Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Account data: your email address and a securely hashed password. That's the only personal information we ask for.
• Your topics: the topics you track and your digest preferences.
• Search history: your recent searches are saved to your account so you can re-run them and see repeat topics worth tracking. Only you can see them, and you can clear the history any time from your account page.
• Usage data: searches performed and product events (e.g. a summary viewed, a source clicked), used to improve the product. Anonymous visitors are rate-limited by IP address, which is processed but not tied to a profile.
• Payments: handled entirely by Paddle.com, our merchant of record. We never see or store your card details — we only store your subscription status.

What we don't do

• We don't sell or rent your personal data. Ever.
• We don't send marketing email. You get digest emails for topics you chose to track — each one has a one-click unsubscribe — plus essential account emails such as password resets.
• We don't store the full text of news articles; we store short excerpts and always link you to the original publisher.

Who processes data for us

TopicTracker runs on trusted service providers, each processing only what their role requires: Supabase (database and authentication), Vercel (hosting), Paddle (payments), Resend (email delivery), Anthropic (AI summarization — your search queries and article excerpts are sent to generate summaries), news data providers (your search terms are sent to retrieve articles), Upstash (caching and rate limiting), and — for product analytics and error monitoring — PostHog and Sentry. Google (Google Ads) measures the effectiveness of our own advertising campaigns.

Cookies

We use cookies to keep you signed in, and analytics cookies to understand how the product is used. We also use the Google Ads tag to measure whether our own advertising works (e.g. that a visitor from an ad signed up). In the EEA, UK and Switzerland this tag runs with ad storage disabled by default. We don't show ads on TopicTracker and never sell your data to advertisers.

Your rights & deleting your data

You can delete your account at any time from your account page. Deletion is immediate and permanent: your account, tracked topics, and digest history are erased, and any active subscription is canceled. You may also ask us to export or correct your data.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@topictrackerapp.com. We'll update this policy as the product evolves and change the date above when we do.