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We do not know who you are. We do not want to.
JTF News exists to deliver verified facts — not to learn about the people reading them. This applies to the website, the iOS and macOS apps, the watchOS app, the RSS feed, and the podcast. It is not a marketing promise. It is how the system is built.
Nothing. There are no analytics SDKs. No crash reporting services. No user accounts. No logins. No device fingerprinting. No advertising identifiers. No cookies beyond what your browser handles for basic session state on this site.
The App Store privacy label for our iOS and macOS apps reads Data Not Collected — because no data is collected.
The JTF News apps make network requests only to jtfnews.org to fetch publicly available content: stories, corrections, source metadata, podcast audio links, and archive files. No data is sent from your device to any server — not to us, not to third parties.
Stories, sources, and archive data are cached locally on your device so the app works offline and loads quickly. This cache lives only on your device, is never uploaded anywhere, and is deleted when you delete the app.
Any notifications you enable (daily digest ready, corrections, breaking facts) are local notifications generated on your device. There is no push notification server. Nothing about your notification preferences leaves your device.
The apps include zero third-party SDKs. No Firebase, no Google Analytics, no Meta SDK, no ad networks, no crash reporters. The apps use only Apple's built-in frameworks.
Podcast audio is hosted on Internet Archive; the Daily Digest video is hosted on YouTube. When you play either, you are making a direct request to those services under their respective privacy policies. We do not proxy, log, or observe those requests.
This website is served as static files from GitHub Pages. Standard web server logs may be recorded by GitHub for operational purposes (see GitHub's privacy statement). We do not run any additional analytics on top of this, and we do not access those server logs.
The operational-cost dashboard on our Support page fetches public usage totals. It observes nothing about you.
If you want to confirm any of this for yourself, the full source code is public: github.com/JTFNews/jtfnews. Read the code. Verify the claims. That is the standard we hold ourselves to for the news we publish; we hold it to ourselves for privacy too.
The methodology belongs to no one. It serves everyone.
Last updated: April 2026