Privacy policy
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rss is a feed reader. This page says what it keeps about you, why, and who else handles it. In short: only what it needs to run your account, and nothing for ads or tracking.
Who runs rss
rss is run by George Rodier, in the United States. For anything about your data, write to rss-support@georgerodier.com.
What we keep and why
- Your name and email address, to run your account and send you emails about it.
- A hash of your password, never the password itself. It lets us check the password you log in with, but not recover it.
- Your subscriptions and which articles you opened, to show your timeline and mark what you've read.
- Your stars, tags and timelines, to show your timelines.
- Your logged-in devices: a record for each, with when it was last used, so you stay logged in. It's deleted when you log out, or after 90 days without use.
- The emails we send you, for up to 7 days after sending. Once an email is sent we keep only its address and subject: its text, with any links, is removed.
What we don't do
No ads, analytics or tracking, and we don't sell your data or share it, except a timeline you choose to share (below). The app loads no third-party scripts.
Shared timelines
When you share a timeline, anyone with its link can follow its newest articles (titles, excerpts and links) and see the names of the feeds they come from, but not your name or email. Stop sharing, or make a new link, to turn the old link off.
Who processes data for us
- Render hosts the app and its database, in the US. Its logs of requests to the app include your IP address and are kept for about 7 days.
- Cloudflare runs our DNS and stores the database backups.
- Resend sends our emails, from the US.
Images in articles
Images in articles load straight from the publisher's site, which sees your IP address and browser, as it would if you visited it.
Cookies
rss sets one cookie, the session cookie, which keeps you logged in. Nothing else, so there's nothing to accept or refuse.
How long we keep data
Until you delete your account. Database backups are kept for up to 35 days, so data you delete is gone from them within 35 days.
Your choices
- Export your subscriptions: Settings → Export subscriptions.
- Change your name or email address in Settings.
- Delete your account: Settings → Delete account.
- For anything else, such as a copy of your data, write to rss-support@georgerodier.com.
Pre-alpha
rss is still being built. Until it's ready, its database may be wiped, accounts and all.
Changes to this policy
When this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.