Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you use the Semaphore - Social feeds mobile application.

Information We Collect

When you use our app, we may collect certain information about you, which may include:

• Account information: When you create an account, we collect your full name, email address, username, and password. Additionally, when you create an account or sign in using Google, we collect your Google profile picture.
• Usage information: We collect information about how you use the app, such as the feeds you follow, articles you read, your reading history, your interactions with content, and general activity patterns within the app.
• Device information: We collect information about the device you use to access our app, including device type, operating system version, and unique device identifiers.
• Network information: We automatically monitor your network connectivity status to provide offline functionality and synchronize data appropriately.
• Log data: We automatically record certain information when you use our app, including your IP address, app activity, and error logs for debugging purposes.
• Crash reports and analytics: We use Firebase Crashlytics to collect crash reports when the app experiences technical issues. This helps us identify and fix bugs. We also use Google Analytics to collect anonymous usage statistics about how you interact with our app, including pages visited, features used, and time spent in the app.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve our reader services
• Authenticate your account and maintain your session
• Fetch and display feed content tailored to your subscriptions
• Sync your reading progress and preferences across devices
• Send you technical notices, updates, and support messages
• Respond to your comments and questions
• Develop new features and improve existing functionality
• Monitor and analyze usage patterns to enhance the performance and user experience
• Detect, investigate, and prevent technical issues, unauthorized access attempts, and other potentially illegal activities
• Personalize your reading experience based on your preferences and history
• Diagnose and fix crashes and other technical issues using Firebase Crashlytics
• Analyze app performance and user behavior through Google Analytics to improve our service

Sharing Your Information

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information only in the following circumstances:

• To comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes
• To protect our rights, property, safety, or that of our users or others
• In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of company assets
• With service providers who help us operate our RSS reader service (such as cloud hosting providers, payment processors, and analytics services) who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential
• With Google Firebase for crash reporting and analytics purposes, subject to Google's privacy policy
• In anonymized or aggregated form that cannot reasonably be used to identify you

Data Storage and Security

We take reasonable measures to help protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These measures include encryption of sensitive data in transit and at rest, regular security assessments, and limited access controls to personal data within our organization.

While we strive to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your data.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as:

• The right to access and receive a copy of your personal data
• The right to correct or update inaccurate personal data
• The right to request deletion of your personal data
• The right to restrict or object to certain processing of your data
• The right to data portability in certain circumstances
• The right to withdraw consent at any time (where processing is based on consent)

To exercise these rights or make related requests, please contact us using the information provided below. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable laws.

If you wish to delete your account and associated data, please visit our Account Deletion Request page for instructions.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the services you have requested, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When your data is no longer required for these purposes, it will be deleted or anonymized.

Children's Privacy

Our reader app is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will promptly delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from a child under 13, please contact us immediately.

International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you reside. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country. We take appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the countries in which we process it.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make material updates, we will notify you by posting the revised policy in the app, updating the "Last Updated" date, and may provide additional notification methods depending on the significance of the changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, our data practices, or to exercise any of your data rights, please contact us at:

Email: aravindmathradan2@gmail.com

Last Updated: May 24, 2025