Privacy policy

OneNew has no accounts and no sign-in, and nobody can tell what any particular person has read. It does send anonymous usage counts, and it does show advertising served through Unity LevelPlay. Both are described below, along with what you can do about each.

Data kept on your device

Your chosen topic, language, light or dark mode, widget preferences, the list of entries you saved to Favorites, and your streak (how many days in a row you have opened the app, and the last day you did) are stored on the device itself. If you place the home screen widget, the app also writes about 30 days of text into a shared storage area on the device, so the widget can turn over at midnight without the app being opened. None of it leaves the device, and deleting the app deletes all of it.

Content and images

All 365 days of writing ship inside the app and can be read offline. Images are fetched from our storage server when you open an entry. Like any internet request, that server records an IP address and device type in technical logs; we do not use those to identify you and do not combine them with anything else. Album and book covers are an exception: they load straight from s servers rather than ours, so on those entries Apple sees " "your IP address, and Applepart.

Notifications

The morning New is a local notification scheduled by your own device. Its wording, including your streak count, is worked out on the device. There is no push from a server, so the app neither needs nor stores any device token. You can turn notifications off at any time in your system settings.

Music, video and outbound links

When you preview a song, watch a trailer or open a page to read more, the app hands you over to a third party such as Apple, YouTube or Wikipedia. From that point their privacy policy applies, not ours.

Usage data

The app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to count things like which topics get opened and which screens get viewed. This data is anonymous: it carries no name, email or account, and we cannot tell what any particular person has read. Firebase assigns each install a random identifier and records device model, operating system and a country estimated from the IP address. To stop it entirely, delete the app; the random identifier goes with it. Crash reports and advertising are separate matters, covered in the two sections below.

Crash reports

When the app crashes, Firebase Crashlytics sends us the place in the code that failed, along with the device model and operating system version, so we can fix it. Reports contain neither what you were reading nor anything that identifies you.

Advertising

The app shows advertising served through Unity LevelPlay (ironSource, part of Unity Technologies): one slot just below the image on a detail page. To select relevant ads and prevent fraud, Unity and its ad networks receive your device advertising identifier (only if you allow tracking), IP address, device model and operating system, and whether you saw or tapped an ad. We send them no name, no email and nothing about what you read, and we get no identity back. We do not sell data to anyone.

Your advertising choices

On iPhone and iPad, iOS asks whether you allow tracking. Decline and you still see ads, but they are not based on your behaviour, and nothing else about the app changes. You can change that answer at any time in iOS Settings, under Privacy & Security, Tracking. With Pro, the app shows no ads at all.

Children

The app asks for no age and has no accounts. It is not directed at children, and because it carries advertising we declare it to the app stores as a general-audience app rather than a children’s app. The content is curated for a general readership.

Contact

For privacy questions, write to the address listed on the app’s store page.