Privacy policy

This policy explains what Iyan collects, why, and how you control it. Last updated: 2026-10-23.

What we collect

• Account data: email and name; your password is stored hashed, never in plain text.
• Preferences: fields, interests, country, city, language, brief time and voice.
• Reading signals: what you save or follow, glance swipes and dwell time, used to rank your feed. Linked to your account, never sold or shared.
• What you write: notes, watch terms and questions about developments.
• Notifications: the push subscription your browser issues if you turn notifications on. Breaking-news alerts are off unless you turn them on.
• Your news taste: your ratings of stories (interested / not, and how much), what you hide or mute, and an AI-written summary of what interests you based only on the headlines you rated. You can view, edit and reset it in Settings.
• Reports and events: collected from publicly published news and websites, linked to you only through your interests; a report digest sends only the published report text to the AI model.
• Aggregate metrics: we record which days an account was active and general counters (such as home opens) to measure active users and retention; these records are deleted after 120 days.
• Usage history: we record what you do in Iyan (screens you open, the stories and developments you read and for how long, what you save, share, hide or follow, and search terms) together with each item's topic and source. We use it to improve your feed's ranking and to understand what helps readers. Only Iyan's authorised admin team can see it, through the admin console; it is never sold, shared or used for advertising. It is deleted after 180 days, included in your data export, and you can turn it off under Settings → Account → Usage history.

How we use it

• To run the service: ranking your feed, your audio brief, alerts and files.
• We do not use personal data for ad targeting; ads are targeted by topic and country only.
• We never sell your data.

AI and service providers

We use Anthropic's Claude models to write headlines, summaries and translations, and to answer your questions about a development. Only published news text and your question are sent — not your email or notes. The service is hosted on Railway; notifications go through your browser's push service.

Google ads

Iyan may show ads from Google AdSense, always labelled “Ad”. We request non-personalised ads that are not based on your browsing history, though Google may use cookies for limited purposes such as fraud prevention and frequency capping. We share no data from your account with Google. More: how Google uses cookies in advertising.

Your rights

• Access: download a copy of your data from Settings.
• Correction: edit your name and preferences at any time.
• Deletion: delete your account in Settings and its data is permanently removed.
• Reset learning: clear what your feed learned without deleting your account.

Retention

We keep your data while your account exists. Audio brief files are deleted after 14 days, glance logs after 90 days, activity days after 120 days, usage history after 180 days and hidden developments after 30 days.

Contact

For any data request: hello@iyan.app

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