Privacy Policy

The Unc Daily (“we,” “us,” or “the app”) is a satirical newspaper that explains internet slang to the people it baffles most. This policy explains what information the app and this website handle. The short version: you can read everything without an account, and the only personal information we ever collect is an email address — and only if you choose to give us one by subscribing to our newsletter.

No account, no profile

You can read The Unc Daily without creating an account, signing in, or giving us your name or any other personal detail. We don’t build a profile of you, and we don’t use advertising or cross-app tracking identifiers. The one exception is the newsletter described below, which is entirely optional.

Newsletter

Our website lets you subscribe to a newsletter so we can tell you when the app launches and share the occasional update. If you sign up:

• What we collect.Just the email address you type into the form — nothing else.
• How we use it.Only to email you those updates. We don’t sell, rent, or share your email, and we don’t use it for advertising or to profile you.
• Where it’s stored. With our database provider, Supabase, on our behalf.
• Opting out. You can unsubscribe or ask us to delete your email at any time by writing to theuncdaily@outlook.com.

Subscribing is completely optional — you never have to give us your email to read The Unc Daily.

Information kept on your device

Some things are stored only on your device and are never sent to us:

• Saved editions.When you save an issue to read offline, it’s stored locally on your device. Deleting it, or the app, removes it.
• Your preferences. Settings like appearance (light/dark) and text size are stored on your device.
• Games.Your progress in the games — such as the level you’ve reached and your remaining daily lives — is stored on your device.
• Decoder chats.Your conversations with the Decoder stay on your device. See “The Decoder” below.
• Daily reminder.If you allow notifications, the morning reminder is scheduled locally by your device. We don’t send push notifications from a server, and we don’t know whether you’ve enabled them.

The Decoder

The app includes the Decoder, an assistant that explains internet slang. It runs entirely on your device— on supported iPhones it uses Apple’s built-in, on-device intelligence, and otherwise it answers from a glossary bundled inside the app. Either way, what you type into the Decoder is processed on your device and is never sent to us or to any server, and we can’t see your conversations.

Information our servers receive

When the app or website loads the day’s edition, it requests content from our hosting providers. As with any internet service, their servers may automatically log standard technical information — such as an IP address, device or browser type, and the time of the request — to keep the service secure and reliable. We don’t use this information to identify you, and we don’t combine it with anything else.

The app and website also keep a couple of simple public counters — how many times an edition has been read, and its average star rating. When you open or rate an edition, only the edition’s identifier and, for a rating, the star value are sent so those totals can update. This is anonymous: it isn’t tied to an account, a name, or any identifier that points back to you.

Analytics

This website uses Vercel Web Analytics to understand overall traffic, such as how many people visit a page. It’s privacy-friendly: it doesn’t set cookies, doesn’t follow you across other sites, and doesn’t collect information that identifies you personally.

Service providers

We rely on a few third parties to operate The Unc Daily, each handling data only as needed to provide their service:

• Apple distributes the app through the App Store and TestFlight and may provide us with aggregate, non-identifying download and crash statistics.
• Supabase stores and delivers the articles and images, and stores newsletter email addresses.
• Vercel hosts this website and provides the cookieless analytics described above.

We do not sell your information, and we don’t share it with advertisers.

Children

The Unc Daily is general-audience satire and isn’t directed at children under 13. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If we start handling information differently, we’ll update this page and revise the date above.

Contact

Questions about your privacy? Write to us at theuncdaily@outlook.com.