Privacy policy

The short version

Signal needs to know a little about your work, your town and your interests to choose your news. That profile stays on your phone unless you sign in to back it up. We don't sell data, we don't show ads, and we don't track you across other apps.

What we store

• Your profile (industry, role, places, topics, things to never show) is stored on your device.
• If you sign in with Google, we store your profile and your Google account's email and name so you can restore them on a new phone.
• If you join the waitlist or sign up to test, we store your email address, which page you joined from, and what you asked for. Tester emails are shared with Google Play only to give you access to the test.
• If you subscribe to Signal Pro, Google Play handles payment. Our subscription provider, RevenueCat, receives an anonymous app user ID and your purchase status. We never see your card details.

How your brief is made

To build a brief, the app sends your topics and places (not your name or email) to our server. The server matches them against public news and uses AI models to sort stories and write short summaries. News stories and your topics may be processed by our AI providers for that purpose only.

Deleting your data

• Clear the app's data or uninstall it to remove everything stored on your phone.
• In the app, Profile, then Account, then Delete my backup removes your profile and account details from our server straight away.
• No app any more? Ask us on the delete your data page. Waitlist and tester emails are removed straight away; account backups within 30 days.
• We delete waitlist emails once we have told you about the launch.

Children

Signal is not aimed at children under 13 and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll say so in the app before it takes effect.