Privacy Policy

Africa Unfiltered is a local-first African news discovery app operated for the unfiltered.africa domain. For privacy questions, contact administrator@unfiltered.africa.

Information We Collect

• Account information: name, email address, encrypted password data, account status, confirmation and reset-password records, and OAuth identity links.
• Sign-in information: Google OAuth profile fields made available to the app, typically name and email address, plus technical callback data needed to create or access your account.
• Reader preferences: selected feeds, categories, custom feed records, default feed settings, remember-feeds settings, and saved articles or bookmarks.
• Usage and technical data: request metadata, IP address, user agent, device/browser information, error logs, security logs, and coarse analytics events.
• Communications: messages you send to support addresses and transactional email events needed to deliver account messages.

How We Use Information

• Provide the reader, feed selection, article search, saved-story, and account features.
• Authenticate users, protect accounts, prevent abuse, and troubleshoot errors.
• Send transactional emails such as confirmation, password reset, unlock, and account notices.
• Understand aggregate product usage and improve the quality, performance, and reliability of the service.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce service rules.

Cookies And Similar Technologies

Africa Unfiltered uses cookies for session security, account sign-in, feed/category preferences, and consent choices. Optional analytics cookies and scripts are gated by consent through the Probo cookie banner. You can review details on the Cookie Policy.

Third-Party Services

• Google: OAuth sign-in provider. Google's handling of your provider account data is governed by its own privacy policy.
• Cloudflare Turnstile: bot-protection checks on account and form surfaces.
• Probo: cookie consent and preference management.
• Umami, Cloudflare Web Analytics, and Google Analytics: optional analytics scripts loaded only after analytics consent in production.
• Amazon SES: transactional email delivery from the administrator@unfiltered.africa sender.
• Fly.io, Prisma Postgres, and Upstash Redis: planned production hosting, database, and Redis infrastructure for the Rails app.

RSS Sources And Publisher Content

The app stores and processes feed source metadata, article titles, links, summaries, publication times, and media references supplied by publishers or RSS feeds. Custom feed URLs are treated as user-provided data and should not contain private tokens or credentials.

Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards, including encrypted passwords, CSRF protection, restricted secret handling, and provider-managed transport security. No online service can guarantee absolute security.

Data Retention And Deletion

Account data is retained while your account is active or as needed for security, operations, legal compliance, and backup rotation. To delete an account, sign in and use account settings when available, or email administrator@unfiltered.africa from the account email address.

After a verified deletion request, account profile data, selected feeds, saved articles, OAuth identity links, and mobile authentication records are removed from active systems unless retention is required for security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, legal compliance, or backup rotation.

Children

Africa Unfiltered is not directed to children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.

Changes

We may update this policy as the product, mobile apps, providers, or legal requirements change. Updates will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to administrator@unfiltered.africa.