Privacy

Last updated: 26 May 2026. Effective from this date for all visitors and account holders.

Feeder is built by one person, and the privacy posture matches: collect what's needed to deliver your edition, store it in named places, hand the minimum to the few vendors involved, and let you delete it.

What Feeder stores about you

• Account. Your Google account's name, email, and profile picture URL — fetched when you sign in. We use the email to identify your account and to deliver editions; the name and picture are shown to you in your own account UI.
• Sources. The URLs you add to your Pantry, and the metadata Feeder discovers about each (title, description, feed URL, favicon).
• Preferences. The topics you follow, your mood and surprise sliders, and your delivery preferences (email on/off, web push on/off, web push subscription if enabled).
• Activity. Your thumbs up / thumbs down on stories, and a record of which editions Feeder has delivered to you.
• Operational logs. When Feeder fetches a source or builds your edition, we log timings, success/failure, and short error breadcrumbs. These help us fix bugs and never contain article bodies.

What Feeder does not store

• Full article bodies. We fetch them when building your edition, summarise them, and discard the original text. Only the short summary and the link back to the publisher are kept.
• Third-party tracking pixels, ad identifiers, or behavioural profiles built for advertising.
• Anything we don't actually use. We don't ask for, store, or guess a phone number, address, age, or any demographic field.

Where your data lives

Your account data and preferences are stored in a managed Postgres database hosted in the United States. The Feeder application and the daily edition cron run on a cloud hosting provider, also in the United States. Source favicons and a small set of marketing assets are kept in an S3-compatible object store; no personal data goes there.

Who else touches your data

Feeder uses a small set of third-party processors to do specific jobs. Each receives only the data needed for that job, and each is bound by their own privacy and security commitments.

• Sign-in provider. Google. When you sign in, Google sees that you authenticated to Feeder; Feeder receives your basic Google profile.
• Email delivery. A transactional email provider sees your email address, the edition's subject line and body, and the time of delivery.
• AI inference. Article text and short prompts are sent to third-party AI providers to extract content, summarise stories, and infer topic similarity. The text is processed for inference and not used to train models. We do not send your name, email, or other personal identifiers to those providers.
• Web push. If you enable browser notifications, the push payload travels through the push service operated by your browser vendor (Google, Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft) to reach your device.

The current list of named sub-processors is available on request at hello@feeder-app.com. We may change providers within a category over time; when we do, the change does not alter what data is shared or for what purpose.

Your rights

• See what we have. Email hello@feeder-app.com and we'll send you an export.
• Delete your account. Available from your profile page. Triggers deletion of your sources, preferences, and delivery history within 30 days.
• Turn off delivery. Toggle email and web push from your profile page at any time.
• Object or correct. If something we have is wrong, or you want it removed without deleting the account, email us.

If you're in the EU/UK, the legal bases we rely on are: contract (to deliver the service you signed up for), legitimate interests (to keep Feeder running and to fix bugs), and consent (for web push notifications, which you explicitly opt into).

Cookies

Feeder uses one cookie: a signed session cookie that keeps you logged in. We do not use cookies for advertising, analytics, or third-party tracking. The marketing site itself sets no cookies.

Changes to this policy

If we materially change this policy, we'll update the "Last updated" date above and, where the change affects active accounts, send a heads-up by email before it takes effect.

Contact

Email hello@feeder-app.com. The data controller is the operator of Feeder, reachable at the same address.