privacy

No accounts. The website sets no cookies and counts visits without knowing who made them. The app has no ads, and one optional measure of our own advertising, on Android only.

zuhd.news does not collect personal data on the website. In the mobile app it holds one thing, and only if you turn on notifications: the push token. If you agree to ad measurement on Android, Meta receives the data described below.

Website

Your browser remembers which articles you have read. That data stays on your device. Fonts are self-hosted.

One script loads from outside: Cloudflare Web Analytics, from the company that already serves the site. It counts page views and measures how fast pages load. It sends Cloudflare the page’s address, the site that linked to it and the load times. It sets no cookie, stores nothing in your browser and does not identify visitors or follow anyone across sites.

Mobile app

The app fetches articles from zuhd-news.pages.dev over HTTPS. Those requests carry no identifier and no usage data. Read history and preferences are stored on your device and never leave it.

Updates

When it opens, the app asks Expo, the service that delivers its updates, whether one is available. That request sends the app’s version and a random number for this install. It says nothing about what you read.

Notifications

If you turn on notifications, the app gets a push token from Expo, the service that delivers them, and sends it to zuhd.news. The token identifies your installation of the app, not you. It is stored for up to 90 days after the app last registered it, passed to Expo when a notification goes out, and used for nothing else. Turning notifications off deletes it.

Ad measurement (Android only)

We advertise the app on Facebook and Instagram. A new reader on Android is asked once whether to allow ad measurement. If you say yes, the app runs Meta’s SDK, which tells Meta the app was installed and opened and sends your phone’s advertising ID and basic device details, so we can see which ads bring readers. Meta and zuhd.news are joint controllers of that collection, and Meta may combine it with what it already holds about you, under its own policy.

The app sends Meta nothing about what you read, and no name, email or account. Say no, or dismiss the question, and none of this runs. You can change your answer at any time in the app under settings, then privacy. Your phone’s own settings can also reset or delete its advertising ID. Meta holds no name or account from us, so to delete what Meta holds, use the tools in your Facebook account or write to Meta.

The iPhone app does not contain this SDK.

Apart from this, the app does not use third-party analytics, advertising frameworks, or crash reporting services.

Audio briefings

Audio briefings are generated using Google’s text-to-speech and hosted on zuhd.news. The app downloads them directly. No user data is shared with Google or any other party.

Contact

Questions about this policy: contact@zuhd.news