Last updated October 26, 2026 · Early-access draft, not yet reviewed by counsel — treat this as a good-faith placeholder while nibnow is in active development, not a finished legal document.
If you create an account: your name, email address, and a hashed (never plaintext) password, or your Google account's name/email if you sign in with Google. If you don't create an account, your reading preferences (language, region, sectors, text size, voice speed, saved articles) are stored only in your browser's local storage and never reach our servers. If you allow location access, your device's browser asks you directly and shares your coordinates only with Open-Meteo (for weather) and BigDataCloud (to show a city name); coordinates never reach nibnow's own servers, and the weather widget still works, using a default city, if you decline.
To sign you in, remember your preferences, and — for features that call an AI provider (article summaries, Ask AI, translations, quiz generation, voice narration) — send the specific article text and your question/request to that provider to generate a response. We don't sell your data.
Authentication: Google OAuth, when you choose Google sign-in. AI processing: Ask AI questions and follow-ups go only to Google Gemini, Groq, or OpenRouter's model providers (or your own provider, if you connect one). Summaries, scoring, translations, quizzes, and lens analysis use only public article text, and may also be processed by open-model hosts such as Cerebras, NVIDIA, Zhipu AI, or SiliconFlow (the last two operate from China); your questions and account details are never sent to them. Hosting/database: Vercel and Neon. We don't control these providers' own data practices beyond what we send them; consult their policies for details on how they handle data in transit through their APIs.
We use a session cookie to keep you signed in, and browser local storage for guest-mode preferences (see above). We don't currently use third-party advertising or tracking cookies.
You can request deletion of your account and associated data, or export of what we hold on you, by reaching out through the app's support channel once one is published. Guest-mode data can be cleared at any time by clearing your browser's site data for nibnow.
nibnow isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data.
We may update this policy as the product develops. Material changes will update the date above.