Privacy Policy

The Utah View (“we,” “us”) publishes independent global-politics journalism from Salt Lake City. This policy explains what the app and website collect, why, and your choices. Reading The Utah View is free, and most of it works without giving us any personal information.

Information we collect

• Email address — only if you choose to create an account or subscribe to our newsletter. We never require an account to read.
• Password — if you create an email account. Passwords are never stored in readable form; we keep only a salted PBKDF2 hash.
• Saved stories — the stories you bookmark. These stay on your device, and are synced to our server only if you are signed in to an account.
• Notification identifier — if you enable notifications, Google Firebase Cloud Messaging assigns a device token so we can send you a message when a new issue is published. We use it only to deliver notifications.

We do not collect your location, contacts, photos, browsing history, or financial information. We do not use advertising or tracking SDKs, and we do not run analytics beyond what is needed to deliver notifications.

How we use information

• To let you sign in and sync your saved stories across devices.
• To send the newsletter or push notifications you asked for. Signing in (with email, Google or Apple) also subscribes you to the monthly newsletter, once; if you unsubscribe, signing in again won’t add you back.
• To operate, secure, and improve the app and website.

How information is shared

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. We use a small number of service providers strictly to run the service: Cloudflare (hosting, storage, and our database) and Google Firebase (push notifications). They process data on our behalf. We may disclose information if required by law.

Data security

All traffic between the app and our servers uses HTTPS/TLS encryption. Passwords are stored as salted hashes. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect your information.

Your choices and deletion

• Unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link in any email.
• Turn notifications off in your device settings.
• Delete your account and its data at any time: in the app under More → Delete account, on the web at theutahview.com/delete-account.html, or by emailing [email protected]. Deletion removes your account, saved-story data, and newsletter subscription immediately.

Children

The Utah View is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will post the revised version here with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email [email protected].