Your data, and what we do with it

• Account: your email, your password (stored only as a salted hash, so we never see it), and a display name. If you sign in with Google, we receive your email and name from Google instead of a password.
• Preferences & location: the topics you choose, the sources, stories, and issues you follow, and an optional country, state, and city you provide for local coverage and election reminders. If you use the elections page, you can mark yourself as registered to vote; that flag is self-reported and stays in your profile.
• Activity: the stories you view, bookmark, share, or skip, and your reading history. This powers your reading archive and stats. If you turn on personalization (optional, off by default), it also shapes your feed ranking through a taste profile we keep; turning personalization off deletes that profile.
• Billing: if you subscribe, payments are handled by Stripe. We store a Stripe customer ID, never your card number.

To operate your account, rank your feed (personalized only if you opt in), process subscriptions, send the emails you ask for, keep the service secure, and understand aggregate usage so we can improve Slantwise. That's it. We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use it for third-party advertising.

Only the service providers we need to run Slantwise, and only the data each needs to do its job:

• Stripe: subscription payments
• Google: optional “sign in with Google”
• Resend: sending email
• Hetzner: hosting
• Cloudflare: DNS and database backup storage
• Anthropic: generating some story summaries

We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights and safety of our users and the service.

We use a single secure, first-party cookie to keep you signed in. We do not use third-party advertising or analytics trackers, so there's no cookie consent banner to click through.

We keep your account data for as long as your account is active. Individual articles that aren't bookmarked are automatically removed after about 90 days. When you delete your account, we remove your personal data and cancel any active subscription.

You can review and update your information in Settings, or delete your account and all your data at any time from Settings → Account. Deletion is permanent and can't be undone. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR (EU/UK) or CCPA (California), including the right to access, correct, delete, or object to certain uses of your data. To exercise any of these, use the controls in your account or email us below and we'll help.

Slantwise isn't intended for anyone under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we'll remove it.

We'll update this policy as Slantwise evolves and note the date above; for material changes we'll give you notice. Questions or requests: privacy@slantwise.news.