stories in Settled come from public sources — Wikipedia, The Guardian, NASA (APOD), Futurity, ScienceDaily, Atlas Obscura, Good News Network. When you tap "Read full story", you leave the app and visit the source's own website; their privacy policy applies from that point on. Settled doesn't pass any information about you to those sources.
If this policy changes in a way that materially affects what's collected, we'll update this page and note the change. Email contact@settled.news if you'd like us to delete any events associated with your device's UUID, or if anything here is unclear.