Privacy Policy
Overview
The short version
Put Simply has no sign-up and no accounts. Your reading streak, saved stories, and preferences live only on your own phone. The app talks to our server to fetch today's news content and, if you allow it, to receive push notifications. It also uses Google Firebase to tell us if the app crashes and to measure basic usage patterns like which screens get opened — never anything that identifies you personally.
What we collect
Information the app handles
Your preferences and activity stays on your device
Saved stories, digests, and magazine issues; your reading streak; which digest categories you've read; your language choice; light/dark appearance; and whether notifications are on. All of this is stored using your phone's own local app storage. We never receive it, see it, or store a copy of it ourselves.
Content requests standard network activity
Opening the app requests today's Stories, Digest, and Magazines from our server. Like any app or website request, this carries your device's IP address and basic technical metadata (e.g. which language you requested). We don't attach a personal identifier to these requests or build a profile from them.
Push notifications optional, via Google Firebase
If you allow notifications, your device subscribes to a notification topic named after your chosen language only (for example, "English" or "Hindi") — not anything that identifies you personally. This uses Firebase Cloud Messaging, a Google service; Google's own handling of the technical data involved is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.
Fonts and images standard network activity
The app loads typefaces from Google Fonts and story illustrations from our content delivery, the same way any app loads remote assets — this involves a normal network request but no personal data.
Crash reports and app usage via Google Firebase
Firebase Crashlytics automatically reports a crash's technical details (device model, OS version, and the error itself) if the app fails, so we can fix it. Firebase Analytics logs which screens you open and a few in-app milestones (like completing a day's Digest) so we can tell whether features are actually useful. Both are tied to an anonymous, per-install device identifier — never your name, email, or anything else that identifies you as a person. As part of using Firebase Analytics, the app has the technical capability to access your device's advertising ID, though we don't use it to personalize or target ads — Put Simply has no ads. Google's own handling of this data is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.
What we don't collect
No accounts, no tracking
- No name, email, phone number, or account of any kind
- No location tracking
- No advertising SDKs
- No ad personalization or targeting
- No payment information — the app is free
- No third-party ads
Sharing
When you share a story
Tapping Share creates an image of the story card directly on your device and hands it to whichever app you pick — WhatsApp, Instagram, X, Messages, or anything else — through your phone's own share sheet. We never see, receive, or store that image ourselves; what happens to it after that is between you and the app you shared it to.
Your control
Retention and deletion
Because your saved items, streak, and preferences live only on your device, you're already in full control of them: clearing the app's storage or uninstalling Put Simply deletes all of it, immediately and completely. There's no separate account for us to delete on your behalf, because none exists.
Content
Content accuracy
Stories, digests, and magazines are written by AI from multiple news sources. They're great for a quick, clear catch-up, but we don't guarantee they're complete or error-free — for anything you need to rely on exactly, it's worth checking the original sources.
Children
Children's privacy
Put Simply is a general news app and isn't directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect data from children, and given the app collects no personal information from anyone, there's nothing collected from a child's use of it either.
Updates
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Continued use of the app after a change means you accept the updated policy.