Privacy

Effective 5 November 2026 · DayNews, a Cognico product

DayNews is a daily AI briefing. It works without an account: reading, listening, and sharing require no sign-in and no personal data. An account exists so your saved stories, your own story cards, and your reading history can follow you between devices — nothing more.

We do not sell personal data, we do not share it with advertisers, and the app carries no advertising SDKs and no tracking pixels. It does count visits, using Vercel’s privacy-friendly analytics: no cookies, no identifier stored, and nothing that follows you to another site. It can tell us that forty people read this morning; it cannot tell us that you were one of them.

We do look at how the app is used — how many people read, how much they read and listen, and which stories draw the most readers — to decide what to build. We look at these as totals across everyone, never as one person’s reading.

What we collect

If you never sign in: nothing that identifies you. Pages are served, and the service worker caches content on your own device.

If you sign in, we store:

• Your account — email address, and a name and profile photo when your sign-in provider supplies them. This is held by Clerk, our authentication provider, not in our own database.
• Stories you save— the story's address and when you saved it.
• Your reading history — which stories you opened and read, and when. A story is recorded only if you opened its deep dive and stayed at least twenty seconds. We record which story and when: no scores, no inferences, no guesses about you.
• Which days you opened the briefing— one mark per day, and a second mark if you reached the end of that day’s stack. No story, no duration, no page: it records that you opened it, not what you looked at. We use it to see whether people come back and whether the daily stack is the right length.
• Reading totals— a count of stories explored and seconds of active reading, used for the “you're all caught up” card at the end of a briefing.
• Story cards you create — the link you paste and the card generated from it. These are private to you unless you choose to share one.
• Your weekly audio playlist — the stories you select for it.
• Listening time — how many seconds of the audio briefing you actually played. Only playback counts; a page left open does not.

If you sign up for the daily email(no account needed), we store your email address, whether you have confirmed it, the page you signed up from, and the date of the last email we sent you. Nothing is sent until you click the confirmation link. We do not track whether you open it. We count how many times each link in a day’s email is clicked, as totals only: the count never records who clicked. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing stops all email at once; we keep the address marked as unsubscribed so that it stays off the list. To have it erased entirely, email hello@cognico.ai. The daily email is separate from your account: deleting an account does not unsubscribe an address, and unsubscribing does not touch an account.

How long we keep it

Reading history expires by itself after 180 days. That is enforced by the database, not by a promise: each entry carries an expiry and is deleted automatically. Saved stories, story cards, and playlist selections are kept until you remove them or delete your account.

Seeing and erasing your data

Your reading history is yours to inspect and erase. Signed in, visit Reading history — a section of My Library — to see exactly what is stored and erase all of it in two taps. Erasing history never touches your saved stories.

To delete your account and everything attached to it, open the account menu → Account → Security → Delete account. Your saves, reading history, story cards, playlist and counters are erased from our database automatically, within seconds. You can also email hello@cognico.ai from your account address and we will do it for you.

Who else is involved

• Clerk — accounts and sign-in, including Google sign-in when you choose it.
• MongoDB Atlas — the database holding the items above.
• Vercel — hosting and delivery; standard server logs. Also the visit counting described above: cookieless, aggregate, and never joined to your account.
• Cloudflare R2 — storage for the audio briefings.
• Resend— delivers the daily email and its confirmation message. It receives your address and the email’s content, and nothing else. Its open and click tracking are off.
• Sentry — error monitoring: when something breaks, it receives the error and which page it happened on. We have turned OFF the parts that would make it tracking — no IP addresses, no cookies, no account ids, no performance traces, and no session replay (which would record your screen).
• Anthropic and ElevenLabs — writing and narrating the briefing. They process news articles and papers, not your personal data.

The mobile apps

The iOS and Android apps are the same website in a native shell. They collect nothing beyond what is described above. If you share a link into DayNews from another app, that link is used to build your story card and for nothing else.

Children

DayNews is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If what we collect changes, this page changes with it and the effective date above moves. Material changes will be announced in the app.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or a deletion request: hello@cognico.ai.

See also the terms, which cover the subscription, cancellation, and refunds.